[indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris GUI

[Calum Benson]

On 21 Oct 2007, at 11:31, Anil Gulecha wrote:

> So, in short, unless you can convince top management in SUN to hire
> away *cough*Apple*cough* UI engineers to build a brand new desktop
> enviornment, we have to go with G/K

Right.  What I think you will see a lot more of are Solaris-specific  
GUIs, such as those coming out of the Visual Panels, Presto and NWAM  
projects, and to some extent even the Caiman installer project.   
While these will still be implemented using the GNOME or Java  
toolkits, they're very much tailored to features of Solaris that are  
either somewhat different to, or just not currently available in, the  
Linux distros that the 'generic' bits of the GNOME and KDE desktops  
have to satisfy.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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