Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 11:34:32 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox <kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> To: ".VWV." <victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the unix desktop was possible once Message-ID: <20031108113432.35b59671.kitbsdlists@HotPOP.com> In-Reply-To: <000a01c3a59e$429ce460$7baeabd4@workstation> References: <000a01c3a59e$429ce460$7baeabd4@workstation>
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On Sat, 8 Nov 2003 03:16:03 +0100 ".VWV." <victorvittorivonwiktow@interfree.it> wrote: > > I have understood very well what that manager of Red Hat was trying to > explain. At the time of KDE 2.x and GNOME 1.x, using Windowamker as desktop, > it was possible to tune KDE to 'kdestep' style, and GNOME to 'gtkstep', > obtaining a similar look for all the graphical applications. I am slowly working on a program working on a program for tweaking all thier files as well as the files of few window managers. > Now it is a complete chaos. If those people was working under a hierarchical > organization like the FreeBSD one, open-source unix could quite destroy > Microsoft. > Unfortunately, a lot of people prefer to waste time on endless graphical > developments, instead of consolidating their platforms. > The most part of the ports' links for this purpose are still broken, I can > understand the lack of FreeBSD support for them. I have found a lot of > sources with the only help of Google. If you have the capabilities to host, I would be happy to begin work on a desktop oriented version of fbsd. > If I wasn't completely alone here, I had tried to pack the desktop described > above on a FreeBSD for end-users. I'm very disenchanted now, even if my own > workstations will look as a masterpiece of graphics for the entire life of > their hardware - wine enclosed -. The hardpart is finding the hosting required to get the project started. I was talking to two ppl awhile back, but not heard from either in a while.
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