Hello list,

I've been in contact with Anders F Björklund (afb) earlier this week regarding the state of Xfce on CentOS 7 and in general in any supported EPEL release.

What we discussed was what he has done in the past for his personal use and what are the things we would both agree on that should get some attention to make the experience better.

Here are some initial things that we think are critical (give or take, Anders has his own list):

1. Packaging issues

  - comp group @xfce-desktop doesn't depend on @X Window System so it doesn't really work and has some wrong packages and some missing

  - @xfce-desktop depends on gdm instead of lightdm, we think it should do that instead

  - dejavu sans fonts are not a dependency and fonts are broken because of that

  - gtk-xfce-engine package is missing (EPEL7)

2. Branding issues

  - "Default" appearance theme is missing (requires gtk-xfce-engine, request sent to EPEL)

  - default background is blank (broken Fedora branding, patch submitted)

  - default icon set is wrong and broken (should be GNOME because "Fedora" doesn't exist on RHEL, patch submitted)