Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-08 Thread Bryan Iotti
OI is my main desktop. I have been trying to ignore all the shortcomings of
GNOME 2 because I find that ZFS, zones and DTrace are far more important.
I'd really like some of these bugs to be patched. I have a Linux laptop
running Fedora and XFCE as a WM, but it's a question of performance there.
Lack of a WM would seriously hamper my possibility to keep OI as my main OS.

My two cents...

 Bryan


On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:30 AM, låzaro netad...@lex-sa.cu wrote:

 well, my probing in the #mate channel was a disaster, I'd talk with a
 developer and I has been trolled in front the Developer by a project's
 user, me and an OI's user.

 A guy named Stefano, marked in the about as developer, was offering
 join to the #openindiana to talk about the subject. I would try it via
 Mailing list, after pull Stefano to #openindiana

 Cinnamon is from a to Linux Mint...


 Thread name: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future
 Mail number: 16
 Date: Tue, Nov 06, 2012
 In reply to: Apostolos Syropoulos
 
 
   MATE project could see in OI a choose for climb in the desktops
   enviroment war. There is another Gnome fork named Cinammon (I guest)
 
  Indeed and here's the link:
 
 
  https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon
 
 
  A.S.
 
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-07 Thread låzaro
well, my probing in the #mate channel was a disaster, I'd talk with a
developer and I has been trolled in front the Developer by a project's
user, me and an OI's user. 

A guy named Stefano, marked in the about as developer, was offering
join to the #openindiana to talk about the subject. I would try it via
Mailing list, after pull Stefano to #openindiana

Cinnamon is from a to Linux Mint...


Thread name: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future 
Mail number: 16 
Date: Tue, Nov 06, 2012 
In reply to: Apostolos Syropoulos 

 
  MATE project could see in OI a choose for climb in the desktops
  enviroment war. There is another Gnome fork named Cinammon (I guest)
 
 Indeed and here's the link:
 
 
 https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon
 
  
 A.S.
 
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-07 Thread låzaro
Mate's developer Stefano, say we could start building mate in the version 1.5


quote from IRC:

08:45stefano-k | so... I suggest you to start to build 1.5 MATE development 
 tarballs
08:45stefano-k | because there are a lot of package less
08:46stefano-k | http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/building:1.6
08:46stefano-k | http://pub.mate-desktop.org/releases/1.5/




Thread name: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future 
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Date: Tue, Nov 06, 2012 
In reply to: Apostolos Syropoulos 

 
  
  locale_t/newlocale()/uselocale() and the *_l() apis are hardly
  Linuxize your OS, they are POSIX.
  
 
 
 I was not talking about these things but about the adoption of
 things like udev.
 
 
  
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-06 Thread James Carlson
Irek Szczesniak wrote:
 Stubs won't be allowed, too. configure will just fail if they detect a
 stub which still uses or relies on setlocale().

For what it's worth, the point of a stub would be to ignore attempts to
change locale, not to try to change the process-level locale on the fly.

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-06 Thread låzaro
in my country peoples say when a door is just closed a windows si
opened I guest we could join to the MATE project and ask the dev for a
less Linuxised enviroment. We could have the initiative, perphaps the
MATE project could see in OI a choose for climb in the desktops
enviroment war. There is another Gnome fork named Cinammon (I guest)

anyway, I'll join to the mate community for ask if their could
programming looking to the OI's enviromment. Not all could be linuxed
and gnome is already linuxed, perphaps the MATE wanna help OI, unless
ask to the community for us...



Thread name: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future 
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Date: Mon, Nov 05, 2012 
In reply to: Apostolos Syropoulos 

 
  https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2012-November/msg2.html
  
  The GNOME community today announced the EOL of their fallback mode, 
 
 These people have created a desktop for Linux and they do not care about
 anything else. Unfortunately, this happens with many projects. So either
 you Linuxize your OS or it drops dead...
 
 A.S.
 
 
  
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-06 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos

 
 locale_t/newlocale()/uselocale() and the *_l() apis are hardly
 Linuxize your OS, they are POSIX.
 


I was not talking about these things but about the adoption of
things like udev.


 
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-06 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos

 MATE project could see in OI a choose for climb in the desktops
 enviroment war. There is another Gnome fork named Cinammon (I guest)

Indeed and here's the link:


https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon

 
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-06 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMK)

On 11/ 6/12 03:18 AM, låzaro wrote:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2012-November/msg2.html

The GNOME community today announced the EOL of their fallback mode,



On 11/ 6/12 08:23 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:

MATE project could see in OI a choose for climb in the desktops
enviroment war. There is another Gnome fork named Cinammon (I guest)


Indeed and here's the link:


https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon


But since Cinnamon is just a small piggyback on Gnome 3,
so I doubt that the recent decision can be undone there.
Although it's of course interesting to profit from Oracle's
work on Gnome3, and circumvent the ugly parts with Cinnamon
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 11/ 1/12 02:29 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
 On 11/ 1/12 02:20 PM, Irek Szczesniak wrote:
 On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 from what I remember of the conversations of the time, we cannot move
 to Gnome 3 because of certain Linux dependencies ...

