On May 31, 2006, at 3:38 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
>
> One assumes that when Sun is solely backing GNOME, that there is no
> 'officiallly supported' KDE for Solaris - all very nice to have a
> 'community working on it' but companies like the warm fuzzy feeling
> knowing that there are people they can ring up and abuse when
> things go wrong.
Sun has the resources it has, and they are allocated how they are.
With all of the issues you have stated you encountered with Solaris
as a desktop OS, don't you think they should be focusing on getting
*one* thing working before spreading their limited resources thin?
Yikes, you want the world, and you want it NOW!
So, what is it? is Solaris a desktop or a server operating system? come on, admit it, you're just burning to say, "Matty, its a server OS!"
> Which brings up the other question - why on gods green earth did
> SUN go with GNOME? why not just buy out Trolltech, release Qt under
> CDDL?
>
Is your solution to everything Sun buying out/paying off *insert
random company here with questionable value to Sun*?
Lets see; on one had you have a bag of half baked rubbish, collated together, and called GNOME every 6 months OR you have on the other hand, a desktop where all the applications have been developed to work together in an integrated fashioned, called KDE.
Sun has limited resources, is it wise to invest so much time and money into a desktop (GNOME) that requires so much TLC when the better option would have been to choose KDE which is already 'there' interms of desktop usability, integration, well written documentation, good GUI based development tools etc. etc.
But hey, you keep drinking the GNOME koolaid, one day GNOME just might actually achieve something besides being a 'me too' desktop.
Matty
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