On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 at  1:33:43 -0700, Rodolfo kix Garcia wrote:
> 
> In my oppinion, if we want to continue using these applications, we need
> to put all together in *one* place (hg or git repository?) and *one*
> homepage. Else, this applications will be forgotten. 

Well, dockapps.org seem to work for the stuff I want. If the homepage
links are dead, it's also natural to assume that the author did not
produce an update from what is currently at dockapps.org

> Dock Apps are, in my oppinion, a very important part of windowmaker.

Yes. Actually I've been thinking that some dockapps should be shipped 
together with the wmaker-crm sources, in dockapps/ or something similar.
It would contain important dockapps which improve/facilitate the user 
experience. 

For example, I think that 'wmsystemtray' and 'wmudmount' are too useful 
to remain anonymous among hundreds of other dockapps in the internet ocean.
And mounting stuff easily without having to come up with hand-made /etc/fstab's
is _very_ important for a user. 

Similarly, having a system tray to be able to use applications which 
expect to have icons there (gmail notifier and networkmanager stuff
comes to mind).

I know it's not a window manager business to deal with the problems 
which the dockapps solve, but there are some dockapps which greatly 
increase the user experience of wmaker. Some things should simply be
ready to use after installing wmaker (like a clock, mixer, system tray,
mount, battery/cpu/temperature/power monitor).

So it is not like wmaker will deal with the problems dockapps solve.
It should only provide an easy and standard way to have the solutions.

> What can we do?

I don't know. But I would like to see some discussions if we really
can do something about it.


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