[desktop-discuss] Re: Xfce

[Moinak Ghosh]

Doug Scott wrote:
>> 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.....
>   

   I believe this kind of stuff logically belongs to the Companion
   software project  http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/companion/
   so there should be no need to create a separate project. The xfce
   there is quite outdated and needs an upgrade.

   This work will be quite valuable there. Do you have a place to put
   up your modified sources, build scripts etc. so that I can take a
   look ?  We should consolidate all the changes and avoid duplicate
   work. Are you using pkgbuild ?

Regards,
Moinak.

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