Hi all, Sun produces diskless desktop units by the name of Sun Ray. They are essentially a graphics card and a few usb ports in a plastic box. It is possible to install the RedHat SSRS (Sun Ray Server Software) on Debian that brings the display from the server to a Sun Ray DTU (desktop unit) driven monitor. I like them because they need little energy and emit 0dB of noise. They utilize pulse audio.
Here is the problem: The SRSS X-Server has no XRENDER extension and KDE4 is virtually unusable because of that. The texture and colors of window edges and buttons are displayed in a coarse and distorted manner, and plasma is made up from grey, black and colored noise in which not even buttons can be discriminated. Widgets placed on the desktop w/o plasma are virtually unusable as well. Due to varying hard coded color masks in QT4 libraries Gwenview's color mask is ok for the thumbnails but the images proper are being shown with RGB-inversion, a problem that prevails with most but not all Flashplayer versions as well due to the SSRS specs. I wonder, are these all limitations that cannot be overcome? Who of the KDE developers would be the right person to address? Is KDE4 just not for Sun Ray setups? This would be the first time IMHO that a desktop environment would be unusable not because of hardware limitations but because of its way of rendering textures. It seems Sun will not change SSRS because of backward compatibility and man hour issues. Greetings Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org