Calum Benson wrote: > 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. >>> >>> >>> Love the idea Calum, I've always liked widgets (Yahoo/Konfublator, MS Gadgets and Dashboard)
One of the things I do a lot is read OpenSolaris.org blogs :-D (This idea would be a big productivity booster, at least for me) James
