low-hanging fruit

Jonathan Blandford jrb at redhat.com
Thu Aug 16 16:04:47 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 15:56 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: 
> As discussed in the meeting, here is my personal 
> "laundry list" of low-hanging fruit. Note that some of
> these are being worked on for F8 anyway.
> 
> - enable nss-mdns by default
> - clean up emblems in nautilus
> - remove obsolete applets
> - reconsider default panel config (launchers)
> - unlock keyring on login
> - use xdg-user-dirs consistently
> - disable root login
> - get rid of xfs
> - get rid of pam_console
> - NM by default
> - PA by default
> - get rid of a bunch of services that we don't need on a
>   live cd, like nfs/rpc/autofs
> - have a close look at the system-config tools we install
> - cleaned up artwork packaging

Some quick thoughts:

Might be less low-hanging fruit, but give firstboot a quick look:
- user icon as part of new user creation
- good defaults for firewall/selinux/sound cards

Hook up the mugshot.org/applications database to figure out a
mime-type->package tool

Thanks,
-Jonathan




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