 Gnome 2 is no longer changing, and no longer being patched ...

 The problem with Gnome 3 is AFAIK mostly a problem of Illumos libc
 
 That's just one of the problems.   You'll also need better graphics
 driver support, unless you don't mind telling people to just stick
 to the Nvidia closed driver and ensure the illumos kernel remains 100%
 binary compatible with the private interfaces the nvidia driver uses
 from the Solaris kernel.

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2012-November/msg2.html

The GNOME community today announced the EOL of their fallback mode, forcing
GNOME 3 users to full OpenGL support or finding another desktop.   For people
without hardware accelerated OpenGL (i.e. illumos users not using either
Nvidia's driver or an Intel chipset supported by the older DRI code in
illumos), they recommend the Mesa llvmpipe backend, which requires a llvm port
to your platform (which I think may be available for Solarish OS'es on x86,
but not SPARC).

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-05 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos

 https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2012-November/msg2.html
 
 The GNOME community today announced the EOL of their fallback mode, 

These people have created a desktop for Linux and they do not care about
anything else. Unfortunately, this happens with many projects. So either
you Linuxize your OS or it drops dead...

A.S.


 
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-05 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMK)

On 11/ 3/12 04:55 PM, Milan Jurik wrote:

Hi,

On út, 2012-10-30 at 13:27 -0400, låzaro wrote:

Hi all, as many people don't wanna see, gnome future is like a submarine
without roof. So, my question. What about make the new gnome's fork as
default desktop enviroment, just like is making linux mint. OI always
have the step in the next time. That project look like very good with a
lot of good toys...



at first - why to make new fork if there is one already - MATE ?



 On 11/ 1/12 02:29 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2012-November/msg2.html

The GNOME community today announced the EOL of their fallback mode, 
forcing

 GNOME 3 users to full OpenGL support or finding another desktop.

In view of these changes, and the fact that this will probably
also not work inside a VM, I would indeed suggest to move to MATE,
as this is a way to advance Gnome2, and gtk3 may be implemented
there, since I suspect that a lot of programs will move to gtk3
in the not so far future. And XFCE as a lightweight alternative
for those who don't need the full-scale desktop.
In the long term, Gnome3 Shell together with full OpenGL is
something that will quickly vanish, only residing as a niche
product in a few mobiles not running Android or MS ...they try
to couple two totally orthogonal usages into one, which simply
cannot sell. A shoot into their own head.
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-05 Thread Irek Szczesniak
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos
asyropou...@yahoo.com wrote:

 https://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2012-November/msg2.html

 The GNOME community today announced the EOL of their fallback mode,

 These people have created a desktop for Linux and they do not care about
 anything else. Unfortunately, this happens with many projects. So either
 you Linuxize your OS or it drops dead...

locale_t/newlocale()/uselocale() and the *_l() apis are hardly
Linuxize your OS, they are POSIX.

I talked to the Gnome people about this issue. It seems the initial
consumers are xml/xsl processing (e.g. xml/xsl @lang and sort
directives), which is used *everywhere* and GtkCalendar. The other
point was that the locale_t functions are used in shared libraries,
which should be able to do locale processing in all locales the user
wants, but should not change the per process global locale to avoid
race conditions with other shared libraries.

Stubs won't be allowed, too. configure will just fail if they detect a
stub which still uses or relies on setlocale().


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-03 Thread Jim Klimov

On 2012-11-01 18:18, Dmitry Kozhinov wrote:

I do not feel similarly :)

if it didn't feature a GUI we wouldn't notice or care.



I felt similarly for decades - on either linux or solaris, an X11
environment for me was just a way to:
1) Run many terminals instead of one in text mode,
2) Run installers which demand GUI,
3) Run some programs that need to run for a long time during which
   my ssh session could get disconnected (VNC or text-mode screen
   could solve most of these situations).

Now that I have a laptop whose primary OS is OI, my attitude towards
graphics running over the Unix core has changed. Still, there are
just so many features and programs that I need - and they do work
already - like Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, terminals and VBox.
At the moment the driver problem is greater in my opinion - lack of
USB3, newer CPU-integrated Radeons, Wifi and such support is worse
than the lack of shiny newest versions of userspace programs or the
window-switching special effects that I disable anyway.

Heck, if they are available for linux, I could just run them in a
Linux VM or lx-branded zone, especially if my desktop could support
the accelerated graphics. Currently the radeon is seen as a generic
VESA VGA card and I can see it redraw the screen line-by-line when
major video updates occur.

