I am using latest Solaris 10 as of August. I have been using Motif/CDE on Solaris since 1993 and used olvwm before that. With the latest CDE pages, there is now a "deprecation" warning that CDE will soon go away. Even though CDE is way behind the times, it has been quite useful for me and allows making full use of my system.
So I decided to give JDS/Gnome a try. After three full days of trying to configure this desktop environment to allow me to do what was so easy in CDE, I am becoming quite frustrated. There are many issues ranging from software crashes, to ease of use, to just plain scalability. The issue I want to address in this email is the scalability issue. I usually use 8 virtual desktops with a pretty heavy application load. It seems that Gnome is restricted to a Windows '95 paradigm showing a tab in the bottom pane for each running process. I have not been able to find a way to configure it to work any way else. It is driving me crazy. In CDE I have the whole screen to keep track of running applications, and usually just a small part is necessary to make sense of it all. In Gnome, not enough is displayed in each application tab for me to even see what the application is. Please see the following image to see what I mean. http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/solaris/pane-pain.png Is there a way around this other than wholesale replacement of standard Gnome components (such as the metacity window manager)? Thanks, Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
