What should the desktop spin for F9 look like ?

Jon Nettleton jon.nettleton at gmail.com
Mon Dec 17 19:08:56 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 12:06 -0300, Ivan Quirino wrote:
> but sshd is the daemon, the server. what should stay is the client.
> the liveCD should be the 'client' spin.

Both should stay.  Ssh/sftp setup with Avahi makes a nice secure way to
point and click transfer files around a network.  

That does remind me that would should make sure to have nss-mdns setup
and running properly, as well as proper firewall rules.

I don't have my list handy right now, but if things are going to get
rolling I will get it all together.

Jon

> 
> On Dec 17, 2007 12:01 PM, Mark Bidewelli
> <mark.bidewell at alumni.clemson.edu> wrote:
>         httpd I can agree with, but I think sshd should stay.
>         Sometimes getting remote access through a LiveCD is useful.
>          
>         Mark Bidewell
>         
>          
>         
>         On 12/17/07, Ivan Quirino <ivanquirino1928 at gmail.com> wrote: 
>                 It's really needed to improve the liveCD. Remove some
>                 services, like sshd and httpd, these things just take
>                 space in the liveCD. Put OpenOffice.org int the CD is
>                 a great deal. There should be no login screen in the
>                 liveCD. Some content would be nice too. Make the
>                 fedora liveCD like the ubuntu liveCD is not a bad
>                 idea. Ubuntu doesnt have server services, has
>                 openoffice.org, and auto-login in the liveCD. And
>                 Anaconda should ask if you want to restart or continue
>                 with the liveCD 
>                 
>                 
>                 On Dec 17, 2007 1:52 AM, Matthias Clasen <
>                 mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
>                         Jonathan tried to kick off this discussion
>                         earlier, with some success. 
>                         I think we should revive the desktop SIG and
>                         start to work out some 
>                         concrete goals for what we want to improve in
>                         the desktop spin for F9.
>                         
>                         
>                         Here are some things that we might want to
>                         discuss:
>                         
>                         - menus 
>                          + switch from "generic name" style to "name -
>                         generic name" ? 
>                          + "too much" - what to get rid of in the
>                         menus, and how
>                         
>                         - login screen
>                          + can we make the special live-cd situation
>                         more intuitive ? 
>                         
>                         - bootup
>                          + should we look at the nm dispatcher work by
>                         jon nettleton ? 
>                         
>                         - content
>                          + people have proposed to add some free
>                         content to the cd
>                         
>                         - anything else people want to see improved
>                         
>                         
>                         Matthias
>                         
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