[desktop-discuss] Re: About graphical desktops and Solaris future

[Calum Benson]

On 14 Nov 2006, at 23:34, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:

>
> It's hardly that bad.  While CDE on Solaris has not picked up
> anywhere near all the features of the OpenGroup CDE 2.x
> base, it nevertheless has a lot of enhancements (and bug fixes)
> over CDE 1.0.  And it's way faster and lighter than JDS; and
> CDE and Motif had inherited features to make them more friendly
> to folks coming from the older Open Look environment
> (like tear-off menus, .text_extras_menu - the latter perhaps
> peculiar to Sun's implementation?).

FWIW, you can have tear-off menus in JDS as well, they're just  
disabled by default.  You just need to set the /desktop/gnome/ 
interface/menus_have_tearoff gconf key to 'true', and it'll take  
effect on any GNOME apps launched thereafter.

(I think this should still work anyway, haven't tried in a while.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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