Fedora 7 - features and obvious usability enhancements

[Valent Turkovic]

Hello,
first I would like to ask where is the proper place to suggest new
features and obvious usability enhancements for fedora.

Is there a mailing list or some group of people or someone specific I
have to target in order for some really much needed features to be
included in fedora releases?

First one I see as a really great usability add on to fedora is
Deskbar gnome plugin. It is in the repositories, but it is not
installed by default and it is not enabled by default. I think that
this is a great shame. All new users (and also old ones) would benefit
a lot from just including this great widget in default desktop setup
for Fedora 7 .

Ok, I won't go too much long here if this isn't proper way of getting
attention to the right people. I don't mean that you aren't proper or
not important but I just don't know if this mailing list is the right
way for discussing usability and features. Please tell me if it is and
then I'll continue if not point me in the right direction.

Thank you all for your time and attention.

Valent from Croatia.

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[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Mer 28 mars 2007 10:24, Valent Turkovic a écrit :
>  Hello,
>  first I would like to ask where is the proper place to suggest new
>  features and obvious usability enhancements for fedora.
>
>  Is there a mailing list or some group of people or someone specific I
>  have to target in order for some really much needed features to be
>  included in fedora releases? 
The proper channel is IIRC the fedora-dekstop ML, plus you have a
fedora-XXX usability channel and another for the desktop team.

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[Nicu Buculei]

Valent Turkovic wrote:
>  Hello,
>  first I would like to ask where is the proper place to suggest new
>  features and obvious usability enhancements for fedora.
>  
>  Is there a mailing list or some group of people or someone specific I
>  have to target in order for some really much needed features to be
>  included in fedora releases? 
Your specific question seems targeted at the desktop, so you may 
consider the desktop list (but I believe you are not entirely offtopic 
here, on this general development list): 
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list

>  First one I see as a really great usability add on to fedora is
>  Deskbar gnome plugin. It is in the repositories, but it is not
>  installed by default and it is not enabled by default. I think that
>  this is a great shame. All new users (and also old ones) would benefit
>  a lot from just including this great widget in default desktop setup
>  for Fedora 7 . 
I have the deskbar applet active on my computer but:
- it is a bit of a resource hog, which is not that good for a default;
- in my opinion it is not so friendly with new users

>  Ok, I won't go too much long here if this isn't proper way of
> getting
>  attention to the right people. I don't mean that you aren't proper or
>  not important but I just don't know if this mailing list is the right
>  way for discussing usability and features. Please tell me if it is and
>  then I'll continue if not point me in the right direction. 
About usability, you may look at the Usability SIG page in the wiki: 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Usability

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[Valent Turkovic]

First of all, thank you all that have answered.

On 3/28/07, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora(a)nicubunu.ro&gt; wrote:

>  I have the deskbar applet active on my computer but:
>  - it is a bit of a resource hog, which is not that good for a default; 
Ok, here I agree - it is a bit of a hog. But at least installing it
should be the default, so users can easily enable it.

>  - in my opinion it is not so friendly with new users 
I demonstrated it to new users and they loved it. I just said that
this is where they do all the they want to do with setting ther new
linux desktop.
So if they want to setup firewall trey just type "firewall" and as if
by magic :) the firewall config shows up. Also for any other task like
deskop background - just type "background".
Ok, this should be tested more but by my experience it is really fenomenal.


>  About usability, you may look at the Usability SIG page in the wiki:
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Usability
>  
Thank you.