Re: Questions regarding Sun's gnome 2.6 implementation


On 11 Oct 2007, at 05:32, Jeffery Small wrote:


Thanks you for this detailed help. I didn't even know about the
gconf-editor
tool. I made the change and now the desktop is working much more
smoothly.
I can't imagine why Sun would ship Gnome 2.0 with this property
disabled
and then ship 2.6 with it enabled.

GNOME 2.0 was never a supported product from Sun, just a free
download for anyone who was interested. (I'm not sure if the
reduced_resources flag even existed in 2.0, I forget off-hand.)

For 2.6, a supported product, we had to support Sun Ray
installations, which generally benefit from the reduced_resources
flag being set. There's also still a lot of old Sun hardware out
there (even more so back when GNOME 2.6 was released), on which GNOME
runs a *lot* less smoothly than CDE. So the reduced_resources flag
was just set by default to provide the smoothest experience for as
many of our users as possible.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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