[desktop-discuss] Qt on OpenSolaris

2009-12-21 Thread Uros Nedic
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[desktop-discuss] Thunderbird 3.0 contrib/solaris_pkgadd version is really 3.0rc2. WTF?

2009-12-21 Thread Greg Earle
I went to grab the supposedly-final Thunderbird 3.0 release, and found a Solaris pkg in the "/pub/thunderbird/releases/3.0/contrib/ solaris_pkgadd" directory, so I decided to use that. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the Thunderbird package contained therein is miplsun2:1:53 [/var

[desktop-discuss] Is SCIM update to 1.4.9 scheduled?

2009-12-21 Thread Fuyuki Hasegawa - Sun Microsystems
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: >> W. Wayne Liauh wrote: >>> A somewhat related question, when will Sunpinyin2 >> be available for ibus? Thanks. >> >> Next next OpenSolaris release. I mean in the release >> right after the current >> development version is released. >> >> Thanks, >> Fuyuki > > Hi, > > Ju

[desktop-discuss] [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris first try issues

2009-12-21 Thread Calum Benson
On 21 Dec 2009, at 16:39, Volker A. Brandt wrote: > No, you did not expect too much. NWAM is nice except when it doesn't > work, as you found out the hard way. It's surprising how many people > give up on the Live CD in disgust because there's no way to "just > enter" the IP info. You're not a

[desktop-discuss] [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris first try issues

2009-12-21 Thread Volker A. Brandt
harry guenther writes: > 1. I could not get nwam to connect to the network using a Static IP. I > searched the web got answers changed the config file etc. Still would not > connect beyond localhost though it said it was connected. > Tried Network-config for manual setup. Still no luck. Could

[desktop-discuss] what is missing in the OpenSolaris desktop?

2009-12-21 Thread Calum Benson
On 21 Dec 2009, at 09:17, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > I have noticed many of Sun's own bloggers have also noticed this problem (and > found a way to try to circumvent it). We don't talk about it a lot as I > believe many here simply don't use OpenSolaris to do office chores (for > which, the firs

[desktop-discuss] ekiga coredump in b128a

2009-12-21 Thread solarg
hello all, i've a dell laptop M4400, and hopefully, the integrated webcam is supported. But after few seconds, ekiga coredumps: dbx ekiga ... t at 20 (l at 20) signal SEGV (no mapping at the fault address) in build_huffman_table at 0xfdb99a06 0xfdb99a06: build_huffman_table+0x0116: movzbl (%ed

[desktop-discuss] X changes in build 130 and how they affect the software you build

2009-12-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
The integration of the X11R7.5 project to the X gate in snv_130 included some additional changes as well, as described in these ARC cases: PSARC 2009/482: Move X files from /usr/X11 to /usr LSARC 2009/659: Mesa & OpenGL switcher for SPARC PSARC 2009/666: libX11 1.3 PSARC 2009/678: X Input E

[desktop-discuss] Qt on OpenSolaris

2009-12-21 Thread Stefan Teleman
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 14:25, Hillel Lubman wrote: > On 21/12/2009 13:15, Stefan Teleman wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 13:07, Hillel Lubman ?wrote: >> >>> >>> Are there any plans to include Qt libraries in OpenSolaris distribution? >>> Thanks, >>> >> >> Yes. >> >> --Stefan > > Is it schedu

[desktop-discuss] Qt on OpenSolaris

2009-12-21 Thread Hillel Lubman
On 21/12/2009 13:15, Stefan Teleman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 13:07, Hillel Lubman wrote: > >> Are there any plans to include Qt libraries in OpenSolaris distribution? >> Thanks, >> > Yes. > > --Stefan > > Is it scheduled for any particular release or it is only in theory? Hi

[desktop-discuss] what is missing in the OpenSolaris desktop?

2009-12-21 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> > [There is a pending ARC case to make CUPS the > > default] > > > > So the ARC "Lords" are at it again! I have been refraining to say the following for a long while: I have noticed that in at least a couple of cases where the requests were originated by Sun's developers in Beijing and the i

[desktop-discuss] what is missing in the OpenSolaris desktop?

2009-12-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: >> [There is a pending ARC case to make CUPS the >> default] >> > So the ARC "Lords" are at it again! Like judges, the ARC just reviews the cases brought before them. The ARC doesn't decide to change the default print system, they wait for the engineers working on printing to

[desktop-discuss] what is missing in the OpenSolaris desktop?

2009-12-21 Thread Ghee Teo
On 21/12/2009 09:17 AM, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: >> Hello everyone! >> >> I was wondering... what do you feel is missing in the >> OpenSolaris >> Desktop? >> >> Cheers, really appreciate the help, >> >> Luis >> >> -- >> Luis de Bethencourt Guimer? >> luisbg >> > First and foremost, OpenSolaris

[desktop-discuss] what is missing in the OpenSolaris desktop?

2009-12-21 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> [There is a pending ARC case to make CUPS the > default] > So the ARC "Lords" are at it again! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[desktop-discuss] what is missing in the OpenSolaris desktop?

