On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Anon Y Mous<music_analyst at yahoo.com> wrote: > XFCE 2 had a theme that looked almost exactly the way that CDE looked in > Solaris 8, 9, and 10. So what do you guys say. XFCE with this CDE theme as a > replacement for CDE in OpenSolaris? > > If GNOME ever gives Solaris the shaft, we can always rely on our Solaris > CDE-look-a-like XFCE theme as it is more in line with what traditional > old-school UNIX administrators want on their Solaris box anyway.
As a member of the old school, I always hated CDE. And OpenWindows and sunview before it. I run GNOME in Solaris 10 and it's relatively inoffensive - it doesn't do much for me, but doesn't get in my way too much. More recent versions of GNOME (such as in SXCE or the osol distro) are definitely starting to get on my nerves. I certainly couldn't use them as a full time desktop. It's just little thing, but there's also a trend away from simple tools and towards the kitchen sink. And we don't seem to be gaining any killer features to compensate. Current XFCE is definitely lighter than GNOME, although it's growing and closing the gap - it's picking up a lot of the GNOME basics along the way, so it's not as light and blazingly fast as (say) windowmaker or openbox. And it's not that different in behaviour now either. Rather than simply try and emulate something, what are the key attributes of the thing you're trying to emulate? Features, performance, look and feel? -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
