-------------Previous post ----------- > 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 ----------- End of Previous Post------------------- Dennis, Look at the ROX desktop. We've talked in the past about smaller desktops like Xfce in which I think ROX may be another viable option for Polaris. We really would need to review the current state of the Unix desktops out there that are WELL supported and can possibly work in the embedded solutions as well. http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/ I think the source for ROX is only 2MB to start with which should fit some of the current Genesi product offerings. As Martin pointed out, we may not have to consider OpenWindows and CDE at all. Well, I may have gotten a bit off from what you suggested earlier. Ken Mays EarthLink, Inc. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
