On 9 July 2014 13:00, Anders F Björklund <afb at users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > 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 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20140709/d716bdae/attachment-0007.html>