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

[Shawn Walker]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Calum Benson <Calum.Benson at sun.com> wrote:
>
>  On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 13:20 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
>
>  > Given Sun's migrating CDE users, etc. it might be good to either
>  > resurrect or create a new applet that does this.
>
>  Not an unreasonable idea, but I guess that's something we'd need some
>  marketing input on.  I'd guess Sun might prefer to migrate as many CDE
>  users as it can to a newer version of Solaris (when there is one),
>  rather than to an OpenSolaris distro. That in turn determine how much
>  effort Sun engineers would be directed to spend on such a feature for
>  Indiana :)

Well, let me solve that dilemma.

I hereby volunteer my time (here I go again... :-) ) to write said
applet if we can work out the specification as a community.

I think it would be of great benefit to us, and possibly the GNOME
community later on.

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben