Comments inline… > El 13 feb 2025, a las 19:01, Mike Watkins <mike.watk...@solutionroute.ca> > escribió: > >> For the desktop environment we'll start with KDE, as it is popular >> and has an active development team. >> https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/blob/main/supported/desktop-environment.md > > While that makes perfect sense from a FreeBSD-centric viewpoint, KDE > isn't the most popular desktop environment in the *nix world, GNOME is, > by far. GNOME has always been the most popular desktop environment on > *nix desktops. > > https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=gnome-panel%2Cgnome-shell%2Ckde-runtime%2Cxfce4-panel%2Clxpanel%2Ckde-plasma-desktop&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&from_date=2000-01-01&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 > > Some will argue that GNOME is too systemd-centric to be a good fit for > FreeBSD; I'd argue that I've used it on systemd-free Linux > distributions for years, and also suggest that active support on non- > systemd Linux platforms, and non-Linux platforms, can only help to > avoid systemd lock-in from becoming a future reality.
I humbly consider myself desktop-agnostic, switching from KDE to GNOME, MATE, etc. depending on the environment I’m currently working on. I too have a non-system platform with GNOME running nicely on it and the only thing that makes KDE attractive to me is that it supports my cameras’ raw formats automagically. > Current GNOME 47 ships on a variety of non-systemd Linux distributions > including Alpine and Chimera Linux; on Void Linux (also non-systemd) > they tend to skip one GNOME release a year. > I'm not selling GNOME for my own wants; I prefer and use River on > FreeBSD and Linux. I do believe letting GNOME languish in ports is > problematic. Perhaps a scoping effort for what it would take to bring > GNOME up to date could at least be considered at some point by this > project. 1+ >> We're targeting Wayland as it's important for long-term viability, >> although in the short term KDE on X11 is the usable approach. > > I applaud targetting Wayland. 1+ as long as it gets the same level of simplicity as Xorg when installing it.
