On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, markucz%gmail.com@localhost wrote:
Then you will only benefit from some of the changes. If
you are using a machine which not powerful enough to handle
the gnome desktop (even a low end x86), then you would need
to select a different desktop environment. Its quite likely
the netbsd-desktop install option will only be available
on i386 and amd64 initially, but quite a lot of the
infrastructure changes will benefit anyone who chooses to
install the relevant packages, no matter what arch.
Agree. I mean it'd be nice if the desktop is simple enough to be
used on
other archs too (Alpha, MIPS, you name it). If the idea is to have
a desktop
for people who need the job done, then probably they won't be from
the x86
camp only.
Aside from that, I wouldn't choose Gnome for a very simple reason -
it
depends on a damn lot of other packages. This deserves a separate
thread, I
think.
I would also prefer something lighter like xfce, but I'm
not going to stand in the way of those interested in ensuring
that a 'full fat' gnome desktop works well on NetBSD. I'm
sure it will be possible to adjust the initial netbsd-desktop
installer to select an alternate desktop packages such as
kde, xfce4 or even a lightweight window manager like jwm.