On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 21:36 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote: > > Dale Sears wrote: > > Downloads folder on the desktop? > > The current desktop view is a departure to how things currently on with > OpenSolaris Developer Preview - where we've chosen to not show any icons by > default. Can you explain the rationale for each icon that you've chosen to > put > on the desktop?
Sure: - Mainly, to get people talking about it. That worked :) - I've seen a couple of comments recently from people who wanted a shortcut to their home folder on their desktop. If we're going to have one useful icon, why not two or three? - I've also seen comments that having no icons at all gave some people a bit of a "what now?" feeling. Our initial login experience, whatever that turns out to be, will help them over that the first time. But that doesn't necessarily mean we want to leave them completely in the wilderness their second login. - As Frank mentioned to in another post, it's generally easier to delete things you don't want, than to figure out how to add the things that you do want. (Although, as it turns out, it's equally hard to delete desktop icons as to add them... I'm about to file a bug about that, if there isn't one already!) Do I believe we should have all four of these icons on the desktop? Probably not-- depends whether we want to go with the Apps/Places/System menu or a Launch menu (the desktop icons would be more useful in the latter case, I think), and whether we want to expose the Documents folder as much as we did in JDS, or assume that Indiana users are more likely to live in their Home folder. 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
