On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:01:03AM -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Brandon and I are looking for desktop goals for the next year. Where > would you like to see the Gentoo desktop go? What's been done poorly, > what's been done well?
A bit more work on internationalisation of applications. For instance, openoffice-bin is currently only available in English, it would be great if it would also listen to the LINGUAS (or is it LANGUAGE) variable and install the appropriate internationalised version. Develop a graphical interface for software installation with _minimal_ amount of features (fex. just query, install, remove, update and security) and the promise that additional features will not be implemented. Think http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/software-management.html, although that proposal is a bit more extensive on other parts as well. Some documentation on how packages integrate in a system. How does a package add an item in the KDE/GNOME/fluxbox/E/... menu? How does a window manager add it to the existing sessions (and where)? Work out a goal regarding Desktop Experience. When will a user say "this is slow" or "this reacts as it should"? When will Jhon Doe feel that an interface is intuitive and when will it think that it sucks? Document what combinations of software titles adhere to this Desktop Experience. Of course, work to get more software titles added as well. This doesn't mean that non-Desktop-Experience titles are bad, on the contrary. But it might prove to be a good guideline to improve the desktop for some Gentoo users. Put tutorials out on how to do stuff (hint: contact the GDP to help you with this :), such as "Get a scanner to work with Gentoo". Screenshots are greatly appreciated by users when graphical stuff needs to be done (commandline thingies can easily be documented though). Just some of the things that drop in my mind... -- Documentation & PR project leader The Gentoo Project <<< http://www.gentoo.org >>>
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