[...] > I've also seen Motif on Gnome. The problem is that > the Gnome window > manager doesn't do what a window manager is supposed > to do. Its not > Motif's fault; that's Gnome's fault for being buggy > and non-compliant > with window manager requirements. Its a toy. [...]
While I can't speak to your specific criticisms, my limited experience with typical GNOME desktops is that they are at least as quirky as anything else, if in different ways; so you might be dead on, except perhaps for one point: one can use GNOME with a variety of window managers, hopefully some _are_ relatively compliant. (I gather it used to be distributed with sawfish, but Sun uses metacity for whatever reason; from the descriptions, I think I might prefer enlightenment or IceWM, but haven't been interested enough to try them all.) > BTW, I've also pestered The Open Group to opensource > CDE. Some more > features would be good, but key is that CDE has the > foundations of a > good standards compliant desktop manager. Gnome gets > confused by > AFS/NFS home dirs when the same user logs into > multiple systems--Gnome > is a toy. I too would like to see that happen. There are a number of interesting tools that could be written if for example libDtSvc were open. Some can be done without it - I used xscope to see how dtstyle told dtwm to restart, and discovered a generic mechanism for sending f. commands to dtwm; that was enough that I could write a utility to do that so that shell scripts like the one used in the action to edit one's .dtwmrc file could trigger a dtwm restart. But more than that, I'd like a way to keep CDE around regardless of what any given distro maintainer wants to support, as well as to "fix" a few things that have long bugged me (like the lack in dtterm of an alternate buffer for e.g. vi, so that on exiting the cursor-addressible application, it can restore the previous window contents; xterm can do it, so dtterm certain _ought_ to be able to). > There really is a reason that people still run Solaris instead of Linux. > I suggest you give some thought as to why that is. Failure to figure > hat out probably isn't a good thing, but fortunately the Solaris source > is now mostly all free and the non-free code seems to be getting > whittled down; So, if you fail, someone else can pick it up. CDE/Motif probably isn't the largest such reason, but I don't disagree that it might be one of them. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
