[desktop-discuss] Re: Xfce

[Doug Scott]

> Hey,
> 
> On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 10:49 +0530, Moinak Ghosh
> wrote:
> > > I have just looked at the latest version of Xfce
> (4.4)  and it looks
> > really nice. I have started to look at a non-gcc
> port of it, and have
> > some pkgtool/pkgbuild packages already built.
> > >
> > > Is anybody else interested helping with the
> porting effort???
> > >  * If there is, should we look at creating an
> OpenSolaris project
> > around it?
> > >  * Or should we just use the SFE spec file
> repository?
> > >   
> > 
> >    There are a couple of folks working on Solaris
> build of Xfce 4.4 
> > using pkgbuild, but
> >    using gcc for the time being.  Using Sun Studio
> will require lots
> > of 
> > small changes. On
> >    of the problem we observed is with the
> G_BEGIN_DECLS ... stuff. 
> 
> This is cool, guys!
> 
> The advantage of an os.o project would be access to
> svn and dlc.sun.com
> areas.  Of course you can always link back to
> sourceforge.net from
> the desktop community pages, but why not make it an
> official
> opensolaris.org project?

I think an opensolaris.org project would be the best way to go. If somebody from Sun like Moinak can dot the i's and cross the t's, we are ready to run. 

Just an update, I have just built everything with Sun Pro C other than Thunar, and have a working Xfce 4.4 desktop. I will make an extra package in the morning to incorporate it into CDE login and GDM (with d-bus etc). Then I will spend some time on nasty macros in Thunar.....

Doug
 
 
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