I am all for this effort .. but who is going to monitor the upstream andOn 02/01/2015 04:23 PM, Anders F Björklund wrote:
>> Since the Alternative Desktop SIG didn't happen, we thought we would
>> make a more focused effort and improve the Xfce desktop environment
>> experience on CentOS. That might end up being a dedicated CentOS SIG,
>> or just a couple of improvements to the existing packages from EPEL.
>>
>> Once upon a time, or more precisely: back in the CentOS 5.0 days,
>> Xfce 4.4 was available in Extras and it was a pretty simple install
>> that just worked "out of the box". Now, there's the newer versions
>> available via EPEL - but the experience is nowhere near painless...
>
> Apparently there is no need for such a SIG, since Fedora already has
> the Xfce and EPEL groups at this time and there is no need to recreate
> the packages somewhere else (that already exist in Fedora and EPEL).
> So the remaining issues to be improved upon, should go there instead.
>
> Right now most of the development happens in a COPR, and there's no
> official testing process which means it's up to each user to test it.
> See for instance https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1144025
> But I haven't filed bugs/paperwork for the issues I mentioned earlier.
>
>> Going to try to meet up with other interested parties during FOSDEM,
>> to see if we can't improve upon that and at least fix the low hanging
>> issues. And get some better Xfce testing and feedback going, as well.
>> A more long-term goal is make it an alternative to GNOME (Workstation).
>
>> If you are interested in helping out with testing, packaging or
>> developing (backporting, fixing the upstream issues, and so on)
>> then please say so. I'll try to have some more detailed lists and
>> updated packages with me, for the FOSDEM meetup in the weekend...
>
> We will continue with our work, and contribute patches to the upstreams.
> This includes LightDM for the display manager, using Clearlooks/Adwaita
> theme for GTK+ and GNOME icon theme and GNOME background (default.jpg) -
> instead of the current Xfce (old, deprecated) or Fedora themes used now.
>
> Once it is done, and if there is enough interest, it would be possible
> for CentOS to work with EPEL in providing a "spin" with Xfce enabled...
> Until that time has come, the user will have to continue to do a Base
> installation (with X11) and then add the Xfce yum group from EPEL to it.
>
>
> So there won't be any "Xfce for CentOS group". Back to lurking mode. :-)
> Hi to everyone I met at FOSDEM, too bad I missed the meeting and dinner.
back port security issues and the rest.
Just blindly compiling old Fedora RPMs is not going to be helpful if it
is insecure.
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