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Solaris 9 Will Be Updated WIth Gnome 2.0

Posted by timothy on from the pitter-patter-of-little-feet dept.

JAZ writes: "According to this article, 'The newest version of the GNOME open source desktop will not be ready in time to ship with Solaris 9 next year, but it will be included with a subsequent Solaris 9 quarterly update ...' Go Gnome!" I wonder if anyone truly prefers CDE.

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  1. Preferring CDE? Compared to what? by devphil · · Score: 5, Funny
    I wonder if anyone truly prefers CDE.

    You're only wondering that because you haven't experienced the pain of OpenWindows[tm], winner of the [entirely fictitious and just-invented] Most Unintuitive Interface In The Entire Fscking World Award.

    Drop-down menus are dropped down with which button? The first, you say? Oh no, that would be far too obvious and industry-standard. The third button drops down a menu. If you press the first button, it activates the first entry in the menu, without ever dropping the menu down. Sort of a speed-select. Confusing as flaming fuck to people who don't expect it: if the first entry is "New Window" then you merely have windows popping up. "I clicked on "File" and a new window popped up? Huh?"

    If the first entry is more, shall we say, "proactive," then you just lost data. Or had a file overwritten when you were just experimenting. Or... who knows what just happened, since there may not be any visual feedback to whatever the fsck the first menu entry happens to be.

    I and my users were both extremely happy when we were able to move from OpenWindblows to CDE. They will be happier still if I ever get the chance to build KDE 2.2 for my SPARCs.

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  2. Re:GNOME 2.0 by Drakantus · · Score: 3, Funny

    *nix? You mean like Linix? Oh wait, thats wrong. I guess you mean BSDix. Opps, not an OS either. Clearly you mean Qnix. Oh, thats QNX, my bad.

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  3. Re:Preferring CDE? Compared to what? by Balinares · · Score: 3, Funny
    Oh, OpenWindows. Just SO many good memories. :)

    I got to discover OpenWindows' many qualities (sigh) when working in Denmark. My machine, a SPARC, was oooold as hell. So old that I actually saw a configure script tell me:
    System type: SunOS version x.y
    (Wow! I didn't even know those still existed!)

    Humiliating. :)

    This said, it's OpenWindows that got me hooked on the 'focus follows mouse pointer' scheme. Guess it wasn't entirely bad after all. :)
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