Re: Brasero, or gnome without gnome

[Ludovic Courtès]

Aljosha Papsch <address@hidden> skribis:

> Am Mittwoch, den 09.10.2013, 22:22 +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> I think we can follow our personal preferences to start with (I got
>> Guile, Emacs, and Ratpoison because that’s pretty much all I
>> need ;-)).
>> We do want to support some of these fancy desktops, but I don’t think
>> there’s much we can plan: if/when someone wants to add XFCE, KDE, or
>> Enlightenment, they’ll 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.  “As the base for GNOME” means that the desktop thing would be
XFCE, but the applications would be from GNOME, right?  That’s probably
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’.