On 03/05/2014 05:52 PM, Fred Smith wrote:
RH seems, in their wisdom, to have settled on Gnome3 or KDE. As far as I can see, they aren't offering any other desktop environments.
I can't stand Gnome3, and don't care a whole lot for KDE 4.x, though it doesn't irritate me the way Gnome 3 does.
Given the new relationship between RH and Centos, are their any new possibilities of including (or offering as extras) things like Mate or Cinnamon?
Possibly. We had done a spin of XFCE in the past, and we may do so again as well. What I'd very much like to see is a "Desktop SIG" around exactly this sort of thing. I'd like to see Mate, or XFCE spun up and included as a T1 repo that folks can add. This may happen within EPEL, but if not, it would be very nice for someone in the community to spin up.
Or will I need to roll my own (or bring 'em in from Fedora) ??
Would you consider contributing to a Desktop SIG?
Thanks to the whole Centos team for the really good distribution. I hope to be with you for many more years, if I can.
We hope so too :-)