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

[Calum Benson]

On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 12:20 -0700, Dale Sears wrote:
> Xfce desktop?
> 
> It's really nice on Sun Ray servers.  In my experience, it was
> a significant boost in performance which all of my users noticed
> and appreciated.  That was a while ago, and I only had about 8
> users on a V240...  but still, it was nice.  :-)

I have no objection to that, but I'm going to declare it outside the
scope of this discussion... consider the spec to be for the default
*GNOME* desktop configuration, any other desktop environments we decide
to ship can work out their own specs :)

Cheeri,
Calum.


> 
> 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?
> > - Icons (e.g. Home folder) on the desktop by default, or empty desktop  
> > by default?
> > - GNOME or KD... no, let's not get into that one :)
> > 
> > Fire away...
> > 
> > Cheeri,
> > Calum.
> > 
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