Making the Live CD slicker

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Tue Dec 4 15:18:25 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 22:07 -0500, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> - The initial gdm screen is a bit of a hack.  The message that you can
> click on the Fedora feels ugly.  If we must have the GDM screen for
> keyboard or language, we might want to go through firstboot or
> something.

GDM also gives us the benefit of being able to enable a11y.  I don't
feel very strongly one way or the other, but davidz did at one point

> - While signing up for a wireless network, it gnome-keyring prompts me
> for a keyring password.

Once we have an ability to make changes that you've made (especially
including your home directory) persist by storing them to a USB stick or
similar, this will make more sense to be able to do probably.  But the
dialog could use some love

> - nautilus shows the Live CD on the desktop, and lets you try to
> eject/unmount it.

I thought this got fixed at one point in hal

> - Just as a minor annoyance, not all the default applications are
> installed (dasher is missing)

dasher isn't a default app
  [katzj at aglarond comps]$ grep dasher comps-f8.xml.in 
      <packagereq type="optional">dasher</packagereq>

Jeremy




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