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

[James Cornell]

Calum Benson wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 16:17 -0700, Michelle Olson wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I suggest that we add icons to the task bar for only those 
>> apps/tools/utilities that distinguish OpenSolaris from all others. 
>> Certainly for May, we have a time constraint that might preclude us from 
>> doing any of the following, but here is my idea:
>>     
>
> I'm certainly in favour of giving good visibility to
> OpenSolaris-specific features-- one issue of course is that a lot of
> them don't even have GUIs yet :/  Hopefully signposts to a lot of these
> features will be part of the first-time login experience, though, which
> I know people are thinking about right now.
>
> One other idea that's been mentioned in the past is providing a kind of
> OpenSolaris 'dashboard' (maybe an applet or a gdesklet) that gives
> community updates and quick access to OpenSolaris resources, and your
> idea sounds like it could be part of something like that.
>
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
>
>
>   
>> New task bar icons for all of the following that just launch the IPS GUI 
>> with the appropriate package highlighted:
>>     -zfs
>>     -zones
>>     -chime/d-lite
>>     -virtualbox
>>     -songbird
>>     -PDA sync
>>     -CD record
>>     -inetmenu (or whatever is equivalent today)
>>     -visual panels?
>>     -Trusted Extensions?
>>     -java?
>>     -sunstudio?
>>     -Mercurial?
>>     -OpenOffice?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Michelle
>>
>>
>> Shawn Walker wrote:
>>     
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
Love the idea Calum, I've always liked widgets (Yahoo/Konfublator, MS 
Gadgets and Dashboard)

One of the things I do a lot is read OpenSolaris.org blogs :-D (This 
idea would be a big productivity booster, at least for me)

James