<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:medium;"><div><div>Most of the non-primary DEs and WMs live in SFE (or custom/personal repos).</div><div><br></div><div>Maintainers/distributors use their personal or preferred primary GUIs like IceWM, JVM, Xfce, Enlightenment, Cinnamon, KDE, GNOME and others.</div><div><br></div><div>As mentioned, we primarily support the MATE desktop for OI.<br></div><div><br></div><div>~ Ken</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div id="yahoo_quoted_5391576149" class="yahoo_quoted"><div>On Wednesday, May 10, 2017, 8:36:42 AM PDT, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble@gmail.com> wrote:</div><div><div id="yiv5776222429"><html><div><div class="yiv5776222429yqt0932551696" id="yiv5776222429yqtfd59139"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Aurélien Larcher <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:aurelien.larcher@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:aurelien.larcher@gmail.com">aurelien.larcher@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><div class="yiv5776222429gmail_extra"><div class="yiv5776222429gmail_quote"><blockquote class="yiv5776222429gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br clear="none">
À Mercredi 10 mai 2017, Dariusz Sendkowski a écrit :<br clear="none">
> Hi,<br clear="none">
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> Has anybody ever tried to add XFCE desktop environment to oi-userland?<br clear="none">
> Or maybe someone has been already working on it<br clear="none">
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We decided to add only in oi-userland what could be supported reliably to avoid packages becoming unmaintained.<br clear="none">
Even Enlightenment turned out to be troublesome and was broken 6 months until I figured the issue.<br clear="none">
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.<br clear="none">
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).<br clear="none">
In short, adding another big DE to oi-userland should come with the guarantee that someone will maintain it.<br clear="none">
I use MATE and Enlightenment only, and I have no tried building XFCE.<br clear="all"></blockquote><div><br clear="none"></div><div>To be fair, Xfce take portability pretty seriously, they realise that running<br clear="none"></div><div>on non-Linux platforms is a good selling point and were more than happy<br clear="none">to accept my porting patches. It's run on Solaris/illumos for many years<br clear="none">and is the default DE on Tribblix.<br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none">You shouldn't need any patches to get it to build, I just put in a couple of<br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5776222429gmail_extra">tweaks, nothing more.<br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv5776222429gmail_extra"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none"><div class="yiv5776222429gmail_signature">-Peter Tribble<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.petertribble.co.uk/">http://www.petertribble.co.uk/</a> - <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://ptribble.blogspot.com/">http://ptribble.blogspot.com/</a></div>
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