Neal Pollack wrote: > On 09/16/09 01:04 PM, Rich Reynolds wrote: > >> Shawn Walker wrote: >>> I believe he was just indicating that the *icon* shouldn't appear on >>> the desktop; > > > Why not? I thought there was so much positive discussion around > providing a partition tool for OpenSolaris, especially one that could > shrink existing NTFS laptops to make room, that we would want this > very obvious/visible/discoverable. > > Yes, we could leave it burried in a menu somewhere, but for my > 2 cent "ease of use, good first experience" marketing opinion, > I'd put the icon on the desktop very visibly next to the install icon.
The goal here is simplicity I believe. I think it's a reasonable assertion that most users won't be re-partitioning their system once it is installed. For those users that are interested in doing so, the tool is available under the appropriate menu. Lots of software is 'interesting' and I don't think its onerous to require users to actually look at the menu to find software they are interested in, as it isn't really practical to put an icon for every interesting piece of software on the desktop. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
