Suggestions for F9

Trever L. Adams trever.adams at gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 06:56:51 UTC 2007


I have been looking at Fedora to see what functionality it provides or,
more importantly, doesn't which is useful to me at home and that I think
business would like. I have provided a list of functionality (by
programs which I think would best fit it) below. This is a list meant
for Fedora 9.

Thunderbird Enigmail 
What:
A program which adds gnupg and
s/mime support to Thunderbird
Where:
http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
Why:
This would greatly help people who
want to use the same mail program in
Windows/Linux or who think Evolution
does a horrible job (such as full
imap support). The 64 bit compiled
version for Linux is only available
via the website, not the add-ons
functionality, it is usually behind,
so an RPM would be great.

Changes Needed:
Unknown


Thunderbird Lightning
What:
A program which adds gnupg and
s/mime support to Thunderbird
Where:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/
Why:
This would greatly help people who
want to use the same mail program in
Windows/Linux or who think Evolution
does a horrible job (such as full
imap support). No 64 bit precompiled
version is available, so an RPM
would be great. This finishes out
helping Thunderbird fully replace
Evolution and supports CalDAV. 
Changes Needed:
Unknown


Darwin Calendar Server
What:
A full CalDAV server which can be
integrated with multiple
authentication/group information
schemes including Active Directory
(via Samba for us).

Where:
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/calendarserver
Why:
A calendar server really is a must.
Since there is the open standard of
CalDAV this should be supported.
This particular server seems further
along in development than most. It
seems to be well designed and
developed. Additionally, this is the
one used by OS X. Why not reduce
efforts and standardize? This is a
good compliment to Thunderbird
Lightning plugin. 
Changes Needed:
Probably a few patches to Python
Twister, but not many and may not be
required long as efforts to sync up
are in progress.


Pykota
What:
A program which does accounting and
quotas for printers
Where:
http://www.pykota.com/
Why:
It is good to be able to know who is
printing and how much, possibly
restricting this. I am using this at
home and know business who use Linux
(server and/or desktop) who would
love this.
Changes Needed:
      * A use pykota option in
        system-config-printers for
        each printer. This option
        should not appear for cups
        auto-configured printers as
        the accounting should be
        done on the print server.
      * Possibly a button which will
        open the pykota config for
        the printer in
        system-config-printers.
      * Add GhostPCL package
        (http://www.artifex.com/downloads/), now under GPL 2
 

Please, let me know if I need to add these somewhere to be considered.

These are the major changes I think Fedora needs.

Thank you,
Trever Adams
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