Yeah, in my opinion it should be easy to conceive a set of packages that even eschews Firefox in favor of something more efficent (which is to say, less complex to maintain, as well as smaller/faster), like Dillo (dillo.org) for example.
Ross, Gary (G.A.) wrote: >I agree that some applications have become foundational. But let's also >look at where the client is going in general. In the Corporate world, >thinner clients are becoming in. Not necessarily just display devices, >like SunRay, but also having CPU and memory for local processing of some >applications like a browser, or media player. We'll call them "thin >PC's". > >That said, applications do need to be divided into "foundation", and >"everything else". The foundation apps are part of the OS, and are >installed on each system. Everything else must be able to run off a >shared directory (NFS mount). > >Care needs to be taken when labeling "foundation" apps. Too many of >them, and you have the same problem the LINUX environment is having, >with all of the interdependencies. Please let's not go down the path of >having to load 30 packages, just to get a single application running. > >Just my $0.02, as a user and customer... > >Gary A. Ross >Network Operations Architect >Ford Motor Company >gross at ford.com >Phone: (313) 390-4313 > >-----Original Message----- >From: desktop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org >[mailto:desktop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Eric >Boutilier >Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 8:45 PM >To: opensolaris-discuss; desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org; >companion-discuss at opensolaris.org >Subject: [desktop-discuss] Thoughts on freeware ports and GUI >library"sub-stacks" > >Thinking (and toying with) the concept of a minimal desktop over the >weekend, I got to thinking about how Firefox has become an indispensable > >desktop application, and how it is based on the GTK+ (Glib, etc.) >"sub-stack" library set. The point being that even for non-GNOME desktop > >environments, Glib, Pango, ATK, et al. have become foundational. In >other words, these days that set of libraries are, for all intents and >purposes, no less essential than say, the X Window (Xorg) sub-stack. > >Looking at things that way, it's also true that every Solaris freeware >stack project either diverges from OpenSolaris or not at the GUI (GTK+) >"sub-stack" level. For example, the independent distros have diverged -- > >albeit, out of necessity -- at this level. (Those projects have such a >broad scope they have to maintain their own GUI/GTK+ library stacks.) > >In contrast, the projects that have not diverged (that I can think of) >are: The Companion project, Pat Mauritz' pmpkg project, the >spec-files-extra repository, and Sun's Firefox/Thunderbird ports (found >in the Mozilla contrib repo). In other words, these projects -- although > >independent of each other -- standardize on a common GUI library base; >and therefore (correct me if I'm wrong here) together they comprise a >large pool of highly compatible ports. > >Eric >_______________________________________________ >desktop-discuss mailing list >desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > >
