Glynn:
I'm starting to write the what's new guide for the next release? Have
any favourite features that you think should be included, please let me
know!
Following are some changes in the Desktop in the 2.28 release cycle
that might be worth a mention:
- Alan Coopersmith mentioned that the
Frank:
According to Brian Cameron, GDM 2.28 integrated into build 130. I think
he might be correct in that all the xdmcp problems started with b130. We're
running snv124 and b124 and I don't think they use GDM 2.28. How can
you tell?
The new GDM 2.28 integrated in build 130, so if you
I think it is an incredible amount of spin to suggest that the following
has much to do with Oracle's commitment to OpenSolaris.
The STAR ARC case has been in review for 5 years, much before Oracle,
and the employee working on the integration process has left the
company.
Clearly the ARC case
Alan:
We removed them because it didn't make sense to have all of them present,
since they give conflicting settings - My pixels are ordered Blue/Green/Red
left-to-right, and Red/Green/Blue left-to-right, and Blue/Green/Red top to
bottom and Red/Green/Blue top to bottom. - and the default
Chris:
Note that Firefox uses proportional fonts while gnome-terminal uses
monospace fonts. Proportional and monospace fonts *should* look different.
A better test would be to compare how firefox looks compared with
other GNOME programs which use proportional fonts, such as gedit.
Brian
I just fixed this bug in spec-files-other SVN head, so this should be
fixed in build 129. As has been highlighted, just modifying the
first line of the script so it says #!/usr/bin/python2.6 is a
workaround until then.
Brian
On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 09:19 -0800, Alan Steinberg wrote:
Can
Ken:
I just tried the OSOL 2008.11 and higher client. I didn't have a
Second Life account, so I created one at their website.
Then, when I try to use the client, I enter my username and password
and click the Connect button. A dialog appears saying Terms of
Service Agreement - Please read
Moinak Ghosh wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Brian Cameron brian.came...@sun.com wrote:
Ken:
I just tried the OSOL 2008.11 and higher client. I didn't have a
Second Life account, so I created one at their website.
Then, when I try to use the client, I enter my username and password
Francois:
Sorry for the slow response. I talked with some people at Fluendo
and they just provided the following information to me today.
* Fullscreen support
Do you know what it is doing there? Just a linear interpolation, or is
it upscaling? Under windows, players like Arcsoft use
Luca:
I run OpenSolaris on both a Toshiba M9 and a Toshiba M10. Both work
very well with OpenSolaris.
I like the performance of the M10, though it is a tad bit heavier and
bulkier.
However, there is a bug with the CD/DVD USCSI driver on the M10 which
causes cdda2wav, sound-juicer and brasero
Luca:
I just installed SUNWterminator pkg (and verified too) into a snv_124
installation, but when I try to run it I got this:
l...@opensolaris:~$ terminator
Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/bin/terminator, line 42, in ?
from terminatorlib.terminator import Terminator
File
Brock:
It's certainly possible that we missed a dependency. Please file a bug
under opensolaris/packaging. If you happen to know why SUNWjokosher
needs an xdg file, please let us know that as well.
Yes, this is a needed dependency. I filed defect.opensolaris.org bug
#11734 about this with
Barbie:
I suspect you are running into this problem:
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=10036
Brian
I'm running it on a self build x64 desktop machine, using a tpe 7 keyboard with
it and on a samsung nc10 netbook.
Both had working audiokeys before 117, only thing i had to
Alan:
I thought this was fixed in doo bug #7895:
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=7895
cc:ing Lin Ma, who worked on that bug.
Brian
I modified the bug synopsis to make it generic. See bugster ID 6852648.
-- Alan
Bart Smaalders wrote:
Alan Steinberg wrote:
What
Dick:
As OpenSolaris is developing slowly packeges that first existed as
SFEpkgs are replaced by SUNWpkgs. However, how do I -KNOW- a SFEpkg is
no longer needed because as of this new release it is part of the
distribution? I do not want packages that are in the way of each
other.
When a SFE
Note that I was able to track down the problem. The function
read_themes in gdmsetup.c only has one call to g_markup_printf_escaped.
Fixing this function like this should resolve the issue:
- markup = g_markup_printf_escaped
(b%s/b\nsmall%s/small
, name, desc);
+
Bill:
Any idea how I would change the output screen of the X server on boot?
After doing some more quick research, I get the feeling that I need to
tell X to use :0.1 . I'm not real sure how to do that though...
GDM does have configuration files in /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf and
Sorry, but the improvements to the totem plugins did not make this
release. In GNOME 2.26, the totem-basic-plugin has been replaced
with a much better set of plugins which will all be enabled once
GNOME 2.26 is available.
In GNOME 2.24, the basic plugin does support most free media
formats.
Brian/Sebastien:
Sebastien Roy wrote:
Furthermore, just turning off one service that apparently isn't
directly linked to GDM should not block GDM from running... at least
NOT without some clear warning of what is happening or about to
happen.
