tir, 28.03.2006 kl. 17.30 skrev Rahul Sundaram: > Hi > > Someone forwarded me this. Looks interesting. > > http://chabada.sk/better-desktop/ > > > Rahul Just a few questions about the article: 1. How is "Notes" in Jpeg images stored? EXIF - so that i can open an image 10-15 years from now and still read the note no problem? Or some program-specific format? 2.Progress of downloads etc. Something has annoyed me a long time about gnome and downloading - why doesn't it tell me how quick its downloading (ie. kb/s)? Its fine that it tells me "how much time remaining" - but i want to know the speed - even if it is a (triangle) Advanced... Pause/resume in Firefox/gnome would also be just great. Should i just file a couple of RFE's? 3. Way out, i know it, but yes - usb memstick auth/homedir could be usefull, esp. in low-infrastructure settings. Think about it, a primary scool or something like that. You hand out USB keys to the pupils, which are preformatted with a "homedir" and a password (hell, it could even be encrypted!). Then its just: a) Find a free machine. (that is configured to accept usb-auth with proper parameters) b) Plug in usb keystick c) Gdm recognizes it. Ask the user to enter password (if that is wanted/required - sometimes you migth possibly want to skip the password alltogether) d)Log in. Do what you want. Log out. Pull memstick out. Leave. Of cource, there should be some mechanism to be able to have GDM only accept memsticks that are signed by the rigth authority etc. And make a nice gui to format and create a lot of those, intended for know-nothing sysadmins. This could probably be usefull for OLPC as well. Maybe the little laptop migth even be able to function as such a memory unit, allowing it to be plugged into a "bigger" computer (possibly just an ordinary stationary machine with a CRT monitor etc. and some special software?) --- Kyrre -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
