Re: Linux Desktop based on JDK 1.2

[Tony Dean]

Cliff Baeseman wrote:  I do not know if anyone is interested in this yet but here goes.    I am not happy with the GNOME or the KDE desktops Havn't tried Gnome yet but I understand that it is window manager neutral. I have used CDE extensively and don't care much for KDE. Put KDE on my machine and my wifes machine. Mine is back to FVWM2 (Motif L&F) with GoodStuff (FvwmButtons) and I like it real well. I use the virtual desktop feature and there is nothing I find I need beyond the fvwm2 environment with several years of my own hacks. so I have started building a desktop on top of a minimal RH 6.0installation. What is the minimal RH 6.0 in this context? Are you doing without X somehow? I am interested in your architecture, as this sounds interesting from a technical standpoint. I have similar issues with Java and am curious as to where you are going. AWT is too limited and Swing is slow and ignores your look and feel customizations. Maybe you have something better? I am using JBuilder3 on windows to code the desktop. This is working out very well and JBuilder already gave me 50 percent of what I needed to build the system. I am using pre v-2 blackdown JDK and am having a bunch of fun doing this.  The desktop will talk to the linux bottom end via a api socket server written in C++. Anyone else interested? Cliff Baeseman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I'm curious. --  Tony Dean Linux: The choice of a GNU Generation!