[advocacy-discuss] "What is OpenSolaris" page

[Nicolas Dorfsman]

Le 7 mai 08 à 18:23, Calum Benson a écrit :

> On 7 May 2008, at 16:31, John Plocher 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.
>
> Yes, I don't like that being on the menu, IMHO it should only be  
> available via the Advanced button in the Visual Effects tab.  (Hence  
> it's not in the menus in the OpenSolaris UI spec[1], but sadly we  
> didn't get to implement that in time for 2008.05.)
>
>> System->Preferences->Appearance->Visual Effects
>> is not at all obvious as being the magic knob that enables compiz...

Thanks John !

>>
>
> So where would you put it?  (Bearing in mind that we probably don't  
> really want to expose the term 'compiz' in the GUI.)

Forget the Linux/Gnome/... way of doing that and create a centralized  
point for setting user-preferences and even for system administration.

This is a long (and pretty old) and recurrent problem in Solaris,  
reported by users AND system admin. Don't you ever hear a Aix sysadmin  
shouting about the lack of smit in Solaris ?
This shall be a way to put OpenSolaris on the top list of Operating  
Systems.


Nicolas