Bob: > I think something like xautolock would be very helpful to bring in: > http://freshmeat.net/projects/xautolock/
I just added SFExautolock.spec to the spec-files-extra repository so people can start building and testing it out. If we find it meets our needs, we can consider actually integrating it later. Brian > This is often helpful in multi-user (e.g. Sun Ray) environments like > Enterprise where sometimes admins want to configure sessions to be > terminated if they have been idle for some period of time (personally > I've always found that a heavy-handed policy but some customers want > it). Although the current implementation is usable, it could do with > some work to minimize its resource consumption (e.g. no spin loops, more > event-driven logic) and make it friendlier to multi-user systems. I > haven't looked at the source in a few years, perhaps it has improved. > > Here's a recipe for using it in Sun Ray environments: > http://wiki.sun-rays.org/index.php/Idle_Session_Kill > > There are better ways to integrate such functionality into the desktop > (it would be cool if gdm or gnome-session could be configured to do > this), but this has the advantage of existing today :) > > -Bob > >> >> However, OpenSolaris is probably lacking a lot of software that would >> help make it attractive to these sorts of users. There is very little >> educational software available, for example. Also not many games that >> might make OpenSoalris attractive to a younger audience. There is a lot >> of educational and game free software out there, but nobody has ported >> them to OpenSolaris yet. >> >> I'd think there would be value in exploring what sorts of programs >> we should consider making available in OpenSolaris to make it more >> attractive to a wider audience, not just the normal developer or >> office worker use cases which are pretty well addressed with OpenSolaris >> today. >> >> Brian >> >> >>> V ?t, 28. 07. 2009 v 16:30, Luis de Bethencourt p??e: >>>> Hello everyone! >>>> >>>> I was wondering... what do you feel is missing in the OpenSolaris >>>> Desktop? We all have our small little things that we miss from the >>>> linux (rest of open source) world: this or that useful software that >>>> is in Ubuntu, or that nice feature that is in FreeBSD. >>>> >>>> What are these things? It would be great to make a listing of them and >>>> try to fix them. The better we know the problems the easier we find >>>> the solutions. >>>> >>>> We all have made small sacrifices when we switched from other systems. >>>> All the benefits of OpenSolaris shouldn't come with the cost of >>>> missing X or Y software. >>>> >>>> Cheers, really appreciate the help, >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
