Desktop group - please read this. Thanks.
This message was sent by Blackberry wireless email and is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the designated recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:52:51 To:stuart at marketdata.com Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] StarOffice and JDS Missing That sounds like good feedback to send to the desktop-discuss list, where the people who work on the themes can see it - perhaps they can add the Windows-like theme as an option, even if it's not the default. -alan- Stuart {Balckberry handheld} wrote: > Hi Alan, > > I miss the JDS look and feel, which is the user presentation experience. For > users to migrate away from Windows, it is very helpful to have a close > look-alike for the transition. I say this also from a business perspective > after working nearly 20 in Wall Street banking where Sun is the 'standard' > for server platforms. It used to also be the standard for desktops and there > was a lot of talk in the bank about waiting to see JDS become more mature > with StarOffice included. From my experience, the loss of StarOffice, a Sun > product, to a freeware product and also the drastic change away from the JDS > presentation that is similar to Windows will have a negative impact. > > The 01/08 release is what I was using in the bank on my laptop because it was > a very good release for laptops, being Solaris it is 'allowed technology' in > the bank and it had a similar desktop with a comercially supported office > package from Sun - that is key. Now it has lost this. I hope it comes back. > It was really great. > > > Regards, > Stuart > > > This message was sent by Blackberry wireless email and is intended only for > the personal and confidential use of the designated recipient(s) named above. > If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified > that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is > strictly prohibited. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> > > Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:36:50 > To:stuart at marketdata.com > Cc:opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org, Desktop Discuss > <desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org> > Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] StarOffice and JDS Missing > > > Stuart {Balckberry handheld} wrote: >> Can anyone tell me what happened to JDS and StarOffice in the new release of >> OpenSolaris 2008.05? I ended up going back to Solaris 10 due to the missing >> StarOffice and JDS. > > JDS was just GNOME with a Sun theme, and it was replaced by a > much newer GNOME with a different Sun theme, so it's mostly > still there - what is missing that you were looking for? > > As for StarOffice, OpenSolaris provides OpenOffice.org in the > pkg repo, you just have to download it from the pkg manager. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering > -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
