On 2011-12-18, Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> wrote:
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:25:55 -0700,
Kevin Fenzi <kevin(a)scrye.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:05:42 +0400
> "Pavel Alexeev (aka Pahan-Hubbitus)" <forum(a)hubbitus.com.ru> wrote:
>
> > Sorry, I saw it deprecated. Anyone known is there any drop-in
> > alternative?
> >
> > And why it was orphaned?
>
> gdk-pixbuf that it needed was being orphaned because it didn't build
> anymore, so I thought it was a good time to drop xosd as well (which
> had not seen a release in 5+ years).
>
> I don't know of any drop in replacement.
Someone has a plan to bring back xosd without the subpackage that depended
on gdk-pixbuf. I didn't see anyone on the mailing list say the were going
to do the review, but I am not following the review bug.
That was me. The review
<
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=756780> is still
unassigned. Anybody can do the review to get xosd back into next Fedora.
-- Petr