This is what sucks and can push the newcomers (or even old diehards)
away ;)

PS: As a linux environment I've recently tried Fedora17... well, it
took a while to just find the terminal program and others I needed
in the new and shiny menu system, about half a dozen clicks away
from the moment of login. The fancy stuff should not be a goal per
se, and it shouldn't prohibit people from working (and needlessly
burn extra electricity in the process).

A DE should be comfortable, quick and feature-compliant where needed
(i.e. 3D and other hardware-accelerated effects if required by those
users of visualization graphics). I think the common X server provides
these low-level features, and a choice of lightweight or heavy-fancy
window managers and ultimate DEs (twm, cde, xfce, gnome, kde, ...)
should be up to the users based on their personal needs or lack thereof.

My 2c,
//Jim

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-03 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi,

On út, 2012-10-30 at 13:27 -0400, låzaro wrote:
 Hi all, as many people don't wanna see, gnome future is like a submarine
 without roof. So, my question. What about make the new gnome's fork as
 default desktop enviroment, just like is making linux mint. OI always
 have the step in the next time. That project look like very good with a
 lot of good toys...
 

at first - why to make new fork if there is one already - MATE ?

at second - currently I am the only one paying attention to (read as
working on) JDS consolidation with Gnome for OI, I did not see many
volunteers.

at third - the last Gnome 2 with some additional patches from MATE is
good enough for now, my plan is to stay on this way for some time if
possible.

at forth - I hope somebody will go and work on Xfce port, which is
currently unmaintained in SFE because I have no spare time for that.
There are few known issues and some updates are needed. And I think Xfce
would be good enough replacement in some time

at fifth - Oracle team did some work on Gnome 3 on top of Solaris, they
have to publish it if they will distribute it. I am not saying I will
help with Gnome 3 on top of OI but somebody else could do that.

Please, do not fork anything, work on needed bits and share. Either in
Illumos or Userland or JDS or SFE or documentation etc.

Best regards,

Milan


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 11/ 3/12 08:55 AM, Milan Jurik wrote:
 at fifth - Oracle team did some work on Gnome 3 on top of Solaris, they
 have to publish it if they will distribute it. I am not saying I will
 help with Gnome 3 on top of OI but somebody else could do that.

A bunch of that was already published in the trunk branch of spec-files.
(The JDS model was always that development/testing happened in trunk, and
 then every 6 months or so, usually following the GNOME upstream stable
 release, they'd pull stuff from trunk into a stable branch for integration
 to the WOS - since GNOME 3 wasn't ready to go into the WOS for Solaris 11 or
 11.1, trunk has been diverging more than normal from the stable branches.)

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-03 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi,

On so, 2012-11-03 at 09:07 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
 On 11/ 3/12 08:55 AM, Milan Jurik wrote:
  at fifth - Oracle team did some work on Gnome 3 on top of Solaris, they
  have to publish it if they will distribute it. I am not saying I will
  help with Gnome 3 on top of OI but somebody else could do that.
 
 A bunch of that was already published in the trunk branch of spec-files.
 (The JDS model was always that development/testing happened in trunk, and
  then every 6 months or so, usually following the GNOME upstream stable
  release, they'd pull stuff from trunk into a stable branch for integration
  to the WOS - since GNOME 3 wasn't ready to go into the WOS for Solaris 11 or
  11.1, trunk has been diverging more than normal from the stable branches.)
 

I know but JDS stopped to update public SVN repo during spring and they
did not resolve the situation yet.

Best regards,

Milan


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-02 Thread låzaro
well, I did begin this thread but yesterday was a close day for me, just
now see the lot of good posted mails. Remember, my english is so
catastrofic has Sandy.

My 2 cents:

I did try to pull out mate about a posible solution for DE. Should be
good have a first steep with this new things. The idea of make OI a
server only OS make it more boring. For example, at the testing time,
some newbs just install the system and use it. A console, a browser and
a terminal is enough for testing.

Soon, the thing of the DEs must be on tracks again. I'd Suggest Mate,
because their are under developing and we could join effort because OI
are under developing to. But look like with a good future.

For the the WMaker's people I could suggest awesome, it is just
awesome like the name but many people just prefer the Old Fashioned full
desktop. Mate bring things very VERY recentlys, the kind of things that
OI would like and I have not words for explain it in english, but really
suggest look to Mate as an option.

...talking about DEs. No long time ago, I did ask in the #openindiana
channel about CDE, the old sun desktop. It is a CRAP but I guest is like
a a symbol in the olds and goods Sun os time. I would suggest it as and
avalaible package, just by traditions and memories. CDE is now free,
also could be use as light weight desktop solution.

good days or night...



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Mail number: 26 
Date: Thu, Nov 01, 2012 
In reply to: Dmitry Kozhinov 

 Yet I remember OpenWindows... Quite distinctive.
 
 WindowMaker sounds good. Used it for a while a few years ago. Been thinking 
 about looking at it again. :)
 
 


Off-topic P.D.

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-01 Thread Ron Parker
Maybe I'm the oddball in the bunch. But I've been running OpenIndiana
as my desktop OS on my laptop at work since OI-147 was released two
years ago.  Why?

