I think at this point I'm going to allow Roland to take over.
I'm just a young inexperienced software guy, I just want to see it done. Roland & I spoke and decided he's much better at organizing things than I. I will focus on the software side of things for now -John On 1/17/07, Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Need clarification please. Are John Sonnenschein and Roland Mainz co-owners of the KDE proposal now? Eric On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Roland Mainz wrote: > 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 > > Ok, lets refine this proposal: > 1. Deliver KDE3 to /usr/kde3/ and reserve /usr/kde4/ for KDE version 4. > No /opt/blabal or /usr/sfw/junkblabla > > 2. Ship a Sun/Solaris-branded KDE which uses the default SuSE Linux 10 > configuration as default (e.g. things like emacs-like input/edtor modes > for widgets, enable the klipper clipboard tool by default etc.) to > increase interoperability+productivity. > > 3. The package should be named SUNWkde* (where '*' means the suffix for > the packages) and targets delivery into Solaris 11. > > 4. The KDE should focus on a lightwheight default configuration with a > upper limit of 128MB per user (better would be 64MB if possible ; this > excludes larger applications like OpenOffice, Konqueror, > Mozilla/Seamonkey (see below)) and a strong focus on office usage > > 5. Focus on a compact and stable distribution which matches more or less > the pieces shipped in SuSE Linux (for interoperability) > > 6. The distribution should be compiled with the Sun Studio compilers (as > a mandatory requirement for the project). No gcc junk. > > 7. Consider using Mozilla/Seakmoney instead of Thunderbird/FireFox (for > the simple reason that the Gecko engine is very memory hungry and > running it twice, one for time FireFox and a 2nd time for ThunderBird is > IMHO excessive squandering of memory resources). > > > ---- > > Bye, > Roland > > -- > __ . . __ > (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer > /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 > (;O/ \/ \O;) >
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