Hey,
Roland Mainz wrote:
> I only did a quick look:
> - Many locales are missing. IMO it may be nice to ship (limited to one
> per country to restrict disk space requirements):
> "C"
> "en_US.UTF-8" (as default, following the default for SuSE Linux and
> RedHat)
> "ja_JP.UTF-8" (for japan)
> "zh_CN.UTF-8" (for china)
> etc.
Absolutely - this was only intended to be a preview, and no focus on
l10n/i18n/a11y has been done. Very much noted, and we should have put that as
part of the release notes - sorry.
> - The manual page subsystem should be adjusted to be a bit more
> enduser-friendly (I have a rewrite of /usr/bin/man queued, please ask
> either me or Michelle Olson)
Do you have a pointer to anything I can read that explains this in more detail?
> - The default interactive shell environment needs some adjustments
> (better defaults for prompt, PAGER, MANPATH etc.)
Can you bugzilla this please?
> - Please allow localised manual pages to be installed on demand (e.g.
> Solaris comes with a huge list of japanese and chinese manual pages)
>
> - It may be nice to think about shipping the VMware tools by default or
> as an installable package (currently the system clock has problems which
> causes other issues over time)
>
> - Where are the "traditional" X11 tools like "xclock" or "xeyes" ? ;-(
I think the issues were pulling together some of the excellent FOX bits that
Martin, Moinak and Alan were working on - but we didn't pull together all of
them in time (notice xterm?). Would be good to bugzilla this too please.
> - The network autodetection assumes that the local network has DHCP
> (which is not always available)
Bugzilla.
> - If network is available and the system is not running VMware tools
> "xntpd" should be enabled and sync the time against an external source
> (e.g. some kind of "time autodetection" ... :-) )
Bugzilla.
> - Why was the automounter for /home/ removed ? I liked my traditional
> "/home/${LOGNAME}" directory...
Yeah, I agree - I'd like to have see this too. Please bugzilla! :)
> .... that's all what I found in a 5min look...
Very much appreciate this, thanks Roland!
Glynn
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