Coming Soon: LXDE

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Coming Soon: LXDE

#1 Post by bark_bark_bark »

LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) is personally my favorite Desktop Environment, and I want to make it as a .PET & .SFS, but...

BEFORE I make it I have some questions:

-What is the actual current version number?
-What are ALL the dependencies required?
-How do I make it available/compatible for all pupies 4.31 and up?
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#2 Post by disciple »

-What is the actual current version number?
I didn't realise there was an overall version number for the whole of LXDE (rather than just separate version numbers for each package).
-What are ALL the dependencies required?
LXDE isn't really monolithic like most "desktop environments". It is a set of programs that are pretty loosely coupled, or not coupled at all. So it depends on which of the LXDE programs you want to include.
E.g. you might just want lxpanel (or probably lxpanelx) and pcmanfm (probably not the legacy version - the "next generation" version has been becoming pretty stable over the last few months, although it is still missing some features).
And some of the dependencies will be optional.
How do I make it available/compatible for all pupies 4.31 and up?
Compile it on Puppy 4.3.1 (or older).
I believe you will have some trouble with that though - I think you'll need to upgrade some of the build tools and things. Is it really worth supporting 4.3.2? To be honest, I'd be inclined to suggest people should use a woof Puppy based on Debian, Slackware or Ubuntu, and just install LXDE from that distro if they want it.
Do you know a good gtkdialog program? Please post a link here

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look this old post maybe help

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#4 Post by Gnuxo »

If you make LXDE, include Spacefm instead of pcmanfm.
Spacefm is based on pcmanfm but including some great features that pcmanfm will never have.

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#5 Post by disciple »

By the same token spacefm doesn't benefit from the changes that are in the "next generation" pcmanfm.
Do you know a good gtkdialog program? Please post a link here

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#6 Post by nooby »

Saluki has xfce is that not almost as good as LXDE?
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

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#7 Post by peebee »

Add LXDE to various puppies by SFS - slacko, precise, upup-precise....
ImageLxPup = Puppy + LXDE
Main version used daily: LxPupSc; Assembler of UPups, ScPup & ScPup64, LxPup, LxPupSc & LxPupSc64

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