On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 14:38 +0100, Tim Foster wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 15:18 +0200, Alvaro Lopez Ortega wrote: > > Tim Foster wrote, On 12/09/07 14:59: > > > > > * No idea if this is possible with Compiz (Erwann?) but a desktop > > > background/app with semi-translucent RSS headlines > > > I don't know if that is a good idea. People will use Indiana as their > > OS, but they won't be living for Indiana or OpenSolaris. > > They what?! I'm shocked - shocked, I tell you :-) > > > You can't please all of the people all of the time, so having a conduit > in which to pour your message of choice, whether that's > developer.sun.com, opensolaris.org, netbeans.org, slashdot.org, > boingboing.net, whetever, could be a good thing. > > [ and allowing the user to change it to whatever they like means that > they wouldn't have to stick with what we have, but first impressions are > important ]
I'm against the idea of having RSS headlines by default on the desktop. It just seems like more unnecessary noise. Lets keep the desktop experience as uncluttered as possible. The last time I played with Ubuntu (admittedly a fairly long time ago) I was very impressed by the simplicity of its appearance. -Mark _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
