[kde-discuss] What features make a desktop OpenSolaris-saavy?

[Stefan Teleman]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:

>   - ZFS
>   - RBAC
>   - DTrace
>   - Solaris CIFS server/client
>   - SMF
>   - BrandZ
>   - Zones
>   - FMA
>   - xVM/Xen/LDoms
> 
> Topics for discussion: What others have I forgotten?   What could
> we do in a desktop to better expose/integrate/take advantage of
> these?

Things i have talked about with Adriaan after last week's Preso, and which we 
would like to do for KDE Solaris, for starters:

- GUI for ZFS
- GUI for DTrace
- KDeveloper module for Sun Studio

The day after Adriaan's presentation we met with the Studio Compiler Team, and 
we talked about writing a KDeveloper GUI module for Sun Studio/dbx/mdb 
(KDeveloper already has a GUI module for gcc/gdb).

In my mind, Zones, RBAC, SMF, FMA and xVM are also prime candidates for Desktop 
GUI integration.

Examples:

One should be able to configure ZFS, or to get stats information about existing 
ZFS configurations (observing appropriate privileges), or to create 
snapshots/restore from snapshots/clone with mouseclicks only.

The same idea would apply to Zones.

Or, one should be able to obtain DTrace output displayed in an intuitive 
graphical format: if a developer is instrumenting their application, they should 
be able to display a graph of the function calls sequence and associated 
"costs". The function/method/class names should be hyperlinks -- the developer 
should also be able to click on a function name, which would take them to the 
source code of that class/function/method.

--Stefan

-- 
Stefan Teleman
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Stefan.Teleman at Sun.COM