After installing Fedora 20 xfce, and then centos 7 minimal with xfce desktop through EPEL repository, I noticed many xfce packages missing from EPEL for centos7. Examples are notification and indicator panel plugins. Why is that? as of now, the groupinstall command installs only the bare bones of the xfce desktop, and there is very little additional packages available for xfce. In contrast, groupinstall of MATE desktop, installs not only the full desktop environment, but also many applications connected to the desktop. Why are the xfce packages missing even though they are available for Fedora, and is the adoption planned for centos7? Thank You
I would greatly appreciate if EPEL team could adopt these packages into centos7 `xfce4-notifyd` `xfce4-indicator-plugin` `orage` `xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin` `xfce4-weather-plugin` much appreciated Matt
*** Bug 1144026 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Yes. We are aware. Some of the packages you have mentioned are in this COPR repo for the time being. https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/nonamedotc/xfce410_epel7_2/builds/ Would it be possible to test them? Thanks.
Forgot to mention this - I will start adding more packages to this repo this weekend.
Created attachment 939081 [details] xfce taskmanager added through copr repo
@Mukundan Ragavan Thank You for taking care of my request and responding promptly. Since I'm new to centos and RPM-based distros, I struggled a bit, but I managed to add copr.repo to yum.repos.d like this: ----- [copr] name=copr baseurl=https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/nonamedotc/xfce410_epel7_2/epel-7-$basearch failovermethod=priority enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 ----- As You can see from the attachment, I installed `xfce4-taskmanager` and it works. Copr repo also updated `xfce4-terminal` and there are no issues either. I havent tested ALL the packages from copr repo yet, but they seem fine to me. As You mentioned, `xfce4-notifyd` is in the copr repo, the other packages I requested are missing, but if You plan to add some of them this weekend, thats great news! Thank You! I will be waiting to test the packages when they appear. Do You plan to add them to EPEL or to COPR? Matt
Matt, they will be added to EPEL. We are working on it. :)
Matt, There are more packages in the repo. Please let me know if there is still some missing. Thanks!
Mukundan, Currently among the 'xfce4' prefixed packages in the EPEL repo are: about, appfinder, devtools, panel, panel-devel, session, session-devel, session-engines, settings, terminal could You plese specify the packages You added to EPEL? I dont see anything new atm. The packages I mentioned in Comment 1 are not here. As for other missing packages, there are still plenty more xfce4 plugins that I haven't mentioned, that make xfce desktop usable. For example battery-plugin, clipman, clipman-plugin, screenshooter, mailwatch, mixer, power-manager etc. I will gladly test and report as You release them in the repo.
Mukundan, any progress on orage and xfce4 packages? thanks
Matt,the repo I mentioned earlier now contains almost all the xfce4 packages including orage ... xfce4-power-manager and orage are already on epel (now under testing). Are you missing any specific packages?
Mukundan, I have EPEL testing enabled but orage or power manager cannot be found. Yes, COPR includes a lot of xfcfe4 packages. However, in Comment 4 and Comment 7 You mentioned You would be adding more packages to EPEL. Personally, I am OK with COPR. I just think that EPEL is far more well-known and useful repo, so it should have the same set of xfce4 packages as COPR. But we can consider this matter closed if You want.
(In reply to vlkn from comment #12) > Mukundan, > I have EPEL testing enabled but orage or power manager cannot be found. > You will see it once it is pushed. :) https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/EPEL-7/pending > Yes, COPR includes a lot of xfcfe4 packages. However, in Comment 4 and > Comment 7 You mentioned You would be adding more packages to EPEL. > > Personally, I am OK with COPR. I just think that EPEL is far more well-known > and useful repo, so it should have the same set of xfce4 packages as COPR. > But we can consider this matter closed if You want. Yes they will be. Those xfce plugins that are being actively developed will be added to EPEL. I am just a bit slow now. :)
I know we do not have all the plugins yet ... but are there other core packages missing in EPEL 7 that you are concered about?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1201124 ***
Using 1201124 as a sort of tracker to get all xfce packages in EPEL-7
It's 2017, any movement here?
(In reply to Deven Phillips from comment #17) > It's 2017, any movement here? What are you missing? As far as I remember, everything should be present.
Missing the indicator panel applet. Without it there is no way to see the nm-applet for handling Wifi/VPN/etc...
(In reply to Deven Phillips from comment #19) > Missing the indicator panel applet. Without it there is no way to see the > nm-applet for handling Wifi/VPN/etc... oh! That's already present network-manager-applet is the package that you are looking for.
I think that you misunderstood me... nm-applet is install and works, but it will not be displayed under XFCE because the indicator panel plugin is not there for the nm-applet to reside inside of.
Created attachment 1271002 [details] panel showing nm-applet (In reply to Deven Phillips from comment #21) > I think that you misunderstood me... nm-applet is install and works, but it > will not be displayed under XFCE because the indicator panel plugin is not > there for the nm-applet to reside inside of. I am not sure I understand. When you right click on the panel, Add new items --> notification area Do you not get anything? The notification area is provided by xfce4-panel. $ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/share/xfce4/panel/plugins/systray.desktop xfce4-panel-4.12.0-5.fc24.x86_64 I am running Centos 7 on three systems and I have a "systray" showing the nm-applet on all of them. So, I am confused. Either that or I still do not understand.
So, that entry is there, but it cannot be added to the panel apparently... When I go into the panel preferences, switch to the items list, click "Add"; there is no option for a tray/indicator/etc... Deven