William:
Where possible, we will coordinate with those components that are shipped as part of the official GNOME community release. Solaris Desktop may deviate from the GNOME community release, but onlywherethere is an appropriate business justification or engineeringimpact. So...does this mean the end for the one-panel JDS layout? That particular layout has been a very compelling reason and differentiating factor for us to use Solaris in our Sun Ray environment for the past few years as it is easy for users coming from Windows to pick up.
The Desktop team does not really make branding decisions. In terms of how the desktop layout is designed, the XDesign team defines how the desktop looks. OpenSolaris has always had a more Linux-like 2-panel layout. I am not sure about the future for Solaris or whether any possible future Solaris releases will adopt the OpenSolaris look or keep something more similar to the JDS single-panel look. Of course, users and sysadmins can always modify the system default GConf settings to make GNOME to have a single-panel. If it adds value to Sun Ray to have a single-panel, the Sun Ray team could decide to make the SRSS installer modify the default settings to change GNOME to use a single-panel when used with SRSS if that makes the most sense for Sun Ray users. It might be worthwhile to bring up this issue on GNOME community forums and find out if there might be an interest in making it easier for sysadmins and users to switch between different common panel layouts. It seems like it would be a good enhancement request. However, I am not sure if such a suggestion would gain much traction since the GNOME community is moving towards GNOME-Shell which has replaced the panel with a new user interface paradigm. At any rate, branding and business choices like this are, I believe, outside of the scope of ARC. Brian _______________________________________________ opensolaris-arc mailing list [email protected]
