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

[Shawn Walker]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
>
>
>  Calum Benson 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 :)
>
>  I can't honestly see it happening, unless there was a significant demand from
>  the customer base. We've been there, done that before, and if I remember it
>  wasn't very successful at the time. The most used piece of code was Stephen's
>  menu converter, but given that was an old gnome-vfs module, I doubt it works
>  anymore.

I have this sneaking suspicion that it suddenly might become important
when users discover that CDE is no longer available / exists /
supported.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
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