Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Oct 2005 22:24 UTC
The OpenSolaris desktop community released an opensource version of the Java Desktop System. "The Java Desktop System is a secure and comprehensive enterprise desktop software solution that combines the best of open source innovation. Java Desktop System is a major component of the Solaris 10 Operating System, x86 and SPARC architecure editions, and an earlier release is also available with a Linux OS."
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Member since:2005-07-24
I'll have to disagree with that (partly). I think John Doe doesn't even care what application he is using as long as it gets the job done so naming the application "Web browser" makes sense. It's the people who are interested in tech who usually care what exactly they are using and they will know without the name because they usually install it themselves.
The problems I see is not giving the devs enough credit for what they have done and maybe creating some confusion because John Doe might think "well I'm using Web-browser why is it so different from Web-browser at work ?"
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2005-06-29
I've never liked how people rename the applications in the menu based on the purpose, in some distributions of Linux I've also noticed that they renamed the window title so people never really know what software they were running unless a splash screen or about dialog happened to catch their attention. KDE has a nice system, in the configuration you can have the description and then the actual name of the application in brackets; it does make the menu entries longer, but it's also nice for knowing what apps you're actually using if you like knowing that kind of thing.
Anyway, this isn't to say that JDS isn't good software; although, I wouldn't mind seeing that feature implemented if it isn't already there where I can't find it.