openSUSEway desktop

[denisok]

is Tumbleweed based Desktop environment. It is based on Wayland and sway.

[denisok]

new system role? https://github.com/yast/skelcd-control-openSUSE/blob/master/control/control.openSUSE.xml#L336

[denisok]

@jubalh what do you think we should include in the desktop env? browser sudo,git, jq tools?

[denisok]

Something bare minimum that I would require to start: firefox, sudo, git, jq, wget, curl, vim (or whatever basic editor), tar, gzip, bzip2, less, grep, network manager.

[jubalh]

good question :)

What about pavucontrol/pulseaudio? Depending on how DE like you want to have if vifm (file manager), alpine/mutt for mail, imv image viewer.

[jubalh]

I use mpv for videos.

[denisok]

What about pavucontrol/pulseaudio?

that is already a dependency for waybar/pattern/branding

[denisok]

GTK, QT themes?

(I leave it here as interesting example) https://github.com/kennylevinsen/dotfiles/blob/master/sway#L43

[m-rey]

I'd keep it fairly minimal, as many people like the simplicity and cleanliness of sway. https://github.com/openSUSE/openSUSEway/issues/12#issuecomment-651838166 covers the basics. Maybe add in mpv to the mix. I wouldn't choose a specific email client like alpine/mutt/neomutt/aerc, but just let the user decide.

GTK and QT themes are out of scope in my opinion. They are also hardly present in any sway related dotfiles I've seen so far.

[denisok]

maybe GTK and QT are out of scope, which means some default Adwaita or something. I don't care, but maybe there is some more fancy more basic theme that I am not aware of :)

e-mail client is hard, I think ppl that would use sway are knowledgeable enough to install what they need.

[jubalh]

I would definitely add mpv and imv. What other use is it to create a "desktop" if you don't ship default applications?

Then people can just use the pattern or install by themselves.

[denisok]

OK first try here: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/820898

[denisok]

still I think we need to choose some GTK/QT themes, for example if I open pavucontrol it is all white by default, I would vote for the some dark theme.

[denisok]

some other packages we could add:

• command-not-found

[jubalh]

still I think we need to choose some GTK/QT themes, for example if I open pavucontrol it is all white by default, I would vote for the some dark theme.

I agree. Not sure which is a nice and basic one though.

[denisok]

integrate wob from #17 to the pattern.

[denisok]

I think this is completed. openSUSEway pattern and desktop environment was added and is in Installation, where anyone could choose it from the start. I am updating it to 0.8 and I think I close this one.

To get system role I have #19 .

@jubalh I suggest we remove openSUSE-branding from pattern-sway and add upstream-branding there instead. So we would have clean, minimal sway upstream from your pattern and openSUSEway would have branding and all other packages. What do you think?

[denisok]

update to 0.8: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/823705

that adds environments to get QT, GTK to support better Wayland.

That also adds wob for volume and brightness indicator.

[jubalh]

@jubalh I suggest we remove openSUSE-branding from pattern-sway and add upstream-branding there instead. So we would have clean, minimal sway upstream from your pattern and openSUSEway would have branding and all other packages. What do you think?

Sure! Makes sense. In case I forget to do it feel free to send a SR.

[denisok]

@jubalh alright: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/823980

And latest desktop version also landed to Factory. closing this ticket!

[jubalh]

SR#823980 accepted, thanks!