Hi all, I've recently added Gentoo support to Lumina, a great, lightweight new desktop environment by the makers of PC-BSD, including an ebuild file for the upcoming 0.9 version. This was merged upstream a few minutes ago (https://github.com/pcbsd/lumina/pull/207). Lumina is created/distributed under the 3-clause BSD license ands has been written from scratch in C++/Qt5. It's not based on any existing desktop's code-base.
It also does not have a dependency on any of the Linux-based desktop frameworks (ConsoleKit, PolicyKit, D-Bus, systemd, etc..), instead using a simple built-in interface layer for communicating directly with the operating system (which is the only class specific to the operating system - making it simple to port/customize). I've created an new ebuild ticket here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578114 I'm not familiar with how/if/when an ebuild can get accepted into Gentoo's portage tree, but it would be super if it would be! Lumina really deserves a wider audience and I think its philosophy is very compatible with Gentoo's way of doing things. If possible or required, I would not mind maintaining the ebuild. With kind regards, Rubin
