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

[James Cornell]

Lin Ma wrote:
> Calum,
>
> There are too many arguments and ideas. It's hard to choose a desktop 
> style and a bundled application.
> Can you build a vote system for different ideas?  I think statistics 
> will convince everyone.
>
> Thanks,
> lin
>
> 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 :)
>>
>> Cheeri,
>> Calum.
>>
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>>     
>
>   
I like the idea in another post about this, concern ourselves about 
putting what makes OpenSolaris/Solaris unique in obvious view.  
Specifically, Sun Studio and other applications come to mind, but 
there's really not many unique GUI applications for OpenSolaris/Solaris.

James