From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 13:03:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B82E216A4CE; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:03:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de (meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.129.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0811B43D39; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:03:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: from lofi.dyndns.org (pc2-105.intern.meitner [10.3.12.105]) by meitner.wh.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38C581674E8; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:03:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kiste.my.domain (lofi@kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i8MD3B5K094335 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:03:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) From: Michael Nottebrock To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:03:08 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1805224.eepsnG0JhH"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200409221503.10247.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new cc: gnome@freebsd.org cc: kde@freebsd.org cc: x11@freebsd.org cc: Jose M Rodriguez cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Plans for after FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:03:15 -0000 --nextPart1805224.eepsnG0JhH Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 22 September 2004 12:46, Jose M Rodriguez wrote: > - Plans to work and standard FreeBSD way to X11 > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0+ An implementation guide common to x11/gnome/kde= (document -> > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0article | handbook) > - Plans to work on a FreeBSD 'feeling'. Same fonts, ... > + tweaks to apps-defaults, gnome and kde config. > + common process of resources. Xresources , Xmodmap, ... > - Plans to specific support easy thenmeing 'a la FreeBSD'. I'm rather sceptical about those. You need to remember that FreeBSD isn't a= =20 commercial linux distribution with their own art department and people who= =20 specialise in enforcing a common look'n'feel.=20 If this should really happen, we'd need more than just a few new scripts -= =20 we'd need a team of people dedicated to make it work, keep it working and=20 deal with the constant flaming of users that don't like the new common=20 look'n'feel. My own humble opinion is that it is probably more realistic to do those thi= ngs=20 in your specific project where you're in control anyway. Unifying the big=20 desktop environments is a big task, and so far I'm not aware of any project= =20 which managed to do it without more or less taking the look&feel of one and= =20 stomping it on the other (for example, Redhat went mostly for GNOME, SuSE=20 mostly went for KDE). > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0+ rcNG support for x11 > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0* /etc/rc.d/xdm. =A0opera= tive and valid for gdm/kdm/xdm > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0* /etc/rc.d/xfs? =A0we ne= ed a font server with libXFT trends? > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0* /etc/rc.d/xserver. =A0X= server init for XDMCP (XTerminal) > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0* /etc/rc.d/xinit. =A0Spe= cial init via xinit. Those things are probably doable. =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart1805224.eepsnG0JhH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBUXgOXhc68WspdLARAq7wAJwO3T1Vsu7Mkyl0m1mOkrXb9KbjWwCfV/MG CqynLjzuPhb59UjAFKVTDtA= =y8os -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1805224.eepsnG0JhH--