Favorite dead open source project?

TheChickenMan · 2016-08-25 17:59:44

jlindgren wrote:

imran27 wrote:
I have been in love with XFCE, it is great to see the development still going
I am also glad there are still people working on it, but it worries me that most of the efforts seem to be going into porting small components to GTK3, while the "really uncomfortable behemoths" (to borrow a lovely phrase from Simon's blog post) seem to be stagnating. With the three biggest components of the desktop (the panel, the window manager, and the file manager) still at 0% on the 4.14 roadmap, it seems that there is a lack of manpower. But I hope that soon my worries will be proven unfounded.

I think I read somewhere that they wanted to get the GTK3 stuff banged out and done before they moved on to some of those other things.

Alad · 2016-08-25 18:21:29

Porting to an ever-changing API, including all the ifdefs for different distribution versions seems like a fun task. Not to forget, all on a volounteer's pay job.

GordonGR · 2016-08-26 13:16:56

I agree with jlindgren, too. And the many “I”s in Simon's blog post give me a spooky feeling…

However, I can't find an alternative to XFCE that I like. I went to XFCE when Gnome2 died, like many people. Now, with the MATE update drama in the forums, I said “let's give it a shot”, and I found it so unmodular that I couldn't believe I used it for years and years before meeting XFCE.

imran27 · 2016-08-29 08:44:36

jlindgren wrote:

imran27 wrote:
I have been in love with XFCE, it is great to see the development still going
I am also glad there are still people working on it, but it worries me that most of the efforts seem to be going into porting small components to GTK3, while the "really uncomfortable behemoths" (to borrow a lovely phrase from Simon's blog post) seem to be stagnating. With the three biggest components of the desktop (the panel, the window manager, and the file manager) still at 0% on the 4.14 roadmap, it seems that there is a lack of manpower. But I hope that soon my worries will be proven unfounded.

You're right.
His blog post gave me a hope to stay with XFCE. It would be lovely to see XFWM4 adding some basic animations, a visual cue of your actions is necessary.

Although, it would have been lovely to see them go to Qt5 instead. Just a personal preference. I am with GTK only because of XFCE, gnome-keyring, evolution.

adamlau · 2016-09-01 05:54:03

xautolock.

Skeleton_Robot · 2016-10-01 09:36:22

I like SLiM, a lightweight display manager that fits really well in environmentes such as XFCE, LXDE and Window managers.

Hund · 2016-10-02 01:16:26

livestreamer-curses - Even though it still works, it would have been nice to see some new features.

GSF1200S · 2016-10-25 07:51:15

adamlau wrote:

xautolock.

Still works... is there some security vulnerability I'm not aware of? I still use it along with slock for auto-screenlocking duties.

adamlau · 2016-11-06 19:23:47

No vulnerabilities that I am aware of. The application still works, but remains a dead project. I recently replaced it with xss (another dead project) across most of my boxes. Perhaps we can also view both xautolock and xss as feature complete without critical bugs whereby no additional development is necessary.

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quequotion · 2017-03-13 15:05:46

Super-wingpanel was the best desktop panel.

GSF1200S · 2017-04-12 21:25:04

Qtadb

I suppose I can learn the various adb commands to do periodic backups of my android device, but Qtadb makes it pretty easy. Despite the project seemingly having no more development, it still works on my device. Im uncertain if having its apk installed is a good idea since it cant receive security updates now that its dead. I suppose I could just install it when I need it, but then its less of a pain to just learn the commands and do it manually.

GSF1200S · 2017-04-12 21:27:05

adamlau wrote:

No vulnerabilities that I am aware of. The application still works, but remains a dead project. I recently replaced it with xss (another dead project) across most of my boxes. Perhaps we can also view both xautolock and xss as feature complete without critical bugs whereby no additional development is necessary.

When it comes to security, it would seem no project is ever complete. Still, xautolock is pretty simple and certainly a small target- I cant really foresee a situation where exploiting it would even be useful (given that whatever locker you use is far more important).

ondoho · 2017-05-01 07:44:49

adamlau wrote:

I recently replaced it with xss (another dead project) across most of my boxes. Perhaps we can also view both xautolock and xss as feature complete without critical bugs whereby no additional development is necessary.

at least for xss i'd say that is exactly the case.
afaics, it's a plugin, it does very little on its own, and there's no reason to change it.
anyhow it's very doubtful the x server will change so dramatically (as to break xss) in any foreseeable future.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-05-01 19:41:56

grsecurity

GSF1200S · 2017-05-02 07:10:59

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

grsecurity

Yeah, this really sucks I agree.

adam_danischewski · 2017-05-25 21:43:45

BRLCAD It was resurrected and cleaned up and then development went quiet again.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad … r%20Linux/

PiotrPyclik · 2017-06-18 19:35:11

pyRenamer - simple, but fully featured mass rename utility. Unfortunately, there isn't seem to be any development going on and homepage isn't available anymore.

ugjka · 2017-06-18 19:35:52

Banshee, I like no other

Abaddon · 2017-06-18 20:32:11

Alsaequal

Rasi · 2017-06-21 02:01:58

ugjka wrote:

Banshee, I like no other

Wow there are really people missing that thing? This was by FAR the slowest player I have ever tried. With relatively large collections the UI crawled in slideshow fashion.

ugjka · 2017-06-21 08:35:37

Rasi wrote:

ugjka wrote:
Banshee, I like no other
Wow there are really people missing that thing? This was by FAR the slowest player I have ever tried. With relatively large collections the UI crawled in slideshow fashion.

Huh? It is pretty snappy on my system. How big is your collection?

nicman23 · 2017-07-21 12:05:44

it is on the point that i ll have to disown it even from the aur :C latest mono just does not work with it :C

ugjka · 2017-07-22 07:36:37

nicman23 wrote:

it is on the point that i ll have to disown it even from the aur :C latest mono just does not work with it :C

--disable-daap \ fixes it

NoSuck · 2017-07-27 01:08:53

"Dead" software? More like immortal software. I use the following:

... and a whole bunch more.

nicman23 · 2017-07-28 14:23:48

ugjka wrote:

nicman23 wrote:
it is on the point that i ll have to disown it even from the aur :C latest mono just does not work with it :C
--disable-daap \ fixes it

yeah thanks about that, fixed the package a bit but still...

i might even go learn the mono basics to fix some of the constant exceptions (and mute the 404 http errors from the cover fetcher)

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