Quoting Stephan Foley (2015-12-28 02:45:52) > Hi Jonas, thanks for the warm reply. I signed up with Alloth and will > set up SSH tonight. My login is "stephanfoley-guest". "fluxbox-blend" > sounds great and it would be perfect if you can setup the group. Excellent. I changed my mind and have called the project "blend-fluxbox" to be better aligned with the naming scheme at Alioth (e.g. pkg-*). I suggest other future blends to consider use same naming pattern. You are now added to our project, Stephan, as admin. In fact I omitted other roles than admin, as I believe we have not need for hierarchy and should avoid it when possible. Our git has write access for all formal Debian developers, and public read access. Mailinglist should apppear 6-24 hours from now here: https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/blend-fluxbox-devel Please subscribe yourself, and then let's move discussion there :-) > If you are interested, you can also be the long term maintainer. Yes I intend to take part long-term, but expect you to stay aboard too and that you will be the main driver of this. I have an interest in exploring lightweight desktop compositions and extending the configurability of Debian packages, but do not use Fluxbox personally (more on that further down). > In terms of my experience installing Fluxbox from a base of Debian, > initially I was pretty confused just figuring out how to get xorg > running and finding the right display manager. Then the configuration > of Fluxbox...a lot of services found in more traditional desktop > managers are missing...font and theme settings, sound, auto mounting > drives, notification of system messages, archive manager, etc. And > also the look and feel of the system took a lot of work. Please consider blogging about that learning experiences - I am sure others would be inspired by it! If you do, then tell me, and I can add your blog (or blog tag if you use that) to https://planet.debian.org/ :-) > Right now I have a list of the packages needed to install plus > configuration files in a skel directory. Please put that info in one or more git repos - or if you are unfamiliar with that then make a tarball and email it to me. I will then integrate that info with Boxer - a tool to generate install routines for flexible blending - and when working I will share with you how to test and extend your work reimplemented in the Boxer (and you can then tell if you like that approach or not). > Does Alloth have project wikis? Please use Alioth the least possible - use Debian itself when possible: Use Debian bug tracker and Debian wiki - e.g. extend https://wiki.debian.org/FluxBox or add a link from that page to a new page https://wiki.debian.org/FluxBox/Blend > The DebianPureBlends page is terrific. I really like this part: "Let > everyone know through the <debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org> > mailing list, setting the Reply-to: <debian-devel@lists.debian.org> > and listen to what everyone has to say about your idea." so, maybe if > this works out you or I can make that announcement. Yes, that is a common pattern in Debian: When something is ripe for discussion and/or testing at large then announce it to the developers at large. As main developer of this blend I imagine you will make that announcement - but we can obviously discuss that when we get so far :-) > Other blends I think would be useful and are missing in the Debian > flavors are tiling windows managers. The ones that spring to mind are > xmonad (Haskell), dwm (C) and Herbstluftwm. Also Notion, based on > Ion3, but that is in the non-free repos. I personally use the tiling window manager Awesome, with only few custom tweaks to its configuration. I have considered pushing those tweaks into Debian somehow, but feel it is too small a scope for driving a Blend around that. If a larger collection of tweaks gets collected then it might make more sense - or perhaps if our Fluxbox blend turns out to not really be strongly tied to Fluxbox we might consider expand+rename to embrace more tiny window managers - both conventional and tiling. Later, not now :-) - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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