Guys,  I deal with fresh installs of Solaris 10 very often, and I have these 
two suggestions:

1.  Move the "Run application" to the same place as windows has it... actually 
it might be good to mirror windows' structure to make it easier for users to 
transition.  I often find myself hovering above the area where windows "Run 
command" would be before I realize I'm in JDS

2. Have a launcher for the terminal somewhere very quickly reachable.  Having 
to hunt for it in Applications>Utilities>Terminal is pretty silly.    Newbies 
won't know where to look.  This is unix and I want my terminal :)  Often the 
first thing I do after logging into JDS for the first time is drag and drop 
that icon onto the task bar for a launcher.  Another thing I do on desktops I 
use everyday is bind a keyboard shortcut to open up a terminal.  

3.  They common keyboard shortcuts for switching virtual displays in Linux 
doesn't work in JDS.  Would be nice.

4.  We need some progress indicator to show that a program is being launched.  
Currently you can click on  a launcher, nothing happens, so you click a few 
times still nothing, then boom! all the windows appear.  A cursor indicator 
such as hourglass or bouncy icon KDE (Mac OS?) would be nice.

V. Thiru
Sun Solution Centre
Sydney
 
 
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