[oi-dev] XFCE

[Aurélien Larcher]

À Mercredi 10 mai 2017, Peter Tribble a écrit :
> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Aurélien Larcher <
> aurelien.larcher at 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.

Oh nice!
So I guess it is just a matter of having a maintainer then.

> 
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