Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 2nd Jun 2004 03:13 UTC
Sun introduced recently the second version of Java Desktop System (JDS) for a flat fee per employee/per year. We tried it and here is what we found out about:
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>Sun's version of Java already have this capability. The real
>problem is the fact that they don't link all their java apps
>against the gtk+ engine, so you end up having 5 java apps
>included in the OS, and all look different:
Filelight is much more impressive than that disk usage app, too. It requires QT, of course. What I'm seeing there looks to be some relatively lightweight applications from Sun's WBEM packages for Solaris hacked up into Linux duty. They surely haven't put a great deal of effort into their Java apps, and that's your reason for not having the GTK+ engine linked in... they weren't designed originally to run under Linux.
(read modded-down posts for a little meat on Sun's history)