[oi-dev] XFCE

[ken mays]

Most of the non-primary DEs and WMs live in SFE (or custom/personal repos).
Maintainers/distributors use their personal or preferred primary GUIs like IceWM, JVM, Xfce, Enlightenment, Cinnamon, KDE, GNOME and others.
As mentioned, we primarily support the MATE desktop for OI.

~ Ken

On Wednesday, May 10, 2017, 8:36:42 AM PDT, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote: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.

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