On Saturday, 2009-10-17, Andreas v. Heydwolff wrote: > Hi all, > > Sun produces diskless desktop units by the name of Sun Ray. They are > essentially a graphics card and a few usb ports in a plastic box. It is > possible to install the RedHat SSRS (Sun Ray Server Software) on Debian > that brings the display from the server to a Sun Ray DTU (desktop unit) > driven monitor. I like them because they need little energy and emit 0dB > of noise. They utilize pulse audio. > > Here is the problem: The SRSS X-Server has no XRENDER extension and KDE4 > is virtually unusable because of that. The texture and colors of window > edges and buttons are displayed in a coarse and distorted manner, and > plasma is made up from grey, black and colored noise in which not even > buttons can be discriminated. Widgets placed on the desktop w/o plasma > are virtually unusable as well. Due to varying hard coded color masks in > QT4 libraries Gwenview's color mask is ok for the thumbnails but the > images proper are being shown with RGB-inversion, a problem that > prevails with most but not all Flashplayer versions as well due to the > SSRS specs. > > I wonder, are these all limitations that cannot be overcome? Who of the > KDE developers would be the right person to address? Is KDE4 just not > for Sun Ray setups? This would be the first time IMHO that a desktop > environment would be unusable not because of hardware limitations but > because of its way of rendering textures. It seems Sun will not change > SSRS because of backward compatibility and man hour issues. KDE/OpenSolaris developer Adriaan de Groot has a blog post on that subject: http://blogs.fsfe.org/adridg/?p=298 Cheers, Kevin
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