The 'desktop' work at Blastwave is a bit broader in scope. Blastwave has provided not only KDE, but several of the other major UNIX desktop environments like Xfce *AND** GNOME - as well as many of the freedesktop.org software ported to Solaris.
I mentioned before that Stefan and I do similar work with KDE/Solaris porting, yet my scope was for legacy support within the SPARCv8 (i.e. sun4m and above) and SPARCv9 platform realms - when it came to KDE for Solaris as well as Trolltech's Qt C++ development framework. Efforts are branched between people porting KDE with either GCC and Sun Studio compilers to Solaris and what hardware platforms they choose to support. At the end of the day, the end users get KDE on Solaris either way. The UNIX desktop environments, Scribus, and OpenGL development/gaming on Solaris x86 were a few of my biggest concerns back in 2002-2003. We've surpassed all of those milestones. Now, we are faced with just getting the latest JDS-GNOME 2.12.2 into the hands of people (which is Glynn's (GMan) area) and journalists. Then, it is just making consumers/end users 'aware' on how you can run KDE apps under JDS/GNOME and vice versa. I'd hope Y2006 starts with many end users having JDS/GNOME 2.12.2 and KDE 3.5 available on Solaris as a desktop option. Whether either one is better than the other is just another threaded subject of discussion... ;oP ~ Ken Mays --- Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/27/05, John Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Dec 27, 2005, at 3:00 PM, Ché Kristo wrote: > > > > IMO, the best way to make positive ground on KDE > on Solaris is to > > latch on to Stefan Teleman's KDE work. > > Or you could latch onto Ken Mays work with KDE at > Blastwave. > > > http://www.blastwave.org/articles/BLS-0039/index.html > > Dennis > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
