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