On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:56:45PM -0500, Sebastien Roy wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 10:28 -0800, Glenn Lagasse wrote: > > * Brian Utterback (brian.utterb...@sun.com) wrote: > > > It is simple. Do we want the default environment to be a Solaris one or a > > > GNU one? If you want both, you have to provide a knob to switch them > > > back > > > and forth. > > > > And at some point, we may have just that (perhaps even in the > > Installer). I'm not saying there isn't room for some improvement on
It can be both, a per-user and a global knob, so it should be a Users and Groups knob, not so much an installer feature. > > this issue. What I am saying is that we need to take in to account new > > adopters and make it as simple as possible for them to 'get their legs > > under them'. In some cases, that means catering to a less > > experienced/technically savvy user which has traditionally not been a > > significant part of the Solaris userbase. > > And in the interest of not turning the current installer into a > design-by-committee twelve-headed hairy monster like the old one, please > stick the knob somewhere out of the way where we're not forced to have > to toggle it one way or the other. :-) Agreed, but if this is done in the user addition GUI and it's just a checkbox then it will be out of the way. > I would not want to be forced to serially go through a gauntlet of > mostly unnecessary questions like the old installer used to do regarding > naming, IPv6, and kerberos (for example). Oh absolutely, keep as much of the old sysidconfig stuff out of the installer as possible, please. Nico -- _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
