Re: [DNG] A heads up about xfce's future

2016-02-26 Thread T.J. Duchene
Hello GoLinux, Steve, and Hendrik! Good to see you all again, in spite of past disagreements. This is just my opinion, but I don't see XFCE's future being so grim. I think GTK's future outside of Gnome is the concern. It's been my observation that GTK has become very Gnome-centric, and a numb

Re: [DNG] A heads up about xfce's future

2016-02-26 Thread Florian Zieboll
On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 23:17:13 + (UTC) Go Linux wrote: > Trinity Desktop Environment is based on an older version of KDE. > (Think Gnome and Mate.) I always found KDE too fussy for my taste. > But who knows how desperate I'll get if xfce goes south . . . > > lxde is soon to become lxqt so lx

Re: [DNG] A heads up about xfce's future

2016-02-26 Thread David Hare
Running TDE (Trinity Desktop Environment) here, on a Devuan bootstrap base. For anyone who didn't know, it is the community-maintained kde3 fork. It works very well, ram usage on startup little over 100MB. Also forked was qt3 (now tqt). There are no gtk nor qt4 dependencies unless you want to add

Re: [DNG] A heads up about xfce's future

2016-02-26 Thread T.J. Duchene
On 2016-02-26 09:46, Florian Zieboll wrote: > I have been playing a bit with Siduction 14.1 when it was released some > months ago, because it came with an LXQt Desktop. Hi, Florian! =) LXQt does have a lot going for it, but my time spent testing it on Debian Sid left me with a somewhat negati

Re: [DNG] A heads up about xfce's future

2016-02-26 Thread aitor_czr
El 26/02/16 13:00, Florian Zieboll escribió: [...] but Qt is not KDE. Devuan is hardly going to make it without confederates and I would like a lot to see LXQt being one of them. Florian +1 Aitor. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://

Re: [DNG] A heads up about xfce's future

2016-02-26 Thread Go Linux
On Fri, 2/26/16, aitor_czr wrote: Subject: Re: [DNG] A heads up about xfce's future To: "Florian Zieboll" , "dng" Date: Friday, February 26, 2016, 12:45 PM El 26/02/16 13:00, Florian Zieboll escribió: > [...] but Qt is not KDE. Devuan is hardly going to make it without > confederates and

Re: [DNG] Trying (again) to compile simple-netaid (was netman)

2016-02-26 Thread Edward Bartolo
Hi, Use the git fork net/simple-netaid. Fork by Daniel Reurich. To compile the frontend lazbuild is needed. lazbuild is an executable found in lcl-utils-1.2.4. I am compiling on Devuan (Jessie) 64 bit. Edward ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org http

[DNG] Successfully upgraded Debian-wheezy to Devuan-Jessie on R-Pi

2016-02-26 Thread Didier Kryn
Hey out there. I've got a Pi-Top a few months ago and leaved it on a shelf for a while. Around a dozen days ago they released a new version of their PiOS, codenamed "jessie", and, guess what: it's all infected with Systemd. I found a website still offering a Raspbian-wheezy image

Re: [DNG] A heads up about xfce's future

2016-02-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 10:46:58 +0100 Florian Zieboll wrote: > IIUC, LXDE's decision to go Qt was based on the fact that it otherwise > and rather sooner than later would have to go GTK+ 3, which I see very > well in tune with the base motives of Devuan. May everybody think of > KDE what s/he likes

Re: [DNG] A heads up about xfce's future

2016-02-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 18:52:46 + (UTC) Go Linux wrote: > Well that's encouraging. I had a bad experience with Avidemux-qt and > this wonderful program I've been using for years is now useless. But > maybe that's more a developer than a qt problem. I'll keep an open > mind. :) Go Linux,

Re: [DNG] A heads up about xfce's future

2016-02-26 Thread Simon Wise
On 26/02/16 16:23, Steve Litt wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 23:17:13 + (UTC) Go Linux wrote: lxde is soon to become lxqt so lxde will soon be a thing of the past. Don't you know that if it works, it needs fixing? If LXQt reveals itself to be garbage, another alternative would be a Devuan

Re: [DNG] A heads up about xfce's future

2016-02-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 14:28:08 +1100 Simon Wise wrote: > On 26/02/16 16:23, Steve Litt wrote: > > If LXQt reveals itself to be garbage, another alternative would be a > > Devuan Special window manager with Openbox featuring Go Linux' > > artwork on the background, a suitable general purpose panel,

Re: [DNG] A heads up about xfce's future

2016-02-26 Thread Go Linux
On Fri, 2/26/16, Steve Litt wrote: Subject: Re: [DNG] A heads up about xfce's future To: dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Friday, February 26, 2016, 10:31 PM Or perhaps, with Go Linux' wallpaper artwork, we *set* the fashion. Has anyone seen his theme? It's pretty good. SteveT -

[DNG] Speaking of Window Managers

2016-02-26 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Here's info on dmenu: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/dmenu http://linux.die.net/man/1/dmenu http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/201406/201406.htm#use_faster_tools_dmenu Just for fun, I'd like some opinions. If a Window Manager were integrated with Dmenu (which is trivially easy usuall