On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote: > > > Calum Benson wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 13:20 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > > > >> Given Sun's migrating CDE users, etc. it might be good to either > >> resurrect or create a new applet that does this. > > > > Not an unreasonable idea, but I guess that's something we'd need some > > marketing input on. I'd guess Sun might prefer to migrate as many CDE > > users as it can to a newer version of Solaris (when there is one), > > rather than to an OpenSolaris distro. That in turn determine how much > > effort Sun engineers would be directed to spend on such a feature for > > Indiana :) > > I can't honestly see it happening, unless there was a significant demand from > the customer base. We've been there, done that before, and if I remember it > wasn't very successful at the time. The most used piece of code was Stephen's > menu converter, but given that was an old gnome-vfs module, I doubt it works > anymore.
I have this sneaking suspicion that it suddenly might become important when users discover that CDE is no longer available / exists / supported. -- 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
