What's interesting about this is the most frequent comment I see about
the look of OpenSolaris 2008.05 is how nice it is compared to other
distributions.
The most frequent complaint I have seen is about the darkness of the
wallpaper and the grub boot background.
Other than that, I personally believe it's an improvement.
2008/6/20 Stuart {Balckberry handheld} <stuart at marketdata.com>:
> Desktop group - please read this. Thanks.
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> From: Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM>
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> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:52:51
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> Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] StarOffice and JDS Missing
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> That sounds like good feedback to send to the desktop-discuss list, where
> the people who work on the themes can see it - perhaps they can add the
> Windows-like theme as an option, even if it's not the default.
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> -alan-
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> Stuart {Balckberry handheld} wrote:
>> Hi Alan,
>>
>> I miss the JDS look and feel, which is the user presentation experience. For
>> users to migrate away from Windows, it is very helpful to have a close
>> look-alike for the transition. I say this also from a business perspective
>> after working nearly 20 in Wall Street banking where Sun is the 'standard'
>> for server platforms. It used to also be the standard for desktops and there
>> was a lot of talk in the bank about waiting to see JDS become more mature
>> with StarOffice included. From my experience, the loss of StarOffice, a Sun
>> product, to a freeware product and also the drastic change away from the JDS
>> presentation that is similar to Windows will have a negative impact.
>>
>> The 01/08 release is what I was using in the bank on my laptop because it
>> was a very good release for laptops, being Solaris it is 'allowed
>> technology' in the bank and it had a similar desktop with a comercially
>> supported office package from Sun - that is key. Now it has lost this. I
>> hope it comes back. It was really great.
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>> Regards,
>> Stuart
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>> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:36:50
>> To:stuart at marketdata.com
>> Cc:opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org, Desktop Discuss
>> <desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org>
>> Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] StarOffice and JDS Missing
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>> Stuart {Balckberry handheld} wrote:
>>> Can anyone tell me what happened to JDS and StarOffice in the new release
>>> of OpenSolaris 2008.05? I ended up going back to Solaris 10 due to the
>>> missing StarOffice and JDS.
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>> JDS was just GNOME with a Sun theme, and it was replaced by a
>> much newer GNOME with a different Sun theme, so it's mostly
>> still there - what is missing that you were looking for?
>>
>> As for StarOffice, OpenSolaris provides OpenOffice.org in the
>> pkg repo, you just have to download it from the pkg manager.
>>
>> --
>> -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
>> Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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