On Sep 3, 2012 4:56 PM, "Kevin Fenzi" <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 23:42:34 +0530
> Arnav Kalra <arnavkalra007@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > 1. Control panel. This sounds interesting. Perhaps you could contact
> > > the owners of the various 'system-config' tools and see if they
> > > might work on something? See also, this feature which wasn't ready
> > > for f18:
> > >
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemConfigCleanup
> > >
> > Mandriva/ROSA/Mageia have a nice control panel. Even Opensuse has
> > one. We should implement this.
>
> Yeah, provided there's developers willing to do the work I think it
> sounds like a nice idea. ;)
>
> > > 3. Multilingual support in Fedora
> > >
> > > This has been driven by two things: space on media is very limited.
> > > If we added languages it would grow to large to easily
> > > distribute. :( If we dropped cd's and looked at 1gb as a target
> > > perhaps these would have space?
> > >
> > We can have 2 images or maybe 2 cds. I doubt people use languages
> > other than english.
>
> Its not just 2 images tho. ;)
>
> There are currently 11 approved spins:
> design-suite desktop kde lxde security soas xfce robotics
> scientific-kde electronic-lab games
>
> Each one is made for 32bit and 64 bit. Thats 22.
>
> We have netinstall and dvd install isos. Thats 4 more.
>
> We have multi-live and multi-install, thats 4 more.
>
> Thats 30 images. Producing 30 more would be a pretty large burden on QA
> and Release engineering. So, if we are going to make changes, we should
> make them on the base images IMHO.
>
How do Ubuntu or others distros added multilingual supports on CDs?
> > I also think we should have a portal where people can request new
> > programmes to be packaged for fedora.
>
> we do have:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainers_wishlist
>
> kevin
>
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