-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Timothy R. Butler wrote: | Well, I've been using Mandrake 8.2 for several months now, and I thought I'd | pass along a few thoughts and ideas for the next release... |
| 5.) What about a QT/KDE-based MCC? Since Mandrake has always been very | pro-KDE, and even was founded to bring KDE to RedHat, what about making | Mandrake Control Center QT-ized? It would be nice if it had the same look and | feel as the other apps most Mandrake users use (afterall KDE is used by many | more people then GNOME). | Do you have a problem with the GTK widgets themselves, or the fact that MCC isn't in the KDE Control Center (although, as I posted earlier, it can be accomplished easily with the leagacy RPM), or do you just not want to have GTK at all? The real reason why GTK is used is because there are good perl bindings, not to any preference to Qt or GTK. Write perl bindings compatible with Qt, and maybe it will happen. | 6.) Modified KPackage for optional package manager. KPackage includes the | stuff necessary to make it work with apt-get (i.e. for searching for | available packages, updating packages, etc.). What about modifying it to work | with URPMI too? It's a pretty slick little tool, and it would be nice to have | it work with Mandrake's package management system. More functional would maybe to start providing apt sources lists. How much space would this use on the CDs? | | 7.) Less confusing Time Zones. At least when installing from the US, selecting | a time zone can be a bit confusing IMO. For instance, rather then having the | names we normally use for time zones, the most obvious choice for "Central | Time" is picking the locality Chicago (even though I don't live there and | that is not a standard way of referring to this time zone). What about naming | the US time zones correctly? Maybe even ordering time zones based on their | differential from UTC? I agree here. Can I have SAST (South African Standard Time) instead of Johannesburg? I live much nearer Cape Town ;-) | 9.) How about including ALSA 0.9x in the next release, and making it the | default for the EMU10k1? Or if not default, at least make it an *option* for | those of us who want sound founts? Also, why not include a sound font | installation tool? I noticed YaST2 now has a thingy that will grab sound | fonts off the the Creative Labs SB Live! installation CD. This is a nice, | user friendly touch... I would also like to see some easier way of getting midi going on emu10k1 cards. But, this should not only be applied here. How about prompting the user for the driver CD for scanners that need firmware like the Acer Prisa 640u USB scanner. This scanner is a budget scanner that works really well under linux. /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf file available, but otherwise just read the article on it on MF. Finally, on the sound front, how about setting up | TiMidity as a daemon (this can be done if TiMidity's compile switches are set | correctly) when Harddrake finds a card does not have MIDI synth support? | It'd be cool if out of the box virtually every sound card could do MIDI | synth... | In a similar regard, how about allowing the user to enable saned from scannerdrake (ie, just copy the example xinetd from the saned man page, have a saned account with usb group membership, ensure the console.perms is set so group has read/write always), and edit the list of allowed clients? This is a killer application of a linux box, since you can share out a budget scanner (like the Acer) to all windows (via win32 port of xsane, or sane2twain) and linux users (via sane's network backend) on a network using an old machine (or someone's desktop). Buchan - -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE89edErJK6UGDSBKcRAtsuAKCboQoaYANlpeDl602fVoL/2SITEACgoYm5 b0SEZXZhH5aORPwDV/JAaFs= =5KyR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
