[OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Thu Nov 1 00:21:29 UTC 2012



On Thursday, November 01, 2012 03:01 AM, Ben Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:25 AM, openbabel<openbabel at 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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