On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, John Plocher wrote: > > JDS doesn't grok Gnome session files from Linux. > > Blame this directly on GNOME - their config file formats have > been wildly unstable between versions, making it difficult to > reuse them across versions. IMHO, GNOME was not designed to work > in an enterprise-style shared home directory environment, so > it is not surprising that issues like this come up. Are they > frustrating? hell yes. avoidable? could have been. All Sun's > fault or mindless rules? nope.
In fact, one might argue that had the GNOME project adopted some of Sun's "mindless rules" (aka, sound engineering practices), issues like this probably wouldn't have arisen in the first place. Broad-ranging breakages and everything needing to be rebuilt because libc was updated, anyone? -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
