>> I hate face mode. I hated it in windows, linux and hope it will not >> appear in solaris (or, if it does, can be turned off).
> What you see now is because the option exists, but the ARC > insisted it be off by default on Solaris & OpenSolaris. You should be > able to turn it on if you like (and have a reasonable sized /etc/passwd, > I wouldn't recommend it with a thousand or more users in there). Kudos to the ARC then! I'm another one of the voices out there in the peanut gallery who absolutely detests "face mode" for logins. I remember that Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 were famous back in the day because you could have hundreds of people CDE graphically logged in to the same SPARC machine at the same time and the end user experience was very responsive and snappy. Obviously, this "face mode" B.S.that requires people to click on an icon with a mouse to log in won't scale well when you have hundreds or even tens of thousands of users accounts on the same server, and I have seen some SPARC servers at various University campuses that do have literally, thousands of user accounts able to log in to the same server (that would be a lot of face icons to scroll through). Let's scale better than Microsoft Windows does and not copy their fallacies just because it's "the cool thing to do". -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
