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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/1/09, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/7/1 Saptarshi Purkayastha <sunbiz@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Seems like Java6 is missing and SystemTray class was added in Java6. Other
>> than that, dhis2-lite package already deals with platform not support
>> system
>> tray and it will exit gracefully.
>> Please install the new Java6 for OSX and it should work fine.
>
> Yes this looks like maybe java 1.5 is running here.  If there is a
> real need we could certainly have a version without the systray.  For
> the moment it is just really eye candy but useful eye candy all the
> same.  The idea is till to extend its control/instrumentation
> functionality.
>
> Please let us know if indeed it is OK on Java6 for OSX.  Does OSX run gnome?

After many trials and tribulations linked to Java on OSX, we did
finally get Java6 to run, and I'm happy to report that DHISlite works
great on it (though it still takes too long to log in ;-)

Knut