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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/28/2015 01:24 PM, Cameron Shorter
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:56598ED6.4020200@gmail.com" type="cite">I had
the following email sent directly to me.
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I'm responding publicly to the OSGeo-Live list as I there may be
others with suggestions, but have removed the sender's name.
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On 23/11/2015 6:36 am, XXX wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Is it possible to add more desktop
managers? Lubuntu has just LXDE. With the current project, when
I try to use another manager (GNOME or Cinnamon), lots of
programs stop working (and I really don't understand why).
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This is not really a matter of functionality. It's just that I
don't enjoy working in a Windows-like distribution of Linux. I
think GNOME is a environment that aims productivity.
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For OSGeo-Live, we only support one desktop manager, primarily as
reduces the amount of testing required in getting the release out.
Lubuntu is the desktop we use because it is small and we try to
keep the size small enough to fit on a DVD.
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We'd be happy to see another distribution supported as a branch,
but I expect it will be quite a bit of effort. Volunteers are
always welcome.
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During the build procedure we customize the desktop environment in
order to add the geospatial menu, the desktop items etc. We do not
do this customization on the packaging level: we do not produce
derivative deb files of LXDE.<br>
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Instead we execute:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/bin/install_icons_and_menus.sh">https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/bin/install_icons_and_menus.sh</a><br>
which customizes the desktop post-install.<br>
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To achieve what is suggested here would require us to fork debian
packaging of other desktop environments (GNOME, KDE etc) and make
sure that all applications work fine on those environments.<br>
From my experience, every major GNU/Linux distribution has a
dedicated team of maintainers for each desktop environment
supported.<br>
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Short answer: we could do that if we had enough hands to help.<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:56598ED6.4020200@gmail.com" type="cite">
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There's also a recommendation of adding a program called SPRING
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html">http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html</a>). I
underestimated this software for remote sensing image
processing. My mistake. I never saw a software transform a
scanned map (raster) into vector so fast and so perfectly. And I
will not mention the awesome speed of its supervised
classification. It's astounding. I never witnessed something
alike. Not in free or proprietary software.
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Sadly! This software will not be supported anymore. I hope
someone fork it in some moment.
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If this project is as good as you suggest, and there is a
community behind the project who wish to do the work to bring the
project to OSGeo-Live, then we would certainly consider it.
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The process is described here:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Including_OSGeo-Live_at_your_event">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Including_OSGeo-Live_at_your_event</a>
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+1<br>
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Best,<br>
Angelos<br>
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And... That's it!
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Thanks!
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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
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