On Tuesday 01 December 2009 19:58:24 Martin Simmons wrote:
> >>>>> 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.

No, I gave up on it.

Kern

>
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