Peter Tribble wrote:
> 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?)
There's already gnome-sys-suspend, but I believe the power management
team are working on a generic replacement for both. And in most cases,
the ARC's will require replacement functionality be in place before the
old one can be removed.
>> 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.)
I don't know - I use GNOME and the volume applet in the GNOME panel.
> 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.
I find hitting the Print Screen button in GNOME works well for taking
screenshots.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
