On 2021-01-20 04:09, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote:
In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for
making...:
I would love to have XFCE.
But as I know, the OI devs will not package other DEs. They stay royal to
MATE.
You can't found any other DE's packages on the repo.
You might want to review the mailing list archives for this mailing list
to get a clearer understanding of why that is. It's been discussed
before.
If you or Chris or someone else builds an entire desktop environment
like Cinnamon and publishes a repo that is kept up to date, I would
definitely give it a try, at least in a VM. If someone does this and
keeps it up to date for a long time and continues to contribute to OI,
I would probably use that as my main desktop environment.
Just building it once, without a commitment to keeping it updated, isn't
good for anyone, though.
TBH The only reason OI isn't my "daily driver" is the DE available. If I
had XFCE (what I currently use), or better, Cinnamon. I'd have a hard time
not using OI. Overall I like it better. But I'm (currently) pretty well
committed to FreeBSD as maintainer of some 160 ports, and I create
installs for all my servers && clients. I've been on BSD since Bill Joy
forked 386BSD, and hacked on various NIX' before that. But if I could
cobble up an OI I could justify as a "daily driver", and something I could
recommend to my clients. I'd make the switch.
Which brings me to why I initiated this thread. Since I need commitment
to justfy *my* commitment. I thought I'd send out a "feeler" to see if
there was any interest. Appears I'm not the only one. So I'm going to
"take the plunge". I'll start gathering all the information I need to get
all the dots in a line, so I can start production. Any pointers to help
shorten the trajectory would be *greatly* appreciated. As well as keeping
the wiki working. ;-)
Thanks for the feedback!
--Chris
P.S. To be clear. I don't want to create an OI "fork". I intend to keep
this inline w/OI. IOW It *is* OI, but with a different, or more DE choice(s).
Tim
There are packages for many window manager, though.
You have to do pretty much anything yourself, with your own repo publisher.
BTW, at least I know XFCE is possible on Illumos. Tribblix's default
desktop is XFCE.
I don't have much hope about Cinnamon. But if you can bring it up, I would
love to have it, too.
---- On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:55:13 +0700 Chris <oi...@bsdos.info> wrote ----
> Well I was finally able to get OI on one of my spares.
> I wanted to do so, so that I could start adding/upgrading
> some OI packages. As I began looking at the process I
> stumbled on distribution-constructor and thought; why
> not build up some additional desktop installs. I had
> intended to build both the Xfce4 and Cinnamon desktop
> packages anyway. So why not ask to see if the any
> OI users/developers/caretakers would be interested in
> providing xfce4 or cinnamon desktop ISO and USB images.
> Would something like this be of any interest?
> If so. I'll start building all the necessary bits straight
> away.
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
>
> --Chris
> --
>
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