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marmistrz

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X-Apps - old school replacement of GNOME apps

Some of you may be missing the good ol' gedit or evince... So this may interest you.

http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2016/02/t … are-ready/

Is there any chance of this hitting the main repos once it's ready or is it something only for AUR?

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GI Jack

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Re: X-Apps - old school replacement of GNOME apps

As far as universal apps go, they might as well start porting XFCE apps. I already install and use parole instead of totem.... in gnome.

I also favor xfce4-terminal instead of gnome-terminal

Scimmia

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Re: X-Apps - old school replacement of GNOME apps

Is there any chance of this hitting the main repos once it's ready or is it something only for AUR?

Apps typically start in the AUR and get moved to the main repos if there is enough interest from users and a TU/Dev.

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Re: X-Apps - old school replacement of GNOME apps

So MATE applications with a fancy name?

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Steef435

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Re: X-Apps - old school replacement of GNOME apps

Not quite, this will be implemented in GTK3 while I believe MATE is still running on GTK2 (or a fork thereof).

I'm interested in how they will tackle the configuration. Would be a bit silly if their desktop agnostic apps were using DConf, GConf or whatever it's called these days.

I think they're not so keen on taking Xfce applications because:
- Xfce apps already use Xfce-specific widgets and whatnot, so it'll be a porting job
- Xfce is not as active as Gnome so they won't have an as reliable upstream to backport new functionality of

drcouzelis

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Re: X-Apps - old school replacement of GNOME apps

Oh. I thought this was about GTK+ (1) applications running on modern installations. Man, those suckers would FLY...

But this is a great idea for a project. I'll probably check out the software they release. In recent years I've switched to more and more Qt / KDE applications due to the intense GNOMEification of the ones I used to use.

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Re: X-Apps - old school replacement of GNOME apps

Not quite, this will be implemented in GTK3 while I believe MATE is still running on GTK2 (or a fork thereof).

http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/status:gtk3

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null

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Re: X-Apps - old school replacement of GNOME apps

Is there any chance of this hitting the main repos once it's ready or is it something only for AUR?

Aren't those basically the programs that are already in community in the groups mate-gtk3 and mate-extra-gtk3 ?

ayekat

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Re: X-Apps - old school replacement of GNOME apps

Is there any chance of this hitting the main repos once it's ready or is it something only for AUR?

Aren't those basically the programs that are already in community in the groups mate-gtk3 and mate-extra-gtk3 ?

I don't think so - this is a list of X-Apps in the AUR:

xed 1.0.4-1
    A small and lightweight text editor. X-Apps Project.
xplayer 1.0.3-1
    Simple media player. X-Apps Project.
xplayer-plparser 1.0.2-1
    Playlist parser for xplayer. X-Apps Project.
xreader 1.0.3-1
    Document viewer for files like PDF and Postscript. X-Apps Project.
xviewer 1.0.2-1
    A simple and easy to use image viewer. X-Apps Project.

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Steef435

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Re: X-Apps - old school replacement of GNOME apps

Not quite, this will be implemented in GTK3 while I believe MATE is still running on GTK2 (or a fork thereof).

http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/status:gtk3

Man, and I was so sure I didn't have to do research this time... Well for now at least they're practically still running on GTK2 ^^'

Thanks for the info.