Hello everyone. Lately, I've been thinking it would be very cool to have an applet on the download page that could examine the users hardware, compare it to values in a database and offer advise based on that. Will I be able to just reboot into the live-session? Maybe I'll have to run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg in order to see gdm? Do I need to use proprietary drivers, and if so, are they included? Things like that. In order to fill the database with as much information as possible, I think the users should be asked permission to run the Ubuntu Device Database application at first boot and after a dist-upgrade. I can't see any reason why a user would refuse, but the option should be more available than it is today. I don't know how the Java applet would collect hardware information, though, but I can't imagine it to be impossible. The real work would probably be to maintain the database. Any thoughts on this?
Thanks, Jo-Erlend Schinstad -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
