On 7/14/05, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > Absolutely - couldn't agree more. From a JDS point of view, we're very > aware of the discussions going on, although we may not have been the > most active or vocal over the last couple of months. > > We've got a team going inside Sun to start getting a list of the main > differences in Linux, that stand in the way of having a rocking desktop > on Solaris - we've already started some work on porting HAL to Solaris > and there are a couple of people involved.
Ohh this is very very cool. > > DBUS is in the stage where it's starting to freeze some of its API - > there's been a lot of change there. Hopefully it'll start settling down > over the next couple of months to look at this more closely. > > > So, i was thinking, maybe DBUS and HAL would be two good places to > > start longer-term work (for KDE4), while we iron out our community > > agreement that we won't be building 12 different versions of Python > > ever again. :-P > > Absolutely - that sounds ideal. I guess we probably need to divide > things up between a developer and distribution - while DBUS and HAL are > very important to us [JDS/GNOME], we're not at the stage where we need > to worry about them from a distribution point of view. We need to work > closely with freedesktop.org to make sure they work on Solaris first and > foremost. i agree 100%. as far as DBUS/HAL go, making it work on Solaris comes first. there's no DBUS/HAL code in KDE releases right now. it won't be in until KDE4, which is scheduled to be out a year from now (early Fall 2006). > However, I do think we can make real progress on the distribution front > in parallel ;) :-) > So this is interesting too. I've just got confirmation from Derek that > he's setup a desktop community on OpenSolaris.org - obviously it's just > the bare bones at the moment, so we need to put a bit of work into > getting it ready before we go live. > > My idea is that we could have the OpenSolaris.org desktop community as > an umbrella for other things - > > Desktop > - GNOME > - KDE > - Mozilla > - OpenOffice > - .... > Wow, this sounds ideal!! thank you very very much! > So we probably need to think what infrastructure we can share, and what > it makes sense to split out. For example, I think there's a huge amount > of value in having a [EMAIL PROTECTED], but may make sense > to have jds/gnome-discuss and kde-discuss. Perhaps we share our Blog > space, and subdivide the web site as appropriate - > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/gnome > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/kde > ..... > > Thoughts? > yes, yes, and yes. this way we have a shared space, it is obviously a community project, and we can also separate those topics which are specific to just one desktop and not the other (just keeping everyone's inbox somewhat under control). i wasn't trying to make a sectarian statement with the suggestion to move to a mailing list. :-) i just didn't know this would be happening (me so happy!! :-) and i didnt want to annoy everyone on this list with kde specific stuff. but i agree 100%, the OS desktop project is a community conversation, it's about Solaris/OpenSolaris and sharing first and foremost. Thank you very very much!! --Stefan _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
