Tossing in my two cents:
1. Simplistic on applets: Show/Hide Desktop, Web browser, email client, volume
manager,network monitor/connectivity, graphic/audio card settings, PCMCIA/USB
card unplug/eject status applet, (yelp) help applet, switch user applet,
lock/shutdown/log off/restart applet.
- more on less here but I always remeber having a modem applet and networking
(LAN) status applet.
- Multimonitor support (resolution modification, independent screens versus
stretched, and resize/rotate). The 4-panel window switcher applet is there.
- Email choices - technical users tend to go for Thunderbird versus Evolution
for management (due to Outlook similarities). Keep both - but corporate world
will usually want Evolution as primary supported UNIX email client on the
applets.
- Possible applet for 4Front OSS integration.
2. Games submenu - missing key card games like Aiserlot {Klondike/Solitaire}
and BlackJack. Please include them.
3. Universal Access - This is good.
4. Sound & Video - Brasero CD burning is now a key tool. Mplayer is a major
plus if added (strip out codecs affecting distro rights, but easily addable by
user).
5. Graphics - seems there is no scanner tool (Xsane). Scanning is a key
business tool need (besides faxing). ;o)
6. Office - We need OpenOffice Word, Spreadsheet, and Presentation here. Too
minimal (docs/spreadsheet/presentation are key management communication tools).
Critical for any 'executive level' or 'academic' success of the desktop UI.
7. Internet - SSH/VNC/Bittorrent, Terminal Service Client, Remote Desktop,
SVN/Git/CVS/Wget/Lftp access tools for engineering/developers.
#7 Internet - probably the biggest pain for software development/engineering
is access to the various version control systems out there but not having the
client tools on Indiana or SXCE/SXDE. Just my opinion.
The basic 650-700MB optical CD storage is not an excuse for limitations when
you have superior disc compression tools!! ;o)
~ Ken Mays
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