On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 08:01 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> * Beagle is installed by default and replaces gnome-search-tool on the > >> UI like the previous release. Might be better to keep these entries > >> separate. > > > > No. Offering several different search tools in the menu is a bad idea. > > Medium-term, we're hoping to see a unified frontend for the various > > indexers. > > I understand the long term view but there are two short term rather > prominent issues > > 1) Beagle sucks up CPU > 2) With the default settings searching there gets no results. > > I still think Beagle should either not by installed by default because > of relative immaturity or atleast by separate from the gnome-search-tool > in the UI so that I can keep using it without having to uninstall beagle > to get the UI option back Removing beagle or installing tracker instead is certainly something we can discuss for F8. > Tomboy is pretty useful though it is not visible in the user interface. > I think we can place it in the panel by default along with Abiword in > the GNOME based live images atleast. That too. > The prime spin still has Firefox, Evolution and three openoffice.org > applications which makes sense for RHEL but not for Fedora. I would > prefer something more home user oriented for Fedora. Why on earth do you think firefox, evolution and OOo don't make sense for Fedora users ? The only reason OOo is not on the livecd is space. > >> * SCIM input icon doesnt show up on the system tray unlike the previous > >> test release. Default is showing on demand but setting it to show always > >> does not make it show up on the system tray. > > > > You should get it by default if you are logging in in a CJK locale. For > > other locales, use the "input method" capplet to turn it on. > > I am in the default English locale and I had to select custom input > method and choose scim (which was the only option) instead of the system > wide configuration (scim) setting which was enabled by default. If both > of these were using the scim methods why would choosing one of them make > a difference here? If scim is the only "custom" input method available > should that option even be enabled? Relogging and left click on the > hardly visible light grey icon does nothing. I couldn't figure out how > to enable Tamil as a alternative input method while logging into the > English locale. The SCIM setup UI does not seem to be following GNOME > HIG. All of this user interface details seems to be a mess that could > use a cleanup. The input method capplet needs some revision, Warren posted about that some time ago. I hope he looks after getting that done for F7. Matthias -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list