ken mays wrote:
Anyone for OpenMotif v2.3 ?
I have a patched version of OpenMotif 2.3 that I built for BeleniX. I
patched it
to make it more compatible with Solaris Motif. This is required to
get Java AWT
and Swing working on a opensolaris distro.
If you are interested, the
Moinak Ghosh wrote:
ken mays wrote:
Anyone for OpenMotif v2.3 ?
I have a patched version of OpenMotif 2.3 that I built for BeleniX.
I patched it
to make it more compatible with Solaris Motif. This is required to
get Java AWT
and Swing working on a opensolaris distro.
Hi all
But shouldn't Polaris start out with a less complex WM (rather than a huge
Windowing Environment)?
What about ICEwm, xfce or fvvwm2 (if not twm for the very beginning) ...
If you need help to port XFce let me know :)
But i think unfortunatly Polaris is yet far from starting
Hi WIlliam, fire that Pegasos up! The lift off sequence is underway!
RB
On Sep 3, 2006, at 4:57 PM, William Bonnet wrote:
Hi Dennis
If you read into that, if I may be blunt, there will be some
really cool
things happening and that means talented people also. I am still
waiting
to see
Hi Dennis
If you read into that, if I may be blunt, there will be some really cool
things happening and that means talented people also. I am still waiting
to see the same things that you are. In the mean while we must not forget
that a pile of time and work has been invested by Sun and
Dennis Clarke wrote:
There has been a terrible lack of communication. That would be my fault
and I really need to get a few things out before people linch me. I don't
think I even spelled lynch correct there.
(1) The team at Sun Labs is headed up by Tom Riddle and he has been
real busy in
Martin Bochnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, I only have 4 weeks so called holidays left to create a
distribution.
Maybe you could share the code with me before it is ready to go public?
marTux x86 / x64 can be release every minute, only improving details.
Schillix Sparc is also
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Martin Bochnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, I only have 4 weeks so called holidays left to create a
distribution.
Maybe you could share the code with me before it is ready to go public?
marTux x86 / x64 can be release every minute, only improving details.
Anyone for OpenMotif v2.3 ?
~K
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Anyone for OpenMotif v2.3 ?
sure !
let me get your GNOME 2.14.3 test done first okay ? :-)
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Martin Bochnig wrote:
Dennis Clarke wrote:
[...]
that a pile of time and work has been invested by Sun and Genesi.
Dennis Clarke
Sounds good.
However, I only have 4 weeks so called holidays left to create a
distribution.
Maybe you could share the code with me before it is
re: http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/junk/openwin_desktop.png
Is the old OpenWindows desktop code gone/closed forever ?
Just curious as I give some thought to an initial desktop for Polaris.
We know that OpenWindows was running on the PowerPC at some point in
the past. Since we have the
Dennis Clarke wrote:
Is the old OpenWindows desktop code gone/closed forever ?
If any of the code is available then it may take another six months
with legal to review it. For efficiency I may as well ask now.
It's not lost - we know exactly where it is - but since it's not
included in
If Polaris is looking for a modern desktop then GNOME
is preferred as it is supported by Sun JDS. I don't
OpenWindows would be a viable option and it is no
longer supported by Sun.
I'd opt for KDE as something to use as well.
~ Ken Mays
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If Polaris is looking for a modern desktop then GNOME
is preferred as it is supported by Sun JDS. I don't
OpenWindows would be a viable option and it is no
longer supported by Sun.
I'd opt for KDE as something to use as well.
yes yes ... somewhere down the road.
but not on day one.
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Dennis Clarke wrote:
Is the old OpenWindows desktop code gone/closed forever ?
If any of the code is available then it may take another six months
with legal to review it. For efficiency I may as well ask now.
It's not lost - we know exactly where it is - but since it's not
included in
If Polaris is looking for a modern desktop then
GNOME
is preferred as it is supported by Sun JDS. I don't
OpenWindows would be a viable option and it is no
longer supported by Sun.
I'd opt for KDE as something to use as well.
yes yes ... somewhere down the road.
but not on day one.
--
Dennis Clarke wrote:
CDE is still fully supported in Solaris 10
Yes - I said nothing about support, but since there is no new
development happening in CDE, there's no development process to
open up.
and will still be supported
in a future release will it not ?
Sun has not yet announced
I'd opt for KDE as something to use as well.
yes yes ... somewhere down the road.
but not on day one.
--
Dennis Clarke
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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
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Sun has not yet announced which release the CDE EOF will occur in,
but plans are well underway for it to occur.
I hope the issues I (and other CDE users) have with GNOME/JDS are
resolved before that happens. See my blog entry about the most
If Polaris is looking for a modern desktop then
GNOME
is preferred as it is supported by Sun JDS. I don't
OpenWindows would be a viable option and it is no
longer supported by Sun.
I'd opt for KDE as something to use as well.
yes yes ... somewhere down the road.
but not on day one.
--Previous message-
CDE is still fully supported in Solaris 10
Yes - I said nothing about support, but since there is
no new
development happening in CDE, there's no development
process to
open up.
and will still be supported
in a future release will it not ?
Sun has not
Alan Dennis,
Would it be a consideration to start with a small
window manager like WindowMaker, Fluxbox,
Enlightenment or IceWM - and then work our way up to
Sun JDS (GNOME) for Polaris?
I think CDE and OpenWindows are just needed for the
compatibility libraries for older commercial
ken mays wrote:
I think CDE and OpenWindows are just needed for the
compatibility libraries for older commercial apps -
right?
If you want to support third-party apps, what you really want is
mainly just Motif, not all of CDE. Motif is quasi-open-source -
you might be able to use it in
Rich Teer wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Sun has not yet announced which release the CDE EOF will occur in,
but plans are well underway for it to occur.
I hope the issues I (and other CDE users) have with GNOME/JDS are
resolved before that happens. See my blog entry
Dennis Clarke wrote:
Have you dragged down Vermillion and the X Windows kit for OpenSolaris?
Its larger than the whole OpenSolaris source by a large margin.
Shh! Don't say that too loudly or you may damage the superiority complex
of all the ON engineers! They might actually have to update
-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
Dennis Clarke wrote:
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
--Previous message-
CDE is still fully supported in Solaris 10
Yes - I said nothing about support, but since there is
no new
development happening in CDE, there's no development
process to
open up.
and will still be supported
in a future release will it not ?
Alan Dennis,
Would it be a consideration to start with a small
window manager like WindowMaker, Fluxbox,
Enlightenment or IceWM - and then work our way up to
Sun JDS (GNOME) for Polaris?
I think CDE and OpenWindows are just needed for the
compatibility libraries for older commercial
Dennis Clarke wrote:
Have you dragged down Vermillion and the X Windows kit for OpenSolaris?
Its larger than the whole OpenSolaris source by a large margin.
Shh! Don't say that too loudly or you may damage the superiority complex
of all the ON engineers! They might actually have to
ppc: The new MSB Polaris port will never run any single of the vintage
2.5.1/2.6_ppc binaries.
This also has the efefct, that nobody will ever depend on
/usr/openwin/lib
or /usr/dt/lib.
I was merely looking for the sources to OpenWindows for Polaris.
It may be easier to compile
Martin Bochnig wrote:
ppc: The new MSB Polaris port will never run any single of the vintage
2.5.1/2.6_ppc binaries.
This also has the efefct, that nobody will ever depend on
/usr/openwin/lib
or /usr/dt/lib.
I was merely looking for the sources to OpenWindows for Polaris.
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