Re: Brasero, or gnome without gnome

[Ludovic Courtès]

Aljosha Papsch <address@hidden> skribis:

> Am Montag, den 07.10.2013, 21:53 +0200 schrieb Andreas Enge:
>> In any case, I assume one could start by packaging single gnome
>> applications,
>
> The question is which gnome applications.  My personal priority list
> would be:
>
> * gnome-terminal
> * rhythmbox
> * seahorse
> * transmission-gtk
> * file-roller 

Good.

> I got the idea that Guix could offer XFCE as a replacement for GNOME:
> instead of gnome-shell the XFCE stuff (xfdesktop, etc.).  Of course, one
> could complain that no XFCE applications are provided.  That could be
> fixed to package the basic XFCE programs as well (thunar, terminal,
> etc.).  So, Guix would have three (two) desktop environments, KDE, XFCE
> with XFCE apps, and XFCE with GNOME apps (referring only to core
> applications).

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.

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.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.