[desktop-discuss] Xfce

[Moinak Ghosh]

Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
> Hey,
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> On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 10:49 +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
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>>> I have just looked at the latest version of Xfce (4.4)  and it looks
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>> really nice. I have started to look at a non-gcc port of it, and have
>> some pkgtool/pkgbuild packages already built.
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>>> Is anybody else interested helping with the porting effort???
>>>  * If there is, should we look at creating an OpenSolaris project
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>> around it?
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>>>  * Or should we just use the SFE spec file repository?
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>>    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. 
>>     
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> 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?
>
> If someone at Sun (/me is looking at Moinak ;) can take care of the
> legal paperwork, I can provide regular builds at dlc.sun.com.
>   

   I can take care of the legal stuff. However don't you think
   this should be part of the Companion software ?

Regards,
Moinak.

> Laca
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