announced that it's been put to
bed, then it's still very much playing in the garden.
Cheeri,
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Any
suck!, rather than mumbling some woolly excuse about it
not being one of their preferred Unix-like platforms. Would probably have
attracted a lot more sympathy, and possibly even an investor who wanted to pay
for ongoing Solaris support.
Cheeri,
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On 30 Apr 2010, at 13:25, Giovanni Tirloni wrote:
Nothing odd about that at all, unless you like all the Apple vs. Adobe
public fights.
No, I just like honesty.
Cheeri,
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Is that also why nothing past build 134 is available
from the development repository?
As Alan (I think) pointed out yesterday, this is the usual practice while a
release is pending.
Cheeri,
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the way Oracle does business, and we're
all (including those of us who've just joined from Sun) just going to have to
get used to it, I'm afraid.
Cheeri,
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On 27 Apr 2010, at 17:38, Hillel Lubman wrote:
Calum Benson wrote:
And as we've already been over many times before, saying nothing about the
release of
upcoming products is just the way Oracle does business, and we're all
(including those of us
who've just joined from Sun) just going
an application that understands pressure to
try out... so not using the pen features of the tablet.
GIMP does understand pressure, in theory. Which suggests the Wacom
driver isn't really working as well as you might think :/
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Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
On 26 Jan 2010, at 02:56, Martin Bochnig wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/22/sun_schwartz_signoff/
See also: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10440125-92.html
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:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-7306/gconf-0?a=view
Cheeri,
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Any opinions are personal
On 30 Nov 2009, at 14:54, Luca Morettoni wrote:
As reported in [1] I have a lot of problem using USB devices (any kind) under
OpenSolaris host, any hints or tips?
Is this any help?
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=113752tstart=0
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an option...
Cheeri,
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.
If I remember correctly, that's because Thunderbird uses the Gecko
rendering engine (used by Mozilla) and Evolution uses libgtkhtml.
Right. Although evolution should be switching to WebKit at some
point, which ought to improve its HTML rendering quite a bit.
Cheeri,
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Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
, but i can see opensolaris is deleted in BUI and beadm
list. At this time, I don't change menu.list.
If you try to delete the original beadm from the command line (using
'pfexec beadm destroy opensolaris'), it may give you a more useful
error message.
Regards,
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On 14 Sep 2009, at 11:57, Calum Benson wrote:
If you try to delete the original beadm from the command line
Sorry, meant to say if you try to delete the original boot
environment from the command line...
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I reboot through the GUI
(and not in a window)
This is work in progress.
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2009-September/thread.html#13948
Cheeri,
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,
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Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
has somewhat of an obligation to provide an accessible
desktop by default, which isn't really a consideration in such
polls... I'm not sure how Thunderbird currently stacks up against
Evolution on the a11y front, but it certainly used to lag somewhat.
Cheeri,
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disable the
svc:/system/filesystem/zfs/auto-snapshot:* services
Or turn off Time Slider via the Administration-Time Slider GUI.
Cheeri,
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for now, but don't worry about
it too much. If it doesn't really belong there, somebody will triage
it into the right category soon enough.
(If in doubt, I usually just search for similar bugs and see what
category they're filed in...)
Cheeri,
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ideas of what should be covered,
send them through - here's your chance to get involved!
Time-slider: now allows manual creation and deletion of snapshots.
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users.
Cheeri,
Calum.
Calum Benson schrieb, On 26.02.09 19:06:
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 22:50 +0100, Detlef Drewanz wrote:
assume I want to modify for any reason my places gnome menue. Which
config file do I have to edit. Does anyone have pointer for me ?
The Places menu is not really
or disconnect servers, mount or umount volumes, or open
documents...)
Cheeri,
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Any opinions are personal
Bluefish, which is a nice HTML editor,
but you would need to know HTML code to use it.
Cheeri,
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Any
.
Of course, as an open source project, I'm sure patches will be happily
accepted :)
Cheeri,
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Any
, and right now that only includes Pidgin 2.5.1. We could,
indeed, bump the version of Pidgin on that branch prior to 2009.04 if
we had a compelling reason to do so.
Cheeri,
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for your own solution
until Time Slider supports backups as well as snapshots.
Cheeri,
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Any opinions
-added (also with a GUI) at a later date, hopefully in time for
2009.04-- although right now I believe the guys are still debating
whether to use zfs send/recv for this as before, or to switch to zfs
mirror (which has its pros and cons).
Cheeri,
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to upgrade right now is to talk to a package repository over the
network.
(I guess it might still be possible to put an item in the boot menu to
achieve that, but it would still have to pull the bits over the net
rather than off the CD.)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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there by keyboard navigation.
