OpenAFS would be nice for big buisness.
On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 19:24, Austin wrote:
> Yeah, I know it's a bit early to be on this subject, but
> a) we're already discussing urpmi and nvidia future
> b) we can haggle over these ideas while the MDK staff takes a well deserved
> mini-holiday
>
> Here's my own personal 9.1 wishlist. Some topics I'm planning on working on,
> some are already underway by MDK staff, others are open to
> volunteers/naysayers.
>
> 1. Spiffy new sounddrake.
> If I knew perl, I'd do it myself, but alas...
> I'd like to see a more intuitive setup. What card is detected? What drivers
> do you want, alsa or oss? Do you want a sound daemon? Do you want an init.d
> for jack? Do you have a midi card? Do you have USB audio or USB midi? etc.
> etc.
>
> 2. Spiffy new fontdrake.
> It's looking a bit dated; it's not all that easy to use; it would be cool to
> have more features. I'm sure someone can think of something to do to it.
>
> 3. Developer's web portal: todo list, interfaces with bugzilla, contact
> information, etc. TUTOS is a really cool system. If someone can hack php,
> I'm sure we could integrate it with bugzilla. Warly has said he will look
> into this.
>
> 4. Fix pygnome/pygnome2/pygtk/pygtk2 mess.
> I think Gotz is planning on doing this.
>
> 5. New menu entry for 'home and hobby' type applications. I've asked for this
> a few times... no response. There are a lot of apps that should go in this
> category. I think Joe user would look for a recipe application is 'home and
> hobby' rather than 'databases'. Similarily, putting gramps in 'sciences' is a
> bit of a stretch, and I have some 'homework' applications that don't really
> belong in 'office'.
>
> 6. Get video capture working well.
> We have a few assorted video grab applications. Most suck. A lot of the new
> ones won't compile. This is really lacking. Are our video4linux headers
> still screwed up?
>
> 7. Get cinelerra into main.
> All we have to do is a) remove MS TTF's and replce with some GPL fonts, b)
> remove lame mp3 encoder. The code is nasty, but any good C hacker should be
> able to do it in a day.
>
> 8. Integrate GATOS project.
> Thanks to Frederic and Spencer this is underway, but still rough.
>
> 9. Integrate Nautilus-burn more obviously.
> Destop icon, mini-tutorial, etc.
>
> 10. Autodetect best fonts.
> I think this already works for the desktop. i.e. Does installing Arial
> automatically replace 'sans' on the desktop? I think so, but I'm not sure.
> Same should happen for OpenOffice. If Times New Roman is installed, it should
> automatically replace Nimbus Ugly-Face in OO.o.
> Also would be nice to integrate the new GPL fonts that are coming out in a
> similar manner.
>
> 11. Superchaged applications.
> While I'm all for an rpm system and i586 optimization, there are a few
> applications that REALLY suck as they are. ATLAS, transcode, and mjpegtools
> come to mind. They are rediculously slow. Narfi has some benchmarks I think.
> Some options are:
> a) put athlon/P4/mmx rpms on club
> b) put athlon/P4/mmx rpms in unsupported
> c) someone write a script that will rebuild them locally with more optimization
> d) someone write a script that will rebuild any srpm locally for local
> architecture
> I've suggested (d) a few times to Deno and others and got quite rude
> responses. I think it might be a cool feature... definitely media worthy.
> You could install a stock distro, then rebuild anything resource-heavy (XFree,
> ATLAS, transcode) for your local architecture with no rpm or tarball
> knowledge. It's just an idea.
>
> 12. More automated lm_sensors installation.
> Can we make this more automated? Like install the rpm, and it shows up in
> gkrellm. Right now, there are scripts to run, text files to edit, and init.d
> daemons that don't always work as expected.
>
> That's my list.
> As you can see, it's mostly nitpicky stuff, and UI stuff, which means 9.1 is
> going to be great, if there's so little to improve on!
>
> Thanks guys,
> Austin
