Plans for the desktop beyond Fedora 7, status update

[Matthias Clasen]

I thought it might be a good idea to catch the moment before the release
of Fedora 7 to give a quick update on where we stand with respect to
Fedora 8 features. I have also updated those feature pages with pointers
to review bugs, etc, but here is a summary:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBigboard

Havoc and his team have been really busy, and there will be bigboard
packages for people to play with when rawhide reopens. An online-desktop
package which provides further integration is currently under review.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureCodecBuddy

The codeina package is currently under review and should land in rawhide 
shortly.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBluetooth

Bastian has started to work on this; support for ObexFTP in gnome-vfs
should land in rawhide tomorrow; and Bluetooth printer support is
currently being integrated upstream.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePulseaudio

Not much visible progress yet, but we have begun to make pulseaudio work
nicely with fast-user-switching.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePolicyKit

David has it all worked out in his head :-) Code should start to appear
in the next few weeks...

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBetterStartup

We have started to prototype this, but there is not much to see yet,
since we need modesetting in the kernel for this.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureNetworkManager
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureDriverBuddy

Nothing new here yet.

All in all, quite a few new things to expect in rawhide soon, together with
Gnome 2.19...

Matthias

[Nicu Buculei]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> I thought it might be a good idea to catch the moment before the release
> of Fedora 7 to give a quick update on where we stand with respect to
> Fedora 8 features. I have also updated those feature pages with pointers
> to review bugs, etc, but here is a summary:

How about the superficial surface of the desktop, the artwork? Will it 
be again handled by the RH Desktop Team? Have you hired a replacement 
for Diana? Is that new person open to work in some way with the Art Team?

[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 08:57 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > I thought it might be a good idea to catch the moment before the release
> > of Fedora 7 to give a quick update on where we stand with respect to
> > Fedora 8 features. I have also updated those feature pages with pointers
> > to review bugs, etc, but here is a summary:
>
> How about the superficial surface of the desktop, the artwork? Will it 
> be again handled by the RH Desktop Team? Have you hired a replacement 
> for Diana? Is that new person open to work in some way with the Art Team?

It is unlikely that we have a full-time graphical artist in the desktop
team in time for F8; I think the discussion about how to best approach
the F8 artwork should probably be had on fedora-art-list. Some points to
consider:

- We really need to clean up some of the artwork packaging

- If we land the BetterStartup feature in F8, it should hopefully
  simplify a lot of the bootup graphics that have very specific   
  requirements

Matthias