As many of you know, previous versions of JDS have customised the
Launch menu in various ways, for example, by adding a 'quick launch'
area. If you're using our latest OpenSolaris version of JDS though,
you'll notice that we haven't done much in the way of customisation yet.
In order to provide some backwards-familiarity, we've been working on
a spec for those customisations, the result of which (after a brief
round of internal review) is here:
http://www.gnome.org/~calum/nevada/ui-spec/index.htm
Obviously, however, you're (some) of the people who are going to be
using this, so your feedback is important and welcome. There are a
number of open questions in our minds, such as whether you'd like us
to go down this route at all, or whether you prefer the newer,
community-style Launch menu that's currently in OpenSolaris (which
might preclude us from including the quick launch area at the top,
however, as it would start to become overly long at that point).
Another is whether you'd like us to continue emphasising the
Documents folder over the Home folder in the UI generally, or whether
you'd prefer to emphasise the Home folder, or give equal weighting to
both.
This draft spec also covers areas such as default panel and desktop
appearance, and file manager behaviour, although those sections
haven't really been fleshed out yet. Comments on those sections are
welcome too, however.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland
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