From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Brasero, or gnome without gnome Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:11:31 +0200 Message-ID: <87vc15e364.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20131002124146.GA15506@debian> <20131002180223.GA873@debian> <874n8zsc3c.fsf@gnu.org> <20131002205600.GA1680@debian> <20131002211808.GA26447@debian> <87li2bnwf9.fsf@gnu.org> <20131003110744.GB6327@debian> <1380905448.1869.11.camel@creek.rivers> <20131007195335.GB4641@debian> <1381338189.1968.20.camel@creek.rivers> <8738oatcsd.fsf@gnu.org> <1381359691.1893.10.camel@creek.rivers> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54965) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUFAV-0006Hy-H2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 08:16:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUFAP-0003aq-Gt for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 08:16:39 -0400 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([141.255.128.1]:34540) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VUFAP-0003am-Aj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Oct 2013 08:16:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1381359691.1893.10.camel@creek.rivers> (Aljosha Papsch's message of "Thu, 10 Oct 2013 01:01:31 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Aljosha Papsch Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Aljosha Papsch skribis: > Am Mittwoch, den 09.10.2013, 22:22 +0200 schrieb Ludovic Court=C3=A8s: >> I think we can follow our personal preferences to start with (I got >> Guile, Emacs, and Ratpoison because that=E2=80=99s pretty much all I >> need ;-)). >> We do want to support some of these fancy desktops, but I don=E2=80=99t = think >> there=E2=80=99s much we can plan: if/when someone wants to add XFCE, KDE= , or >> Enlightenment, they=E2=80=99ll do it. > > I was trying to propose that Guix uses XFCE as the base for GNOME > (maybe: XFCE/GNOME) for the long term, assuming that non-systemd GNOME > installs won't be able to use gdm and some core functionality anymore in > the future. Ah OK. =E2=80=9CAs the base for GNOME=E2=80=9D means that the desktop thin= g would be XFCE, but the applications would be from GNOME, right? That=E2=80=99s prob= ably a good workaround for the likely systemd-only future of GNOME. >> Work on adding GNUstep and GNOME is very welcome as these are the >> preferred desktops in the GNU system. Perhaps we should look for >> hackers in these projects to give a hand. > > At the moment it should be doable to package GNOME as it is. I was only > referring to the future. Just trying to plan, at least a little :) OK, understood. :-) Ludo=E2=80=99.