Re: [osol-discuss] KDE 3.4.3 @ Sunfreeware

2005-12-28 Thread ken mays
Congrads Stefan and Steve C. !!! Any ETA for the KDE work to be ported to the Companion CD?!? ~ Ken Mays --- Stefan Teleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many Thank You's to Steve Christensen for making KDE 3.4.3 available at Sun Freeware and its mirrors: http://www.sunfreeware.com/

Re: [osol-discuss] KDE 3.4.3 @ Sunfreeware

2005-12-28 Thread Stefan Teleman
On 12/28/05, ken mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Congrads Stefan and Steve C. !!! Any ETA for the KDE work to be ported to the Companion CD?!? i don't know precisely _yet_, because there are at least two rather complex steps to be taken for KDE to make it on the Companion CD: 1. figuring out

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: KDE, GNOME, etc.

2005-12-28 Thread ken mays
The 'desktop' work at Blastwave is a bit broader in scope. Blastwave has provided not only KDE, but several of the other major UNIX desktop environments like Xfce *AND** GNOME - as well as many of the freedesktop.org software ported to Solaris. I mentioned before that Stefan and I do similar work

[osol-discuss] NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2005-12-28 Thread Roman
If you've never heard of pkgsrc, have a look at http://www.pkgsrc.org/ Basically pkgsrc is a cross platform package management framework, that has support for many different Unix operating systems, not just NetBSD. I use pkgsrc quite successfuly on Solaris, however there is still a large number

Re: [osol-discuss] NetBSD's pkgsrc on OpenSolaris

2005-12-28 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 05:31 -0800, Roman wrote: OpenSolaris is pretty much useless on desktop if you can't run your favourite web browser, email client, etc. There are a few sites that offer precompiled Solaris native packages, but they are not as good as pkgsrc. Also Solaris native

[osol-discuss] NexentaOS GUI configuration tools fully ported

2005-12-28 Thread Erast Benson
Hi Guys, Just wanted to let you know that with help of system-tools-backends maintainers I was working on system-tools-backends and gnome-system-tools frontends to bring GUI tools up to the level when average user could easy configure NexentaOS, new exciting Ubuntu GNU/Solaris based operating

[osol-discuss] Re: Problems with the Solaris Express downloadpage, anyone else too?

2005-12-28 Thread Kenneth Gullberg
Still having problems, both from work and home.. can anyone confirm this? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Problems with the Solaris Express downloadpage, anyone else too?

2005-12-28 Thread Vincent Yau
I just tried to download at Solaris Express and I saw the 4 iso files for build 28 but when I click on any of them, I got a File Not Found error. Does that mean we have to wait till next week for a fix? --Vincent On 12/28/05, Kenneth Gullberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still having problems, both

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Problems with the Solaris Express downloadpage, anyone else too?

2005-12-28 Thread Bruce Riddle
Vincent Yau wrote: I just tried to download at Solaris Express and I saw the 4 iso files for build 28 but when I click on any of them, I got a File Not Found error. Does that mean we have to wait till next week for a fix? I don't know if we have to wait a week. There seems to be an

[osol-discuss] KDE Translucency

2005-12-28 Thread Paul Gress
I'm trying to configure my KDE environment for its translucency. I'm using 3.4.3 compiled with Suns compilers, basically the latest version available at http://www.solaris.kde.org/. The requirements state: 1) Xorg or =to 6.8 Done, Solaris 10, Update 1 installed 2) GPU

Re: [osol-discuss] KDE Translucency

2005-12-28 Thread Stefan Teleman
On 12/28/05, Paul Gress [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4) Installed the kompmgr that came with kwin. Problem. Searched the whole installation for this file, not there. kompmgr cannot be built (yet) on S10 because the S10 Xorg 6.8.2 does not yet support XComposite, and kcompmgr requires XComposite.

Re: [osol-discuss] KDE Translucency

2005-12-28 Thread Paul Gress
Stefan Teleman wrote: On 12/28/05, Paul Gress [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4) Installed the kompmgr that came with kwin. Problem. Searched the whole installation for this file, not there. kompmgr cannot be built (yet) on S10 because the S10 Xorg 6.8.2 does not yet support XComposite,

Re: [osol-discuss] KDE Translucency

2005-12-28 Thread Stefan Teleman
On 12/28/05, Paul Gress [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The XComposite is an Xorg library. Shouldn't this be Sun's responsibility to add. Are they going to have it in Xorg 6.9? i really don't know. maybe AlanC could shed some light on this when he gets back from vacation. --Stefan -- Stefan

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Problems with the Solaris Express downloadpage, anyone else too?

2005-12-28 Thread Vincent Yau
I think Sun employees are off between Christmas to New Year, which meansthis problem may be addressed till next week.On 12/28/05, Bruce Riddle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Vincent Yau wrote: I just tried to download at Solaris Express and I saw the 4 iso files for build 28 but when I click on any of