I think something like Red Carpet is very nice, I mean you could have seperate channels for Core, Extra and 3rd party repos. And now that Ximian released Open Carpet it might be worth it - I do seem to recall us having been down this path before though. But I agree, we DESPERATELY need a frontend for yum. As for excluding it just because it was developed by Ximian (now Novell) and that that company is a competitor is just silly, if that was the case we would have to remove Evolution, OpenOffice and a basically every other app in the repo since it wasn't specifically developed by RedHat - the beauty of Open Source is that we couldn't care less about such issues, if it's good - we ship it (There are silly legal issues at times with e-patents and other nastiness which must be considered as well though). On the subject of sounds, I seem to recall of the default actions being linked to a none existing sound file - also ogg support in the sound event system would be nice (GNOME issue, not a FC issue though). - David On fre, 2004-07-16 at 14:06 +0200, Peter Backlund wrote: > Hello. > > Here's a list of things I'd like to be addressed in FC: > > - system-config-packages that handles remote sources and updates (merge > with up2date frontend). Think Red Carpet. > Whatever happened to > http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/config-tools/specs/redhat-config-packages/ > anyway? > > - Clean up the menu. "Name-Generic Name" or whatever format is agreed > upon, but please make it consistent. > Preferably the order would be dependent on user locale, since for > example in Swedish, the order "Generic Name-Name" > sounds much more natural than the other way around. > Also, gnome-print-manager has 2 entries + the notification icon (which > does nothing when you run it from the menu). > More user settings should be moved out to "More settings...". > Sessions, proxy server and maybe a few others. > The "about myself", login manager photo and password dialogs could be > unified. Ideally there would not be overlapping > tools in user settings and system settings, but instead one should > have the option to apply the settings system-wide > (mouse, keyboard, display etc). > > - modprobe.conf.d and prelink.conf.d, similar to ld.so.conf.d. > > - A decision on how to, and tools for building and packaging 3:rd party > kernel modules, including driver updates. > > - Red Carpet (+ Daemon) as preferred dependency manager. It is faster > than yum, written partly in python (unlike apt), > has a much better graphical frontend than apt (Red Carpet vs. > Synaptic), handles both installs, removals and updates > (unlike up2date). The only disadvantage as I see it, is that it was > developed by > the number one competitor (Ximian, now Suse/Ximian/Novell), so I > suppose this one would be out of the question (?). > > - Clean up Xsession handling. Currently, there are session files in > /etc/X11/dm/Sessions, /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions and > /usr/share /xsession at least. There should be no more than one place. > > And some Gnome issues: > > - System sounds. And no, don't say "but there are system sounds!". The > existing ones are far worse than none at all. > Things like login/logout, "new mail", error/notification message > sounds, etc. > > - Non-opaque resizing of splitter widgets (this is probably not > correctly phrased, but I think you know what I mean). > Currently GTK is simply too slow to have opaque resizing, and that > goes for XUL apps as well. > > - Why is the file selector widget using double-click to show bookmarked > directories? This, to me, is highly irregular. > > - In the file association manager, display a list of "known programs", > like in the "Run..." dialog, when you select a program > with which to open a certain file type. > > /Peter Backlund > >
