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List:       opensolaris-desktop-discuss
Subject:    Re: [desktop-discuss] Future of Solaris on the desktop?
From:       Brian Cameron <brian.cameron () oracle ! com>
Date:       2010-12-30 22:32:58
Message-ID: 4D1D089A.9080307 () oracle ! com
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William:

Thanks for the feedback.  It is useful to hear about people in the
field actually using alternatives.  As you suggest, it would be
interesting to do some further research and find out how XFCE or LXDE
scales compared to the latest GNOME in Nevada.

Thanks for the feedback about the bug in XFCE about how it
monitors the recording device.  Have you considered filing a bug
with the upstream XFCE community?  Such issues are more likely to get
addressed if we report problems when we notice them.

   http://bugzilla.xfce.org/

Brian


On 12/30/10 04:24 PM, William Yang wrote:
>> Such alternative desktops might be a good solution for some Solaris
>> users.  I do not believe Oracle has any current plans to support such
>> an alternative desktop nor have I heard of any Solaris users who even
>> use them.  However, such alternatives do exist and I would think Oracle
>> might consider delivering and supporting such alternatives if customers
>> found them useful and if there were a real demand.
>>
>> It would be interesting to find out whether Sun Ray users find better
>> performance or find they can support more concurrent desktop sessions
>> with GNOME or such "light" desktops as LXDE/XFCE.
>
> We run Solaris 10/Sun Ray and allow users to choose between JDS, KDE 3.5,
> XFCE 4.4, Fluxbox, Fvwm, and Enlightenment (e16).  We also have CDE still
> there, but I don't think anyone uses it.  I do know that we have users that
> use KDE, XFCE, and Fluxbox (in addition to JDS, which is the default),
> although I don't know any that are using Fvwm and e16.
>
> GNOME 2.6 in the form of JDS is fairly light already; XFCE is lighter but
> probably doesn't offer too much of an advantage over GNOME 2.6.  But since
> newer versions of GNOME have gotten heftier, I would expect that XFCE would
> allow Sun Ray use to scale farther than GNOME would.  The only gotcha we ran
> into before was that by default, the XFCE mixer applet would monitor the
> recording device by default, resulting in constant upstream traffic from any
> DTU that was logged into XFCE.  I don't think it caused any problems, but if
> you have sufficient DTUs doing this, you could potentially clog the upstream
> pipe back to the Sun Ray server.
>
> We'd really like to see Oracle continue to support the Windows-esque
> one-panel layout used with JDS.  I'd say it's been one of the biggest
> factors that have allowed us to deploy Sun Rays on Solaris into a previously
> homogenous Windows environment without the need for training staff or
> students.
>
> William Yang
>

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