À Mercredi 10 mai 2017, Peter Tribble a écrit : > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Aurélien Larcher < > [email protected]> 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.
Oh nice! So I guess it is just a matter of having a maintainer then. > > -- > -Peter Tribble > http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ > -- Thanks for sailing Jolla :) _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
