Aljosha Papsch <[email protected]> skribis: > Am Mittwoch, den 09.10.2013, 22:22 +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >> I think we can follow our personal preferences to start with (I got >> Guile, Emacs, and Ratpoison because that’s pretty much all I >> need ;-)). >> We do want to support some of these fancy desktops, but I don’t think >> there’s much we can plan: if/when someone wants to add XFCE, KDE, or >> Enlightenment, they’ll do it. > > I was trying to propose that Guix uses XFCE as the base for GNOME > (maybe: XFCE/GNOME) for the long term, assuming that non-systemd GNOME > installs won't be able to use gdm and some core functionality anymore in > the future.
Ah OK. “As the base for GNOME” means that the desktop thing would be XFCE, but the applications would be from GNOME, right? That’s probably a good workaround for the likely systemd-only future of GNOME. >> Work on adding GNUstep and GNOME is very welcome as these are the >> preferred desktops in the GNU system. Perhaps we should look for >> hackers in these projects to give a hand. > > At the moment it should be doable to package GNOME as it is. I was only > referring to the future. Just trying to plan, at least a little :) OK, understood. :-) Ludo’.
