[oi-dev] XFCE

[Aurélien Larcher]

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.
J. Perkin may have worked on it for pkgsrc on SmartOS. 

Kind regards

Aurélien



> 
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> regards,
> Darek
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