Creating a Solaris 9 and Gnome 2.0 based locked down desktop environment which 300 Sun Ray users will use is a frustrating task. You come across problems you wouldn't think of in advance... like:
- How to get rid of "CDE Menu" in the Gnome Applications menu (it's a bitfield in gconf)?
- How to localize items in the "Add to panel" menu (you have to edit .server files in /usr/lib/bonobo/servers)?
- How to setup Mozilla autoconfiguration (if only it was documented somewhere)?
- How to setup an LDAP directory for Sun Forum 3.2 (a Netmeeting-like application for Solaris) when the included ldap setup script was written 3 years ago and the LDAP schema in Sun Java Directory Server 5.2 is not compatible with the old one (still struggling with this one)?
BTW, does anyone know how to convert Sun shipped .mo files into .po files? GNU's unmsgfmt says "Not in GNU format", which is sadly true... We were able to localize much of the Gnome desktop by unmsgfmt-ing the German .mo files, but Sun Forum is not compatible with this method.
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