On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 08:44 +0200, Robert M. Albrecht wrote: > Hi, > > some things I would love to see improved: Thanks for jumping right into this discussion. Your contribution is very appreciated. Even cooler than a long list of things you would like to see improved would be a shorter list of things you can imagine improving yourself. With the new merged and more open Fedora, there is ample opportunity for people outside of the desktop team to contribute. > Network related > > - vpn and dialup integration for network manager We are going to post our plans for NM work for Fedora 8 shortly. > - a gui for pairing with bluetooth devices > - a gui for setting up bluetooth and usb dialup devices (mobile phones) > for connecting to the internet > - a gui for setting up 3g networks (umts, ...) for internet access. This > could be an extension to system-config-network Bastian already send a pointer to his Bluetooth writeup. A lot of this depends on how well the SoC project for Bluetooth goes. > > - faster boot when not connected to a network; many services are > starting really slow, if the network is down > - faster boot times at all We are also going to post our plans for startup modernization in a bit. > Security > > - disabling root (like ubuntu), thus forcing the user to work as a > non-root user This is a really easy fix, just toggling a gdm setting. We might do this by default for Fedora 8. > - some kind of backup tool, for the whole system or the users profile > and data > - Integration of clamav in Evolution and Thunderbird > - support for encryption of user data ( /home/...) Some of these things should probably be discussed in the wider context of fedora-devel, since they are not really desktop specific. > Configuration > > - Ubuntu has two software installation tools. One shows the complete > repository, the other is intented for endusers. Listed are only > applications, with a rating, how well it integrates into the used gui, > ... I think this is really cool. Many users are overwhelmed by that many > choices Pirut offers. Perhaps this could simply by a button in Pirut to > suppress libs or > - GUI for adding third party repositories > - GUI for managing raid configurations, Anacondo can to this, but only > at installation time. If you add a hdd after installation, you have to > use mdadm manually. These sound all like good things. For improved software installation, I hope that bigboards application browser can make a difference there. > GUI > > - enable Gnomes NFS browsing (network places), in F7 only smb-browsing > seems to be enabled. > - enable more than three mouse-buttons > - enhancing the gui for extended keyboards > - a GUI for laptop-related things: laptop-mode, configuration > suspend2ram or suspend2disk, power-management, ... Can you be more specific what you are missing here ? - How do you envision the user interface to use a fourth mouse button (apart from special applications that may need the extra button) ? - What keyboard configuration are you missing (other than keyboard layouts that actually match your keyboard) ? -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
