On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:47:34 -0800 "Garrett D'Amore" <garrett at damore.org> wrote:
> Ken Mays wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 21:48 -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > > > >> PS: Last time I tried, any of the blastwave packages that brought > >> in GTK font support were very, very toxic on OpenSolaris. To the > >> point that the only way to get back to a working desktop was to > >> reinstall from scratch. I strongly discourage the use of blastwave > >> on OpenSolaris... as long as the packages it has are built on > >> Solaris 8 there are going to be issues with some of the "layered" > >> software, such as most GUI apps. > > > > Both Blastwave's CSWkde 3.4.3 and CSW GNOME 2.16.3 worked fine on > > SXCE b68 when installed on a Sun Blade 100. I've use them in > > combination with JDS and CDE without ANY issues in a full > > production environment with heavy OpenGL graphic workloads. > > > > As Garrett mentioned though, you are looking at binaries built on > > Solaris 8. I've ran both desktops on my Sun Blade 100 for months on > > SXCE configs - and having a sys admin in Germany running a 80-user > > setup which ran very stable for months. I won't say **all** > > packages work fine as you use SXCE/SXDE or the other OpenSolaris > > distros. Also, several people from Sun (ahem!) are using > > Blastwave's KDE and GNOME packages (as well as those nice Mac > > laptops). > > I suspect using a full installation of blastwave's Gnome would work. > But trying to download one GTK application (e.g. mplayer) and use it, > has proved to be completely toxic to the Solaris-provided Gnome/JDS > environment. > > I've tried this on numerous installations of Nevada, across several > builds (going back perhaps as far as b64), and each time I try it, > I've immediately regretted it. And found that I could not not undo > the damage -- I think the problem is incompatibilities in fonts or > font libraries, but I've not tried to isolate it further. Still, this is very weird. The Blastwave packages are completely isolated. If you make sure /opt/csw/bin is not in your path I can see noway a packages like mplayer can pollute the JDS environment. A full gnome install _can_ IF you once run it. It interferes in $HOME with not always comp settings. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + Solaris 11 09/07 ++
