There's imo.im, which has a Flash-based Skype client.  It semi-works on Sun
Rays, so I would expect it to work on a regular desktop/laptop.

William Yang

> -----Original Message-----
> From: desktop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org [mailto:desktop-discuss-
> bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Brandon Barker
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 11:16 AM
> To: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
> Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] what is missing in the OpenSolaris desktop?
> 
> prstat is nice for zones as well, you can see what's happening in all of
> them (ncluding linux zones):
> prstat -Z
> 
> I could also use skype support, or if there was a very-cross-platform
> alternative (at least windows, OS X, and linux also) that worked on
> solaris I could use that.
> 
> IPS package manager should have a checkbox menu that lets you define which
> packages can be viewed or search, rather than only one at a time.
> 
> Also I noticed that Star Office 9 patches don't seem to work on
> OpenSolaris yet... would be nice to have better Star Office support for
> customers that have purchased it.
> 
> Google apps in general (not all of which are open source): Chrome, Google
> Earth, Android Devkit, Android on Solaris.
> 
> KDE 4.3 when it is available, preferably quick&easy to install, and well
> integrated.
> 
> This isn't directly related but better lx zone integration.  Lx zones are
> great but there are a few problems:
> 1)  They don't support modern linux distributions ... centos 5.3 is about
> as close as you can get that I know of.
> 
> 2)To run an X application, you have to use ssh X11 forwarding or export
> diplays, etc.  It would be pretty cool to have a lx zone that could be
> tailored to enabling linux desktop compatability, such that even 3d apps
> and games would run smoothly in it.  I think most of the tech must be
> there .... this would be really great.  I know one of the design
> principles of zones is sandboxing, but actually enabling IPC between zones
> (perhaps as an abstraction over sockets? - Idunno much about this) seems
> like it'd be pretty useful.
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