On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 12:42 PM Timothée Ravier tim@siosm.fr wrote:

Hi!

This is proof of concept to build a KDE based version of Fedora Silverblue. I called it Kinoite because it had to start with a 'K' and Kinoite is a blue mineral.

The resulting desktop only has Firefox and Konsole as main applications installed by default (the minimum for easy Flatpak/Flathub usage).

**This has only been tested inside a virtual machine for now, so use at your own risk!**

Instructions to try it out on an already installed Fedora Silverblue system:

curl -O https://tim.siosm.fr/downloads/siosm_gpg.pub sudo ostree remote add kinoite https://siosm.fr/kinoite/ --gpg-import siosm_gpg.pub sudo ostree admin pin 0 sudo rpm-ostree rebase kinoite:fedora/28/x86_64/kinoite

Instructions to build your own:

git clone https://pagure.io/fork/siosm/workstation-ostree-config sudo rpm-ostree compose tree --repo=ostree_repo --cachedir=ostree_cache workstation-ostree-config/kinoite.json

The changes are available in the following repositories:

https://pagure.io/fork/siosm/fedora-comps (master) https://pagure.io/fork/siosm/workstation-ostree-config (f28-kinoite branch)

Unfortunately, the current configuration layout makes it hard to switch base packages without duplicating the entire config tree. Thus the Kinoite config is simply a copy of the Silverblue one and is not integrated at all.

See also the discussion at: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/kinoite-a-kde-version-of-fedora-silve...

This is actually really interesting and compelling! I'd love to see this further developed!

Hi,

you should consider to replace Firefox with Falkon (successor of Qupzilla) to get rid of more Gtk libraries.

Maybe you're also interested in the LXQt spin that ships with a minimal set of applications. There's also the Kannolo remix that tries to avoid any Gtk based applications.

Just my 5ct. Regards, Raphael