This much isn't related to NWAM, but I agree
Glynn:
elisa is an exciting new media application. Might want to highlight
that since it uses OpenGL, it doesn't work on systems that don't support
OpenGL (much like compiz).
codeina is a new feature, which makes it easier for users to access
popular multimedia codecs such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4,
Harry/Gilles:
depend fmri=sunwpysql...@2.4.1-0.109 type=require
depend fmri=sunwpython-ex...@0.5.11-0.109 type=require
depend fmri=sunwpython-twisted-w...@0.5.11-0.109 type=require
depend fmri=sunwgnome-me...@0.5.11-0.109 type=require
depend fmri=sunwpython24-simplej...@0.5.11-0.109
Note that GConf now depends on dbus. Does running programs like this
make them avoid the GConf connection refused errors? For example,
to run gedit:
dbus-launch --exit-with-session gedit
If so, then perhaps the suspend-resume operation is messing up D-Bus in
some odd way.
Brian
Do you
by ORBit or D-Bus
becoming unusable for some reason.
Brian
Brian Cameron wrote:
Note that GConf now depends on dbus. Does running programs like this
make them avoid the GConf connection refused errors? For example,
to run gedit:
dbus-launch --exit-with-session gedit
If so, then perhaps
Amit:
On booting the b107, I was automatically moved into console login, and
after that, I did a 'svcadm clear nwam' (according to the work around
suggested) and then did a 'startx', where errors were thrown.
Apparently, it could be a problem with my NVidia (Quadro ) card.
What startx
Joanmarie:
Is there a (publicly available) list which details the non-GNOME
packages and versions planned for inclusion in the 2009.04 release --
and/or a rule of thumb one could use to make an educated guess? :-)
While this information in general would be handy, at the moment I'm
Joanmarie:
Oops, sorry, my last email was too quick.
I notice that our spec-files SVN head has 2.5.3, but the 2.24 stable
branch still is building with 2.5.1. Since the next OpenSolaris
release will be based on the 2.24 stable branch, this means the next
release of OpenSolaris will contain
Chris:
Elisa has been integrated into Nevada build 107. It wouldn't be
too hard to build it via spec-files on an older version of OpenSolaris.
Refer to spec-files-extra.
Brian
In a bid to distract folks from the gnu chmod thread... does anyone
know whether any open source media center
Andrew:
The volume level I set in OpenSolaris 2008.11 is not restored following a
reboot. How can it get this working?
Sorry, Solaris does not yet support a good way to automatically save
and restore volume levels on reboot. We will likely add such a feature
after the OSS integration. It
Detlef:
I ran into the same problem a while back. I understand that is a known
problem with Thunderbird, caused by a bug introduced by the upgrade to
the new Sun Studio 12 comnpiler. I believe this was fixed in build 106.
It is a frustrating bug, I think Thunderbird is fairly useless with
this
Jacob:
You could try pitivi, it is available in spec-files-extra. It's
probably not mature enough to really be called a professional
application, but it does support some basic video editing. Would
be good to get more people involved with growing the pitivi community
also.
Brian
First of
Andrew:
I notice from http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4887#c6 that this bug
has been fixed in Nevada build 105. Is it possible to apply this fix to 2008.11
without recompiling any binaries? If so - what is the fix?
James Cornell suggested doing the setuid on the gdm binary.
George:
New login window crashes once loging in as a regular user.
Are you seeing this bug?
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1149
Brian
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Tim:
Are you hitting this issue? I had a similar problem that I resolved.
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2008-October/016112.html
Brian
I tried RC1 on Toshiba Tecra M5. After a successful install from liveUSB, I
added `-s' to the grub command line to boot into
Peter:
let's /not/ ship gnome, and ship KDE instead. It's a far superior
more integrated desktop environment, and one that windows users ( the
largest platform out there ) are most likely to feel comfortable in
One could debate the technical merits of each (and of many others,
each of
Glynn:
If anyone wants to suggest bits missed, or help provide a list for some of
the
other functionality, please feel free.
GNOME Desktop Environment
=
Specific Applications
o Firefox Web Browser
o Thunderbird Email Client
o OpenOffice Productivity Suite
Calum:
For better or for worse, I still consider the Nevada desktop to be the
closest thing we currently have to the next Solaris desktop. IMHO this
means choosing the default menu contents and layout as carefully as ever
(and certainly more carefully than JDS3), not using it as a
Calum:
That's why I've been asking (internally) if we could devise a way to
ensure that all apps that aren't listed in the Nevada UI spec have the
NoDisplay=True line added to their .desktop file-- preferably
automatically at build or install time, since that line would need to be
Calum:
Of all the new applications that is going into the next release,
I think xchat should go into the default Applications-Internet
menu. Please, please!
Bluefish might be another good choice to add, since we otherwise
do not have any internet webpage editors.
I also recommend adding
Moinak:
Some Linux distributions use gksu, sudo, or some other mechanism to
allow users to run gdmsetup without needing to login as root first.
However, we haven't (yet) implemented a solution like this on Solaris.
Um, I am running SXCE B78 and gksu is present. I can run:
gksu
Leal:
There is no gdmconfig on OpenSolaris? I mean, i did not find a menu
option to customize the login screen, and searching for gdmconfig in
package manager did not return anything.
The program is called gdmsetup and not gdmconfig on Solaris. Some
ancient versions of GDM called the
Brian
Joerg is referring to the fact that ksh93 and bourne shell have some
minor incompatibilities. It is possible to write a script that will
work differently in the two shells. Academics have even written some
scripts to demonstrate these incompatibilities really exist.
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