Update: The desktop look and feel on Solaris has improved a lot since this entry.
Here is one of the latest screenshot:
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Someone hit my page while searching for "Cool Solaris Screenshots" though I had not put any screenshot of my desktop on my blog. (I do see words "Cool", "Screenshots" and "Solaris" on my blog) I am sorry to disappoint you dear that visitor - so here I post a "Cool Solaris Screenshot" of the wonderful Java Desktop System that I use.
You can run many desktop environments like CDE, or Gnome or any of the other desktops available on our Solaris freeware site (like KDE and XFce)
You can see the a picture of the new Sun Java Workstation, released recently. There is nautilus and a picture from Ladhak (courtesy Nagakiran) being edited in Gimp that sports Sun's brand colors (blue yellow and red). The background image gives a realistic feeling that my monitor is a semitransparent glass with a hand at the back!
Update: For past couple of days there are a large number of hits to this entry from people searching for Solaris Screenshots. (because my site tops the google search results). That is good. Clearly more people want to see how it feels like to use Solaris which can run on PCs and Laptops and is more stable and secure than Windows. I have put more screen shots illustrating how cool and customizable the GUI in Solaris is.
This is how CDE (Common Desktop Environment) looks like on Solaris. This is not in the default configuration. I have changed the background to a rhino [If you live in India, guess where you may have seen it!] Customization in CDE (or X11) is so fine grained through its Xdefaults file, that I could change the font and colors of the calendar application's individual widgets without having the calendar do anything for it.
This is a screenshot of the default Solaris GNOME 2 desktop on Solaris 9.
Now this is totally different. It illustrates the power of themeing that is built into GNOME 2.6 that is running on Solaris 10. The theme makes computer screen look more like a radar screen. Everything is radar like. I designed the icons myself for fun in svg. (read more about them here) The original icons are colorful. Since they are svg (XML standard for scalable vector graphics) I could easily derive new sets of icons with different colors with a perl one liner. The widgets control GTK theme is also radar green where required. It is derived from a high contrast GNOME theme. On the background is the map of the world. It makes the screen look bigger and again more radar like.
For official Java Desktop System screenshots see www.sun.com/software/javadesktopsystem/details.html
For screenshots of the Sun's new innovative 3D desktop Looking Glass see www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/details.html
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