the thinguy, a.ka. craig bender, blogs on why he’s in favor of cde over gnome for sun ray environments. his main point is that gnome is not designed as a multi-user-per-desktop system, which is definately true. ever tried logging into a gnome-system with the same account twice? it goes mad quite fast… for example the gnome session manager is bugging around, even tho you’re not using it all.
anyway, cde is not what i’d call sexy nor up to date – an opinion that craig shares, as far as i have understood his posting. that’s why i am waiting for cam-support (controlled access mode, better known as kiosk mode) for gnome, which is supposed to come within the next two sun ray server v4 updates, as far as i know (no grants here, i’m not affilated with sun nor it’s engineering team for sun ray). perhaps we can then mix cam-only and normal users in a failover-group as well? would definately be cool!
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hello,
if CDE is too old and Gnome not multi-user friendly, what ’s best choice for sunrays on solaris?
ghenry, for me gnome is the best choice for solaris, because it is user-friendly if each user gets his own account. this is the default mode for sun rays. no problems with this setup…. the problem with cam- or kiosk-mode is that each user gets logged in into the same account. this freaks gnome out. that’s why it’s still not possible to do cam using a gnome-environment – but work is underneath to change that.