On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:00:35AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > further reading reports that Sun's marketing group has declared GNOME/Sawfish > the only truly supported Linux desktop environment. Not KDE/Kwin, not E, > Sawfish. Period. Under Solaris they support Sawfish and CDE.
Except that Gnome has switched to Metacity as of 2.0, which is Blackbox (or used to be), so exactly where is that going to put Sun? Not that Sun cares about Linux, of course. :) Now there's an interesting point... are the window problems people are seeing duplicable under Metacity? > Lots of user commentary about this on the bug pages. Many people noting that > KDE and GNOME have a similar market share. Do they? Gnome is losing rapidlly from all I see. It may be technologically superior, but KDE does what they don't... pander to the user. Joe User is running KDE and apparently is quite happy with it, and he's a far larger percentage. This needs to be pointed out to Sun. Myself, any environment that is so flawed it can't even admit to the idea that the user might have more than one display is one I don't want to use. Even with Gnome, you can support two heads. But try and launch KDE's kicker on a second head and get told it's already running. <sigh> > I am a little surprised to hear the IBM's jre is also showing these issues as > many people recommend running it or blackdown due to Sun's refusal to fix > things. Damn near all of the fvwm bugs are marked "wont be fixed". Probably because they see fvwm as horribly dated, despite the fact that it's one of the most flexible window managers out there. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
