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/
