>I suspect using a full installation of blastwave's Gnome would work. >But trying to download one GTK application (e.g. mplayer) and use it, >has proved to be completely toxic to the Solaris-provided Gnome/JDS >environment. > >I've tried this on numerous installations of Nevada, across several >builds (going back perhaps as far as b64), and each time I try it, I've >immediately regretted it. And found that I could not not undo the >damage -- I think the problem is incompatibilities in fonts or font >libraries, but I've not tried to isolate it further. > > -- Garrett
I'm hoping the community can work more closely with Sun engineering on improving desktop environments on Solaris. Dennis Clarke usually has good blogs on his reviews of desktop environments on Solaris that may be of assistance: http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/blog/?q=node/92 ~ Ken This message posted from opensolaris.org
