No GNOME For Solaris 9

Nailer writes: "Subject says it all really. A (very brief) Linuxgram article claims GNOME 2.0 won't be ready for Solaris 9 and the OS will ship with CDE and Motif as defaults. I'm just waiting for the inevitable announcement the GTK port of OpenOffice has been cancelled."

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Re:no offense but...

[Anonymous Coward]

I partly agree. The core of GNOME is suffering from a lot of rot, and nobody seems to care about fixing it. Red Hat certainly doesn't. Ximian did care, but were sort of overruled on the push to get GNOME 2.0 out quickly. And now it seems they are mostly giving up on one potentially dead-end project (GNOME) to focus on another certain dead-end project (Mono). Eazel kept people interested in GNOME for a while, but now that they're tits up, Konqueror has been able to catch up with Nautilus in many respects.

That leaves Sun. Having GNOME be the default desktop on Solaris was supposed to be a big thing, but now Sun seems to be walking away from that too. Maybe they finally realized that people buy Solaris for reasons other than a friendly desktop environment. I mean, if they managed to get by for the last five years on a partially broken implementation of the Worst Desktop Ever (TM), not shipping GNOME is probably not going to hurt them. Besides, their primary competitors ship with the same or worse crap, and anybody who cares installs another WM.

So where does that leave GNOME? In the crapper is my guess. I think GTK will live on for a while, but the rest of GNOME is going to die off. If Red Hat and Ximian don't care enough to concentrate their effort on GNOME, who does? At this point, GNOME only has a few advantages left over KDE: prettier icons & themes, better office apps (Abiword, Gnumeric, Evolution, etc.), and a smaller memory footprint. But at the rate KDE is progressing, GNOME is going to be eating dust before long.

What kind of crack are you smoking?

[Xiphoid Process]

1. Bonobo has been out for a while now and used as the core of Evolution, Gide, Dev Help, Nautilus and many others... ever wonder why Open Office is intergrating with Bonobo?

2. nope, no such recomendation at that link. May I remind you that Galeon just won an award for the best linux browser?

3. Absolute unsubstantiated bullshit.

4. I'll just let the pictures speak for themselves:

KDE

GNOME

5. Hurd was started in 1990, before linux, further more, the GNOME people are not employed by Gnu and are associated only substantially by name.

G/K are here to stay, deal with it.