The official PC-BSD blog recently posted an progress update on the Lumina desktop. There are screen shots and a list of updated features.
For those that don't know, Lumina is a new light weight wm built on Fluxbox using the Qt toolkit. The development is spearheaded by Ken Moore of the PC-BSD project.
http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/08/pc-bsd-10-0-3-preview-lumina-desktop/Earlier this year the folks at PC-BSD announced they would be developing a new desktop environment by the name of Lumina. The official PC-BSD blog
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that shows they are making huge progress. There are
screen shots
and a list of updated features.
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There's lots more about Lumina at their Lumina FAQ. Most
import
ant of all is the question "Why a new desktop
:// environment?" Their answer is related to the fact that because the other desktops are built first on Linux they must be ported, which is taking more and more time and energy; furthermore, many desktops now depend on Linux-specific functionality that makes the port almost impossibl
e.
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