On Saturday 29 March 2003 06:28, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > As it seems the correct moment: > - gpg-agent support > - mdadm support > - synaptic driver > - easy.urpmi better integration > - mirror mess sanitization
* One-click/one-command rebuild-the-distro-optimized command. This should have the option of either rebuilding RPMs for everything it has an SRPM to hand for, or rebuilding just the instaklled packages - and consequently rebuild URPMI updates if need be. * A working MS-DOS emulator. * RDesktop. * Falling-off-a-log-easy WINE, with useful help on getting Windows apps to work under WINE (even if this is a link to an internet site, good general help for getting things working should be available, both in the form of a newbie recipe set and a more terse and technical FAQ-type document tree). * Documentation on how to submit stuff like ISP details for the internet Drake thingy. * Documentation on how to submit localisations, particularly for Mandrake tools. It would be nice if this is consistent across the toolset (I haven't looked), so J Random Icelander/Kurd/Maori/Inuit/whatever could sit down with the doc and complete a localisation of a tool in a matter of hours from a fresh start and an SRPM. * (Content is not really Mandrake's problem, but...) More complete and better-integrated documentation for existing applications. Two aspects, one which could be profitably built into Konqueror as a protocol server (e.g. doc://name) which searches likely spots (man-pages, info, /usr/share/doc/name-*/*, KDE handbooks etc) and presents a short menu of likely-useful documentation for the command/file/whatever. The other is actual content, which while I realise it is out of Mandrake's scope for many apps, but it would help to have Mandrake either bugging people about it or better yet throwing developer time at it (maybe later this year as MandrakeSoft recovers from Bankruptcy Protection). For example, I never noticed that OOWriter supports linkable frames (a la MS-Publisher), but would have stumbled over it much more quickly if real OOo documentation had accompanied the distro. I do appreciate the forest of bookmarks shipped with Konqueror, but would rather that it all lived in a `Documentation' folder, alongside a `Start here' link that landed at a Mandrake webpage leading first time users through a guided tour of their shiny new Mandrake X.X distribution, and I would like to see the same set of bookmarks available in other browsers, as shipped. Perhaps the Start Here link could be prominent on the default browser startup page, too? Cheers; Leon
