On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 08:44 +0200, Robert M. Albrecht wrote: > Hi, > > some things I would love to see improved: > > Network related > > - vpn and dialup integration for network manager > - 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 These are all targets for NetworkManager in the quite-near future, though PPP (ie Bluetooth DUN, 1xRTT/EVDO/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS, and ISDN/Dialup) may be added on a bit later. It's estimated that NM 0.7 will be done in the FC-8 timeframe (though that's what I said for FC-7 too), which is flexible enough to at least enable all the PPP stuff without breaking API or anything. Dan > Booting > > - faster boot when not connected to a network; many services are > starting really slow, if the network is down > - faster boot times at all > > Security > > - disabling root (like ubuntu), thus forcing the user to work as a > non-root user > - 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/...) > > 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. > > 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, ... > > cu romal > > > Matthias Clasen schrieb: > > The desktop team has recently started to think about what things we want > > to focus on beyond F7, and what we want to improve in the Fedora 8 > > timeframe. > > > > While there are no very detailed specs and commitments yet, I have put > > together some preliminary information in the wiki, and I'd like to > > share it with the interested public on this mailing list. Feel free > > to comment and discuss. There will be some more feature descriptions > > in the near future, and the ones I have begun will hopefully be fleshed > > out more fully by their respective owners. > > > > Matthias > > > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePulseaudio > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePolicyKit > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBigboard > > > > > -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
