[desktop-discuss] Why XRandr doesn't work on recent Solaris Sparc?

2008-08-06 Thread simon.zh...@sun.com
Hi, Recently when I start GUI application on Solaris Sparc. It always shows me warning. "Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0"." bash-3.2$ cat /etc/release Solaris Express Community Edition snv_93 SPARC Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights

[desktop-discuss] Gnome power manager silently changes my /etc/power.conf

2008-07-17 Thread simon.zh...@sun.com
Included Anup, who is responsible for cpufreq HAL part. Currently cpu-threshold seem to be fixed as 1275s. On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 08:41 -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote: > I've had my /etc/power.conf file manually tweaked to contain the > following lines since build 86 based on input from Mark Haywood (a

[desktop-discuss] Ask for L10N/I18N pre-evalution of XSane integration

2008-06-24 Thread simon.zh...@sun.com
Hi Takao, Here's an engine to confirm if your scanner is supported. Might be helpful. Please note we only support *USB* scanner on Solaris. http://www.sane-project.org/sane-supported-devices.html Thanks, -Simon On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 11:22 +0900, Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center wrote: > Thanks

[desktop-discuss] Ask for L10N/I18N pre-evalution of XSane integration

2008-06-22 Thread simon.zh...@sun.com
Hi Takao, XSane intends to be integrated into Solaris as part of Indiana packages. Could you possilby make a L10N/I18N evaluation? Please note XSane spec file lies on spec-files-other repository. It depends on libsane, which is put into Solaris since neveda build 88. So ?when buiding XSane, ple

[desktop-discuss] Xserver/console-login issues in Nevada 86

2008-04-08 Thread simon.zh...@sun.com
Brian, Here's a bug on Dell laptop that is similar with your M9. CR 6683239 Updated P2 xserver/devices_inte Xorg stops working with snv_86. -Simon Brian Cameron wrote: > I just installed Nevada build 86 on my Toshiba Tecra M9 laptop with > Nvidia graphics card, and there seems to be some problem

[desktop-discuss] Project Request for Device Manager

2008-04-07 Thread simon.zh...@sun.com
Hi Vijay, It doesn't seem to mention anything about security stuff in your framwork. ARC is really care about this kind of issues. Does your application have access control? If yes, you probably have to get involved in auditing. Does application run as user? Only root is allowed to adminstrate d

[desktop-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Indiana desktop UI spec -

2008-03-31 Thread simon.zh...@sun.com
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 05:54 -0700, andrew wrote: > Also, two things that annoy me about current Nevada builds are > the fact that the power button on my Type 6 keyboard doesn't do > anything in Gnome, but it works fine in CDE. I suppose metacity deal with keyboard event mapping. Filed a bug on

[desktop-discuss] Project Proposal: HAL Device Management

2008-03-28 Thread simon.zh...@sun.com
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 10:30 -0700, Artem Kachitchkine wrote: > > I am not familiar about the other device manager project. I was told > > that both the structure and the GUI are different. If this is the case > > I'd say that it won't hurt to have both these projects on opensolaris. > > I think i

[desktop-discuss] Project Proposal: HAL Device Management

2008-03-28 Thread simon.zh...@sun.com
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 11:22 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: > Irene: > > Obviously a project which is intended to manage devices needs to > interact with the kernel, where the devices actually live. Although > the reasons you give below are good, you don't give any indication > that there has been an

[desktop-discuss] I18N pre-evaluation: gnome-power-manager

2008-03-07 Thread simon.zh...@sun.com
Takao, Appreciate your help. Power key needs power button driver and HAL support, which will be integrated ino SNV_87. Other features, like brightness and cpufreq also depends on HAL and kernel drivers. Thanks, -Simon Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center wrote: > gnome-power-manager is GO however

[desktop-discuss] Ask for I18N/L10N pre-evaluation for GNOME Power Manager

2008-03-04 Thread simon.zh...@sun.com
Hi Takao, We intend to integrate GNOME Power Manager 2.22 into Neveda in next couple of builds. I'm writing a check-list. Could you possibly make a I18N/L10N evaluation? Thanks, -Simon