2009-12-21 Thread John Martin
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > > > First and foremost, OpenSolaris should get printer problem(s) fixed. It is a > disgrace to even remotely consider OpenSolaris a possible desktop OS if > printing is still in the dark age (and has been for so long). > > I have noticed many of Sun's own bloggers have al

[desktop-discuss] Qt on OpenSolaris

2009-12-21 Thread Stefan Teleman
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 13:07, Hillel Lubman wrote: > Are there any plans to include Qt libraries in OpenSolaris distribution? > Thanks, Yes. --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman KDE e.V. stefan.teleman at gmail.com

[desktop-discuss] [vconsole-discuss] vconsole: does it work?

2009-12-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Mike Gerdts wrote: > I'd like to see it taken a little further by making it easy to have > multiple X sessions on the various vconsoles so that (e.g.) a > multi-user household can have multiple people's sessions active at the > same time and allow fast desktop switching. That is, the first > conso

[desktop-discuss] FF&TB nightly build for solaris is working again

2009-12-21 Thread Hillel Lubman
-x* fails and the firefox startup script assumes that the *run-mozilla.sh* is not found. May be it worth to fix it so it would have the same attributes -rwxr-xr-x Regards, Hillel. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pi

[desktop-discuss] FF&TB nightly build for solaris is working again

2009-12-21 Thread Hillel Lubman
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[desktop-discuss] what is missing in the OpenSolaris desktop?

2009-12-21 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 01:17 -0800, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > First and foremost, OpenSolaris should get printer problem(s) fixed. May I ask, sir, what your 'print problems' exactly are? This accusation is a bit vague. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u7

[desktop-discuss] Is SCIM update to 1.4.9 scheduled?

2009-12-21 Thread Ghee Teo
Hi Wayne, I think you are seeing this bug, it's a bug described in the build 129 release notes: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/indiana-discuss/2009-December/017158.html Scroll down to the description for: 12380 image-update loses /dev/ptmx from /etc/minor_perm for more information

[desktop-discuss] LiveCD - additional software

2009-12-21 Thread Sergio Schvezov
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 03:51 -0800, russell aspinwall wrote: > Could the NTFS file support be added to the LiveCD? You can always create one with distro constructor and add the packages you need there. Once distro constructor is installed you can grab the default xml file that builds the standard l

[desktop-discuss] Qt on OpenSolaris

2009-12-21 Thread Hillel Lubman
Are there any plans to include Qt libraries in OpenSolaris distribution? Thanks, Hillel. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[desktop-discuss] what is missing in the OpenSolaris desktop?

2009-12-21 Thread Sergio Schvezov
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 01:17 -0800, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > I have noticed many of Sun's own bloggers have also noticed this problem (and > found a way to > try to circumvent it). We don't talk about it a lot as I believe many here > simply don't use > OpenSolaris to do office chores (for which

[desktop-discuss] Is SCIM update to 1.4.9 scheduled?

2009-12-21 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Thanks for the answer. > > This problem seems to have been caused by another bug > (and probably is unrelated to ibus): > > http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=12039 > 5&tstart=0 > > After the workaround, I am now able to use the > Chewing input engine. Pinyin (for S-Chinese) an

[desktop-discuss] OpenSolaris first try issues

2009-12-21 Thread Eldee Stephens
harry, sorry to hear your experience wasn't as expected. however the items you mention are very easy to accomplish under opensolaris: 1. to setup your network interface with a static IP address, simply select 'Network' from the System->Administration menu. a dialog box will ask if you want to

[desktop-discuss] what is missing in the OpenSolaris desktop?

2009-12-21 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> such as CUPS be > the default on LiveCD in OS 130, > > -Ghee > > > > I have noticed many of Sun's own bloggers have also > noticed this problem (and found a way to try to > circumvent it). We don't talk about it a lot as I > believe many here simply don't use OpenSolaris to do > office chore

[desktop-discuss] OpenSolaris first try issues

2009-12-21 Thread harry guenther
I have used various flavours of Linux over the years. The University where I work uses various Sun products including Solaris. I thought I would give it a try on a test platform to be used as a base OS for running VirtualBox. These are the issues I had that forced me to remove it from my system: 1

[desktop-discuss] LiveCD - additional software

2009-12-21 Thread russell aspinwall
Hi, While attempting to remove viruses from my wife's pc, only one remains now. I thought I would boot from the LiveCD mount the NTFS filesystem as read/write and then run one of the online virus scanners against the mounted disk. While I did find the necessary pre-built OpenSolaris packages he

[desktop-discuss] Is SCIM update to 1.4.9 scheduled?

2009-12-21 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Thanks for the answer. This problem seems to have been caused by another bug (and probably is unrelated to ibus): http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=120395&tstart=0 After the workaround, I am now able to use the Chewing input engine. Pinyin (for S-Chinese) and Anthy (for Japane

[desktop-discuss] what is missing in the OpenSolaris desktop?

2009-12-21 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Hello everyone! > > I was wondering... what do you feel is missing in the > OpenSolaris > Desktop? > > Cheers, really appreciate the help, > > Luis > > -- > Luis de Bethencourt Guimer? > luisbg First and foremost, OpenSolaris should get printer problem(s) fixed. It is a disgrace to even