Stefan Teleman wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > >> - ZFS >> - RBAC >> - DTrace >> - Solaris CIFS server/client >> - SMF >> - BrandZ >> - Zones >> - FMA >> - xVM/Xen/LDoms >> >> Topics for discussion: What others have I forgotten? What could >> we do in a desktop to better expose/integrate/take advantage of >> these? >> > > Things i have talked about with Adriaan after last week's Preso, and which we > would like to do for KDE Solaris, for starters: > > - GUI for ZFS > Is there possiblity of KDE and GNOME work on this can be shared out at some level? Understandably, the toolkits are different. But may be some GUI design cooperation can be shared and improved upon. As there is a GNOME project here on this, http://opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/tasks/zfs_nautilus/ > - GUI for DTrace > D-Light is a plugin for Sun Studio 12 which as released as in SXDE 9/07. This may not be how you see this to be in KDE. Since DTrace is properly can be better utilitied by system engineers on deployed systems more than developers in development stage.
> - KDeveloper module for Sun Studio > > The day after Adriaan's presentation we met with the Studio Compiler Team, > and > we talked about writing a KDeveloper GUI module for Sun Studio/dbx/mdb > (KDeveloper already has a GUI module for gcc/gdb). > > In my mind, Zones, RBAC, SMF, FMA and xVM are also prime candidates for > Desktop > GUI integration. > > Examples: > > One should be able to configure ZFS, or to get stats information about > existing > ZFS configurations (observing appropriate privileges), or to create > snapshots/restore from snapshots/clone with mouseclicks only. > See url mentioned above. -Ghee > The same idea would apply to Zones. > > Or, one should be able to obtain DTrace output displayed in an intuitive > graphical format: if a developer is instrumenting their application, they > should > be able to display a graph of the function calls sequence and associated > "costs". The function/method/class names should be hyperlinks -- the > developer > should also be able to click on a function name, which would take them to the > source code of that class/function/method. > > --Stefan > >