[desktop-discuss] I18N pre-evaluation: mousetweaks

2008-03-03 Thread simon.zh...@sun.com
Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center wrote: > Yes, you're right. It may be a bug in case the string order is important in > the application and will address the bug in the normal build tests. But if > the application just check either equal or not in the two strings, probably I > think strcmp() is

[desktop-discuss] I18N pre-evaluation: mousetweaks

2008-03-01 Thread simon.zh...@sun.com
Hi Takao, One question that has no bearing with mousetweaks. Does UTF8 strings issue belong to I18N? For example, a string from gtk entry which is in UTF-8 encoding, but appliaction often uses strcmp() to operate this string. Can we regard this kind of bug as I18N issue? Thanks, -Simon Takao

[desktop-discuss] Project Request for Device Manager

2008-02-20 Thread simon.zh...@sun.com
Vijay, Could you try with hal at lists.freedesktop.org? I guess hal guys are there. -Simon vijay upreti wrote: > Hi, > > I tried contacting David through the mailing alias you mentioned > below, but didn't get any response back. Can you share David's mail id > on which I can send request. > >

[desktop-discuss] Linux to Solaris switch user experience.

2008-02-19 Thread simon.zh...@sun.com
On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 10:51 -0800, Karel Gardas wrote: > 4) poor software support for hardware monitoring: I'm used to see on gnome > panel applets for CPU/motherboard and all hard-drives temperatures. I'm also > used to run a long version of SMART tests on all the disks weekly by using > smart

[desktop-discuss] Project Request for Device Manager

2008-02-05 Thread simon.zh...@sun.com
Hi Vijay, Attached g-d-m pkgs built from SFE. You'd better run on SNV_75 or later. To see more properties, pleae note tick toggle botton from menu "view"->"Device Properties". g-d-m author David Zeuthen is also HAL author on HAL community. As I know there's a long TODO list, something like this.

[desktop-discuss] Project Request for Device Manager

2008-02-01 Thread simon.zh...@sun.com
Hi Vijay, Thanks for your proposal. I'm totally agree with the importance of this project. But I have some concerns. The current trend of UNIX desktop device management is based on HAL, which is a well-designed hardware abstract layer independent of special OS. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/So

[desktop-discuss] Grants updated for the elections

2008-01-22 Thread simon.zh...@sun.com
Hi, I would like to be a Contributor. I'm getting involved in development of GNOME Power Manager, Evolution and devhelp. Also own some pkgs in SFE, gnome-device-manager, XSane, gnome-scan. Hope I have chance to do more work in opensolaris desktop community. Thanks, -Simon On Fri, 2008-01-18 at

[desktop-discuss] Evolution misbehaviour

2007-10-24 Thread simon.zh...@sun.com
Bernd, Please check forwarded mail. It also looks fine to IS08859-1 encoding with Evolution 2.12. My composer preference specifies ISO8859-1 and locale is en_US.UTF-8. -Simon -- next part -- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "simon.zheng at sun.com" Subject: Re: 8

[desktop-discuss] Evolution misbehaviour

2007-10-19 Thread simon.zh...@sun.com
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 15:10 +0200, Bernd Markgraf wrote: > > Trying with lastedt Evolution 2.20, it behaves different from your > > description. > > My locale is C. I change charset to UTF-8 on preference and then restart > > evolution. Charset is kept as my setting, i.e. UTF-8. So I think the

[desktop-discuss] Evolution misbehaviour

2007-10-17 Thread simon.zh...@sun.com
Bernd, Please select "Edit->Preferences->Composer Preferences->General Tab->Character Set" and check if your encoding setting is ISO-8859-1. Generally this is identical to your current locale running evolution. If this is fine, please make sure "Edit->Character Encodings" is ISO-8859-1 when you