So, we've absorbed all the feedback so far, and the main area of indecision seems to be the default panel layout. (Well, that and whether Evo or Thunderbird should be the default mailer, but TBH that's a separate discussion-- the UI spec will just have to follow whatever decision marketing or whoever make there.)
While this divergence of opinion suggests it might be ideal to let the user choose which panel layout they want at first login, with the May release fast approaching it's possible that time will be against us to add that feature, and that we'll just have to pick the best default we can this time. As I've said before, there are various reasons why 'voting' on UI features isn't generally a good idea, but in the interests of getting to a decision as quickly as possible, I'm going to make an exception here :) So check out the updated draft UI spec at <http://opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/uispecs/indiana-uispec >, and let us know which of the four proposed layouts you prefer via ><http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=BNAw5MLN3oPLvVaivMXU4w_3d_3d >. I can't promise that we'll *definitely* pick the layout that gets the most votes, but the results will certainly be factored into the final decision. Please vote by midnight UTC Monday 7th April, and I'll post the results on Tuesday. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
