On 26/02/16 16:23, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 23:17:13 +0000 (UTC)
> Go Linux<golinux@???> wrote:
>
>
>> lxde is soon to become lxqt so lxde will soon be a thing of the
>> past. Don't you know that if it works, it needs fixing?
>
> If LXQt reveals itself to be garbage, another alternative would be a
> Devuan Special window manager with Openbox featuring Go Linux' artwork
> on the background, a suitable general purpose panel, and Edward's WLAN
> manager, and a generic panel-hosted audio applet. Naturally, it would
> be pre-configured with Dmenu after a group of experts figures out the
> best default hotkeys.

something as minimal as possible, like above, seems a very good option.

It avoids chasing fashion trends, it allows for packages to provide DEs with all
kinds of dependencies for as long as someone is prepared to maintain them, and
for them to be dropped when extricating from a vast web of dependencies is no
longer worth the effort. All without them becoming core devuan dependencies or
slowing down core releases.

Mostly it avoids losing too much time and effort porting DE stuff when users can
just use debian or redhat or ubuntu if that kind of environment is what they
want (or OSX if a heavy, unified, fully backed corporate desktop GUI on top of
Unix is the goal).

Devuan should focus on providing for those who wish to escape from this approach.


Simon