Hi Thanks for bringing this up. CCing Ken Moore as the conversation might be more productive with him aware of it :-)
We weren't approach at any point by these guys and I didn't actually know this project existed until now. FreeBSD has not been a focus simply because we haven't had developers other than Alexandr working on it. Open source always more of an issue of "do" rather than "will". As PCMan said though, we are linux-friendly not linux-centric and if good ports to BSDs show up we will definitely include them. I don't see alternate desktop environments springing up as being an issue though. I think it's great that more DEs are starting to choose Qt rather than GTK and I also think choice is always great to have, especially a choice of desktops. There is a lot we can share, though. I've always liked the original idea of the QtDesktop project (now dead) and have been quietly trying to revive it. Lately I have been toying with a QtDesktop organization on Github (https://github.com/QtDesktop), where basic Qt DE software can be hosted. It is still an experiment, but long term I am hoping this can put some projects in the spotlight and avoid people from reinventing the wheel. Nobody really benefits from eighteen slightly different kinds of simple image editor or viewer for example, it's very much a case of "the more, the poorer" as projects get abandoned. PCMan and I have been talking about writing some desktop config tools in Qt outside of LXQt, potentially making them more accessible to developers eg with PyQt. That's the sort of software you would see in that org. If some people have usable generic Qt software at their disposal which they believe could use the QtDesktop umbrella, please let me know. All that said, I'm sure we would all welcome contributions from the PC-BSD guys. You mention the license being an issue though but I'm not sure what can be done about that. Some parts of LXQt are LGPL though, maybe those can still be useful. I find fights over the different kinds of open source licenses very counter-productive. The very ideals that encourage us to share are philosophically preventing us from doing so - a bit silly, don't you think? J. Leclanche On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Ryan Bramantya <ryanb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > First of all I want to thank to all of you for your nice response. But the > bad things is I'm not a computer programmer. I'm just a computer user (maybe > advanced user) who tries to give idea about open source development. I love > open source software as they help me solve my daily problem in my job (I'm a > teacher). Both FreeBSD and LXDE are one of my favorite software. > > When I heard news about desktop environment project in FreeBSD it gave me > idea to combine it with LXQT. In my point of view, both PC-BSD and LXQT are > share same goals (full featured, qt-based, light-weight DE). The only thing > that is different are the way to achieve the goal. Just like mentioned by > PC-Man, the biggest obstacle to achieve the goal is licensing issue. It is > one of the reason for me to give suggestion to LXQT developers about LXQT > licensing policies. AFAIK, there is no problem for FreeBSD developers to use > non-BSD license as long as it isn't strong copyleft (e.g. GPL, AGPL). My > conclusion is LGPL is the best license to narrow the gap as FreeBSD > developers seems don't have problem in using Qt and other LGPL libaries. > > The only thing that I can do is to pursuade LXQT developers and PC-BSD > developers to start initial discussion about everything that make > colaboration between two projects become possible. I can test the software, > but only as an user, not developer. I cannot make patch, compiling, etc. The > only thing that I can do is giving idea and advocating which I hope can > benefit both project. > > Long live for all of developers who dedicate their time for humanity. > > > -- > Best regards, > Ryan Bram > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform > Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software > Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready > Get Started Now And Turn Your Intranet Into A Collaboration Platform > http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform > _______________________________________________ > Lxde-list mailing list > Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready Get Started Now And Turn Your Intranet Into A Collaboration Platform http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list Lxde-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
