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) Proper firewire plug'n'play support |
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- When a user pops in a drive in the firewire slot, it shows up in /mnt |
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) Proper USB support |
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- Whenever a user pops in a USB device, it's made available, a notification |
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occurs, and if no proper software is installed, a suggestion is made, |
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if the system knows about any appropriate software |
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) Proper printing support |
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- When a USB printer is plugged in, our a user scans for a parallell |
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printer, it is automatically configured and made available for use |
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) Good control panel |
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- Available in all supported desktop environments |
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- Takes care of low-level stuff: |
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- configuring all Gentoo-specific apps (gentoolkit, portage, ...) |
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- package administration |
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- scan for new hardware, show hardware hierarchy, |
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- append diagnostic info to bugzilla bugreport |
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- select kernel/modify boot menu |
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- services/runlevel administration |
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- through libconf: configure other stuff, like apache, ... |
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) Bugreport tool |
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- report <package-name>, which automatically creates a proper bug |
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ticket, gathers system info, takes the user through suitable forms |
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based on package category and the nature of the problem. |
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) WLAN profiles |
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- When a user takes his laptop home and plugs it in the wall, it |
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automatically configures for home profile. |
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- We also need a graphical widget for manual selection and profile |
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creation. Think MacOSX. |
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) Graphics |
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- Snazzy Gentoo themes for supported desktop enviroments. We have |
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backgrounds and cursors and stuff, it's just a matter of making it into |
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a package. |
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This is just what I dumped before I went to bed. You guys probably have |
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a lot more. We should follow the formal process that's been discussed |
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earlier for the items that we find to be of the highest priority. |
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Also, I think we should work together, and tackle one problem at a time. |
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If I start on problem firewire, and dams on problem control panel, we'll |
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be too resource-starved to get anywhere. |
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Most of these problems are big enough to be a 2+-man job. |
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Question is of course, should be proceed bottom-up or top-down? If we |
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solve all these technical problems first, because we know they're there, |
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we may end up with a good corporate desktop solution or a good end-user |
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solution, but most likely neither. |
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Kind regards, |
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Karl T |
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