Java Desktop System Release 2 Release Notes

1.4 Known Issues

The following table describes known issues in the Java Desktop System for which a workaround has not yet been identified.

Topic 

Known Issue 

Accessibility 

  • Bug ID: 5080638

    If you log in using accessibility features on the Java Desktop System for the Solaris platform, the following error dialog might appear: Error activating XKB configuration.

    This error does not affect your session, you can close the error dialog and continue with your session.

Applications 

  • Bug ID: 5021163

    File Manager: The Nautilus file manager cannot inherit permissions from nfs:///. As a result, you cannot change permissions for files and folders on an nfs mount.

  • Bug ID: 5061768

    Input Method Switcher: This panel application does not appear in a panel when you select the menu item from the panel popup menu.

  • Bug ID: 5065269

    Email: The Email and Calendar application receives and displays emails with many different encodings, but can only send emails in ISO-8859–1 encoding.

  • Bug ID: 5081928

    The Mozilla internet browser does not launch when you click on a web link from a StarOffice document.

  • Bug ID: 5082008

    Archive Manager: You cannot use Archive Manager to create the following types of archives:

    • .arj

    • .lha

    • .bzip

    • .lzop

    • .zoo

  • Volume Control

    The option in the Volume Control panel application that enables you to start the Volume Control desktop applications does not work.

Desktop 

  • Bug ID: 5025654

    About GNOME: The About GNOME dialog contains incorrect version information.

  • Accessible Login: This release of the Java Desktop System includes an Accessible Login feature but this feature is currently only partially working.

Localization 

  • User interface translation and Help content translation as displayed in the GNOME Help browser is not complete in this release of the Java Desktop System. See Table 1–3 for the rollout of localization for the Java Desktop System Release 2.

  • This release of the Java Desktop System includes many localized versions of applications that are taken from the GNOME community. Sun Microsystems does not take any responsibility for the completeness or accuracy of these localizations.

  • You cannot print out documents from Mozilla that contain non-BMP Unicode characters.

  • This release of the Java Desktop System only supports the HKSCS-1999 version of the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS), due to the version of glibc that the system uses. Support for HKSCS-2001 is planned for a future release of the Java Desktop System. The differences between HKSCS-1999 and HKSCS-2001 are as follows:

    • HKSCS-1999 uses ISO-10646/Unicode PUA (Private Use Area) to assign code for additional characters defined in HKSCS that were not part of ISO-10646/Unicode as of 1999, and is not, and will not be an official part of ISO-10646/Unicode.

    • HKSCS-2001 uses ISO-10646/Unicode Plane 2 for the same characters defined in HKSCS-1999 instead of PUA, because the HKSCS character repertoire is accepted as an official part of ISO-10646/Unicode.

    • HKSCS-2001 supports an additional 116 characters over HKSCS-1999.

    Since code assignment between HKSCS-1999 and HKSCS-2001 is different, although ISO-10646/Unicode with HKSCS-1999 works in this release of the Java Desktop System, any documents using characters in HKSCS-1999 need code conversion, as if they are written in legacy encodings such as EUC or Big5, to interchange with the systems using ISO-10646/Unicode with HKSCS-2001.

    The version of glibc that supports HKSCS-2001 is available for download for this release of the Java Desktop System, together with the HKSCS-1999 to HKSCS-2001 code converter.

  • Bug ID: 5025578

    When the Korean Input Method is enabled, hot keys do not work for non-GTK applications.

  • Bug ID: 5030768

    In the Sun Java Studio 5 Standard Edition for Java Desktop System CD, the Chinese language Getting Started Guide in the README.html is linked to the wrong document. The correct link is as follows: Documentation_zh/getstartedse_zh_CN.pdf