Hey,
Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> I realize that a lot of focus is being spent on JDS 3/gnome, and that
> this is largely a good thing for the end user.
>
> However, I am interested, also, in having a "lightweight" desktop
> environment, suitable for use by system administrators to access gui
> tools on machines that are otherwise not normally used as a desktop.
> (Think of an NFS server somewhere. It is useful to be able to run smc
> and such tools, without paying the full price of Gnome.)
>
> The requirements for such an environment would not be dissimilar to
> those required for graphical suninstall -- a basic window manager like
> mwm or dtwm would be adequate. I'd be even happier if we got something
> like xfce4, which was open source, into such as an environment (but then
> again, I use xfce4 on my primary desktop).
Sounds good to me - maybe it's something you'd like to consider championing?
While it's probably a good business case for Sun to support any more desktops
than we currently do [1], we could consider doing something like this in the
companion CD?
Glynn
[1] And after CDE moves away, I'd far rather capture that space and reduce
the number of CD's in a Solaris install than add another desktop env
