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Lumina: PC-BSD's Own Desktop Environment

Posted by timothy on from the always-room-for-one-more dept.

jones_supa (887896) writes "The PC-BSD project is developing a new open source (BSD license) desktop environment from scratch. The name of the project is Lumina and it will be based around the Qt toolkit. The ultimate goal is to replace KDE as the default desktop of PC-BSD. Lumina aims to be lightweight, stable, fast-running, and FreeDesktop.org/XDG compliant. Most of the Lumina work is being done by PC-BSD's Ken Moore. Even though Lumina is still in its early stages, it can be built and run successfully, and an alpha version can already be obtained from PC-BSD's ports/package repositories."

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  1. Re:Why? by mrchaotica · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Okay, but when you've torn everything down and started over from scratch twenty-plus times already, maybe that stops being the right development methodology?

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    "[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz

  2. Anyone knows how it would compare to razor-qt ? by biloute · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://razor-qt.org/

  3. Re:Why? by Microlith · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What does "development methodology" have to do with it? Sometimes you just want to start from scratch rather than hauling along someone else's baggage. I guess your complaint just falls into the category of "dissatisfaction with how others spend their own time."

  4. Re:Why? by nyctopterus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But what are they going to change that will make the effort worth it? When I look at the variety of desktops, the majority (perhaps all) of them seem to be tinkering with the same basic concept. It would be much more interesting if this splitting was leading to a drastically different desktop concepts, but it's not.

  5. Re:Several mistakes by jones_supa · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Submitter here. I take full responsibility for the mistakes you mentioned. Most of that stuff I simply robotically extracted upstream from the Phoronix article. I did not use more of my time to do a verified, accurate research of the topic. My apologies.