You can navigate to any panel using Ctrl-Alt-Tab, then use the Tab
keys to move focus along the objects. When the volume applet is
focused, you can use the up/down or PgUp/PgDn keys to change the volume.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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URL.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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.
Cheeri,
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Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
on, as acknowledged on the
second post in that thread. And in any case, the underlying cause is
a Solaris bug, not a VirtualBox bug, so hassling the VirtualBox team
about it isn't really going to help get it fixed.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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On 30 Oct 2008, at 23:47, Jisakiel wrote:
BTW, are there any pointers to documentation on how to make a new
IPS package?
Yes, but you'll probably get more help over on pkg-discuss.
Cheeri,
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is when the next stable
build is released. Until then, we should all consider ourselves to be
beta testers.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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On 6 Oct 2008, at 20:57, George Koutras wrote:
Hi Ghee,
snv_98
I think that falls a little short of the information Ghee
requested :) He'll need a lot more than that to diagnose the problem.
Cheeri,
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and my USB thumb drive.
Also how I can enable shared files between my Mac Leopard and the
Windows?
Not sure what any of this has to do with Indiana or OpenSolaris, but
you could try the VirtualBox forums: http://forums.virtualbox.org.
Cheeri,
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at least let me click
on something to directly open the IPS GUI with all newly-available
packages immediately on show.
(What *would* be cool is if I could filter the update notifications on
packages or tags of particular interest, though)
Cheeri,
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packages and new packages from two different sources.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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. (Nor are all
audio files music, of course, but there isn't really any good
generic, non-technical term for audio files, or we'd use that
instead.)
Of course, we now also have a Music folder in GNOME by default,
which reinforces the use of that term.
Cheeri,
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when it's done :)
Thanks,
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for these commands, we should be
binding both Super+R AND Alt+F2 to the Run dialog. (It was Sun who
requested the feature, precisely so we could do this!)
I'll add that (and the others we remap) to the Indiana UI Spec...
hopefully we can sneak it in for 2008.11.
Cheeri,
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, if
it helps-- I'd maybe have pushed a bit harder to include the 64x64s if
we had any of those, but we don't :)
Cheeri,
Calum.
[1] That's 15mm, to us European types...
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On 15 Aug 2008, at 15:39, Calum Benson wrote:
[1] That's 15mm, to us European types...
(Well okay, nearer 19mm I guess...)
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upon to do so.)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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this for every app that turns up in the
repository, though :)
Cheeri,
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Any opinions are personal and not necessarily
the LiveCD anyway. So rather than worry about such a
minor change for something that might be disappearing into a
repository, I'll just change it back to gDesklets in the spec.
Cheeri,
Calum.
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 17:41 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
Since we didn't quite get around to implementing
still experimental, and as such it's not (yet) the icon theme
that's actually used by the HighContrast desktop theme. That will
change at some point, but then we should be able to drop the
HighContrastLargePrint icon theme instead.
Cheeri,
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that doing it ourselves would mean the sort of source code
changes that meant we weren't allowed to call what we shipped
Firefox any more...
Cheeri,
Calum.
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On 12 Aug 2008, at 18:03, Frank Ludolph wrote:
So Calum, can we adjust the UI Guidelines for FireFox default to 16pt?
Consider it done...
Cheeri,
Calum.
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...
Cheeri,
Calum.
* Ok, slight exaggeration... but if we don't draw the line somewhere
and the repositories grow as quickly as we'd like, then 500 could be a
conservative estimate in a year or two...
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solution, e.g. automatic generation
of those branding patches based on something like a package whitelist
(that is, a list of all the desktop files we *don't* want hidden, per
the Nevada UI spec).
Cheeri,
Calum.
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not the Nimbus maintainer, so it's not for me
to say :)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
and the current proposal for 2008.11 came from them. (I think Frank's
a bit closer to what's going on there, though, so perhaps he can
comment?)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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On 21 Jul 2008, at 14:08, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
Gnome Fans,
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Calum Benson wrote:
On 17 Jul 2008, at 18:32, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
DWM can be controlled completely via the keyboard, which is one of
the
reasons I like it so much.
As can metacity/GNOME, FWIW
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think you're right, although from a usability perspective it would
be better if it was hidden rather than disabled. (Disabled generally
means not available right now, but there's something you can do to
make it available, which isn't true in this case.)
Cheeri,
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On 9 Jun 2008, at 09:01, James Cornell wrote:
Not really... Apple's not always about technical advancements, it's
more about presentation. ZFS sadly doesn't present itself in
typical Apple fashion
Not yet, but we're working on some ideas for that.
Cheeri,
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On 5 Jun 2008, at 01:41, Ché Kristo wrote:
Great idea...i too am surprised that it's not there.
