Fedora 15 KDE 4.6 feature page, comments/feedback?

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Tuesday, December 14, 2010 09:34:50 pm Manuel Escudero wrote:
> 2010/12/14 Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu>
> 
> > On 12/14/2010 11:53 AM, Markus Slopianka wrote:
> > > Am Dienstag 14 Dezember 2010, 16:35:07 schrieb Rex Dieter:
> > >> Anything else we should consider to work on?
> > > 
> > > How about finally adopting the rebranding from over a year ago?
> > > "KDE 4.6"....
> > 
> > Do you have a concrete suggestion?  Doing something like:
> > s/KDE 4.6/KDE Development Platform, Applications and Plasma Workspaces
> 
> 4.6/
> 
> > seems a bit excessive to me, but perhaps that is a better working title.
> > 
> > -- Rex
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> I like it, I seriously like it :D I'm in favor of changing the default
> phonon backend for VLC.
> With this, we will give support for a ton of formats more in the default
> players and if I'm
> not wrong, maybe we will experience a better user experience (sorry for
> being redundant)

I'm still in favour of GStreamer - it's the best supported framework in Fedora, 
it's easier for users just to install codecs once for all apps etc. But I 
support VLC backend packages in Fedora, Rex is doing great job there!

> I'll suggest to integrate LibreOffice into the KDE Spin of Fedora and
> removing Koffice of it,
> because is a little annoying when you use OpenOffice most of the time, for
> me, Koffice is
> just a waiste of space in the LiveCD.

For now - KOffice is really waste of space but I expect - with Calligra and 
further development, we will have the best office suite on the world. Openoffice is 
just a big slow buggy but currently still the best offering now. Lukas Tinkl 
already contacted Openoffice team regarding KDE support. 

> Also it will be good to offer Double Click for default in what opening
> things refer and also
> it will be nice to disable the "session remembering" I believe most users
> like to start a fresh
> session every time they login into KDE.

Great session management as found in KDE is big advantage. It's annoyin to start 
all you applications again and again... But some sort of better management of 
session would be great. And consider Activities and session like style off apps 
opening/closing. 

> I believe, another good thing would be adding some extra KDE Apps, some
> apps that most
> users would like to see pre-installed, like Kmess, k3b and the Kipi
> Plugins. Maybe also
> an alternative browser to konqueror and/or rekonq, maybe chromium? (as
> gnome has FF)

Chromium is really fast but does not fit KDE very well. And I don't think it will 
be possible to package in Fedora in the near future.

> I think it would be great to keep offering a "CD fitable" ISO, (no more
> that 700MB) but if we
> are going to give a more "powered" KDE, I believe changing ISO size for 1GB
> would not be
> bad.

+1
 
> In that case, I recommend to pre-install some apps by default in KDE spin,
> to make it more
> user friendly and ready for every day use, like:
> 
> DESKTOP EXTRAS:
> 
> kdeartwork kdebase-workspace-wallpapers kdeplasma-addons
> 
> RECOMENDED APPS FOR EVERY DAY USE:
> 
> audacious guvcview kmess pidgin gimp gparted sound-juicer xchat multiget
> k3b banshee
> xsane vlc kdenlive firefox unrar p7zip p7zip-plugins java-1.6.0-openjdk
> ntfs-config wine
> azureus tucan kid3 kipi-plugins java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin

Why pidgin for example - there should be more justification.

R.

> But that last request can be ignored, I'm just giving my opinion.
> 
> Thanks and Good Job!! Keep Going!!

Thanks ;-)

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