Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 18:42:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: Gilad Rom <rom_glsa@ein-hashofet.co.il> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Graphical Desktop for FreeBSD. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9810051837460.1805-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <36184243.DCE3494B@ein-hashofet.co.il>
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On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Gilad Rom wrote: [...] > In the past couple of weeks i have been working on a little > project that serves as a graphical front end to pkg_create, > For the FreeBSD X contest, To make it a little easier for > people to create themes for that contest. ports/sysutils/pib > It is based on GTK+, A very nice GUI toolkit for X, > And I was thinking about a more extensive project, > Like a set of graphical tools/front ends to the various > FreeBSD - Specific tools, like CVSup or PPP. All nasty things about GTK+ aside (OOP in C, ick), this sounds like an interesting idea, however getting everyone to agree on all the nitpicky details is a task I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. CVSup has it's own GUI, and while not for iij-ppp, KDE has a nice little dialer that works with the version of pppd included with fbsd. > Since the X Contest aims to bring a Default Desktop to the > basic FreeBSD installation, as in Installing X with a Default > Configuration, not with twm as default, It would be nice > to include other easy to use, graphical applications > that will share a constant look and feel and will make > newbies alot more comfortable with FreeBSD. Sure, this idea > isnt new in any case, but still, this is something We are lacking > and i really think this could change the way people look at > FreeBSD as a desktop Operating System, or even as a better way > to introduce it, In general. I think this is the basic goal of both Gnome and KDE, and while I would lean more towards making KDE the default, I think it's probably best to leave something as neutral as twm the default. That said, I think that some sysinstall extension to allow one to select a desktop "theme" (perhaps, E!, Gnome or KDE, etc, etc) would be a better idea (or at least second best). > If anyone has any comments on that, Please do reply. This all assumes, that attracting the l33t Linux crowd is a good thing. - alex | "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern | | technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." | | Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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