Hi all,
I suggest that we add icons to the task bar for only those
apps/tools/utilities that distinguish OpenSolaris from all others.
Certainly for May, we have a time constraint that might preclude us from
doing any of the following, but here is my idea:
New task bar icons for all of the following that just launch the IPS GUI
with the appropriate package highlighted:
-zfs
-zones
-chime/d-lite
-virtualbox
-songbird
-PDA sync
-CD record
-inetmenu (or whatever is equivalent today)
-visual panels?
-Trusted Extensions?
-java?
-sunstudio?
-Mercurial?
-OpenOffice?
thanks,
Michelle
Shawn Walker wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
>
>> Calum Benson wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 13:20 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
>> >
>> >> Given Sun's migrating CDE users, etc. it might be good to either
>> >> resurrect or create a new applet that does this.
>> >
>> > Not an unreasonable idea, but I guess that's something we'd need some
>> > marketing input on. I'd guess Sun might prefer to migrate as many CDE
>> > users as it can to a newer version of Solaris (when there is one),
>> > rather than to an OpenSolaris distro. That in turn determine how much
>> > effort Sun engineers would be directed to spend on such a feature for
>> > Indiana :)
>>
>> I can't honestly see it happening, unless there was a significant demand
>> from
>> the customer base. We've been there, done that before, and if I remember it
>> wasn't very successful at the time. The most used piece of code was
>> Stephen's
>> menu converter, but given that was an old gnome-vfs module, I doubt it works
>> anymore.
>>
>
> I have this sneaking suspicion that it suddenly might become important
> when users discover that CDE is no longer available / exists /
> supported.
>
>
