Projects/LXDE

LXDE

• Project
  • Name: LXDE - Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment
  • Description: LXDE is a new project aimed to provide a new desktop environment which is lightweight and fast. It's not designed to be powerful and bloated, but to be usable and slim enough, and keep the resource usage low.

• Contact
  • http://lxde.org/contact
  • mb@lxde.org
  • World
  • Experience: We have numerous developers and package maintainers for different Linux distributions in Taiwan, China, Germany and the US.
  • Members: Many of our members are working in the LXDE Foundation: http://foundation.lxde.org

• • Motivation: Why another Desktop if there already is sugar? Well, Sugar and Mono are running very slowly on low spec hardware. Many countries already have old computers. We should make these to work together with the OLPC very well. The LXDE team would like to work together with the OLPC project. It would be possible to change the look and feel of the interface of LXDE to something like the current OLPC desktop in the future even. We have developers and more and more people joining from Asian countries. The LXDE project was started 2005 by the Taiwanese Hacker Hong Yen Jee. English language skills are sometimes limited in many countries, but programming skills are fantastic. So these people would also like to participate in the project and we could use the network of the LXDE project to give them OLPCs, which they need for their development.

• • 30 % completed
  • 20 Laptops requested
  • Status: Pending

• References
  • LXDE Homepage: http://lxde.org
  • LXDE Foundation: http://foundation.lxde.org

LXDE & Fedora

Some parts of the LXDE desktop were already included in Fedora. I have packaged the missing components, so that LXDE has become an official feature of Fedora 10. Now I'd like to port the LX desktop to the OLPC. This is not just about maintaining another branch of packages in our CVS, but about tweaking everything for the OLPC: The adjustments will need to include fonts, icons and their sizes, the GTK and Openbox theme and even technical things like making F1-F4 keys work. The most important question is how to integrate the neighborhood or the zoom metaphor of sugar into a conventional desktop environment.

• Contact
  • Christoph Wickert
  • cwickert AT fedoraproject DOT org
  • Muenster, Germany
  • Experience: Fedora packager, reviewer and sponsor for 3+ years. Please visit my FPO wiki page for more info.
  • Members: Christoph Wickert, (feel free to join)

• • Motivation: Why another Desktop if there already is sugar? I don't want to turn the XO into one of these netbooks, but IMHO there should be an alternative desktop environment for advanced users. The audience I'm targeting are advanced users and developers or older pupils, who might want also to use their OLPC in higher grades. These people should be able to run a small but powerful desktop on there XO.
  • 30 % completed
  • 1 Laptop, requested for 6 months.
  • Status: Pending

• References
  • Fedora LXDE feature page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/LXDE
  • Fedora Lite Spin: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Cwickert/FedoraLite