[advocacy-discuss] "What is OpenSolaris" page

[Glynn Foster]

On 7/05/2008, at 8:36 AM, Shawn Walker wrote:

> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 10:31 AM, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com>  
> wrote:
>> Calum Benson wrote:
>>> Where did you look?  If people are consistently looking in the wrong
>>> place, it's easy enough to move things around.
>>
>>
>> Hmm, lets see...
>>
>> System->Preferences->CompizConfig Settings Manager
>>   lets me play with all the knobs, but says nothing about how to  
>> turn it on.
>>
>> System->Preferences->Appearance->Visual Effects
>>   is not at all obvious as being the magic knob that enables  
>> compiz...
>
> The thing is that today, it is compiz, tomorrow it could be  
> something else.
>
> Normal users are going to be looking for "enable snazzy effects" and
> those users that *know* about compiz will be looking for that.

It's pretty well known that the general user experience around Compiz  
is a little confusing at times - expect that to change over the next 6  
months I'd imagine.


Glynn