Peter: > On 1/18/08, Brian Cameron <Brian.Cameron at sun.com> wrote: >> I don't think GNOME is quite the hornets >> nest of bugs that people seem to suggest. The GNOME 2.6 in Solaris 10 >> is probably not the best version of GNOME to judge. Try GNOME 2.20 >> in Nevada and you'll see how far we've come in the past few years. > > Hm. I far prefer the gnome in S10; I've got a home system running SXCE > which I use occasionally (rhythmbox is nice) but generally find that I can > work far more effectively on an S10 system. And I haven't had a gnome > failure under S10 for a year or more now.
Well, Nevada is not intended to be FCS quality. I bet once Nevada goes FCS, you will find GNOME works as well as it does in S10. >> I agree that there are some things that CDE does better than GNOME, >> but overall I think most people will find that GNOME is a better, >> more modern desktop than CDE. Especially in Nevada/OpenSolaris >> where HAL integration makes automatic discovery of removable devices >> work as you would expect. No more having to manually mount your USB >> flash drive by hand in a terminal, as you need to do with CDE. > > (What does this have to do with CDE vs GNOME? That feature was added > into S10 fairly soon after FCS and works for all desktop environments.) Overall, removable media support with HAL in Nevada is much better than in S10, and better integrated with Nautilus. But, I'm sure that you can find specific devices that work with S10 also. > What I would like to see is more freedom to customize, and > encouragement for more theming. (Look back 5-10 years, and see the > energy back then that went into creation of themes for environments > such as windowmaker. I just don't see that energy any more.) That's a fair criticism of GNOME. GNOME tries to be simple, perhaps to a fault. Now, with KDE working to integrate into Solaris, that should give people more choice. KDE is more configurable. That said, I recommend you file issues at http://bugzilla.gnome.org regarding configuration issues you would like to see better supported in GNOME. Things won't improve if the GNOME community doesn't hear about your ideas. Note that for the advanced user, there are lots of GNOME configuration options hidden away in gconf-editor that allow people to do many things that aren't exposed in the GUI Preferences. Perhaps some of those should be better exposed. Brian
