On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Frank Ludolph <Frank.Ludolph at sun.com> wrote: > > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Calum Benson wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 07:44 -0700, Ken Mays wrote: > > > Tossing in my two cents: > 1. Simplistic on applets: Show/Hide Desktop, Web browser, email > client, volume manager,network monitor/connectivity, graphic/audio > card settings, PCMCIA/USB card unplug/eject status applet, (yelp) help > applet, switch user applet, lock/shutdown/log off/restart applet. > > - more on less here but I always remeber having a modem applet and > networking (LAN) status applet. > > True, might be worth adding the network monitor applet back to the > default config. (It will be replaced when the NWAM Phase 1 GUI is > complete, but that's not going to land in time for the May release > AFAIK.) > > Though someday people will want to run Sun Rays on OpenSolaris, and > network monitor on Sun Ray is still a waste of bandwidth (is there > network traffic? yes? let's flash the icon! what? that generated > network traffic sending the icon change to the Sun Ray for display? > flash it again! infinite feedback loop? what's that?) > > > I'm going to disagree on SunRay being a consideration about how the desktop > is configured by default. SunRay users are definitely not the target users > for OpenSolaris. If someone is setting up OpenSolaris to run SunRays they > will have a lot of work to do including some configuring of the desktop. > This does add work, but it is for very few people compared to the primary > target user group for the first release, developers and other users with > technical backgrounds.
This applies to remote desktop users as well of course. However, it does lend credence to the need to have easier desktop configuration profile management and an applet to switch between them if you ask me... -- 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
