Created attachment 3016 adds configure options for --enable/--disable-tips In short: It would be nice to have a build time option to enable and disable xfce4-tips. The long version: If you don't have fortune-mod installed, and you start Xfce 4 for the first time, the xfce4-tips will show you empty window. It's not a thing you want to see at a first install on a new desktop. Also fortune-mod brings in as depend recode. And after seeing the tips for the first time, I would guess most users just click them off (i.e. disable them from the startup) and the two deps, fortune-mod and recode are now redudant in the system, as well as the xfce4-tips binary. Furthermore, for a source based distribution like Gentoo, package manager can handle the configure options, so this would translate directly as "USE flag" called "fortune" which would be enabled by default, but could be optionally disabled for e.g. embedded systems, for xfce4-session package (ebuild). And the fix is not expensive. Thanks!
This request isn't required anymore because in git, and released 4.7.0 version xfce4-tips doesn't require `fortune` anymore, therefore the launch is always clean and deosn't give bad image of the desktop. This bug was about that. So no problem anymore -> No bug to fix, xfce4-tips is so small, it can always be built.