Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:24:23 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: ajtiM <lumiwa@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: future of the desktop Message-ID: <20110127132423.cdb66a2a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <201101270609.59227.lumiwa@gmail.com> References: <201101270609.59227.lumiwa@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:09:58 -0600, ajtiM <lumiwa@gmail.com> wrote: > "Thanks to Solid's new UPower, UDev and UDisks backends, the deprecated HAL is > no longer needed to manage hardware on Linux. Applications do not need to be > updated to make use of these new backends. The HAL backend is still available > for systems that do not support UPower. " > > It happened with XFCE and now the same story with KDE. Is GNOME next? > How looks like the future of desktop on FreeBSD or is time to install Linux > here? Well, it's not that "desktop == Xfce || desktop == KDE". :-) Maybe the Linux folks won't be happy with the U* either as it will surely be depricated at the moment it fully works. Regarding your question: I think it will be possible to keep Xfce and KDE running, but they won't be in fully functional state then. I'm not a KDE user (and not a Xfce user anymore), so I can't be more specific. Keep in mind that all the "magic" the U* are doing on Linux have been done by FreeBSD's devd for many years now. Maybe this is the chance to revert to a WORKING and STABLE infra- structure on FreeBSD. Just remember: FreeBSD had "hotplug capabilities" and "automounter" for many years, even BEFORE HAL and DBUS came to desktop land. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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