Making the Live CD slicker

Jonathan Blandford jrb at redhat.com
Wed Dec 5 04:25:14 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 10:18 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> 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

[ Commented in the other post ]

> > - 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

Oh, interesting.  Are we going to password enable those USB sticks at
all?

> > - 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>

It's selected as the default mobility device in the Preferred
applications dialog.  As I said, minor annoyance.

Thanks,
-Jonathan




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