Ben de Groot wrote:
Hi everyone,

I recently got interested in LXDE[1], the Lightweight X11 Desktop
Environment, and I would like to see this available in portage. At the
moment there are, to my knowledge, 3 overlays maintained by users that
include ebuilds for lxde. I think it is time to combine efforts and get
these packages into the official tree.

I have therefor created an LXDE project page[2] under the Desktop
top-level project. My idea is to initially start an official overlay and
develop the needed packages in there. I am actively encouraging users to
participate in development and maintenance, and of course I am extending
the invitation to any Gentoo developers who would like to join. I don't
want to spread myself too thin, and having more experienced developers
involved with the project would be a good thing.

Any constructive feedback is welcome!

[1] http://lxde.org/about.html
[2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/lxde/

I started using LXDE when I was trying out a bunch of lightweight alternative distros -- it really is nice to run; lighter than even Xfce. Once you get the packages into Portage and stabilized, I'll be happy to write up the installation guide; it deserves a spot right up there with our Gnome/KDE/Xfce/Fluxbox guides.

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