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On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:05:54 +0100 |
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Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I would like to add a new category to the tree: lxde-base, to be used |
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> for the LXDE desktop [1,2] packages, in correspondence to the |
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> categories for the other desktop environments we have (gnome, kde, |
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> xfce). With the help of a few users I have been developing ebuilds |
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> for these packages in the lxde overlay [3], and I would like to move |
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> the ebuilds for the release versions into the official tree now. (The |
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> overlay also contains live svn ebuilds.) |
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> LXDE currently has 14 packages that would go into this new category, |
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> which is comparable to what xfce-base has. It also uses x11-wm/openbox |
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> as default WM, and x11-misc/pcmanfm as default filemanager, although |
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> these can be easily swapped for others. |
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> Comments are welcome! |
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As a use who looked at LXDE for older machines, but decided that not to |
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mess around with overlays on otherwise stable x86 boxes, can I vote for |
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this? |
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> 1: http://lxde.org/ |
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> 2: https://bugs.gentoo.org/157989 |
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> 3: http://www.bitbucket.org/yngwin/lxde-overlay/src/ |
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