> >> If Polaris is looking for a modern desktop then > GNOME >> is preferred as it is supported by Sun JDS. I don't >> OpenWindows would be a viable option and it is no >> longer supported by Sun. >> >> I'd opt for KDE as something to use as well. >> > > yes yes ... somewhere down the road. > > but not on day one. > > -- > Dennis Clarke > ----------------------------- > > Well, one day one we have to look at what is viable to > the common user base which from the high-end are the > GNOME/KDE desktops and Xfce on the other. Otherwise, > you start dealing with support issues and > compatibility concerns. > > Maybe Genesi or the Sun team may have better > suggestions on a small low-overhead free desktop that > we can use and build/support to minimize developer > resources needed to maintain it.
I think you have gone way beyond the scope of my inquiry. Of course the modern desktops need to be ported. However, at some point in the near future it would be _nice_ to not have to compile 100MB of source to get a desktop when there may be a 16MB solution laying about that has been in Solaris since the dawn of time. Have you dragged down Vermillion and the X Windows kit for OpenSolaris? Its larger than the whole OpenSolaris source by a large margin. I was thinking minimal, some day we will need minimal and really really simple. There are options out there. Dennis Clarke _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
