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Siduction Forum => Ideas & Improvements => Topic started by: vilde on 2015/04/05, 01:05:37
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So, a few weeks ago I messed up one of my siduction installations by trying to get xfce 4.12 from experimental, no big deal so I did a new installation. To my own surprice this turned out to be my first installation if Indian Summer. As usual I went for the xfce version (siduction 14.1.0 Indian Summer - xfce - (201411230427) and as usual among other extra applications I installed vlc. Yesterday by coincidence SMPlayer started when I should look a a self made movie. As usual I thought no no, this shall be handled by vlc, but first I tried the , for me, new movie player, and it looked good and after some more testing with different movie formats it also works good and it will probably make me not needing vlc any more. This is the first time of all years with your distributions that I can use the native movie player in the xfce version.
I checked the release notes for Indian Summer, there is nothing or I can't se anything about a new movie player being introduced. I think I wrote about this long time before, probably in the aptosid forums. I would appreciate very much to be informed in the release notes of new applications or applications which are changed to some other.
I like the idea of a rolling dist but it can make you sit there with old applications that are changed to new (and hopefully better) ones in new releases if you don't get information that there are new applications.
I knew that you are low on man power, I can't claim anything and I don't do, but this is the place to put requests so I do ask for information about new main applications in the release notes in the future.
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These are the default applications for siduction 14.1.0 Indian Summer - xfce , copied from my builds folder using pyfll (pyfll/pyfll/packages/packages.d/950-siduction-xfce).
Many moons ago (sidux, can't remember after that) we used to use manifests, might be a good idea again
desc = """
Siduction XFCE desktop
"""
packages = """
abiword
audacious
brasero
chromium
chromium-l10n
compton
cups-pk-helper
desktop-file-utils
evince-gtk
fonts-vlgothic
faenza-icon-theme
gcalctool
gconf2
gnome-keyring
gnumeric
gpicview
gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3
gtk2-engines-xfce
hexchat
leafpad
libnotify-bin
libpam-gnome-keyring
libtumbler-1-0
mousepad
mpg321
orage
ristretto
shared-mime-info
thunar
thunar-archive-plugin
thunar-data
thunar-media-tags-plugin
thunar-volman
trayer
tumbler
siduction-settings-conky
siduction-settings-plank
# squeeze
xarchiver
xbitmaps
xfburn
xfce4
xfce4-artwork
xfce4-battery-plugin
xfce4-clipman-plugin
xfce4-cpufreq-plugin
xfce4-cpugraph-plugin
xfce4-datetime-plugin
xfce4-dev-tools
xfce4-dict
xfce4-diskperf-plugin
xfce4-fsguard-plugin
xfce4-genmon-plugin
xfce4-mailwatch-plugin
xfce4-mixer
xfce4-mount-plugin
xfce4-netload-plugin
xfce4-notifyd
xfce4-notes-plugin
xfce4-panel
xfce4-places-plugin
xfce4-power-manager-plugins
xfce4-quicklauncher-plugin
xfce4-terminal
# replaced by screengrab: xfce4-screenshooter
# replaced by screengrab: xfce4-screenshooter-plugin
xfce4-sensors-plugin
xfce4-session
xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin
xfce4-soundmenu-plugin
xfce4-systemload-plugin
xfce4-taskmanager
xfce4-timer-plugin
# removed - requested by towo: xfce4-verve-plugin
xfce4-volumed
xfce4-wavelan-plugin
xfce4-weather-plugin
xfce4-xkb-plugin
xfdesktop4
# xfprint4
xfwm4
xfwm4-themes
# replaced by audacious and smplayer, smtube: xnoise
xtrlock
zenity
# Qt4 Packages
screengrab
smplayer
smtube
"""
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@ piper, the manifests are among the download files, but that’s all the packages, If I understand your list it's the packages for the desktop?
Even if the changes can be seen in the manifests, it's not very easy for an amateur to find the changes which can be of use for a user to know about.
To write in the release notes that, aplication x for doing that and that has been changed to y , would be better. Movie player has been change from xine to SMPlayer......
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@vilde: you may be surprised, but i like the suggestion - it make sense.
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@vilde: you may be surprised, but i like the suggestion - it make sense.
There is always a first time for everyone ;)