Re: frustration with Solaris

From: Dave Uhring (daveuhring_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/13/04 

Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:56:18 -0500

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:21:58 -0400, Chris Morgan wrote:

> True I guess, but I think this is why Sun is on the Gnome board, to
> look after its interests and shoulder part of that burden. Given all
> that, users have a right to complain if Gnome is hard to set up and
> use on Solaris. Saying "forget Gnome, use CDE" is simply not a good
> argument to use in defending the usability of Solaris (at least
> IMO). A new user shouldn't have to learn an older desktop at this
> stage, and then switch later. If Gnome is in Solaris, it should work.

I was not trying to defend the usability of Solaris. I was actually
trying to get that troll to provide the information required to get his X
configured correctly and the best environment for that is CDE. Recall
that the OP had a complaint about fonts, also.

> him to keep on. I only use KDE on Slackware myself. It has always had
> an edge over Gnome in my experience.

On Slackware I use fvwm-2.2.5. Desktop environments are almost totally
useless IMHO and the only reason I still have CDE on Solaris is because
I've been too lazy to get rid of it. Since I have 1 GB of memory I'm not
too concerned with the DE being a memory hog.

> I'm not talking about a problem with an X configuration. I'm saying a
> perfectly good setup on a C3D or E3D Card fails to work nicely with
> most desktops other than CDE because the other collections are riddled
> with X visual selection bugs : "everyone has a single default 24-bit
> TrueColor visual, right"

Apparently the OP did not have a "24-bit TrueColor visual". I had 8 bit
color depth on all of my Solaris SPARC installations until I fixed it.

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