Valent Turkovic escribió:
I have a few ideas that IMO would make Fedora more usable as a general desktop and developer platform: What? : 1. have gnome-terminal shortcut on gnome panel (as firefox and evolution) 2. have gnome clipboard manager installed by default (glipper gnome applet)
I agree with these two.
3. have /usr/sbin and /sbin in PATH for regular users
I don't agree with this one...
Why? : 1. because gnome-terminal is the second most used [1] application on gnome desktop and this would make it more accessible for users. 2. because any desktop needs a good clipboard manager, it enhances usability enormously.
These two indeed make sense, though some people might think that having a shortcut for the terminal in the panel by default may be against the purpose of the desktop usability guidelines.
3. I personally need it only for some commands - like /sbin/ifconfig and /sbin/iwconfig are there any down sides to putting new /sbin and /usr/sbin in every users PATH variable? What do you think is this a good or bad idea?
Maybe a better approach for those commands in particular would be to add aliases for them in /usr/bin? I can think of a couple more commands that may benefit from being also available in their restricted mode to regular users (lspci, lsusb, lsof, etc), but being as /sbin paths are meant for administrative tasks, I actually do see having them as part of a regular user's PATH a potential security risk.
Cheers, Valent. [1] http://online.gnome.org/applications
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