I notice that Debian GNU/Hurd recently switched to Xfce as default desktop [1].
I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to do the same on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, given the sadly increasing tendency in GNOME towards unportability [2]. In contrast, Xfce developers seem to care about portability and are vocal about it [3]. They can't fix every problem in the HAL/*Kit/u*/DBUS mess but at least they'll try to avoid them. For example, I trust that Xfce terminal won't suddenly break due to latest redesign-and-rewrite-from-scratch of a few new daemons. [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/debian-installer.git;a=commit;h=1cdaa8f1ebfe5510fcb300acf591cfe7781d9cac [2] The latest instance of this is gnome-terminal became unusable after a migration to GDBus (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631968#54). GDM is also in a very sad state. [3] http://gezeiten.org/post/2011/01/Xfce-4.8-on-BSD-flavors -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caofdtxouqbo62zk9renpatf1eh2cnebqhykvogk+v19vaf6...@mail.gmail.com
