[indiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] 2008.11 UI Spec

[Stephen Hahn]

* Calum Benson <Calum.Benson at Sun.COM> [2008-08-08 16:43]:
> Since we didn't quite get around to implementing the UI spec for  
> 2008.05, we've recently been tweaking it a bit for 2008.11 (and have  
> actually assigned people to make it happen this time...)
> 
> <http://opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/uispecs/indiana-uispec/>
> 
> Comments welcome... it hasn't really changed too much since what we'd  
> planned for 2008.05, bar a bit more panel reshuffling (to try and  
> achieve a functional split of "actions and status" on top and "windows  
> and workspaces" on the bottom), and some minor changes to accommodate  
> upstream changes in GNOME 2.24.

  So, the icons for Back to School were, I assume, the result of some
  conversation, and make two tasks very clear:  registration and package
  installation.  Is there a new conversation that suggests that
  replacing these with a browser document--from which it is awkward to
  launch specific applications--is an improvement?

  - Stephen

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