Plans for the desktop beyond Fedora 7

[Robert M. Albrecht]

Hi,

some things I would love to see improved:

Network related

- vpn and dialup integration for network manager
- a gui for pairing with bluetooth devices
- a gui for setting up bluetooth and usb dialup devices (mobile phones)
for connecting to the internet
- a gui for setting up 3g networks (umts, ...) for internet access. This
could be an extension to system-config-network

Booting

- faster boot when not connected to a network; many services are
starting really slow, if the network is down
- faster boot times at all

Security

- disabling root (like ubuntu), thus forcing the user to work as a
non-root user
- some kind of backup tool, for the whole system or the users profile
and data
- Integration of clamav in Evolution and Thunderbird
- support for encryption of user data ( /home/...)

Configuration

- Ubuntu has two software installation tools. One shows the complete
repository, the other is intented for endusers. Listed are only
applications, with a rating, how well it integrates into the used gui,
... I think this is really cool. Many users are overwhelmed by that many
choices Pirut offers. Perhaps this could simply by a button in Pirut to
suppress libs or
- GUI for adding third party repositories
- GUI for managing raid configurations, Anacondo can to this, but only
at installation time. If you add a hdd after installation, you have to
use mdadm manually.

GUI

- enable Gnomes NFS browsing (network places), in F7 only smb-browsing
seems to be enabled.
- enable more than three mouse-buttons
- enhancing the gui for extended keyboards
- a GUI for laptop-related things: laptop-mode, configuration
suspend2ram or suspend2disk, power-management, ...

cu romal


Matthias Clasen schrieb:
> The desktop team has recently started to think about what things we want
> to focus on beyond F7, and what we want to improve in the Fedora 8
> timeframe.
> 
> While there are no very detailed specs and commitments yet, I have put
> together some preliminary information in the wiki, and I'd like to 
> share it with the interested public on this mailing list. Feel free
> to comment and discuss. There will be some more feature descriptions 
> in the near future, and the ones I have begun will hopefully be fleshed
> out more fully by their respective owners.
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePulseaudio
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePolicyKit
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBigboard
> 
>