On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 10:12 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > > - The initial gdm screen is a bit of a hack. The message that you can > > click on the Fedora feels ugly. If we must have the GDM screen for > > keyboard or language, we might want to go through firstboot or > > something. > > Euw, gods no. Please. I don't want to click many times on a task driven > interface just to get started whenever I boot the live CD. Perhaps if > you could qualify a bit more why the gdm screen "is a bit of a hack" it > would be useful. Surely we can get it to once per task, no? Anyway, the current gdm screen does feel like a hack to me. I think it's the "click on the fedora icon to log in" aspect. It would be nice to see a screen that's dedicated to the Live CD here. > Either way, gdm _needs_ this functionality (think shared computer with > users having varying language preferences); punting this to Fedora > specific tools is in my view a much greater hack. This is the old > mantra: do the work upstream etc. etc. My fault. I was jumping ahead in my head to the brave new world of gdm where firstboot and gdm are integrated, and language/accessibility are part of the environment. I'm basically proposing an extra mode to GDM just for that. > Another reason for gdm is if you ship a live image with both GNOME and > KDE. Then you'd have several faces to click on. Hrm. Is that enough in the cards that we should design for it? > > - While signing up for a wireless network, it gnome-keyring prompts me > > for a keyring password. > > This is a good point, maybe the live cd initscript should set a blank > password for the fedora users keyring. Even better, perhaps the > gnome-keyring bits can detect a blank password (probably harder since it > would require to init the pam stack and check the conversation is > empty). Yeah. You're bound to trigger that dialog one way or another during the session. > > - nautilus shows the Live CD on the desktop, and lets you try to > > eject/unmount it. > > By design. The idea is that the Live CD itself can contain promo / > information / foreign apps that is also visible when mounting it on > foreign OS's (Windows, Macs). We just haven't used this feature (we > should). Can't we just have the promo appear as part of the image? Also, isn't the user name on the f-u-s applet 'Fedora Live'? As implemented right now, the CD is strange. > Further, having the icon is a good indicator for people they're running > a live OS. Maybe the eject/unmount should be greyed out; then again, you > can't actually unmount/eject it; you are given an error message if you > try. I would vote to make it insensitive at a minimum. > Yes. Anaconda pulls in a lot of the system-config-* tools that are not > very useful neither on the live cd nor on the installed system. There's > also like three SELinux icons or something in the menus. All of them > really needs to go on the desktop live cd. Agree, though I think you mean go _from_ the live CD. (-; Thanks, -Jonathan -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
