On 23.11.2014 07:26, [email protected] wrote:
Hi,
An intra-BSD desktop environment based on Google's Material Design
guidelines [1] -- would anyone be interested in something like that?
My cwm on OpenBSD (or other wms) runs just fine without that guideline.
And it's case for a lot of the people here
This way we could retire PC-BSD, and, coupled with the fact that
OpenBSD is the world's only OS allowing you to run Xorg as an
unprivileged user [2], we could make a fresh, renewed effort at
conquering the Linux desktop market. Not only could this expand
OpenBSD's user base by tens of millions, it would also make it clear
to smartphone manufacturers which OS they should be basing all their
future products on.
Why would you want to retire PC-BSD? What's wrong on having options
with xBSD systems?
Why don't you ask those other systems why they don't have Xorg under
unprivileged user?
What does have Linux desktop market to do with OpenBSD at all?
What will be benefit of OpenBSD (and rest of the world) having millions
of users which are not able to browse Internet if there's not blue E on
their desktop?
What does prevent smart phone manufactures to use OpenBSD in their
products? For sure it's not license as eg. because of this
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140506132000
(it has much more with their laziness, laziness to pay for real
developers and much more)
http://google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html
For ol' times sake, let's throw the IRIX® Interactive Desktop User
Interface Guidelines in there as well:
http://menehune.opt.wfu.edu/Kokua/Irix_6.5.21_doc_cd/usr/share/Insight/library/SGI_bookshelves/SGI_Developer/books/UI_Glines/sgi_html/index.html
Many thanks!
O.D.
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[1] Quantum OS (Linux): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8645504
[2] Xorg can now run without privilege on OpenBSD:
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140223112426
