On 14 May 2006, at 21:20, Alan Horkan wrote:
I would have thought both Sun and Novell would want to avoid having to maintain layouts different from the Gnome default but it must not be too much hassle to maintain a relatively small but distinctive difference. Maybe this is an intentional differentiation point.
FWIW, the reason Sun went with the bottom panel only was pretty straightforward-- at the time, our number one request from customers who were considering switching from Windows to Linux was that "the desktop has to look exactly like Windows". So, for better or for worse, we did our best.
Now, though, we have another reason... the Trusted Extensions version of Solaris JDS that we're working on requires a dedicated 'security stripe' along the top of the screen:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/Stephen?entry=trusted_jds_screenshots so having a top GNOME panel as well wouldn't be very practical. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
