Re: [CentOS-devel] Is it possible to merge elrepo.org contribute to centos main repository?

On 02/26/2014 02:51 PM, Jim Perrin wrote:

... 2. Providing newer versions of common desktop environments or software in a sig. for example, a newer XFCE, Mate, Firefox, thunderbird (since that's missing in the el7 beta).

+1 on Thunderbird. See my headers for why.

3. Documentation around the proper method of getting the desired result

for a useful desktop.

+10. Suggestion #1: point'em to Nux. :-) http://li.nux.ro/repos.html

Nux-dextop coexists well with EPEL.

For people in the US who want 'legal' codecs that work with gstreamer, see fluendo.com.

Nux has useful packages other than license-encumbered multimedia things (Recent abiword, for instance, and 2.x ardour, for another).