I also use OI as my main desktop. I have a few complaints about GNOME 2, but overall it's very nice and I prefer it to Xfce, KDE, and the other environments that are getting the most attention right now. Considering that RHEL and Oracle Solaris also use GNOME 2, it would not reflect badly on OpenIndiana to continue with it for some time.
As far as a future path, my (Arch) Linux machine runs MATE, and I have had no issues with it. Assuming no major porting problems, it would probably not be a risky choice considering that mainstream Linux distributions like Mint are embracing it. I'd personally be fine with a switch to a standalone window manager as the default, but most desktop users probably wouldn't be, and it seems the expectation for enterprise-grade Unixes for some time has included a full-scale desktop environment, whether the OS is targeted at desktop use or not. 2012/11/08 16:24、Bryan Iotti <[email protected]> のメッセージ: > OI is my main desktop. I have been trying to ignore all the shortcomings of > GNOME 2 because I find that ZFS, zones and DTrace are far more important. > I'd really like some of these bugs to be patched. I have a Linux laptop > running Fedora and XFCE as a WM, but it's a question of performance there. > Lack of a WM would seriously hamper my possibility to keep OI as my main OS. > > My two cents... > > Bryan > > > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:30 AM, låzaro <[email protected]> wrote: > >> well, my probing in the #mate channel was a disaster, I'd talk with a >> developer and I has been trolled in front the Developer by a project's >> user, me and an OI's user. >> >> A guy named Stefano, marked in the "about" as developer, was offering >> join to the #openindiana to talk about the subject. I would try it via >> Mailing list, after pull Stefano to #openindiana >> >> Cinnamon is from a to Linux Mint... >> >> >> Thread name: "Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Gnome and the future" >> Mail number: 16 >> Date: Tue, Nov 06, 2012 >> In reply to: Apostolos Syropoulos >>> >>> >>>> MATE project could see in OI a choose for climb in the desktops >>>> enviroment war. There is another Gnome fork named Cinammon (I guest) >>> >>> Indeed and here's the link: >>> >>> >>> https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon >>> >>> >>> A.S. >>> >>> ---------------------- >>> Apostolos Syropoulos >>> Xanthi, Greece >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >> >> -- >> -------- Warning! ------------ >> 100'000 pelos de escoba fueron >> introducidos satisfactoriamente >> en su puerto USB. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
