On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 11:29 -0700, Artem Kachitchkine wrote: > > Solaris is uniquely situated to make this dream a reality. > > With the support of Sun Microsystems, resources > > Solaris is not very well positioned in the UI competition. Sun, it > appears, has consciously chosen not to actively develop a desktop, > but > to patiently swallow whatever gnome.org is producing. Hire a few more > GNOME polishers - and you get another Ubuntu, why bother. That's the > real frustrating part: most people see the problems (except those in > denial), yet very little can be done about that. Cheerleading only > makes > it more bitter. >
Well positioned is a bit of a subjective statement. Having used the current GNOME bundled with Solaris, I certainly don't see anything major with it - I can load my StarOffice, surf the net. About the only axe to grind is getting bugs fixed. But most of the problems end users will face will have more to do with hardware support than whether the GUI is 'oooh shiney!'. As for what Sun can do - possibly work with GNOME developers but one thing wouldn't want to see is pointless 'branding' simply to keep those jusifying their existance, through paper shuffling, happy. More features aren't needed - working on making sure that nautilus doesn't crash when an ipod is loaded or when a device like a flash mp3 player with two flash chips - which should result in two drives appearing on the desktop. Adding support for more CODECs out of the box - I'd be more than happy to pay Sun $20 per month for a copy of Solaris which included the latest GNOME and extensive CODEC support out of the box. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
