> [ > From: David Harrison > To: dng@lists.dyne.org >
> Last week I volunteered (was volunteered?) to contact the Xfce team and > ask them whether systemd loomed on their horizon. Here is the report > that was promised. > David, you are awesome! =) Thanks so much for taking the time to do this! > After a long chat with a couple of developers on the #xfce channel, it > seems they have no plans to introduce hard systemd dependencies. A > welcome change from certain DEs that are queueing up to staple logind to > their own foreheads? I really don't see any reason why any Unix DE should lock itself to one Unix style OS - even Linux. Although to be perfectly honest, I have no objections to optional soft dependencies to assist those who do use systemd. Leave people the saner choice for their personal need is all I ever ask. > They also recommended Consolekit2 as a compatible candidate login > system, and said that Xfce plays well with OpenRC and SysVinit. > Consolekit2 is a fork maintained independently of Xfce by one of their > team. Please make of that what you wish as I don't know the ins and outs > of these components. Basically, they are saying that they are using a different kit for suspend/hibernate rather than depending on systemd. > > They confirmed that Xfce 4.12 will be released this weekend and > recommended packaging it. The Whisker menu is now an Xfce project and is > now at v1.50. That's great news! I've been waiting for a new release for some time. I just hope that they updated DE to vsync with OpenGL instead of Xrandr. > Just passing on the news -- don't bite if I've misreported anything > > All the best, > No worries. Thanks! _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
