That would be fine too. The key thing for me is that it should be easy, and ideally not require a GUI to set the system default. For instance, massive editing of gconf files would be annoying. Also, it should not require me to inject files into user homedirs.
William -----Original Message----- From: Shawn Walker <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:30 PM To: William Yang <wyang at tjhsst.edu> Cc: Calum.Benson at sun.com; 'Desktop discuss' <desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org> Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] Desktop for 2009.04 William Yang wrote: >> 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. These sorts of options don't belong in the OS installer. However, you could have a "default user profile" that's in a package that gets installed on new systems you setup; or you could have a desktop program that lets you configure this. Putting options like this into the installer inevitably leads to a complicated install process and duplication of desktop configuration software. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
