Who said that Sun would be abandoning GNOME? I anticipate that GNOME will continue to be the premier desktop on machines with the horsepower to handle it. However, the GNOME community is moving towards an evermore tight relationship with OpenGL, which means an alternative is necessary for machines that do not support OpenGL. For example, refer to GNOME Shell, which will replace the metacity window manager, gnome-session, the GNOME panel and applets in GNOME 3.0:
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell In talking with the GNOME community, there is little interest in making the new GNOME Shell work in non-OpenGL environments. Considering that all the elements in the GNOME shell desktop is treated as 3D actors via clutter, it would be tricky to figure out a way to untie it from OpenGL. However, I suppose if someone did the work to make GNOME Shell work in non-OpenGL environments, it could get upstream. That said, I think a more straightforward approach would be to simply provide a lighter desktop for users who either want or need one. I'm sure people will still run a lot of "GNOME" applications from within a light desktop if it were available. Brian Volker A. Brandt wrote: >> Rather then abandoning GNOME, I think the right answer is to find ways >> ways to improve it > > Your argument has some merit. I once tried to answer the question > "what Gnome-related processes need to run on my (S10) system if I just > want to run the desktop, some xterms, emacs, and Firefox?" > > After an extended Google session I gave up. So if there was something > like a "performance cookbook" for Gnome under Solaris/OpenSolaris > it might ease some of the pain. > > > Regards -- Volker > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Sun Solaris > Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ > Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim Email: vab at bb-c.de > Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgr??e: 45 > Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Rainer J. H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
