Hi James, Thanks for your question, I'd like to answer some of them...
James C. McPherson ??: > Shi-Ying Irene Huang wrote: > ... > > 3.3. Business Justification: >> Avant Window Navigator (Awn) is a dock-like bar which >> sits at the bottom of the screen. It has support for launchers, >> task lists, and third party applets. So it can provide >> user an easy way to track the opened windows, and user >> can launch some location by simply click some launcher, user >> also can add >> applets, and set the theme to make AWN looks very cool. >> >> 3.4. Competitive Analysis: >> >> Mac OS has leopard Dock. > > Hi Irene, > I'm sorry, I really do not think you've argued the business > justification at all: "looks very cool" does not work for me. > > Did you perhaps mean to say that you want this integrated in > order to provide a user experience which is comparable to > that of Mac OS X or the latest bleeding edge linux desktop? Yes, you are right, these 2 applications are the similar tool, and we'd like to provide our users an option to control the system. > > > How will this interact with the existing GNOME Panel? Yes, this is a good question, AWN is an opinion for user to use, it will appear only when you start it, while GNOME Panel will exist always. These 2 tools can exist at the same time, 1, we can use arrow in the Gnome Panel to make Gnome Panel minimize, 2, Generally we can make the Gnome Panel in the top of the screen, and AWN at the bottom of the screen. In fact there is no impact between them, you can use any of them to control your system. > > What requirements are there for applications to ensure that > they behave properly with AWN? Will I have to recompile things > in order to get the "stick to desktop #Z" behaviour? No, you don't need to recompile, AWN can work properly just like the Gnome Panel. > > > > James C. McPherson > -- > Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris > Sun Microsystems > http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
