On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 03:02:05PM +0200, Yamaban wrote:
On Tue, 14 May 2013 15:40, Tomas Cech <tcech@...> wrote:
work on E17 is still in progress but I believe that E17 is very well usable for everyday use already.
I'd like to make E17 available for openSUSE users through installer and on DVD. Unfortunately DVD is already more than full so to get something in means get something out at the same time.
There is one obvious choice - LXDE doesn't seem to be much alive.
Word of warning: Until you PROVE that E17 runs as fast and lean as LXDE on OLD (pentium1, 512mb) hardware, such a statement will get you scrores of enemies.
Unfortunately I have no such machine. I tried it on Palm Treo 680 (416 MHz ARMv5 (with iWMMXt support) and 32 MB of RAM - it was somehow usable). You can probably remember Freerunner, where Illume (which was mobile layout of E17) was running as default. It is true that it was 30k commits ago but I wouldn't be afraid. IMHO it is not that relevant.
This doesn't mean that packages would be dropped, it only means that packages won't be available on DVD and installation choice would be removed.
see above, and, even more ugly for your case: there is no "pattern" e17
TODO for you:
- Construct a pattern for E17, better yet, two: e17_basis and e17 (full) and get that into factory asap.
There is e17 pattern already. https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/175502
- PROVE your claims of usability, esp. in low resource env.
How can I prove that?
Otherwise there will be no basis for "full member" inclusion in the installer for 13.1
The first factory snapshot is around the corner, Your time is running.
Thank you for your input. S_W