<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 July 2014 13:00, Anders F Björklund <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:afb@users.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">afb@users.sourceforge.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">29 maj 2014 kl. 00.29 skrev Stephen John Smoogen:<br>
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> On 24 May 2014 07:44, Jim Perrin <<a href="mailto:jperrin@centos.org">jperrin@centos.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Right now we've been reasonably 'heads-down' on building the seven rc<br>
>> and getting prepared for when 7 lands, but I haven't heard anything more<br>
>> from the folks who proposed the sig. We have been in contact with the<br>
>> EPEL folks to stuff in there. Currently epel has both mate and cinnamon,<br>
>> and may pick up more once 7 goes gold.<br>
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> My apologies. I have been head down in my own work and let this get<br>
> away. What do people want to hear on this and want to see? My starting<br>
> issue was to get a conversation started and see who was interested in<br>
> what desktops and such without it being a one guy SIG.<br>
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</div></div>Hi, I am interested in getting the Xfce desktop "supported" for CentOS.<br>
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Including working with upstream (Xfce and Fedora/EPEL), filing bugs<br>
and improving the packaging - seems like they were mostly dumped...<br>
The 4.6 Xfce in EPEL 5 was less polished than 4.4 in CentOS 5 Extras.<br>
For instance, the whole group (Xfce) is missing from the EPEL comps ?<br>
<br>
I can do rpm packaging, spec file creation/editing and mock building.<br>
I don't use any of the other minority or retro desktop environments,<br>
like LXDE or MATE/Trinity, so "just" the GTK+-based desktop of Xfce.<br>
Think it's around 50-100 packages (mandatory-optional) for CentOS 5-7.<br>
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With EPEL 7 still in beta, and no (or not many) Xfce packages being<br>
built so far - I decided to see how far off it was, by using Fedora.<br>
Not very, it turned out... It already runs (!), with some minor things<br>
like ConsoleKit/systemd and udisks/udisks2, with the .fc18 packages.<br>
<br>
The first step would be to rebuild "@xfce-desktop" properly for .el7,<br>
next step is apps (midori/claws-mail/etc) and office (abiword/gnumeric).<br>
Or possibly just ignore those for now and use Mozilla and LibreOffice ?<br>
I also had some ideas about the default theme for icons and background.<br>
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Details at: <a href="http://afb.users.sourceforge.net/xfce/xfce-desktop.html" target="_blank">http://afb.users.sourceforge.net/xfce/xfce-desktop.html</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cool and thank you. I had this listed as my weekend project this week because someone wanted a working XFCE spin. If there is anyway I can help on this let me know.</div>
<div><br></div><div> </div></div><div dir="ltr">Stephen J Smoogen.<br><br></div>
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