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

[Shawn Walker]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Calum Benson <Calum.Benson at sun.com> wrote:
>
>  On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 12:48 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
>
>  > If I remember right, Ximian GNOME used to have this "visual
>  > preferences" dialog that you would get on first login.
>  >
>  > It allowed you to easily switch between a set of "default styles" that
>  > configured it so that the panel was at the top and bottom, or only at
>  > the bottom like Windows, etc.
>
>  Yeah, GNOME panel used to (maybe it still does) have support for
>  different configurations that you could switch between to suit different
>  tastes or screen resolutions... like a lot of panel configuration
>  features in those days, though, it was all a bit complicated and with no
>  GUI to support it (other than what Ximian concocted themselves), so it
>  may well have been yanked by now.

Given Sun's migrating CDE users, etc. it might be good to either
resurrect or create a new applet that does this.

It should be usable from a command-line too so that setting up new
user accounts with the profile could be scripted, etc.

I don't think it should be at first login, but should be visible in
the settings / appearance panel or something like that.

I would really like to see this mentioned in the design document.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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