[desktop-discuss] Re: Xfce

[Doug Scott]

> Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 23:38 +0530, Moinak Ghosh
> wrote:
> >   
> >>    I can take care of the legal stuff. However
> don't you think
> >>    this should be part of the Companion software ?
> >>     
> >
> > Personally, I would never think about looking for
> it on the companion 
> > cd, but maybe that's just me.  Also, I would
> imagine this would be an
> > ongoing work, making sure Xfce rocks on
> opensolaris.  People can get
> > involved at various levels: building, testing, bug
> fixing, etc... 
> > So I think it _is_ a project. But it's really up to
> those who are
> > going to do most of the work (;
> > Sun can, of course, decide to include it in a
> Solaris consolidation.
> >
> > Laca
> >
> >
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> I've always viewed software on the Companion CD as
> 2nd class citizens as
> far as Solaris goes.  I'd really, really, like to see
> Xfce become a
> first class citizen -- i.e. I'd like to see it
> included and installed by
> default in some future release of Solaris. (IMO, the
> logical time to do
> this would be the release where CDE is dropped.)
> 
> But again, I'm not actually working on this myself,
> other than as a
> consumer of the product, so I'll defer to others. :-)
> 

I agree with Garrett and Laca on this one. Xfce is a desktop environment, so it's development should exist as a project under the OpenSolaris desktop community. This of course does not stop it from being distributed by Sun or any other distro as part of a companion CD if they wish. Some distro's could include it as their primary desktop and possibly only desktop, and not have a need for a companion CD.

To me the companion CD is really a "Sun" distribution (and non-support) issue, not to be confused with OpenSolaris development.

One other point is that Gnome and Xfce share many common libraries, apps, config files etc. It is much easier to keep them in-step and compatible if they share a common build environment such as pkgbuild and share a common discussion list/community.

Doug
 
 
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