* Ken Gunderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:00:32 -0700 > Glenn Lagasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey Ken, > > > > * Ken Gunderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:15:33 -0600 > > > Jim Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Thanks Brian, > > > > > > > > Was there a flag day for this? If not, I would think about > > > > making one. Finding the bugs is a good thing, but impacting > > > > users that don't have time to be beta testers at the moment > > > > isn't. > > > > > > +1. Makes OS utterly unusable for me in any Sun packaged form, > > > including SXDE, wh/I was told was supposedly more "well tested" version > > > that would be more stable/suitable for workstation use. > > > > So, just to clarify some things. > > > > 1) this is not a problem in SXDE (I believe, since the last SXDE was > > from january). This is seen in the SXCE releases starting with 84 (I > > believe). > > > > 2) SXCE is an 'under development' release (which SXDE is based off of > > once we stabilize it). There are going to be bumps along the way. That > > said, lots of developers inside Sun (certainly in the Solaris org) run > > these builds to get real work done (which is how we find some of these > > more interesting problems). > > To clarify - I'm seeing Gnome crashes, Evolution in particular, on both > latest SXDE and SXCE, builds 79 and 84, respectively. And on previous > SXDE as well. Some might say "just use Thunderbird" but then I might as > well use winblows.... For what it's worth, hardware in this instance is > Tyan K8E and Opteron 180, wh/I believe is essentially same board Sun > based for their X2100 on.
Ok, but that's different from what's being talked about in this thread. FWIW, I use Gnome in Indiana DP2 every day (and have been since DP2 released) and haven't had a Gnome crash 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? Feel free to step right up and take that on :-) This is OpenSolaris after all. Cheers, -- Glenn _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
