Control: owner -1 ! Hi Jeroen,
>I am not sure what I could (or should) change with regards to the >package to enable successful install of the whole xfce4 DE plus >dependencies, or the configuration of the xfce session for the login >manager. Wouldn't it be out of the scope of a panel plugin? yes maybe, that was a question, I think people will install your plugin *after* they install xfce, so not needed to make it required >In a 64 bits environment it is installed into >/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel-plugins/ when you install it using >the package. > >If compiled from source it will go into /usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/ or >/usr/local/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/ if you did not specify >"--prefix=/usr" during when running "./configure". > I know how to handle plugins in general, the question was "where I should click?" >In xfce you need to right click the panel and select to add a new item, >the requester that pops up may not always show newly installed plugins >right away. You may have to close it, wait for a bit and try again. It >will notice the presence of new panel-plugins eventually. It is possible >that if installed into /usr/local/... it will not find it. > >Similarly when I installed xfce 4.12 from source into /usr/local to test >equake out in a newer xfce environment the pane plugin requester, when >using the /usr/local installed xfce, would only find the plugin if >installed into /usr/local/... > >I am sure there are ways around it, but I didn't investigate further. I'm used to gnome-shell, where the interface is (in my opinion) more user friendly. e.g. you can install from extensions.gnome.org, and they appear automagically on the desktop environment, or use apt-get install gnome-shell-extension-name and the extension appears automatically at the end of the apt run (I didn't try recently but this was my experience with gnome). xfce seems a little bit more manual on installation, fine. >I think I have taken care of all these in the package I just uploaded to >mentors. > >Let me know if anything is still wrong. > >Thanks for the suggestions, I would have sponsored right away, but I guess some refinements might be good. 1) rules file: please remove lines from 2 to 8 2) control file: you didn't run wrap-and-sort :) and debhelper (>= 9) is already fine 3) control/rules file: what about using dh-autoreconf instead of autotools-dev? the other stuff looks really good now, and the package works correctly :) cheers, G.
