Jason:
Obviously the alleged pointlessness of something that we are arguing about is relevant. Whether or not there are--you know--actual people using said OS is what this is really about. And apparently even Sun doesn't think so since they no longer invest the same level of resources in it that they once did. I'm calling a duck a duck here. It's a failure and even Sun knows that it is. There's no reason we shouldn't be scrambling a few eggs on Solaris to advance the Linux desktop experience.
I didn't realize that Sun was the only company involved with GNOME that has had resources negatively impacted by this long-standing downturn in the economy. Even though, it is true, Sun does have fewer resources working on GNOME than we did several years ago, there are still several dozen engineers at Sun working on GNOME and GNOME-related technologies. Recently Sun has been focusing a lot of time and energy into making a new accessible installer, the Time Slider GNOME ZFS integration application, adding better wireless and printing support, improving the multimedia experience, and lots of other things. The latest releases of OpenSolaris have been well received, I think because we are doing a good bit of work making GNOME available on Solaris. http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=10250 Sun is already working to add DeviceKit support to Solaris, GNOME runs fine on Solaris without PulseAudio. Sun does not have much of an interest in shipping modules which have a strong dependency on PolicyKit (e.g. Sun is moving to use VisualPanels instead of wanting to ship GNOME system tools), and it typically isn't hard to make those few programs that use PolicyKit that we do want to ship use RBAC instead. I am not sure what the big deal is here. Nobody from Sun has been complaining about GNOME being too Linux-ey, have they? Sun has always had a good relationship with the GNOME community, and it has never been particularly hard to get patches upstream to support things needed for GNOME to work well on Solaris or OpenSolaris. Brian _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
