On 21 Apr 2006, at 07:17, Vaenthan Thiru wrote: > 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
Hmm, that's where it was in the original draft, but one of our other UI guys suggested we move it to the Applications menu :) I can certainly see your point, though... any other opinions? > 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. Currently, you can also right-click on the desktop, and there's an "open terminal" option there. When drafting the UI spec, we were also considering adding Terminal to the quick-launch area of the Launch menu, as that would be consistent with the other things in the "Preferred Applications" control panel, which are shown there by default. We didn't reach a conclusion on that, though, so I'll consider your comment a "+1" for that idea :) Even if we don't put it there by default, it should be a simple matter of checking a box to put it there, if we implement the proposed additions to the Preferred Applications panel: http://www.gnome.org/~calum/nevada/ui-spec/apps.htm > 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. We could certainly do that by default. As a matter of interest, what shortcut do you use? > 3. They common keyboard shortcuts for switching virtual displays > in Linux doesn't work in JDS. Would be nice. Virtual displays are disabled in Solaris because they were considered insecure, but I believe we're fixing that. > 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. Hmm, this (mostly) works on Linux, but it does seem broken on Solaris. I'll file a bug when I get a chance, but feel free to do so first :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
