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 http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
