Got some wishes for Trisquel 8, and suppose that the rest of you would have
some too, so I decided to start a list.
1. Installers to comply with Free System Distribution Guidelines (GNU FSDG).
Trisquel 7 ISO image contains a installer that does not offer the four
freedoms - specifically, Trisquel text mode installer does not offer the
freedom 0, the freedom to execute, because it is an online installer and
relies on network connection which isn't either eternal or guaranteeable
against failure - as a matter of fact, the Trisquel 7 32-bit ISO text
installer is broken since more than two months ago because of a package which
fails to download. So, either no online installers or all online installers
having offline mode too.
2. Full-disk encryption capable installers. Trisquel 7 graphic installer has
no full-disk encryption capability because of requiring an unencrypted
partition for /boot. Trisquel 7 text mode installer has it. It would be
nice for all installers to have this capability.
3. Keyboard shortcuts. Trisquel 7 out-of-the-box lacks the most elementary
shortcuts: Undo (Ctrl+Z), Redo (Ctrl+Y), Cut (Ctrl+X), Copy (Ctrl+C), Paste
(Ctrl+V), Find (Ctrl+F), etc... I know that techies such as myself can create
this shortcuts in the Control Panel, but i) is it necessary to make us pass
through that pain without a reason?, and ii) that makes inviable recommending
Trisquel to other users, because of knowing that they are going to experience
recoil from the start.
4. Abrowser able to sync. Browser Abrowser, probably the first application
to be opened after completing the installation of Trisquel, has an old bug
prevents it from syncing. This happens not with Firefox. I know that
Trisquel cannot be blamed for this, just saying it would be nice for
Trisquels default browser being able to work right out-of-the-box.
- [Trisquel-users] Wish list for Trisquel 8 agullo
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