Am Montag, 21. Oktober 2002 23:58 schrieb Craig Williamson (ENZ): > Hi All, > > With the hype finally dying down from the current round of distro > releases I thought I would add my two cents into the pool for the next > version of Mandrake. > You should read Cooker, since some things you complain was discussed there a lot ....
> 1. With Redhat 8.0 and Suse8.1, both companies have greatly > enhanced the user experience with Gnome and KDE respectively. Mandrake > should do something special with KDE. For example, redesign the kmenu. > Make it more appealing to the end user. Throw around the ideas from > kde-look.org for the kmenu and 'Mandrakeize' it :-). What about something > completely different like a pie-menu. That would really bring the > experience up another notch. > Please NO Kde = Gnome. They are different. this is one of the linux advantages. I like the default style, cause its fast and simple. And since keramik is default in the next kde release, what to bother ? > 2. Create some window dressings (decorations) that say that this is > a Mandrake OS (Suse style). Work on the font rendering (xft2/fontconfig) > and/or create some useable fonts. The default blue style that Mandrake > seems to use is getting boring now. Develop some new graphics > (crystallized?) for your core Mandrake apps rather than custom icons. > > 3. With the RandR extension hopefully coming to the next release of > Mandrake, some of the Control Centre will be made redundant. Redesign it > for QT/KDE based rather than GTK based. Mandrake is a KDE-pro company, are > they not? I'm not sure on the politics why they decided to go the GTK way, > but they should really concentrate on one desktop/toolkit and improve that > (lycoris like?). > There are no politics. The most tools are written in perl. The only Toolkit in the beginning was GTK1 . Now there are GTK2 and Qt. As I understood GTK2 will be used in the next release ... > 4. For me, the installer is looking outdated. So how hard is it to > change the aesthetics of it. The under-the-hood stuff is still top notch, > but the GUI is looking old and unchanged for the last few releases. > > 5. The package support really get me personally. Why do they > include pre-release/beta versions of software in the OFFICIAL stable > release. Mandrake 9.1 should only concentrate on released versions of > packages. That is where the reliability and security problems come in. > I use Mandrake because it uses actual software ... > I hope this starts something. If you guys don't like my ideas, say > so. Mention your ideas and see if it makes it into the next release. For > me Mandrake seems to be losing its focus. It started off as redhat with > KDE, but now is trying to be a Jack of all trades. And is now a Master of > None. I'll throw around some solutions to my ideas somehow. Thanks for > reading this. I hope I haven't bored you too much ;-). > > Craig
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