On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 11:19 -0700, John Martinez wrote: > On Jul 31, 2007, at 8:32 AM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > > >> Good one. If you are going to target the desktop, games is a must > >> since OpenSolaris already offers enough to cover mundane users like > >> word processing, Internet browsing and email. > >> Maybe a new and separate set of stable interfaces for a desktop > >> target > >> will ease the development of software for OpenSolaris desktops > after > >> OpenSolaris gets a proper package management solution to handle > >> updates from a repository. Given a set of stable desktop > interfaces, > >> Apple's download a file and that is also the process of > installation > >> would make it really easy for 'normal' users to install software. > >> Right now Mac OS X has a stable interface which allows people to > >> create software for Mac OS X without worrying at all about > >> dependencies. > > > > Regarding Photo Editing for end users, 2.4 apparently fixes up the > > current pig-ugly GUI with something that resembles sanity in > > regards to > > ease of use. > > Version 2.4 of what?
Sorry - GIMP 2.4 - its going to take on SDI and get rid of that usability nightmare that is MDI. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
