Solaris 11.4 To Move From GNOME 2 Desktop To GNOME Shell

[finalzone]

I don't see how gnome 2 looks "dated" and Gnome Shell is somehow an improvement. To me Gnome Shell looks like a Fisher-Price toy set, something for "special" people.

Fiser-Price toy tend to be more colourful and cluttered while Gnome Shell is designed with less distraction in mind useful for users like estate, various designers and some audio studios. It seems your comment is very late as Gnome Shell is already used in recent enterprise desktop distributions like Red Hat enterprise Linux and his derivative through Gnome Classic, an extended Gnome Shell, reproducing the legacy appearance.
The move in this case for Solaris aims for better transition with Oracle Linux in future consideration.

[carewolf]

Real news is that Solaris STILL isn't dead.

[moilami]

Solaris is almost used exclusely on server. The quality of the desktop is irrelevant. I have seen Solaris boxes in a datacenter and they don’t do anything special. It’s another grandpa OS like HP-UX and AIX.

Ahhahhaa, priceless comment, I just aged 10 years

[rtfazeberdee]

I thought recent GNOME 3 needs systemd which is Linux only.

LP actually wrote a module that allowed Gnome to avoid systemd but they chose not to use it, maybe they are using that.

[aht0]

LP actually wrote a module that allowed Gnome to avoid systemd but they chose not to use it, maybe they are using that.

Under which license? GPL?

[Steffo]

I thought Solaris is dead.

[kpedersen]

You honestly think that the new Gnome Shell looks better than the original Solaris 11 Gnome 2 desktop? Wow, I must really be loosing track with modern UX. The Gnome 2 offering to me looks vastly superior and far more professional.

I would almost be embarrassed showing the Gnome 3 Shell on my laptop during presentations. It just looks consumer in every single way.

[George99]

Well, even with the latest Gnome 3.26 you can still customize it to a somewhat sane and usable desktop. Enabling desktop icons and the extensions Applications menu, Window list and Topicons plus and use a nice theme like Zukitre does help a lot. Use Tweaks and Dconf-editor to fine tune settings...

[rtfazeberdee]

Under which license? GPL?

No idea, i only found about it from reading an interview with LP. https://www.linuxvoice.com/interview...rt-poettering/ - my memory of that interview was a bit faulty - here's the actual solution he did

"LV:" Some people see it as a requirement for Gnome…

"LP:" But it’s not actually a requirement. Some people don’t realise that when Gnome started making use of Logind, I actually wrote the patch for that. I ported GDM onto Logind. But when it did that, I was very careful to make sure it would still run on ConsoleKit. I didn’t want to have those fights – if people want to continue running ConsoleKit, they can. Those patches made it in, but some people saw that Gnome now works with Logind, hence it must not work with ConsoleKit any more!

But that’s actually not true. And to my knowledge the code is still in there – the compatibility for ConsoleKit. The Gnome team has the general problem though, that nobody’s willing to maintain it. People who want to stick to the old stuff, they actually need to do some work on it. If they don’t, then it will bit-rot and go away.

So anyway, we tried to do these things in the nicest possible way, but of course people generally don’t acknowledge it!

[Vistaus]

Well, even with the latest Gnome 3.26 you can still customize it to a somewhat sane and usable desktop. Enabling desktop icons and the extensions Applications menu, Window list and Topicons plus and use a nice theme like Zukitre does help a lot. Use Tweaks and Dconf-editor to fine tune settings...

Yeah, but it has already been established that anti-GNOME-Shell people only want to customize their web browsers with extensions, not their DE.