[OpenIndiana-discuss] kde on openindiana

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] kde on openindiana, Martin...:

> Rely good answers ...
> MATE is what i will go for ..

I wasn't super enthusiastic about MATE when hipster switched to
it from its (deprecated, unmaintained) predecessor, but after having
used it for a while, I'm pretty happy with it.  I love that I can use
'gsettings' and 'dconf' in a script to set all the graphical settings
that I normally would change through the UI.  Very handy when bringing
up a VM to test something.

> I think that if any of the KDE community guys would find there way to
> openindiana then KDE environment might follow her or him but there is no
> use rely for it ... I might play a bit with trying to compile things just
> to get a feeling of things but i have not got the deep skills for porting
> and programming .

If there was a community of people that got KDE ported and packaged for
OI and seemed serious about maintaining it, I think it's pretty likely
it would be accepted into the distribution.  And we're talking about
open-source software, so even if it was never officially integrated, if
it worked well and was maintained, you could always put up your own repo and
make it available to people that wanted to use it.

Keep in mind that compiling software and building packages isn't the
only way people can help.  We've been talking about it in this thread
because you asked about KDE, but things like helping keep documentation
on the wiki or docs.openindiana.org up to date would also be a great
way to contribute.

> Anyway ... it was nice to say hello as well ... you guys were not as
> grumpy as i have read about hehe.

:-)  I've found the OI community to be quite welcoming and indeed they
encourage contributions from people, including porting, updating, and
packaging.  Growing the list of contributors is something I think most
people would like to see.

Tim
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