> >> 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.
+1 I also do not like the idea having face browser enabled by default. Just don't feel the need to have a random guy at console browsing all the local users. Though having clear instruction in man page for people who want it is always a good idea. Good to have freedom to choose. > > 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
