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Hi Leon,

> Urgh. Something else, please... if I was going to have a boot problem with
> a machine, Aurora would do it. It choked fairly consistently on Kudzu and
[...]
> print would somewhere with a `zoom' option to return to something like the
> current display would be good.

  That might be good. SuSE 8.0 has a little icon on the top of the text box 
(the box is similar to MDK 8.2's) that shows the current status in an 
animated fashion. But I think something like what you propose - maybe sorta 
in the style of the KDE splash screen, might be better...

  Speaking of which, what about making the KDE splash screen match whatever 
Bootsplash looks like in 9.0?

> The only satisfying solution I can see for this would be to have *sets* of
> ratings for different interests, say `server', `workstation' and
> `gamestation'.

  True... although even in gamestation having Pingus installed is not 
critical, technically speaking, the machine works fine without it... But I 
see your point.

> Only if you could do it without *breaking* it for Gnome, BlackBox etc.
> Gnome is useful in specific situations above and beyond its popularity, and
> `light' WMs like BlackBox are extremely useful in low-resource situations
> like large LTSP classrooms.

  Ideally, it would be nice to keep the GTK interface too, but I think a QT 
interface would work fine in all of the places you mention (especially a pure 
QT interface rather then a KDE/QT interface). It might not look as nice in 
GNOME at a GTK interface, but the same is true the other way around, and I'm 
pretty sure more Mandrakers use KDE then GNOME.


> There is an Etc timezone group with GMT+/-## zones in it. Perhaps a
> separate US group for major zones rather than specific cities, or if the
> menuing system can handle it easily, split the US into by-city and by-zone?

Good idea!

> Hmmm... and how legal would it be to scrape TTFs out of MS-Windows or
> MS-Office CDs?

  Probably, perfectly legal. Which reminds me of another suggestion - now that 
X comes (IIRC) with some halfway decent scalable fonts, how about enabling 
anti-aliasing by default (if supported) in 9.0?


> Uh, `you've had a *lot* of time to plan this, haven't you?' (-:

  Yup. It's one of those things I ponder in my head while I drift off for the 
night or when I'm in a waiting room. <g> 

  -Tim

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