Trever L. Adams wrote:
I have been looking at Fedora to see what functionality it provides or,
more importantly, doesn't which is useful to me at home and that I think
business would like. I have provided a list of functionality (by
programs which I think would best fit it) below. This is a list meant
for Fedora 9.
Thunderbird Enigmail
What: A program which adds gnupg and s/mime support to Thunderbird
Where: http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
Why: This would greatly help people who want to use the same mail
program in Windows/Linux or who think Evolution does a horrible job
(such as full imap support). The 64 bit compiled version for Linux is
only available via the website, not the add-ons functionality, it is
usually behind, so an RPM would be great.
Changes Needed: Unknown
Thunderbird Lightning
What: A program which adds gnupg and s/mime support to Thunderbird
Where: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/
Why: This would greatly help people who want to use the same mail
program in Windows/Linux or who think Evolution does a horrible job
(such as full imap support). No 64 bit precompiled version is available,
so an RPM would be great. This finishes out helping Thunderbird fully
replace Evolution and supports CalDAV.
Changes Needed: Unknown
Darwin Calendar Server
What: A full CalDAV server which can be integrated with multiple
authentication/group information schemes including Active Directory (via
Samba for us).
Where: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/calendarserver
Why: A calendar server really is a must. Since there is the open
standard of CalDAV this should be supported. This particular server
seems further along in development than most. It seems to be well
designed and developed. Additionally, this is the one used by OS X. Why
not reduce efforts and standardize? This is a good compliment to
Thunderbird Lightning plugin.
Changes Needed: Probably a few patches to Python Twister, but not many
and may not be required long as efforts to sync up are in progress.
Pykota
What: A program which does accounting and quotas for printers
Where: http://www.pykota.com/
Why: It is good to be able to know who is printing and how much,
possibly restricting this. I am using this at home and know business who
use Linux (server and/or desktop) who would love this.
Changes Needed:
* A use pykota option in system-config-printers for each printer.
This option should not appear for cups auto-configured printers as
the accounting should be done on the print server.
* Possibly a button which will open the pykota config for the
printer in system-config-printers.
* Add GhostPCL package (http://www.artifex.com/downloads/), now
under GPL 2
Please, let me know if I need to add these somewhere to be considered.
These are the major changes I think Fedora needs.
Thank you,
Trever Adams
Trever,
Thanks for this, I think those are good suggestions. However most Fedora
developers are already carying a pretty full workload as is. Have you
considered becoming a contributer yourself? I'm more then willing to guide you
on your initial steps, note I'm both an experienced packager and an experienced
(certified even) teacher.
Regards,
Hans
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