[indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris GUI

[Martin Bochnig]

Brandorr wrote:
> On 10/23/07, Martin Bochnig <mb1x at gmx.com> wrote:
>   
>> Stefan Parvu wrote:
>>     
>>> Hey Calum,
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I doubt Sun will have the resources
>>>> to support another new desktop or window manager in Solaris in the near
>>>> future.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> sure, I know that. However Sun should consider as well
>>> providing 1,2 WM enough simple to maintain, like twm and fvwm...
>>> Would make many admins happy :)
>>>
>>>       
>> Isn't "twm" in ???
>> But I agree that it should be more obvious, i.e. separate dtlogin entry.
>>     
>
> I agreed that the login manager should be aware of all window managers
> installed. Might this be a project for x-windows community?
>   

Not much to do to make this happen. By no means enough to justify having 
a new project set up (takes <= an hour).
I'm also wondering when gdm will finally replace dtlogin once and 
forever (it is already part of Nevada for quite a while).