On 5/8/07, Robert M. Albrecht <romal@xxxxxx> 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 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
I take it that this is all for Gnome users? -- Fedora Core 6 and proud -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
