Hello John, Wednesday, January 17, 2007, 2:37:55 AM, you wrote:
JW> Stefan Teleman wrote: >> On Tuesday 16 January 2007 19:56, John Sonnenschein wrote: >> >>> Following the official proposal guidelines, I'd like to take this >>> opportunity to propose that we collaborate with the KDE e.V. and >>> kde-core-devel in order to integrate KDE as an OpenSolaris project >>> >> >> +1. >> >> --Stefan >> >> JW> Too bad that there are certain segments within Sun who can't see their JW> way to supporting KDE on a more official level and feel that it's a JW> direct threat to JDS. JW> Not that I'm bitter, I just believe in giving the customer what they've JW> (repeatedly) asked for. The demand for a Sun supported KDE is there, JW> but there seem to JW> be certain groups who just can't see that. Failing official support JW> from Sun, I'd support a well-integrated OpenSolaris KDE project. Isn't it just a matter of resources? Developers time is limited... On the other hand maybe putting KDE as a project under Open Solaris will at least... well will do what exactly? I guess you're asking for putting KDE into Solaris. Last time I checked RedHat provides both - not that it's support is worth anything but maybe perception and choice is at least as much important. So even if Sun provided KDE with Solaris with GNOME/JDS being the preferred and default option it would still make lot of people happier. Of course once it's been included with Solaris there're some long term commitments. So maybe as an SFW project? Those tool won't be supported even if provided with Solaris, right? And still user would have an choice. But at the and even if I don't really care about KDE vs GNOME I think it would be great to have both KDE and GNOME delivered in Solaris, even if one of them would be not supported. Nothing would stop us from creating KDE project here under Open Solaris. When/if it will be working really nice then maybe it will become integrated into Solaris one way or another. I think this is best approach. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
