On 23 Jul 2009, at 22:25, Peter Tribble wrote: > 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?
This is one of several points that Bob Doolittle from the Sun Ray team was trying to get across to GNOME (and KDE) developers at the Desktop Summit in Gran Canaria earlier this month. Time will tell how successful he has been; all we can do is try to keep getting involved early whenever any part of the GNOME infrastructure is redesigned, and keep repeating the message. To be fair, simultaneous multi-sessions in GNOME are a lot less hairy now (probably from about GNOME 2.12 onwards) than they used to be, but of course that doesn't really help us interoperate with Solaris 10, which is stuck on 2.6. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com OpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
