On 2 February 2015 at 06:07, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > On 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. > > I am all for this effort .. but who is going to monitor the upstream and > back port security issues and the rest. > > Just blindly compiling old Fedora RPMs is not going to be helpful if it > is insecure. > > > The Fedora group watches upstream so I would say that combining there would be the best method. If someone already has a copr for XFCE for EL5,6,7 that is cool but if not I can set one up and if people feed me the fixes needed I can get a unified updated version for those releases. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20150202/8550eda7/attachment-0008.html>