[desktop-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Indiana desktop UI spec - early draft

[Glenn Lagasse]

* Shawn Walker (swalker at opensolaris.org) wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Mark Phalan <mbp at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> >
> >  On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:16 +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
> >  > We're starting to document what the default desktop configuration for
> >  > the Indiana 1.0 release should be, and naturally we'd like your
> >  > feedback.
> >  >
> >  > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/uispecs/indiana-uispec/
> >  >
> >  > Right now it only covers panel and menu layout; more sections will be
> >  > added over the next couple of days.  However, I'm sure there's plenty
> >  > for you to get your teeth into already, e.g.:
> >  >
> >  > - One panel or two?
> >  > - Launch menu or Apps/Places/System menu?
> >  > - What applets/launchers on panels by default?
> >
> >  This may have been brought up before...
> >
> >  Why is thunderbird given higher visibility (by being in the panel) over
> >  evolution - the default gnome mail app?
> >
> >  Why do we ship two mail clients which cover basically the same
> >  functionality? I'd draw the parallel here between epiphany - the default
> >  gnome web browser and firefox.
> 
> That has always flabbergasted me as well.
> 
> Most users are going to be more familiar with Evolution (since it is
> "like MS Outlook") than Thunderbird.

Except:

a) Thunderbird is more widely available on other platforms (windows/OS
X) and so I would say it's got a far greater following.
b) Evolution isn't the most solid of applications (in both my experience
and anecdotal evidence gained from many a weblog).

> Though I suppose that depends on whether you are talking about Linux
> users or users from other platforms.

Right.

Cheers,

-- 
Glenn