Observation/Suggestion in rawhide

Chris Eveleigh chris.eveleigh at planningportal.gov.uk
Tue Mar 31 16:37:12 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 21:45 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Sachin wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > Suggestion
> > 
> > 1) There should be option called --size in yum which can restrict the
> > space which can be used yum. This would be beneficial to machine with
> > low disk space.
> > 2) If firefox 3.1beta is default then please have
> > extensions.checkCompatibility=
> > false
> 
> This often means, extensions will install but not work
> 
> > 3) Shutdown splash screen
> 
> Shutdown should be fast enough to not need it

shouldn't startup be that fast too?  we've gone to a lot of (good)
trouble to get from

text(bios)-graphics-text-graphics-graphics-[graphics-...]-text

down to

text-graphics-text-graphics-text

with the promise of achieving

text-graphics-text

why shouldn't we go for

text-graphics?

:-)

> 
> > 4) ext4 (/boot) in grub
> 
> With LVM, you need a separate boot partition anyway and you can continue
> having it as Ext3. There is a GRUB patch but it hasn't been integrated yet.
> 
> > Observation:
> > 
> > 1) Why logout is available at two different place a) under system b) In
> > panel under name
> 
> Probably just as a convenience?
> 
> > 2) Preference menu list is too long
> 
> We dropped the sub categories in this release.
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2009-February/msg00001.html
> 
> Install the preferences-menu package if you want it back.
> 
> Rahul
> 




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