Comment 175 for bug 1512120

(In reply to slumbergod from comment #101)
> Nothing can proceed forwards until we get some feedback from the main xfce
> developers.
>
> I'm not even sure if anyone is in charge of the thunar project and my
> attempts in the past to ask what the status of the project is with regard to
> fixing the bugs have gone unanswered.
>
> Perhaps they have a plan in action already (other than just applying patches
> to address the symptoms)? It would be nice to know "yes, we have it sorted"
> or "no, we have no clue".

Harald Judt is in charge of Thunar, but he appears to not have much spare time at the moment. I highly doubt anyone is working on porting Thunar to GTK3 at the moment, nor could I find anything about it in the mailing list (it would be wise to ask around tho).

My impression is that many Xfce components are severely lacking manpower.

Hence my suggestion. Porting to Python would kill multiple birds with one stone:

- Port to GTK3
- Fix this crash
- Fix other bugs
- Easier to use language
- Pull in more developers

I think this is getting off-topic tho. Should we move this to the mailing list?