On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner <kaiwai.gardiner at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 17:22 +0530, Moinak Ghosh wrote: >> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > On 5/24/08, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Rich Teer <rich.teer at rite-group.com> >> >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 23 May 2008, Peter Tribble wrote: >> >>> >> >>>> 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. >> >>> >> >>> AGreed; GNOME's snapshot tool is somewhat wanting, especially in the >> >>> area of snapshots of random screen areas. >> >>> >> >>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2007-February/008966.html >> >> >> >> You can use GIMP or Ksnapshot for that. I have rarely if ever used >> >> the GNOME snapshot tool. >> > >> > sdtimage starts up in significantly less than a second, even from cold. >> > A cold start of gimp is in the 10-20s range; even a warm start is well >> > over 5 seconds before you can actually think about what you're going >> > to do. >> > >> > The gimp solution is fine if you're wanting to end up in gimp, but >> > otherwise >> > is far too slow. >> >> gimp --no-fonts --no-data will speed up gimp loading quite a bit. >> >> > >> > ksnapshot is definitely a possible solution, but presumes you have KDE, >> > which isn't always the case. >> >> True. I use KDE all the time. > > I'd use KDE but the currently available binaries are terribly out of > date. I mean, come on, 3.5.9 is out already in Linux land and yet, no > builds for Solaris yet.
I had built a complete KDE 3.5.8 quite recently and using it along with many others to whom I was able to physically hand over a DVD. I do not have an easy way to share the binary packages online. The spec files are in SFE but some may need massaging due to the churn that usually goes on there. Regards, Moinak. > > Matthew > >
