On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Aurélien Larcher < aurelien.larc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > À Mercredi 10 mai 2017, Dariusz Sendkowski a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > Has anybody ever tried to add XFCE desktop environment to oi-userland? > > Or maybe someone has been already working on it > > We decided to add only in oi-userland what could be supported reliably to > avoid packages becoming unmaintained. > Even Enlightenment turned out to be troublesome and was broken 6 months > until I figured the issue. > Even if XFCE is a nice DE, we have already a lot of work coping with Xorg > and MATE so I do not think we discussed it. > Our situation is different than Linux distributions since we need to patch > Linux-specific code, it requires more effort. The take is usually to focus > on integration of selected packages (example: Caja's ZFS snapshot browser > has no equivalent in XFCE). > In short, adding another big DE to oi-userland should come with the > guarantee that someone will maintain it. > I use MATE and Enlightenment only, and I have no tried building XFCE. > To be fair, Xfce take portability pretty seriously, they realise that running on non-Linux platforms is a good selling point and were more than happy to accept my porting patches. It's run on Solaris/illumos for many years and is the default DE on Tribblix. You shouldn't need any patches to get it to build, I just put in a couple of tweaks, nothing more. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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