Ken Mays wrote:
>> 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
>
In the past, when I reported this problem, the response I got from
Dennis was that the problem was due to the requirement to support
Solaris 8. As a result, there was little interest in trying to track
down the problem.
As I said, its easily reproducible.
-- Garrett
> ~ Ken
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