On Jun 25, 2019 9:46 PM, "DJ Lucas via blfs-dev" < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 6/25/2019 6:21 PM, Joe Locash via blfs-dev wrote: >> >> >> Seriously? Ok, so missed a couple of packages. >> >> Maybe I shouldn't contribute to the goal of the project. My bad. >> > Joe, your frustration is noted. Perhaps you wouldn't be if, as editors, we communicated better. Please allow me a moment to alleviate the confusion of why it's a huge difference in effort and provide some unrealized context.
DJ, First, I'm not frustrated and if I came off that way, I apologize. It really doesn't matter to me if MATE makes it into the book because I have it working ;) Thanks for the lengthy detailed process on the development cycle of the packages in the book but it really wasn't needed. I too have been doing this stuff for 20+ years. Remember when CDE was going to revolutionize the DE environment on Unix workstations? I only threw the idea out there as an alternative to what's in the book now. You have 4 choices - KDE Plasma which I can't give an opinion on because I never liked KDE. XFCE - nice for lower end machines but needs a bunch of configuration after install. LXDE - great for lower end boxes (and my choice for thin clients), unfortunately there is no active development to support things like Wayland. Gnome3 - obviously supported but looks like crap IMO. I thought MATE would be a nice compromise , and out of the box, doesn't need much (if any for the regular user) configuring. Hopefully this clears some things up. -Joe BTW, lxqt should have never been added to the book. It still isn't ready for prime time.
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