[OpenIndiana-discuss] [solarisx86] For those nostalgic fellas

Gary Gendel gary at genashor.com
Tue Jan 4 12:08:43 UTC 2011


Jonathan,

There are lightweight alternatives to Gnome available with a bit of 
work.  KDE is pretty close to Gnome in terms of weight.  I had used XFCE 
happily for awhile.  It is lightweight and snappy and didn't bring my 
laptop to it's knees.  It also has a CDE-like look and feel. 
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+xfce/

Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, it's not being actively supported 
or developed anymore.

Gary

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> Seriously, is it possible to get this to run on OpenIndiana?
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> I know I'm a luddite and all, but I've been using CDE for so long and
> trained so many people to use it, and I have learnt to customise the
> menus and actions (and it's so much faster than Gnome) ...
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> http://devio.us/~kpedersen/screenshots/u8.png looks pretty much like
> I'd want it :)
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> There are KDE repositories out there ... I'd really be interested to
> get this working if it looked right, and would code for it where
> possible.
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> On 2 January 2011 18:15, Alan Coopersmith<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>  wrote:
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>> On 01/ 2/11 05:55 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
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>>> http://devio.us/~kpedersen/
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>> Nooooooo! ? I just killed CDE! ? It can't be back from the dead!
>> Run before the zombie gets us!
>>
>> [Unfortunately, since CDE is a closed gate, the bug data isn't published
>> ?on bugs.opensolaris.org, so I can't link to the bug report for the "fix"
>> ?in snv_156 that deleted 12937 source files for the CDE applications,
>> ?leaving just the libraries like Motif for binary compatibility.
>> ?Unfortunately, OpenMotif isn't binary compatible with the Motif 2.1 in
>> ?Solaris.]
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>> --
>> ? ? ? ?-Alan Coopersmith- ? ? ? ?alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>> ? ? ? ? Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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