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please remove thunar-wallpaper-plugin from default builds
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RESOLVED: WONTFIX

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Description Jelle de Jong 2009-04-11 08:50:40 CEST
Created attachment 2279 
screenshot of issue

Hello everybody,

I use thunar, on a system that does not use the xfce desktop and uses feh and a plaintext configuration file to manage the backgrounds.

I use debian unstable for testing, and when I upgraded from thunar 0.9.0 to 1.0.0, there is automatically added a new item in the right content menu... (see screenshot) the addition of this item is unwanted. Would it be possible to not add this item to thunar.

I like thunar to be a desktop independent GTK+ file browser and not connected to a specif desktop environment.

$ dpkg -l | grep thunar
ii  libthunar-vfs-1-2                    1.0.0-2                             VFS abstraction used in thunar
ii  pct-thunar-scripts                   0.1.0-1                             collection of thunar custom action scripts
ii  pct-thunar-scripts-setup             0.0.20081208-1                      little program to manage your thunar custom action scripts
ii  thunar                               1.0.0-2                             File Manager for Xfce
ii  thunar-data                          1.0.0-2                             Provides thunar documentation, icons and translations

Thanks in advance for removing thunar-wallpaper-plugin and making it a separated plugin and separated installation package.
Comment 1 Jelle de Jong 2009-07-06 17:07:23 CEST
Is there any news about this issue, I got lot of people complaining about this because my systems don't use xfce4-desktop and the plugin shows up but doesn't do anything which is logical. Why not make it a custom action that can be removed...

I don't think its good practice to just do stuff that has great impact in the way users experience there GUI, please try to mail the thunar-dev mailinglist when these changes find place so we can discuses them... now there was never a the possibility for a discussing about this features it just came dropping out of the air...

Best regards,

Jelle de Jong
Comment 2 toraqissiaq 2009-09-09 14:58:15 CEST
I agree.
Comment 3 Jannis Pohlmann editbugs 2009-09-09 15:42:32 CEST
I don't think we're going to remove the plugin in the near future. But it should probably not show the wallpaper action if neither xfdesktop nor nautilus are running. That's a different issue though.

It's not a custom action because it does a bit more than just running xfconf-query.

Bug #5212

Reported by:
Jelle de Jong
Reported on: 2009-04-11
Last modified on: 2009-09-09

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Assignee:
Jannis Pohlmann
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2009-04-11 08:50 CEST , Jelle de Jong
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