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? :)
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Chris Kloiber
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