Qui, 2007-04-12 às 21:17 -0300, Gustavo Franco escreveu: > Hi list, > > First thanks everybody who contributed to Debian Etch Desktop. There's > no doubt that we've raised the bar with this release and of course the > expectations for Lenny. hell yes!
> > Lenny general release goals and schedule is (in a way) being discussed > at debian-release. Keep an eye on that. I'm opening this thread to > point out my wishlist in terms of desktop wearing my debian-desktop; > pkg-gnome and tasksel hats. Feedback is needed. ;-) > > * Debian Desktop is the sum of important parts: d-i, debian-cd, > tasksel, pkg-gnome, pkg-kde and pkg-xfce were directly or indirectly > involved during the Etch development cycle. I would like to see > pkg-ltsp, XSF and debian live also join us, you will see the reasons > below; > > * Xorg "autoconfiguration": Hopefully it will be into the next > upstream release and since Lenny will be released in something like 18 > months, we won't need to work hard to push it into. > > * Automount known partitions: People dual booting complained to me > that after installing Debian on their desktops/laptops their previous > systems weren't mounted. > > * preseeding for the win on key stuff: We need to work on grub > preseeding definitely to at least push the desktop to use stuff like > splashy/usplash and maybe an init replacement like upstart. Keep in > mind that with preseeding support into grub we can do it in a way that > 'regular' installs won't be affected, but only fresh Lenny desktop > installs. i think splshy will be ready for lenny and is great improveent to have it. It is something that is really missed by the users. > > * cliparts: OpenClipart should be added into the desktop tasks > > * debian-moreblue update contest: I would like to setup a contest to a > debian-moreblue update. We don't need something 200% new, but just > people that wants to tweak the theme for Lenny. (btw, thanks Andre for > the work to Etch) we definetly need better desktop graphics environment. Also continue the d-i, gnome, kde, xfce, splash graphics integration. (thanks also to andre for the more blue theme) > > * live! There are live desktop images, but they're not official and > don't really match the desktop tasks. agreed. Live cd's (from debian-live) seem to be easy to create, so we could have a set of the to show what we want. For instance, this was talked in -devel about show development tools for linux/debian. > > * ltsp: We need to work to make sure that the installer will contain a > polished ltsp-client-builder udeb and the user will be able to select > "desktop environment" and "thin(fat, whatever) client server" and end > with a system able to provide our desktop environment for these > clients. This is harder than you think due to dhcp and nfs servers > lack of preseeding support. Shame on me, since I'm one of the pkg-ltsp > founders. I'll do my best to prepare patches and send them atached to > the bug reports. Here i have a bigger word to say. Debian targeted users are mainly companies, or even small business, so, i think we could provide a set of tasks that coul easilly set up an enterprise environment with desktops and a main server. In many comanies that use linux, set up a small shared user database and set up shared folders and info is quite hard. We at debian-desktop should provide a task that is oriented for enterprise desktop. I don't really say that it should be too diferent from the main desktop task, but have libpam-ldap and other productivity tools. Also a ldap server task should be added to perform the server side. I really think debian has a few cards to show in enterprises, so let's get it better. > > * menu system: The Debian menu system needs to be reviewed for both > GNOME, KDE, Xfce usage and what to do to not break others WMs. > > * website and wiki: I need help with wiki articles general cleanup and > website maintenance. The website needs to contain more general > information on how to download and use Debian Desktop, Etch > screenshots (GNOME, KDE and Xfce in action). The wiki should be our > dashboard and contains our todo, wishlists and some more stuff that > can be english-only. agreed. This weekend i'll submit some. > > Well, that's it. The rest is basically make sure we're in sync with > the last upstream release where it's possible and with less RC bugs > around testing. > > regards, > -- stratus > http://stratusandtheswirl.blogspot.com > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