I think I heard recently that were still some redistribution/licensing
issues to sort out before we could do that (but I may have misheard...)
Cheeri,
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' in a terminal and see if you get
any error messages.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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Any opinions are personal and not necessarily
customers.
Cheeri,
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, but no reason somebody
couldn't look at it.
Cheeri,
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release-- as you know, we
erred on the side of caution with 2008.05, and went with 2.20. But I
think it's something we'd like to try and do going forward.)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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proxy settings easily enough.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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for completion)
Then please file a bug suggesting a better default...
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GNOME + a bunch of things that aren't bundled with OpenSolaris,
like StarOffice and RealPlayer. It remains to be seen what the next
Solaris desktop is called, as that's obviously some time away.
Cheeri,
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of the users.
This is work in progress, see the NWAM Phase I GUI spec:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/UIDesign/Phase1/
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the opportunity to use the GUI to actually
manage their network, which of course none of us do, yet... as such,
I'm not inclined to sweat over it too much for now.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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it's already on the TODO list, though.)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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had made to their panel in the meantime-- hence the suggestion to
ask just once, at first login. Your objection is duly noted, however :)
Cheeri,
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On 17 Apr 2008, at 20:57, Richard Elling wrote:
Harumpf!
Calum Benson wrote:
On 16 Apr 2008, at 18:37, Richard Elling wrote:
I'm with you 100% on choosing good defaults and not asking
unnecessary
questions. But there is no such preference in this case, so
completely rearranging
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On 4 Apr 2008, at 14:11, Calum Benson wrote:
I can't promise that we'll *definitely* pick the layout that gets the
most votes, but the results will certainly be factored into the final
decision. Please vote by midnight UTC Monday 7th April, and I'll post
the results on Tuesday.
Just
that panel anyway.)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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enhancement request at defect.opensolaris.org? One thing that might
count against it for inclusion in a Solaris distro is the whole Tux ==
Linux aspect though :)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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, but the results will certainly be factored into the final
decision. Please vote by midnight UTC Monday 7th April, and I'll post
the results on Tuesday.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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On 13 Mar 2008, at 18:13, Calum Benson wrote:
Yeah, GNOME panel used to (maybe it still does) have support for
different configurations that you could switch between to suit
different
tastes or screen resolutions... like a lot of panel configuration
features in those days, though
, where multi-window usage in OS
X is encouraged by the fact that it's actually not easily possible to
maximise some applications (e.g.Safari)...
Cheeri,
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or two topics that it might be useful to
vote on, so we might do that. But at the same time, I'm also very wary
of (a) designing by committee, and (b) assuming that the people on this
list are representative of typical OpenSolaris users :)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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Wow... more feedback than I was expecting, so I'm just going to go
through and quickly reply to them individually at this stage, before we
draw breath and figure out how best to attack the second draft...
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 13:08 -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote:
Hi Calum,
Calum Benson wrote
one way or another, as it's
a slick little browser. IIRC we had a few nasty problems trying to build
it on OpenSolaris the last time we tried, though (possibly due to its
recent switch to WebKit... I don't remember, though).
Cheeri,
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, it was nice. :-)
I have no objection to that, but I'm going to declare it outside the
scope of this discussion... consider the spec to be for the default
*GNOME* desktop configuration, any other desktop environments we decide
to ship can work out their own specs :)
Cheeri,
Calum.
Calum Benson
.)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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number of messages)
So do I, and haven't seen any such problems for a very long time, FWIW.
Cheeri,
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Any opinions
as possible; starting up mail and web apps
just slows things down. And it's just more annoying to have to shut
down something you didn't want to use right away, than to start
something you do want to use, even though the former is the less common
scenario.)
Cheeri,
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better; in the past, there were certain, er,
'personalities' in the Evolution team that made one reluctant even to
file bugs regarding certain parts of its functionality. IMHO it has a
rather friendlier bunch of maintainers these days though.
Cheeri,
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the Documents
folder as much as we did in JDS, or assume that Indiana users are more
likely to live in their Home folder.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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launcher alongside
whatever other default launchers we end up going with mightn't be a bad
idea, though.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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(not to work on
GNOME integration per se, but I'm sure it's something he'll push for).
Cheeri,
Calum.
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by default for one reason or another.)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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a bit complicated and with no
GUI to support it (other than what Ximian concocted themselves), so it
may well have been yanked by now.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland
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On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 06:59 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote:
Calum Benson wrote:
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 12:11 -0700, Dale Sears wrote:
Downloads folder on the desktop?
No reason why not, although I don't think GNOME yet has a concept of a
downloads folder as such, so we'd be rolling our
by default?
- GNOME or KD... no, let's not get into that one :)
Fire away...
Cheeri,
Calum.
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