On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 04:19 -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote: > I do wonder why we need to have a different GNOME desktop? Well, I know > why we do it (i.e., JDS), but I'm not sure why we should. It only diverges > us from the mainstream, and makes things different. Seems better to > leverage the mainstream GNOME project to me, and be the same, the Ubuntu > uses a stock GNOME desktop, AFAICT.
It doesn't really, Ubuntu have a whole ream of local patches just like we do, and other distros like SuSE have a lot more. They arguably do a better job of getting theirs upstream, but they also have the advantage of being Just Another Linux. It often takes longer to get the GNOME community to buy into Solaris patches, particuarly if they also happen to change the way things work on Linux. > It confuses me that zfs has been out for > about a year and a half and we don't see our desktop folks doing that type > of simple integration. Being able to take snapshots, list information on > zfs filesystems, or getting the status of a zpool, those are all things > that should be available for the user. I agree, and we have had people working on ZFS desktop integration prototypes on and off over the past couple of years. But as always it's a question of resources and priorities, and as yet it just hasn't been made a high enough one for us to drive to completion. (There's nothing that says Sun has to do the work, of course.) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
