[indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris GUI

[Calum Benson]

On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 21:31 +0300, Stefan Parvu wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> > 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  
> 
> Talking about usability and simplicity: I hope we will find in Indiana 
> something simpler and easy to use like: fvwm or xfce. I wish core 
> Solaris will ship by default with such things, in administration nobody 
> is crazy enough to run GNOME or KDE :)

Obviously their inclusion or otherwise in Indiana will ultimately be a
community decision, but personally I doubt Sun will have the resources
to support another new desktop or window manager in Solaris in the near
future.

In the meantime, any ease-of-use issues you're having with GNOME should
be filed at bugs.opensolaris.org or bugzilla.gnome.org as appropriate,
of course :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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