On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 16:17 -0700, Michelle Olson wrote: > Hi all, > > I suggest that we add icons to the task bar for only those > apps/tools/utilities that distinguish OpenSolaris from all others. > Certainly for May, we have a time constraint that might preclude us from > doing any of the following, but here is my idea:
I'm certainly in favour of giving good visibility to OpenSolaris-specific features-- one issue of course is that a lot of them don't even have GUIs yet :/ Hopefully signposts to a lot of these features will be part of the first-time login experience, though, which I know people are thinking about right now. One other idea that's been mentioned in the past is providing a kind of OpenSolaris 'dashboard' (maybe an applet or a gdesklet) that gives community updates and quick access to OpenSolaris resources, and your idea sounds like it could be part of something like that. Cheeri, Calum. > > New task bar icons for all of the following that just launch the IPS GUI > with the appropriate package highlighted: > -zfs > -zones > -chime/d-lite > -virtualbox > -songbird > -PDA sync > -CD record > -inetmenu (or whatever is equivalent today) > -visual panels? > -Trusted Extensions? > -java? > -sunstudio? > -Mercurial? > -OpenOffice? > > thanks, > Michelle > > > Shawn Walker wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Calum Benson wrote: > >> > On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 13:20 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > >> > > >> >> Given Sun's migrating CDE users, etc. it might be good to either > >> >> resurrect or create a new applet that does this. > >> > > >> > Not an unreasonable idea, but I guess that's something we'd need some > >> > marketing input on. I'd guess Sun might prefer to migrate as many CDE > >> > users as it can to a newer version of Solaris (when there is one), > >> > rather than to an OpenSolaris distro. That in turn determine how much > >> > effort Sun engineers would be directed to spend on such a feature for > >> > Indiana :) > >> > >> I can't honestly see it happening, unless there was a significant demand > >> from > >> the customer base. We've been there, done that before, and if I remember > >> it > >> wasn't very successful at the time. The most used piece of code was > >> Stephen's > >> menu converter, but given that was an old gnome-vfs module, I doubt it > >> works > >> anymore. > >> > > > > I have this sneaking suspicion that it suddenly might become important > > when users discover that CDE is no longer available / exists / > > supported. > > > > > -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
