On Tuesday 01 December 2009 19:58:24 Martin Simmons wrote: > >>>>> On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:32:45 +0100, Kern Sibbald said: > > > > On Tuesday 01 December 2009 17:15:40 Phil Stracchino wrote: > > > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 01 December 2009 16:31:45 Robert Hartzell wrote: > > > >> Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > >>> Recently I tried loading OpenSolaris in a VM, and I discovered that > > > >>> they somehow have remained frozen in time in 1998 and had not > > > >>> significantly improved their user interface -- a big disappointment > > > >>> for me. I ended up with a default system that had a Java user > > > >>> interface and a /home/kern that was read-only (can you imagine that > > > >>> by default your home directory is read-only?). I finally gave up. > > > >> > > > >> What do you mean by "Java user interface"? Opensolaris is currently > > > >> using Gnome Desktop version 2.28.0 > > > > > > > > That surprised me too. It was a full Java user interface, and all I > > > > did was about 6 months ago install an OpenSolaris. It is possible > > > > that they gave me the choice between two user interfaces and I made > > > > the bad choice. > > > > > > "Java Desktop" is what Sun is calling their Gnome-based desktop, afaik. > > > They do offer two interface choices out of the box: the Gnome "Java > > > Desktop", or CDE. Much though I detest Gnome, it's the more usable of > > > the two. > > > > Hmmm. That sounds like what I saw. I vaguely remember trying CDE, but it > > was too different, so I chose the Gnome desktop, which like you I don't > > particularly like, but I can work with it. However, Gnome running under > > or implemented in Java makes it *much* slower and nothing like what I > > would call a "normal" Gnome desktop running under X Window. > > Did you try switching the theme? The default "Blueprint" theme can be very > slow.
No, I gave up on it. Kern > > __Martin > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, > a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. > Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-devel mailing list > bacula-de...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
