Andrew Benton wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I notice that the Xfce page is still in the book source but is > commented out. I've just spent a few hours installing it and it wasn't > too hard to get it to a usable state. I don't think I'll be using it as > my default desktop but I think I will keep installing it as an option. > I could put in a few days work to rewrite the xfce page and bring it up > to date. Is there any demand? It seems to be well maintained, it was > easy to install, it didn't give me any problems. When first launched it > looks awful and needs a bit of clicking about in the menus to set the > icons, font preferences and theme and such like, but it works. > > One issue is that Terminal uses the Gtk+-2 version of Vte, vte-0.28.2 > so I'll need to put that back into the book somewhere. It might be best > to split it up into separate pages in an xfce folder and put the > vte-0.28.2 page in there with them. At the moment the xfce page is in > the window managers folder which isn't really appropriate, it's a lot > more than a window manager. There's even a CD burning GUI, xfburn, > which works pretty well > > TL,DR: Any demand for/objections to me putting Xfce back into the book?
No objections as long as there is no namespace collisions in the different versions of vte or any other dependencies that may be needed. I would like to see lxde in the book at some point. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
