On 16 Dec 2008, at 15:51, William Yang wrote: > Any chance there can be an easy way to choose or switch to the JDS > desktop > layout over the GNOME layout? We have a Sun Ray deployment > currently on > Solaris 10 with JDS. We've found that JDS works well for our users > because > they are already familiar with Windows. However, Solaris 10 is > starting to > show its age in places, and we'd like to be able to switch over to > OpenSolaris, which I'm hoping can officially support Sun Ray soon.
Yep, this is actually something we've briefly thought about-- another reason this would be useful is for people who want to use the Trusted Extensions, which are now available for OpenSolaris and play much nicer with a single GNOME panel along the bottom of the screen, a la JDS. I'm not sure that we'd want to make it an install time or first login option, nor do I think we'd want to do anything fancy that attempted to preserve all your customisations at whatever point in time you switched. (It's hard enough trying to do that manually, let alone attempt to automate it...) I suspect our first attempt would be something like a couple of buttons in the Appearance Preferences window that let you revert at any time to an out-of-the-box two-panel layout, or an out-of-the-box one-panel layout (with a way for sysadmins to do the same for all users), throwing away any customisations you might have done in the meantime. Would that be good enough to get you started? Cheeri, Calum. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: desktop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org [mailto:desktop- >> discuss- >> bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Calum Benson >> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 6:46 AM >> To: Desktop discuss >> Subject: [desktop-discuss] Desktop for 2009.04 >> >> Hopefully you've all had a chance to play with the 2008.11 release >> for >> a couple of weeks now. For some of us, that means it's time to start >> thinking about 2009.04 :) >> >> Obviously, we have a somewhat compressed schedule for the April >> release (especially with the intervening holiday season), so in >> addition to sticking with GNOME 2.24 this time around, we don't >> have a >> huge scope for desktop enhancements. However, if you have any >> desktop >> issues, tweaks or other suggestions that you haven't already filed a >> bug at defect.opensolaris.org, this week would be a good time to do >> so-- we're starting work on the 2009.94 UI spec right about now. >> >> Thanks, >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org -- 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