I don't care about shiny new UI gloss, but I have to have a stable
system. What do I mean by that? One that can run stably without
rebooting until I decide to install a newer version or switch systems
and one that I'm not always having to wade through new non-security
related updates just to keep the system secure. This is why I have run
Slackware off-and-on for a couple decades.

What brought me to OI from Slackware was ZFS. I could completely rave
about ZFS, but one thing makes the point. I have to run a corporate
Windows VM. Even pared down it craps itself every now and then.
Previously this required a lot of pain and getting an approved reload
from IT. Now all it requires is 'zfs rollback
tank/vms/win-7@however-many-days-ago' and restart the VM. That's
Winning!

In the meantime I have discovered zones, crossbow and a few other
things I absolutely love. I haven't gotten into dtrace yet, but see a
lot of potential benefit there as well.

All of this said, I'm about to switch to Slackware running ZFS on
another machine. Why? I need the newer faster hardware with more cores
for my job. There is a lack of support for the wireless and wired
NIC's in the newer Dell laptop. I also seem to recall that the install
disk would not fully boot on the system. This was the same reason that
had me switching on and off of Slackware years ago, lack of hardware
support.

I know the core Illumos teams doesn't give a damn about DE or laptop
support (half of them only run OI in VM's on their MacBook Pros) but I
do. Had I the time and Solaris knowledge I would work to get the
hardware support into Illumos, I've written a number of Linux network
drivers over the years and would like to think I could figure out the
superior Solaris internals.

I am very sad about this. There is no reason OI could not make a good
working desktop. It's been fine for my needs for two years now. I
suspect given another 5 years or so we may see such. I just wish it
was today. I don't need GNOME 3, KDE 4, Unity or Ubuntu. I do need
modern laptop hardware to be supported.

By the way I would like to congratulate Nvidia for providing good
up-to-date drivers that work on OpenIndiana. The 30x series has been
wonderful. Docking and undocking works flawlessly. Heck sometimes
suspend works. (Not always the two together though).

And yes, I too spend most of my day ssh'd to emacs'd into remote
boxes, VMs, zones, chroots, etc. But I still need a DE for sanity's
sake.

Love my OI desktop,

Ron Parker

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-01 Thread Udo Grabowski (IMK)

On 11/ 1/12 03:56 PM, Ron Parker wrote:

Maybe I'm the oddball in the bunch. But I've been running OpenIndiana
as my desktop OS on my laptop at work since OI-147 was released two
years ago.
...

 There is no reason OI could not make a good

working desktop. It's been fine for my needs for two years now. I
suspect given another 5 years or so we may see such. I just wish it
was today. I don't need GNOME 3, KDE 4, Unity or Ubuntu. I do need
modern laptop hardware to be supported.


You are not alone. We run all our workstations on OI-151a7, as well
as all our file servers, and all our compute blades, in total 140
hosts of a couple of brands and different architectures, with
Infiniband, CIFS, VLans (even on the workstations), and all that was
spawned from carefully prepared single image based on OI! We are
doing really serious science on these boxes (we are burning 15 Mio
CPU hours per year constantly under 100% CPU load on the blades,
handling about 400 TB data on the fileservers, and a similar amount
offsite on PB-scale storage units, and absolutely need the desktop
for expensive visualization and daily work, and have also written
programs that need gtk2/Gnome. Not to speak of all the visualization
packages in perl and python, wxWidgets, IDL, WebGL, that are not
possible without a decent desktop, native 3D capable system.

Gnome 2 is perfect (apart from a few annoying bugs), Gnome3/Unity
would be a drawback indeed, and nobody here wants to go back to
such basic stuff as xfce and other incapable desktop systems (KDE
may would be an option). As long as gtk3 is not needed by any programs
in use, there's no need to really do work in the gnome packages,
apart from some fixes. Schillix OS shows that this can be handled
even with just two people, so I don't see that this sucks up
significant manpower.

The current Gnome on OI works, there's absolutely no reason to
delete that from OI. If anybody only needs a server, deactivate the
desktop, maybe delete the gnome packages from your server, or install
one of the other great server-only illumos-based distributions,
but please don't obstruct the usability for other users by
cutting of functionality just based on opinions. It's a strength
and an unique feature of OI to be complete solution. We switched
to OI because nobody else in the world (apart from Oracle) offers
a real successor to OpenSolaris in it's full completeness.
Nobody wants Linux, the apparent gain in sheer package volume
comes with the drawback that you nearly always have to download
and recompile this or that software yourself just because it's
not compiled with all options needed, and often a whole chain needs
to be deinstalled and recompiled, and so it makes no difference for
us not to have a package offered or to have it offered in an unusable
configuration. And Linux is clearly inferior in a couple of aspects
that matter to us, apart from the fact that nobody here really has
the time to administer two different flavours of Unix (with all the
interoperability problems, e.g., in NFS), when one already does the
job very well.

