What should the desktop spin for F9 look like ?

[Valent Turkovic]

Valent Turkovic wrote:
> Valent Turkovic wrote:
>> Matthias Clasen wrote:
>>> Jonathan tried to kick off this discussion earlier, with some success.
>>> I think we should revive the desktop SIG and start to work out some
>>> concrete goals for what we want to improve in the desktop spin for F9.
>>>
>>>
>>> Here are some things that we might want to discuss:
>>>
>>> - menus
>>>   + switch from "generic name" style to "name - generic name" ?   + 
>>> "too much" - what to get rid of in the menus, and how
>>>
>>> - login screen
>>>   + can we make the special live-cd situation more intuitive ?
>>>
>>> - bootup   + should we look at the nm dispatcher work by jon nettleton ?
>>>
>>> - content
>>>   + people have proposed to add some free content to the cd
>>>
>>> - anything else people want to see improved
>>>
>>>
>>> Matthias
>>>
>>
>> I have posted this idea before but on fedora-devel mailin list, and it 
>> got great response. I'm reposting it here and adding a RFE to 
>> fedora-destop.
>>
>> * Desktop shortcut for joining Fedora IRC (aka "Get Live Help")
>> Fedora is about freedom+communication, right? Why not make this
>> statement more that just a nice slogan. If you installed saabyon linux
>> you could experienced for yourself what this really means. I as a new
>> user to gentoo (sabayon is based on gentoo) was really blown away with
>> this feature. It is really, really simple to implement and gives a
>> real meaning to a communication friendly linux distro.
>> In sabayon link to their IRC chat has a simple name "Get Live Help"
>> and it work fabulous! I didn't have any Portage experience so I poped
>> in IRC chat room and was on my way after I got quick help. Whis kind
>> of help was precious to me and would love to see it in fedora as one
>> of it's main features and not just as a slogan.
>> screenshot: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=382063978&size=l
> 
> Here are some of the suggestions that followed this discussion:
> 
> +1 although should this need a specific support channel?
> 
> I would really like this for a rescue situation, so that I don't have to 
> register nick's and muck around trying to remember my nick and password. 
> For total newbies, it'd be good too.  I imagine that it wouldn't that
> significant of a burden.
> Over on the user list, the OP mentioned Sabayon doing this. Pidgin is in 
> the live cd and would work fine for this, to my knowledge.  It would 
> have to be something in the live cd. I see it more as a live-cd thing 
> rather than necessary on an actual install.

Here is the RFE in bz:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430217