Robert Milkowski wrote: >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 > >
It once had been shipping on the SFW-"Companion CD", very early in 2001 or 2000 (/opt/sfw). Did it change SUNW's position? No. Gnome1.4 and then 2.x were chosen afterwards, and eventually made it into JDS. I regretted this decision back then. But I think it would be a waste of resources, to undo that shift in favour of KDE, or to even support both at once. Don't forget all the things, that needed to be done: Adding all the locales, testing, testing, verifying..., rewriting the documentation etc. Then the Trusted Desktop, too. It might cost some million USD's. SUNW's engineers have made quite a bit out of Gnome. I'm satisfied with what Gnome now is (as "JDS"). > >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. > > > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
