On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Bob Doolittle wrote:
> The default behavior of Gnome simply is a bad choice for a stateless
> thin client on a shared system, whereas it might be a fine choice for
> dedicated hardware with graphics acceleration (assuming you didn't
> need those resources for other work). It would be nice if there were
I definitely agree with this. Gnome originates from the "Linux PC"
viewpoint in which most Linux systems which run a desktop are used as
a standalone "PC" rather than as networked multi-user systems. While
Solaris can certainly be used like this, I think that the typical
Solaris system is more likely to be used in true multi-user scenarios
on large networks. A desktop on Solaris needs to be kinder/gentler to
network bandwidth consumption and "idle" CPU consumption.
The Gnome that comes with Solaris 10 seems to offer very little
configuration capabilities. I would love the capability to adjust/set
this behavior:
o Use wireframe for window moves and window re-sizes.
o Disable dynamic effects when iconizing a program.
o Don't send tens/hundreds of resize events to programs running in a
terminal window while it is resized (can be handled via
wireframe).
o Don't automatically bring a window to the top just because
the user clicks in it (I often want to use a window and leave it
partially obscured).
o Don't allow a new window to grab focus just because it is a new
window. If the window manager is in "focus follows mouse" mode
then this should *always* be respected. With current operation
you are suddenly typing in some other window simply because it
appears somewhere else on the screen.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
