Le mercredi 08 août 2007 à 10:23 -0400, Tim Hull a écrit : > * Making laptop frequency scaling/suspend/etc work "out of the box" > when Laptop task is installed
It works out of the box in etch, with the cpufreq applet for the former and gnome-power-manager for the latter (provided the hardware is supported). > * Installing all (free) codecs that are commonly used by default in > the Desktop task (FAAC is one that comes to mind as one that could be > added, as it is in main now) Well, it's a new thing. Otherwise you already have all codecs supported by ffmpeg, which is much better than most other distributions. > * De-uglifying the default fonts - currently, many applications in > Debian use poor-quality fonts or even *bitmap fonts*. It really depends on the applications. At least all Xft applications should be using Bitstream Vera by default, and I don't remember of non-Xft applications installed by default. Of course there's the notable exception of OOo with #385332. > * Simplify installation of out-of-tree kernel modules, possibly by > adapting Ubuntu's Restricted Manager to work with m-a. Non-free > drivers would *only* be displayed if non-free is in the sources.list. Binary Nvidia modules can already be installed directly from non-free. AIUI the same can't be done for ATI ones because of licensing issues. > Anyway, I'm curious to hear what's going on with respect to Debian on > the desktop. I understand that there are things Debian can't do (i.e. > include non-free or illegal software), but I feel Debian has a great > deal of potential as a stable desktop distribution. I want to help > out as I can, and I'd prefer to do so with Debian due to it's open > development process and non-profit status. You're welcome to help in the development and maintenance of the various pieces of software that constitute the desktop. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `- our own. Resistance is futile.
