Hi all; ... I think, about that, having more packages in the repository (in order to have a choice) would help as eventually everyone will come up with her/his favorite applications... :
Matthew Stevenson schrieb: > 1. Bluetooth support to sync my phone contacts. Also, a good and flexible > sync software solution - this area I have always found a bit flaky on > linux so would be good to beat them to it. Looks like Moblin platform is > coming up with some good ideas in this area, maybe we could adopt it? I'd throw in wammu [http://wammu.eu/] here, asides the fact that I still lack a real solution to sync mobile phones and arbitrary desktop applications doing, i.e., contact/mail/calendar management (i.o.w. not tied to evolution, Outlook et al). > 3. Port mono apps over. I know people are divided on mono, but the fact > is that some of the best desktop software for Gnome is being developed on > mono. An example of where we suffer for this is that Opensolaris is > currently without a photo library manager like F-Spot. I also find Beagle > to have better features than tracker so would like the option to use that > instead. I'd enjoy seeing them available for OpenSolaris but eventually wouldn't use them, not mainly because of the issues dividing community about mono but rather because they seem, well, a little to heavy compared to what they do, and (with the exception of f-spot perhaps) every mono based GNOME application I've seen so far has a non-mono equivalent in terms of features and usability available. Regarding beagle and desktop indexing / search engines in general, on one side I'd enjoy seeing, well, sort of "preconfigured profiles" available here: In most situations, I cut down / disable these features on GNU/Linux manually because I never really use them and so they just burn resources that could be spent better on something else. On the other side: Shouldn't be there more than "just" text based indexing? KDE folks recently started including things that grew out of the Nepomuk semantic desktop project, which has a way better approach towards indexing or sorting information... > 4. Better than F-Spot anyway in my opinion, is Google Picasa. Getting > this packaged for OpenSolaris would be really good, and fill a big gap > for desktop users. Choice, again, I guess... ;) I never found Google Picasa pleasant on GNU/Linux, partly also because it just seems "based upon wine-on-steroids". > 6. Better integration of basic (i.e. not fancy things like snapshots) ZFS > features with Nautilus, e.g. file permissions dialog does not represent > the actual ZFS ACLs from what I can work out. Also ZFS features exploited > in Gnome generally, e.g. shared folders GUI only allows NFS shares (not > sure if this interacts with ZFS or does it a different way), whereas on a > home network it would be good to use this GUI to set up CIFS shares for > use in a Microsoft workgroup. Yes, yes, yes. :) Plus, again, of course, the option to disable all these features altogether if not wanted/needed. When "on the road", I don't want to have file share exporting services running on my machine, burning my battery power and eventually even exposing security holes. :) K. -- Kristian Rink http://pictorial.zimmer428.net # kawazu at jabber.org "What was once thought can never be unthought." (Duerrenmatt - 'Die Physiker')
