Re: Themes (again)

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On Friday, September 27, 2013 20:47 CEST, Xavier Brochard 
<xavier@alternatif.org> wrote: 
 
> On 2013-09-27 17:48:22 +0200 Liam Proven <lproven@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 27 September 2013 16:21, Xavier Brochard <xavier@alternatif.org> 
> > wrote:
> >> I mean "like others do" :  release a set of tarball files and a few
> >> instructions to setup.
> > 
> > *Tarballs*? Seriously?!
> > 
> > No. Not tarballs. That is the last thing that we want to be doing. Not
> > in 2013. In 1993, yes; in 1998, maybe.
> 
> it is what other successfull desktop project do (kde, gnome, xfce, 
> ...).
> 
> > No, any current distro has package management, automatic dependency
> > resolution, etc. This helps, and tarballs completely break it and
> > leave a distro that cannot be upgraded or even maintained.
> 
> tarballs are for packagers, not for end users
> 
> > With modest work, it is possible to produce packages that will install
> > on both Ubuntu and Debian - that would be best of all.
> 
> yes, see phillippe's packages.
> 
> >> This would be the first step. That would allow a desktop to be setup 
> >> by
> >> tweaking current installations done with packages from distribs.
> > 
> > So would actual distro packages.
> 
> No. What is missing is a list of things to install (there is no 
> gnustep-desktop package with dependencies) and instructions to setup. 
> Second step would be to automate this.

If you don't mind leaving Linux behind, and look into the *BSD world,
then you may check out OpenBSD. A meta-package exists there for 
a year or  even longer. To install GNUstep on OpenBSD you do:

sudo pkg_add -i gnustep-desktop

(given you have setup your PKG_PATH correctly)

Then to setup some basic things you look at the README that
comes with the meta package, and you configure your .xsession
file in order to start windowmaker and GWorkspace, and you are done.

cheers,
Sebastian