Projects/LXDE

• 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)

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