[osol-discuss] Could we have XFCE/KDE in the next OpenSolaris build?
Hi everyone, Could we have XFCE/KDE in the next OpenSolaris build? Both of them work on OpenSolaris. KDE 3.4.3 has been built using Sun Studio. It would be great for KDE users (like me) or other XFCE users (I am sure there must be some) KDE is good for the power users , IMHO (I have no intention of a DE flamewar. Just saying some people like KDE or XFCE) Regards Manish PS: Can fluxbox be included as well? begin:vcard fn:Manish Chakravarty n:Chakravarty;Manish org:SpikeSource Inc;Solution Engineering adr:;;;Bangalore;;;India email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Associate Software Developer tel;work:+91-8041810800 tel;fax:+91-8041810800 tel;pager:+91-9901030104 tel;home:+91-9901030104 tel;cell:+91-9901030104 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://manish-chaks.livejournal.com version:2.1 end:vcard signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Could we have XFCE/KDE in the next OpenSolaris build?
On 4/24/07, Manish Chakravarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, Could we have XFCE/KDE in the next OpenSolaris build? Both of them work on OpenSolaris. KDE 3.4.3 has been built using Sun Studio. It would be great for KDE users (like me) or other XFCE users (I am sure there must be some) KDE is good for the power users , IMHO (I have no intention of a DE flamewar. Just saying some people like KDE or XFCE) XFCE 4.4.1 just hit the testing stage here : http://www.blastwave.org/testing/index_cron.html see the files for xfce from a few days ago. Feel free to download and *test* .. this will hit the unstable repository shortly and then it can be had via pkg-get as per usual. Dennis ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Could we have XFCE/KDE in the next OpenSolaris build?
Manish Chakravarty wrote: Hi everyone, Could we have XFCE/KDE in the next OpenSolaris build If you wish to have an OpenSolaris related discussion on this I highly suggest that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the appropriate alias and please look at what is going on in the desktop community first: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop or more specifically: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/communities/kde and http://opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/communities/xfce/ and http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/xfce/ Now which distribution are you talking about ? If this is Sun's Solaris Express releases then the answer is no, not for the next build because that just isn't enough time (builds are done every two weeks). However it could be possible to do this if you or someone else is willing to do the work to integrate them into Sun's Solaris distribution. In the case of KDE I highly suspect his means creating a new consolidation which is a non trivial amount of work. The very important thing that would need to be done is actually convincing Sun's marketing that they should include KDE in Solaris Express. This is something that is best addressed directly with Sun not on this OpenSolaris alias I'm afraid. This would be similar to convincing any Linux distribution to include multiple DEs - some do and some don't. On the other hand if what you want is a distribution based on OpenSolaris that uses KDE then that already exists in the form of Belenix. Hope this helps explain the situation and your choices. -- Darren J Moffat ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Could we have XFCE/KDE in the next OpenSolaris build?
On 4/24/07, Alan Coopersmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Manish Chakravarty wrote: Hi everyone, Could we have XFCE/KDE in the next OpenSolaris build? OpenSolaris has no builds to include them in - it's a source base for distros to be built from, and I believe a couple of the distros already include those. If you're referring to the Solaris Express Community Edition ISO's, then you will need to convince Sun to take on the burden of building, shipping, and supporting them - which at the minimum will require reviews by the Architecture Review Committee (ARC) and Sun's Product management committees, which for KDE would probably take closer to months than the 2 weeks between each build cycle. (That is not trying to say that there's anything wrong with KDE, just that it's a very large body of work to review - the original GNOME reviews took many months too.) or .. for the sake of just doing it you could always do a pkg-get -i xfce and then you have XFCE 4.4.1 but with no support. That's the same thing you get will almost all the open source GNUish non-OpenSolaris stuff anyways. So .. XFCE 4.4.1 will be released from Blastwave in the next few days. I just have to make some screenshots and write a quick report .. then its out. William Bonnet in France did all the hard work on this and it runs on Solaris 8 and 9 and 10 and should run just fine on the snv_XX releases from Sun. Dennis ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