Please accept that there are people that are doing much more with
OI than just running a home NAS server with music and videos. We
still feel that we are a legitimate part of the OI/illumos community,
and not just a legacy (yes, I know, the desktop is dead, blablabla...).

(And I just hate these unnecessary discussions!)
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-01 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos

 
 +1.  There are alot of very useful desktop operating systems already,
 so i see no point in OI trying to compete with them.  In business


This way of thinking is responsible for what happened to Solaris. 

No OI should be a server and a desktop system. Otherwise, OI will
die pretty soon.

A.S.


 
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-01 Thread Magnus

On Nov 1, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:

 Gnome 2 is perfect (apart from a few annoying bugs), Gnome3/Unity
 would be a drawback indeed, and nobody here wants to go back to
 such basic stuff as xfce and other incapable desktop systems (KDE
 may would be an option). As long as gtk3 is not needed by any programs
 in use, there's no need to really do work in the gnome packages,
 apart from some fixes. Schillix OS shows that this can be handled
 even with just two people, so I don't see that this sucks up
 significant manpower.

This is a very informative contribution. Thank you for taking the time. I do 
want to ask, though: what is missing from Xfce that classifies it in your eyes 
as an incapable desktop? That's a pretty loaded statement and I think it 
deserves some explanation.

My direct interest in your answer is actually because I'm cobbling together a 
package building system mostly for my OmniOS zones, but I expect to be running 
OI on my next laptop so I have a vested interest in having a stable and up to 
date desktop environment stack. It's been a couple of years since I ran 
anything but OS X on the desktop so while my recollection of Xfce is that it's 
a stable and complete DE, I'm ready to be corrected if there's an objective 
reason to not focus on bringing it to OI.

 The current Gnome on OI works, there's absolutely no reason to
 delete that from OI.

Now that is something I can take issue with. While it may be perfectly usable, 
it's rather archaic. The DE is the first impression that many have of OI, and 
this is rather like going to Wal*mart (in the USA) and being greeted by an 
octogenarian in a blue smock. The senior citizen may do a fine job, but where's 
the appeal for newcomers? So you can put Lance Henrikson up front, or Miranda 
Kerr. I know which one I'd rather have greeting me. :)
 
 Nobody wants Linux

I'll avoid the complete fallacy of that statement and merely point out that 
nobody is talking about Linux; we're talking about DE's.

 Please accept that there are people that are doing much more with
 OI than just running a home NAS server with music and videos. We
 still feel that we are a legitimate part of the OI/illumos community,
 and not just a legacy (yes, I know, the desktop is dead, blablabla…).

Want to adopt the Gnome 2 collection? :)

I'm building out some infrastructure for package building and will likely be 
putting together an Xfce collection. I think it would be really grand if more 
OI users figured out how to do this and started putting together (and 
maintaining!) collections for things like their favorite DE.

-Magnus


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-01 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov

I do not feel similarly :)

if it didn't feature a GUI we wouldn't notice or care.


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-01 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov

Yet I remember OpenWindows... Quite distinctive.


WindowMaker sounds good. Used it for a while a few years ago. Been thinking 
about looking at it again. :)



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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-01 Thread Irek Szczesniak
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com wrote:
 from what I remember of the conversations of the time, we cannot move
 to Gnome 3 because of certain Linux dependencies ...

 Gnome 2 is no longer changing, and no longer being patched ...

The problem with Gnome 3 is AFAIK mostly a problem of Illumos libc
since Gnome 3 intends to move to use the ..._l() apis (e.g.
strcasecmp_l(), isalnum_l(), ...) which are not present in Illumos
libc. FreeBSD was confronted with the same problem (that major
toolkits, including Gnome3 and Qt) and desktops are going to mandate
the *_l() apis) and just did the work - see
http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.de/2011/09/following-project-update-was-written-by.html

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-11-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 11/ 1/12 02:20 PM, Irek Szczesniak wrote:
 On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Jonathan Adams t12nsloo...@gmail.com wrote:
 from what I remember of the conversations of the time, we cannot move
 to Gnome 3 because of certain Linux dependencies ...

 Gnome 2 is no longer changing, and no longer being patched ...
 
 The problem with Gnome 3 is AFAIK mostly a problem of Illumos libc

That's just one of the problems.   You'll also need better graphics
driver support, unless you don't mind telling people to just stick
to the Nvidia closed driver and ensure the illumos kernel remains 100%
binary compatible with the private interfaces the nvidia driver uses
from the Solaris kernel.

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread Jonathan Adams
from what I remember of the conversations of the time, we cannot move
to Gnome 3 because of certain Linux dependencies ...

Gnome 2 is no longer changing, and no longer being patched ...

We don't have time or resources to support a Gnome 2 desktop system
development fork (at least I don't and I don't believe OI devs do
either) and in fact most Illumos OS's don't include a graphical
environment at all.

