Plans for the desktop beyond Fedora 7

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 08:44 +0200, Robert M. Albrecht wrote:
> 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

These are all targets for NetworkManager in the quite-near future,
though PPP (ie Bluetooth DUN, 1xRTT/EVDO/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS, and
ISDN/Dialup) may be added on a bit later.  It's estimated that NM 0.7
will be done in the FC-8 timeframe (though that's what I said for FC-7
too), which is flexible enough to at least enable all the PPP stuff
without breaking API or anything.

Dan

> 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
> > 
> > 
>