On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Ken Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've used both Gnome and KDE off and on since 0.x days but ditched both > in favor of Xfce in more recent years. In my opinion Sun (along with > other US corps) bet on the wrong horse with Gnome. I'm looking forward > to the ongoing KDE4 work (although KDE has become a bit too "glitzy" for > me) but that's going to be a while yet. > > What would be really appreciated is if Sun/OS would invest some > energies in porting Xfce - lightweight, fast, and sports a nice window > manager that actually does useful things like shade on mouse title bar > scroll, right click anywhere for full menu, page desktops on mouse > scroll, etc. It's gtk based and attracts a lot of "Gnome refugees" to > it's ranks, so should not be too hard to port, eh?
xfce has a long way to go before getting to Section 508 compliance, etc. It also is relatively immature compared to KDE or GNOME for now. GNOME is far more mature as a platform than KDE or XFCE, right now, when it comes to accessibility, etc. For many business purposes, GNOME still has friendlier licensing than KDE or components KDE relies on as well. Sun spent millions on GNOME in years past before xfce was really known at all, so it makes sense for them to stick with their investment. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