Linux Mint (I believe) are actually looking to go to Gnome 3, but with
a customised theme, they cannot afford to ignore GTK3, and sticking
with GTK2 means that new projects will not work for them.

Linux Mint's Gnome theme does not look like Gnome 2 ...

Of course some (or even all) of my ramblings could be wrong.

Jon

On 30 October 2012 17:27, låzaro netad...@lex-sa.cu wrote:
 Hi all, as many people don't wanna see, gnome future is like a submarine
 without roof. So, my question. What about make the new gnome's fork as
 default desktop enviroment, just like is making linux mint. OI always
 have the step in the next time. That project look like very good with a
 lot of good toys...


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 5:27 PM, låzaro netad...@lex-sa.cu wrote:
 Hi all, as many people don't wanna see, gnome future is like a submarine
 without roof. So, my question. What about make the new gnome's fork as
 default desktop enviroment, just like is making linux mint. OI always
 have the step in the next time. That project look like very good with a
 lot of good toys...

Creating a private fork of a major desktop environment seems
like a huge amount of effort.

Why not pick a different desktop? Personally, I like Xfce, it's
actively maintained and does a pretty good job of being
cross-platform, apart from being a decent environment in its
own right.

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread magnus
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:27:59 -0400, låzaro netad...@lex-sa.cu wrote:
 Hi all, as many people don't wanna see, gnome future is like a submarine
 without roof. So, my question. What about make the new gnome's fork as
 default desktop enviroment, just like is making linux mint. OI always
 have the step in the next time. That project look like very good with a
 lot of good toys...

I suspect a lot of this decision is going to fall on whoever actually is
willing to do the work to get it working and maintain it. I'm not there
yet.

That said, if there is going to be an overhaul of the DE, might I suggest
Xfce for consideration?

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread Nathan Kunkee

 Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:35:02 +
 From: t12nsloo...@gmail.com
 To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org
 Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future
 
 from what I remember of the conversations of the time, we cannot move
 to Gnome 3 because of certain Linux dependencies ...
 
 Gnome 2 is no longer changing, and no longer being patched ...
 
 We don't have time or resources to support a Gnome 2 desktop system
 development fork (at least I don't and I don't believe OI devs do
 either) and in fact most Illumos OS's don't include a graphical
 environment at all.
 
 Linux Mint (I believe) are actually looking to go to Gnome 3, but with
 a customised theme, they cannot afford to ignore GTK3, and sticking
 with GTK2 means that new projects will not work for them.
 
 Linux Mint's Gnome theme does not look like Gnome 2 ...
 
 Of course some (or even all) of my ramblings could be wrong.
 
 Jon
 

Mate is a fork of Gnome 2 that already has a community behind it. Mint features 
Mate as a key desktop choice.
http://mate-desktop.org/

Perhaps that is what is being sought?

Nathan

  
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread Jonathan Adams
 Mate is a fork of Gnome 2 that already has a community behind it. Mint 
 features Mate as a key desktop choice.
 http://mate-desktop.org/

except that Mate looks nothing like Gnome 2 ... so if the idea is to
keep the look and feel of the current environment then Mate is not the
way to go.

We'd be better off going for XFCE, or another desktop Environment, not
that I'm a fan of XFCE personally.

Jon

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread openbabel


I am of a commercial view. I am interested in the most popular desktop 
and most developed environment which is accepted by the current or 
potential user base.It would not be the correct choice
going with a project which either peters out or is not accepted by 
commercial users as this would waste development time and resource too?


As an Enterprise system the commercial view should prevail?

On 30/10/2012 17:27, låzaro wrote:

Hi all, as many people don't wanna see, gnome future is like a submarine
without roof. So, my question. What about make the new gnome's fork as
default desktop enviroment, just like is making linux mint. OI always
have the step in the next time. That project look like very good with a
lot of good toys...


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread magnus


On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:25:13 +, openbabel openba...@gmail.com wrote:

 As an Enterprise system the commercial view should prevail?

This is based on the false premise that OpenIndiana is an enterprise
desktop operating system.

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread Ben Taylor
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:25 AM, openbabel openba...@gmail.com wrote:

 I am of a commercial view. I am interested in the most popular desktop and
 most developed environment which is accepted by the current or potential
 user base.It would not be the correct choice
 going with a project which either peters out or is not accepted by
 commercial users as this would waste development time and resource too?

 As an Enterprise system the commercial view should prevail?

My suggestion, as someone who spent an inordinate amount of time porting KDE 4.x
to Solaris 10, go with something simple and easy.

Once there's a working DE, folks can then choose to work/port other
more complex DE's.

Ben



 On 30/10/2012 17:27, låzaro wrote:

 Hi all, as many people don't wanna see, gnome future is like a submarine
 without roof. So, my question. What about make the new gnome's fork as
 default desktop enviroment, just like is making linux mint. OI always
 have the step in the next time. That project look like very good with a
 lot of good toys...


