Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Sun's incompetence
2009-12-01 14:01:18
>>>>> On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:32:45 +0100, Kern Sibbald said:
>
> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 17:15:40 Phil Stracchino wrote:
> > Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 01 December 2009 16:31:45 Robert Hartzell wrote:
> > >> Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > >>> Recently I tried loading OpenSolaris in a VM, and I discovered that
> > >>> they somehow have remained frozen in time in 1998 and had not
> > >>> significantly improved their user interface -- a big disappointment for
> > >>> me. I ended up with a default system that had a Java user interface
> > >>> and a /home/kern that was read-only (can you imagine that by default
> > >>> your home directory is read-only?). I finally gave up.
> > >>
> > >> What do you mean by "Java user interface"? Opensolaris is currently
> > >> using Gnome Desktop version 2.28.0
> > >
> > > That surprised me too. It was a full Java user interface, and all I did
> > > was about 6 months ago install an OpenSolaris. It is possible that they
> > > gave me the choice between two user interfaces and I made the bad choice.
> >
> > "Java Desktop" is what Sun is calling their Gnome-based desktop, afaik.
> > They do offer two interface choices out of the box: the Gnome "Java
> > Desktop", or CDE. Much though I detest Gnome, it's the more usable of
> > the two.
>
> Hmmm. That sounds like what I saw. I vaguely remember trying CDE, but it was
> too different, so I chose the Gnome desktop, which like you I don't
> particularly like, but I can work with it. However, Gnome running under or
> implemented in Java makes it *much* slower and nothing like what I would call
> a "normal" Gnome desktop running under X Window.
Did you try switching the theme? The default "Blueprint" theme can be very
slow.
__Martin
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