[desktop-discuss] Re: Xfce

[Moinak Ghosh]

Doug Scott wrote:
>> 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.
>   

   Indeed these are valid points. Xfce is a lightweight alternative and 
extremely
   functional at that. It does make sense to keep it as a first class 
citizen, esp. as
   a CDE replacement.

Regards,
Moinak.

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