Early thoughts on FC3

Chris Kloiber ckloiber at ckloiber.com
Wed Apr 28 07:03:07 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 14:06, K.M.Zammi Kahan wrote:
> Hi Pals,
> 
>             I’ve been using Redhat since release 6 and appreciate it
> is improved a lot along with the rest of the open source community.
> Currently I’m using FC test 2 and planning to upgrade to test 3 during
> the next weekendJ. Some of the features that I like to see in the next
> release of Fedora (FC3J),
> 
> 1. Integrated system configuration interface.
> 
>     Although FC has all required config tools, integrated interface
> needed for centralized configuration.

I don't see us using YaST anytime soon, but if you want to work on it
yourself...

> 2. Incorporate some multimedia tools like Xine/ Mplayer, K3B etc. By
> the time we will have more option like Vediolan’s VLC Player, Helix
> player as well. 

Patents...

> 3. Some missing plug-ins like (Flash, JRE etc). Today readers like
> acobat reader & Chm reader (xchm) etc also playing a big role.

...copyrights, and other not-free stuff. Sorry.

> 4. Independent default art-work theme than Redhat’s default art-work
> theme.  What about eye-candy desktop for home usersJ??. If both
> GTK/GTK+ and Qt programs can have same look & feel much better.

Submit eye-candy desktop theme rpms to fedora.us first?

> 5. Improved main menu (Better categorization and program description
> will help user to locate the required program quicker).

I believe that's a continual "work in progress".

> 6. Some stuff like PHP development tools, open source portal etc.
> Apache has more interesting projects to be considered.

Like?

> Does anyone have any interesting facts to share on FC3? 

It comes after FC2? :)

-- 
Chris Kloiber






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