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread Julius Roberts
On 1 November 2012 02:33,  mag...@yonderway.com wrote:
 This is based on the false premise that OpenIndiana is an enterprise
 desktop operating system.

+1.  There are alot of very useful desktop operating systems already,
so i see no point in OI trying to compete with them.  In business
speak OI has a sustainable competitive advantage with ZFS, zones,
dtrace, etc etc and those alone are why most people will be attracted
to OI.  Our OI servers sit in various computer rooms and we talk to
them exclusively over ssh, if it didn't feature a GUI we wouldn't
notice or care.  I wonder how many other OI users feel similarly?

-- 
Kind regards, Jules

golgy whats so wrong with plumb?
hoolio nothing, in itself.  it's just for me, knowing what it means
infers i cannot any longer pretend to not be a complete square when it
comes to computers
Gryphon I don't know that knowing anything about plumb turns you
into a nerd, but this conversation already has
hoolio are you calling me nerdy?
checkers hoolio: you know what initramfs means, AND does. You're
lost to the non-geek world already
Gryphon yes
hoolio hrm
hoolio goodbye cruel world.

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread Maxim Kondratovich
So why OI has DE at all? Leading to your logic community has to cut off 
DE from distribution at all... And what we will have? Another one 
illumos based server distribution?!


I see OI as OS for general purposes, so stopping development in DE will 
decrease value of OI. Yes, community is to small but we have to find 
compromise and community will grow up.


P.S. I'm not an active OI developer, but I help with testing and I'm 
going to contribute as developer at future.


- Maxim


Julius Roberts wrote:

On 1 November 2012 02:33,  mag...@yonderway.com wrote:

This is based on the false premise that OpenIndiana is an enterprise
desktop operating system.

+1.  There are alot of very useful desktop operating systems already,
so i see no point in OI trying to compete with them.  In business
speak OI has a sustainable competitive advantage with ZFS, zones,
dtrace, etc etc and those alone are why most people will be attracted
to OI.  Our OI servers sit in various computer rooms and we talk to
them exclusively over ssh, if it didn't feature a GUI we wouldn't
notice or care.  I wonder how many other OI users feel similarly?




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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread Magnus Hedemark
I never suggested stopping DE development. I merely suggested that thinking of 
OI as an enterprise desktop OS is trying to sell an idea that enterprises 
aren't going to buy. I'm actually going to switch from Mac to OI laptop after 
the holidays (getting crazier with age).

Sent from my typewriter

On Oct 31, 2012, at 6:48 PM, Maxim Kondratovich maxim@gmail.com wrote:

 So why OI has DE at all? Leading to your logic community has to cut off DE 
 from distribution at all... And what we will have? Another one illumos based 
 server distribution?!
 
 I see OI as OS for general purposes, so stopping development in DE will 
 decrease value of OI. Yes, community is to small but we have to find 
 compromise and community will grow up.
 
 P.S. I'm not an active OI developer, but I help with testing and I'm going to 
 contribute as developer at future.
 
 - Maxim
 
 
 Julius Roberts wrote:
 On 1 November 2012 02:33,  mag...@yonderway.com wrote:
 This is based on the false premise that OpenIndiana is an enterprise
 desktop operating system.
 +1.  There are alot of very useful desktop operating systems already,
 so i see no point in OI trying to compete with them.  In business
 speak OI has a sustainable competitive advantage with ZFS, zones,
 dtrace, etc etc and those alone are why most people will be attracted
 to OI.  Our OI servers sit in various computer rooms and we talk to
 them exclusively over ssh, if it didn't feature a GUI we wouldn't
 notice or care.  I wonder how many other OI users feel similarly?
 
 
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread Roel_D
A GUI is only needed when you want to use the gui

I see more benefit in better webmin-support for zfs, mysql and other 
serversoftware. 

Kind regards, 

The out-side

Op 31 okt. 2012 om 23:30 heeft Julius Roberts hooliowobb...@gmail.com het 
volgende geschreven:

 On 1 November 2012 02:33,  mag...@yonderway.com wrote:
 This is based on the false premise that OpenIndiana is an enterprise
 desktop operating system.
 
 +1.  There are alot of very useful desktop operating systems already,
 so i see no point in OI trying to compete with them.  In business
 speak OI has a sustainable competitive advantage with ZFS, zones,
 dtrace, etc etc and those alone are why most people will be attracted
 to OI.  Our OI servers sit in various computer rooms and we talk to
 them exclusively over ssh, if it didn't feature a GUI we wouldn't
 notice or care.  I wonder how many other OI users feel similarly?
 
 -- 
 Kind regards, Jules
 
 golgy whats so wrong with plumb?
 hoolio nothing, in itself.  it's just for me, knowing what it means
 infers i cannot any longer pretend to not be a complete square when it
 comes to computers
 Gryphon I don't know that knowing anything about plumb turns you
 into a nerd, but this conversation already has
 hoolio are you calling me nerdy?
 checkers hoolio: you know what initramfs means, AND does. You're
 lost to the non-geek world already
 Gryphon yes
 hoolio hrm
 hoolio goodbye cruel world.
 
