submitting ideas to Fedora

Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek jakub.rusinek at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 21:20:52 UTC 2008


Mark wrote:
> Now why would fedora want a 'brainstorm' site?
> We have Ubuntu and openSUSE that did it and i think that's enough. I
> think it's better for fedora to look at those lists and look at what
> issues are there and base the features for the next fedora on those
> lists. We don't need another list because nearly all issues that i saw
> (on brainstorm) are things that need to get fixed upstream anyway so
> including a fix for it in Fedora would just be extra work. Better help
> upstream to include it and your done for all distributions that use
> it.
>
> I like the idea of a brainstorm site for fedora and would have gladly
> helped with it IF ubuntu and openSUSE didn't had one. now it just
> seems like repeating the issues on all dist lists.
>
> The issues that i personally would like to see implemented would be:
>
> XrandR GUI http://bryceharrington.org/drupal/display-config-1
> (absolute must have!!)
> and the ability to see image previews in a file dialog.
>
> Those are just the 2 that i noticed at first sight and will really be helpfull.
>
> And one that i didn't noticed yet.
> Beagle got implanted in Fedora 5 and got killed in the Fedora 6 (or
> 7?) development cycle and was a mistake in the first place to include.
> It was just to new and untested. Now (few years later) it might be
> time to include a indexer like that again. Not beagle but Tracker:
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker/
>
> It has:
> - the looks
> - nautilus intergration
> - nice understandable interface
> - cool features
> - low memory footprint
> - supports enough data sources
>
> It looks like the perfect indexer to me.
> So why not give that one a thought?
> Would probably to late to include it for F9 the official way but just
> running yum -y install tracker will do fine as well ^_^

Sorry, but I think that none indexer should be installed be default. Or 
simply should not be enabled by default [only installed].

That's because of system resources consumption.

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Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek
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