I just thought I would explain a bit of context to what I've been trying to do recently.
One of the reasons I've been looking at alternative desktop environments is that I work in an environment where my home directory is shared between all the machines I use, and I really don't want it to matter which system I'm on. This largely rules out gnome as a way forward. Try sharing a home directory between a Solaris 10 installation of gnome and an SXCE or OpenSolaris version, and interesting things can happen. At the moment I try to remember to login to SXCE using CDE to avoid mismatches. This also explains why I start off with Solaris 10 - I can't use an environment across multiple platforms if it's not there on Solaris 10, and it's generally easier to get things going on SXCE or OpenSolaris because the prerequisites tend to be more up to date. This also means that I would need to build my own on all platforms, so I get the same version in the same place everywhere. It just doesn't seem that the multi-platform, multi-version, multiple simultaneous sessions concept is considered useful in modern desktop development. Why not? Why is the model that you only have one session on one machine? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
