Re: [indiana-discuss] opensolaris.com designs

2008-04-17 Thread Laurent Blume
Glynn Foster a écrit : > Have a play with the mockup, tell me what you think! I'm not thrilled about the colors. I find the overall shades are cold, gloomy. Also, does the content have to be so narrow and pixel-based? I've got a 20" LCD, only to get the same browsing experience as when I had a 14

Re: [indiana-discuss] "Indiana" is NOT ugly at all!

2008-04-17 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> > Thus, a sincere plea: When Indiana is officially > released, please, please > > make sure to include Firefox 3. If not for > anything else, the OpenSolaris LiveCD will > > at least lend itself as a very pleasant web > browser. Thanks. > > Unfortunately it's a little too late for Firefox 3 > (

Re: [indiana-discuss] "Indiana" is NOT ugly at all!

2008-04-17 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Sorry, I really should hold my comments until I have had a chance to play with the new image which is supposed to come out tomorrow (?) as per: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=57602&tstart=0 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [indiana-discuss] opensolaris.com designs

2008-04-17 Thread Mario Goebbels
> I'm not thrilled about the colors. I find the overall > shades are cold, > gloomy. As I posted in website-discuss: Is there a version with the "fiery" color scheme? I think it'd look nicer, because they're warm colors. -mg -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _

Re: [indiana-discuss] opensolaris.com designs

2008-04-17 Thread Jeff Brown
> > > http://www.gnome.org/~gman/opensolaris-new/index.html > > The snappy simple front page is a good way to do > things, but the logo weirds me out. > > Have you been to the 70s? I know things get revived > over time in the art world, but I think my parents > have a vinyl-covered baby changi

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana Documentation Review

2008-04-17 Thread jan damborsky
Hi Barbara, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Indiana Participants: > > 1) Please review the documentation that we are developing for > OpenSolaris 2008.05 release, and email your edits and comments to us by > Friday, 4/25. Feedback received after 4/25 may not be integrated in time > for the May rel

Re: [indiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Indiana desktop UI spec - 2nd draft

2008-04-17 Thread Calum Benson
On 16 Apr 2008, at 18:37, Richard Elling wrote: >> >> * Given the 50/50 split between the two most popular choices, we >> probably ought to consider adding a simple first-time-login layout >> chooser. (Given the timescales, this would most likely have to >> happen post-1.0, though.) >>

Re: [indiana-discuss] "Indiana" is NOT ugly at all!

2008-04-17 Thread Stephen Hahn
* W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-17 18:00]: > But perhaps you can at least try to tweak the font options in FF2. My > suggestion is, use sans-serif font as default, add and make DejuVu > sans as the default font for sans-serif, specify a minimum font size > of at least 16, and uncheck

Re: [indiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Indiana desktop UI spec - 2nd draft

2008-04-17 Thread Richard Elling
Harumpf! Calum Benson wrote: > > On 16 Apr 2008, at 18:37, Richard Elling wrote: > >>> >>> * Given the 50/50 split between the two most popular choices, we >>> probably ought to consider adding a simple first-time-login layout >>> chooser. (Given the timescales, this would most likely have to

Re: [indiana-discuss] "Indiana" is NOT ugly at all!

2008-04-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Stephen Hahn wrote: > * W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-17 18:00]: >> But perhaps you can at least try to tweak the font options in FF2. My >> suggestion is, use sans-serif font as default, add and make DejuVu >> sans as the default font for sans-serif, specify a minimum font size >>

Re: [indiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Indiana desktop UI spec - 2nd draft

2008-04-17 Thread Frank Ludolph
Calum Benson wrote: On 16 Apr 2008, at 18:37, Richard Elling wrote: * Given the 50/50 split between the two most popular choices, we probably ought to consider adding a simple first-time-login layout chooser. (Given the timescales, this would most likely have to ha

Re: [indiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Indiana desktop UI spec - 2nd draft

2008-04-17 Thread Richard Lowe
Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Calum Benson wrote: >> On 11 Apr 2008, at 08:50, Calum Benson wrote: >> >>> Just realised I forgot to post the results-- been a bit distracted >>> with the CHI conference in Florence this week. >>> >>> The result of the vote was: >>> >>> 1. Bottom pa

Re: [indiana-discuss] opensolaris.com designs

2008-04-17 Thread Peter Tribble
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > As opensolaris.com starts to focus more on the 'download, install and run' > experience, catering towards the consumer rather than the producer, a few > people > in Sun have been working on a design separate to

Re: [indiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Indiana desktop UI spec - 2nd draft

2008-04-17 Thread Calum Benson
On 17 Apr 2008, at 20:57, Richard Elling wrote: > Harumpf! > > Calum Benson wrote: >> >> On 16 Apr 2008, at 18:37, Richard Elling wrote: >> >> I'm with you 100% on choosing good defaults and not asking >> unnecessary >> questions. But there is no such preference in this case, so >> completely

Re: [indiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Indiana desktop UI spec - 2nd draft

2008-04-17 Thread Calum Benson
On 17 Apr 2008, at 21:34, Frank Ludolph wrote: > > I suggest that many users, not just new ones, might be baffled by > this question since they might not be familiar with both > alternatives. This becomes a very *difficult* question if there > isn't an easy way to change the decision later.

Re: [indiana-discuss] Indiana supports only a single ZFS pool and

2008-04-17 Thread John Meyer
Barbara -- I'm new to the group, but I'm an old Sun hand and would like to suggest the following: "The OpenSolaris OS will install only onto ZFS, not UFS. The single ZFS pool installed will initially consist of the entire Solaris fdisk partition of the disk identified at installation. T

Re: [indiana-discuss] opensolaris.com designs

2008-04-17 Thread Glynn Foster
Mario Goebbels wrote: >> I'm not thrilled about the colors. I find the overall >> shades are cold, >> gloomy. > > As I posted in website-discuss: Is there a version with the "fiery" color > scheme? I think it'd look nicer, because they're warm colors. Sun has decided to go with the multi-color

Re: [indiana-discuss] "Indiana" is NOT ugly at all!

2008-04-17 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> On the RC1 image I just installed, the preferences > show the defaults are > "Times", "Helvetica", and "Courier", which leads to > the default text being > non-anti-aliased - like you, I thought the firefox > team was fixing that. > > The default fonts in GNOME apps/fontconfig are the > Deja Vu

Re: [indiana-discuss] opensolaris.com designs

2008-04-17 Thread Laxman Bablani
Looks quite good to me. I like the new logo quite a lot. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss