Plans for after FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE.

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Wednesday 22 September 2004 12:46, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:

> - Plans to work and standard FreeBSD way to X11
>         + An implementation guide common to x11/gnome/kde (document ->
>         article | handbook)
>   - Plans to work on a FreeBSD 'feeling'. Same fonts, ...
>  + tweaks to apps-defaults, gnome and kde config.
>  + common process of resources. Xresources , Xmodmap, ...
>   - Plans to specific support easy thenmeing 'a la FreeBSD'.

I'm rather sceptical about those. You need to remember that FreeBSD isn't a 
commercial linux distribution with their own art department and people who 
specialise in enforcing a common look'n'feel. 

If this should really happen, we'd need more than just a few new scripts - 
we'd need a team of people dedicated to make it work, keep it working and 
deal with the constant flaming of users that don't like the new common 
look'n'feel.

My own humble opinion is that it is probably more realistic to do those things 
in your specific project where you're in control anyway. Unifying the big 
desktop environments is a big task, and so far I'm not aware of any project 
which managed to do it without more or less taking the look&feel of one and 
stomping it on the other (for example, Redhat went mostly for GNOME, SuSE 
mostly went for KDE).

>         + rcNG support for x11
>                 * /etc/rc.d/xdm.  operative and valid for gdm/kdm/xdm
>                 * /etc/rc.d/xfs?  we need a font server with libXFT trends?
>                 * /etc/rc.d/xserver.  Xserver init for XDMCP (XTerminal)
>                 * /etc/rc.d/xinit.  Special init via xinit.

Those things are probably doable.

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