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From: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Split desktop profile patches & news item for review
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:36:09
Message-Id: e117dbb91003041436x397f8a3hd1d6377a13f0975@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Split desktop profile patches & news item for review by Samuli Suominen
1 On 4 March 2010 19:15, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
2 > On 03/04/2010 07:59 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
3 >> On 03/04/10 15:52, Theo Chatzimichos wrote:
4 >>> Hello
5 >>> I have managed to split the desktop profile to gnome and kde submenus.
6 >>
7 >> How about XFCE (and LXDE)?
8 >
9 > Pointless.
10 >
11 > We (xfce) are fine with plain desktop/ profile (now, and after the gnome
12 > and kde flags are stripped out of it).
13 > The required flags are somewhat jpeg, png, dbus, cairo, gtk and that's
14 > about it. HAL is optional.
15 >
16 > I guess it's pretty much same for LXDE.
17
18 As LXDE lead, I am very much for a "lighter" default desktop profile
19 without gnome and kde specific stuff enabled (as they are going to be
20 in their own subprofiles). There is no need for a separate profile for
21 LXDE, just a base desktop profile without too much bloat.
22
23 Cheers,
24 --
25 Ben de Groot
26 Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc)
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