Fedora 15 KDE 4.6 feature page, comments/feedback?

[Ryan Rix]

Hello Manuel,

On Tue 14 December 2010, KDE on Fedora discussion <KDE on Fedora discussion 
<kde at lists.fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
> 2010/12/14 Manuel Escudero <Jmlevick at gmail.com>
> 
> >
> >
> > 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)

>From RPMFusion? We can't.

> > 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.

LIbreOffice is larger, and personally sucks more than koffice.

@Sig: have we made a decision on the calligra/koffice mess? That could be a 
feature, possibly.

> > 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.

Changing upstream behavior like this is imnsho a bad idea.

> > 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)

Space contraints, also chromium isn't in Fedora repos.

> > 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.
> >
> > 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
> >
> > But that last request can be ignored, I'm just giving my opinion.

Okay.

> > Thanks and Good Job!! Keep Going!!
> >
> > --
> > <-Manuel Escudero->
> > Linux User #509052
> > @GWave: jmlevick at googlewave.com
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> P.S. One last suggestion to complete my previous message: Maybe having the
> KDE/RedHat repo
> enabled by default in Fedora 15 for the KDE spin would be another good move.
> What I'm suggesting
> in few words is to give our KDE Spin a little bit of more personality, as is
> the most popular spin, I believe
> many users would like to have in Fedora's KDE version something more than a
> Clean implementation of
> KDE SC.

Nope, we can't do that, that'd never pass trademark review.

Youre welcome to create a personal respin that features the features you 
listed above, but the vast majority of that is simply things we cannot do.  We 
cannot include third party software, including "our own" third party software 
(as strange as that one sounds).

> -- 
> <-Manuel Escudero->
> Linux User #509052
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