Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Garrett D'Amore wrote: >> Christian Kelly wrote: >>> There's always CDE :) >>> >> >> CDE isn't too bad. Its certainly much better than gnome in this >> particular regard. But it isn't OpenSource, and my fear is that Sun >> plans to do away with it. > > At this point, the question is not "if" CDE will go away, but "when". >
Exactly. So I am requesting that Sun and the community consider some lightweight replacement (xfce4, blackbox, whatever). Heh, wouldn't it be a hoot if olwm came back? :-) Frankly, I'd prefer one that is so lightweight that it didn't involve any non-window-manager behavior. Even CDE could get horked up by messed up configuration files, incorrect network configuration, etc, and having an alternative that is resilient against this kind of misconfiguration is likely to be useful for the cases I'm considering. (This is one of the reasons that I'm using xfce4 -- it seems to be much more resilient against configuration file corruption, stale locks, etc. than the other desktops I've tried.) -- Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division, General Dynamics C4 Systems http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/ Phone: 951 325-2134 Fax: 951 325-2191
