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

[Calum Benson]

On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 11:23 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Calum Benson wrote:
> > of (a) designing by committee, and (b) assuming that the people on this
> > list are representative of typical OpenSolaris users :)
> 
> What is a typical OpenSolaris user expected to be?

(I should perhaps have said "Indiana" rather than "OpenSolaris" there,
to make it clear that I was referring only to the desktop environment
that will be delivered on the Live CD in May.)

That's obviously a key question.  Hopefully Glynn can chime in and
remind us of the most up-to-date definition of Indiana's target
audience, but the phrase I tend to keep in my head is "making Solaris
broadly accessible and more familiar to the Linux developer population".

(Yes, I know some of you find the L-word offensive in this context, but
rest assured I don't want to "turn Solaris into Linux" any more than
anyone else here does...)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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