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread Julius Roberts
On 1 November 2012 09:48, Maxim Kondratovich maxim@gmail.com wrote:
 So why OI has DE at all? Leading to your logic community has to cut off DE
 from distribution at all... And what we will have? Another one illumos based
 server distribution?!

The community will do whatever the community wants :) I'm just saying
i don't use OI for the GUI and i wonder how many people actually do.

 I see OI as OS for general purposes, so stopping development in DE will
 decrease value of OI. Yes, community is to small but we have to find
 compromise and community will grow up.

I don't see OI as a general purpose OS, perhaps that's where our
perspectives differ.

-- 
Kind regards, Jules

golgy whats so wrong with plumb?
hoolio nothing, in itself.  it's just for me, knowing what it means
infers i cannot any longer pretend to not be a complete square when it
comes to computers
Gryphon I don't know that knowing anything about plumb turns you
into a nerd, but this conversation already has
hoolio are you calling me nerdy?
checkers hoolio: you know what initramfs means, AND does. You're
lost to the non-geek world already
Gryphon yes
hoolio hrm
hoolio goodbye cruel world.

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread Bob Friesenhahn

On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, mag...@yonderway.com wrote:


On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:25:13 +, openbabel openba...@gmail.com wrote:


As an Enterprise system the commercial view should prevail?


This is based on the false premise that OpenIndiana is an enterprise
desktop operating system.


I would take more issue with the term commercial.  OpenIndiana is 
based on an enterprise operating system, however, use as a desktop 
(for use with packaged software) is not commercially viable.  The term 
commercially viable means that someone is willing to pay for the 
system with the intent of using it as a desktop.  This does not mean 
that OpenIndiana can not offer a perfectly viable and useful desktop 
which is almost as performant and feature rich as popular desktops.


OpenIndiana needs to offer a default desktop which is reliable and 
lightweight since it may be attached to a server or need to be used 
remotely.  It should not require exotic GPU acceleration to be usable. 
By current standards Gnome2 is light-weight even though it used to 
be considered heavy-weight.  KDE4 is pretty heavy.


Bob
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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread Christopher Chan

webmin?

Ick. Swapping a desktop gui for a web gui...still get a gui.

So just offshore the gui problem eh?

On Thursday, November 01, 2012 06:55 AM, Roel_D wrote:

A GUI is only needed when you want to use the gui

I see more benefit in better webmin-support for zfs, mysql and other 
serversoftware.

Kind regards,

The out-side




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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread Christopher Chan



On Thursday, November 01, 2012 03:01 AM, Ben Taylor wrote:

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:25 AM, openbabelopenba...@gmail.com  wrote:

I am of a commercial view. I am interested in the most popular desktop and
most developed environment which is accepted by the current or potential
user base.It would not be the correct choice
going with a project which either peters out or is not accepted by
commercial users as this would waste development time and resource too?

As an Enterprise system the commercial view should prevail?

My suggestion, as someone who spent an inordinate amount of time porting KDE 4.x
to Solaris 10, go with something simple and easy.

Once there's a working DE, folks can then choose to work/port other
more complex DE's.




What has the least dependencies? XFCE? KDE 3.5? Or forget DE and just 
get a window manager like WindowMaker?


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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread Gregory S. Youngblood
WindowMaker sounds good. Used it for a while a few years ago. Been thinking 
about looking at it again. :) 

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Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:



On Thursday, November 01, 2012 03:01 AM, Ben Taylor wrote:
 On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:25 AM, openbabelopenba...@gmail.com  wrote:
 I am of a commercial view. I am interested in the most popular desktop and
 most developed environment which is accepted by the current or potential
 user base.It would not be the correct choice
 going with a project which either peters out or is not accepted by
 commercial users as this would waste development time and resource too?

 As an Enterprise system the commercial view should prevail?
 My suggestion, as someone who spent an inordinate amount of time porting KDE 
 4.x
 to Solaris 10, go with something simple and easy.

 Once there's a working DE, folks can then choose to work/port other
 more complex DE's.



What has the least dependencies? XFCE? KDE 3.5? Or forget DE and just 
get a window manager like WindowMaker?

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Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

2012-10-31 Thread Jerry Kemp
I used WindowMaker for a couple years myself.  It is an easy compile on
*Solaris and works well.  At least it compiled easy for me.

I ultimately went back to OpenWindows.  I own a large stock of Solaris
8 media, so I will never be without my OpenWindows packages.

Jerry Kemp


On 10/31/12 08:18 PM, Gregory S. Youngblood wrote:
 WindowMaker sounds good. Used it for a while a few years ago. Been thinking 
 about looking at it again. :) 
 
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