On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 3:49 AM, Alan Coopersmith
<Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
>
> Actually, there are some things in /usr/dt that Sun wrote and which are
> unencumbered by third party licenses (look especially at the tools whose
> names started with sdt instead of dt, since those were Sun extensions).
>
> Whether or not any of those are useful to retain is an open question -
> for instance the power management projects in progress are likely to
> produce a new GUI that controls the new functionality they provide
> instead of continuing to use the old dtpower GUI that Sun created.

Presumably that would appear before dtpower goes away?

(And where does sys-suspend fit in?)

> And I'm sure few will mourn the loss of sdtaudiocontrol, a program
> that takes longer to start the JVM than most users spend running it
> once it's open.

Hm. I agree that it's poor - what's the best alternative?

(Especially for people not running gnome or gnome-like
desktops, who need a standalone audio control tool.)

The one thing I still miss (after trying again to remove /usr/dt/bin
from my path) is 'sdtimage -snapshot', for which I've still to find
a satisfactory replacement.

This brings back a sense of deja vu:

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2007-February/008966.html

-- 
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/

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