vendorinfo file

Olivier Duchateau duchateau.olivier at gmail.com
Mon Nov 4 19:59:19 UTC 2013


2013/11/4 Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I've noticed that 'xfce4-about' looks for the
> /usr/local/share/xfce4/vendorinfo file. If it's missed a warning
> message is printed in console:
>
> xfce4-about-Message: No vendor information found in
> "/usr/local/share/xfce4/vendorinfo".

It's odd x11/libxfce4menu is precisely compilled with option

--with-vendor-info=FreeBSD

It's an workaround, if we can't provide vendor info file. I know some
Linux distros do same thing.

I've never had this message in my log session.


>
> If this file exists then there is an additional tab (FreeBSD tab) in
> the xfce4-about window and content of the vendorinfo file is printed
> there.
>
> Is it a known feature? It seems to be added in the upstream 3 years
> ago by following commit:
>
> http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce4-commits/2010-November/013752.html
>
> I think some "about" and/or other FreeBSD advertising information
> could be put into that file. What do you think?

Why not, but which file ?

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olivier


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