> When will be created a great desktop experience for OpenBSD?
I think it is important to keep in mind that in order to achieve
*anything* in the OpenBSD project (or other open source projects for
that matter) the way forward is to work *with*, not against, the
developers and their code.
The short version is, please present your ideas of what you want to do
with sound reasoning and if at all possible supplement with patches
posted to tech@.
The patches stand a better chance of being accepted (perhaps along
with their developer) if the submitter can take comments and valid
criticisms from competent people (again mainly the developers) in
stride and seems willing to stay around as maintainer in the longer
haul (ie not slink back to the shadows after a release or two).
For anyone considering taking up the theme of this thread, please
consider whether this could somehow be made into the package with only
minimal impact on the base system.
Such a package could for example leverage all the tools already in the
base systems to generate something like bsd.graphic.{rd,is,fs} and
offer a skeleton for a site.tgz for the generated install medium.
If this sounds a lot like what is very achievable with the tools
already in the OpenBSD base system and seasoned OpenBSD admins would
do comfortably with a relatively simple autoinstall, it's because that
is exactly what it is.
But if there is an actual use case spot we're missing, this would be
the way to filling it with the least amount of extra work for everyone
involved.
--
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