Making the Live CD slicker

[Matthias Clasen]

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 22:07 -0500, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Having just taken a look at the live CD, here are a couple of specific
> changes that would make that experience better.
> 
> - The initial gdm screen is a bit of a hack.  The message that you can
> click on the Fedora feels ugly.  If we must have the GDM screen for
> keyboard or language, we might want to go through firstboot or
> something.
> 
> - While signing up for a wireless network, it gnome-keyring prompts me
> for a keyring password.
> 
> - nautilus shows the Live CD on the desktop, and lets you try to
> eject/unmount it.
> 
> - Just as a minor annoyance, not all the default applications are
> installed (dasher is missing)
> 	
> Any other suggestions?
> 

What you mentioned earlier (but forgot to add to this email,
apparently): the live cd contains a number of system-config utilities
that we would rather not see in the menus of a polished desktop spin,
such as system-config-rootpassword. Most of them are dragged in by
anaconda/firstboot.