29 maj 2014 kl. 00.29 skrev Stephen John Smoogen: > On 24 May 2014 07:44, Jim Perrin <jperrin at 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 --anders