> 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 agree, that would add too much confusion for new users of OpenSolaris. However, perhaps adding it as an "Advanced" install time option that would basically set the option as you described below as a system-wide default might be nice. > 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? That seems like a good start, especially important for us would be the ability to set the system-wide default (users would probably get confused if they had to go through a dialog to get their old desktop layout back). As for preserving customizations, I think it'd be fine to let JDS continue to work the way it does now; i.e. we run a multiplatform environment with GNOME on Gentoo and JDS on Solaris. When users switch between the two, I think the only setting that is preserved is desktop background. I guess the other customizations that are easily preserved are keyboard shortcuts and desktop theming. Other things like panel applets I would be fine if they were only preserved on one layout. i.e. if you switch from two-panel to one-panel, you lose those customizations, but if you switch back those customizations are still there (so not completely discarded). Of course, I'm assuming that the customization for the two layouts is being stored in different gconf trees, which may no longer be true. Thanks, William
