On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 00:17, Glynn Foster wrote: > Hey, > > > > http://daemons.net/~matty/blog/?p=413 > > Absolutely, completely agree 100% on #2. We suck monkeys. > > Having JDS in Solaris 10 based on a 2 year old version of GNOME [2.6] as > opposed to what Red Hat have in Fedora Core 5 is pretty personally > embarrassing to me. We're working actively to fix this, and in 1 or 2 > builds time, you'll see GNOME 2.14 hit Nevada. So at least we'll be able > to compare apples with apples - however, there's obviously significant > improvements we need to make as a desktop team in terms of good Solaris > integration, and now that the distraction of JDS on Linux has gone there > will likely be more and more focus on this over the coming months.
It depends whether you believe that newer versions of Gnome (or anything really - I would apply the same criticism, and more, to consecutive releases of emacs) are actually providing a better quality desktop to the user. http://ptribble.blogspot.com/2006/04/wither-desktop.html My own experience with JDS since it integrated into Solaris 10 has generally been more good than bad. It has at least managed to be my main personal desktop for almost 2 years, which is pretty good. My experience of the vermillion build I tried is negative, over and above the individual bugs and problems - the whole feeling about the desktop is poor. I don't see this as a problem with Vermillion so much as a fundamental malaise in the primary desktop environments such as gnome. If there are close similarities between Vermillion and the Fedora desktop, then I know to avoid Fedora. I'm also looking (not with a great deal of success, it must be said) for a new desktop environment, so at least I'll be able to work on a machine that has got an "upgraded" desktop on it. -- -Peter Tribble L.I.S., University of Hertfordshire - http://www.herts.ac.uk/ http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
