On 2018-02-20 00:29, Simon Lees wrote:
On this Idea I have considered (but haven't had the time) creating an "Alternate Desktop" DVD image, so the basic idea is shipping a 4.1 GB DVD but without KDE and Gnome and instead having all the other desktops (or as many as I can fit).
I also like this idea. Problem: XFCE uses a lot of Gnome libs, so a part of it is needed at least. probably LXqt uses parts of KDE.
This has a number of advantages over other suggestions:
1. Unlike the 8GB image we don't need to also test Gnome / KDE again so the QA load will be easier. 2. Users will still only need to download a 4Gb image with a higher % of stuff they actually use. 3. We don't overload build.o.o with everyone building there own image.
Ok, sounds good.
The main problem here is my time, I have rather alot on and have basic things like making sure enlightenment passes qa tests I haven't even got to yet. So there is no way I on my own could get this done for Leap 15.0 at a quality we'd consider openSUSE ready. But having said that I could create a proof of concept image pretty quickly, I might do that today just for fun anyway. I can probably test enlightenment and give LXQt a quick run if other people would like to test other desktops (Carlos I presume you might be willing to test xfce) we can get to the point where we atleast have something that we know isn't badly broken.
Certainly, I can test XFCE. :-) I can not help building because I have no idea of that, I would need training, and long. Most of what you people talk about OBS seems Chinese to me.
At openSUSE conference last year I remember someone (Probably Richard) talking about the idea of incubator projects (I may have got that name completely wrong) but the concept being projects that are working under the openSUSE Project banner but aren't at openSUSE quality yet, this Idea would probably fit that well. Maybe by 15.1 or 15.2 we can aim to have it full openSUSE quality.
Sounds good to me :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)