On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net wrote:
Le 13/09/2009 20:29, Kevin Kofler a écrit :
The DVD size would allow us to include more stuff, like translations (kde-l10n-*, those are fairly huge and there are many supported languages), input method support (the current GNOME live CDs include that, but we weren't able to fit it on the KDE ones), additional applications (there are plenty of nice KDE apps, and we might also consider including stuff like OO.o), maybe upstream wallpapers (not as the default, but as options). We've found the CD size to be very limiting.
Well, the CD does not include most of the fonts we package. Not enough fonts is a recurrent user complaint (was moded up +5 insightful several times again when /. posted its “why users reject FLOSS apps” article). So I'd expect desktop livecds to address this.
I think the cleanest way to fix this is to have a post-installation program for the Live CD image which offers to "Complete your installation?" and does the PackageKit equivalent of yum groupinstall <corresponding comps group>. (This is another reason why the kickstart files should only be subtraction-for-space from a comps group). The Live CD should basically be enough to bootstrap and get a good feel for the system and do basic tasks.
This also moves us much closer to having 1 defined set of things in the "installation" instead of two wildly different things which is really broken from a QA/marketing/etc. standpoint.