Need to improve Fedora Hardware compatibilty & Gnome3

[Navdeep Singh Sidhu]

Hello,
Recently working using fedora 15 on my Dell laptop becomes pain in my neck.
So i figure out that linux & fedora needs a lot of improvement to do. So i
come up with a list that i thinks lacks in Fedora & Gnome 3.

Like:-

   - Hardware drivers like for  Canon printers needs to be update. Some
   drivers are missing or not avail.
   - Drivers for wifi card & Bluetooth devices are not available. (Like 9
   out of 10 dell laptops doesn't detect wifi card on fedora. For eg..in my
   case i have intel centrino 6230 wificard it doesn't works on fedora but in
   Ubuntu it works. Same with HP & Toshiba but better than dell)
   - Bugs in wifi drivers (Some time wifi card detects the network but don't
   connect to it or some time get connect but automatically disconnects. there
   is no problem with network settings i have checked on many computers. )

In Gnome 3:-

   - Drag & Drop functions are really poor.
   - At some places there are really need of drag & drop.
   - Lack of themes.
   - Missing the wobbly effect of windows in Gnome.
   - Need to improve locations & organization of application launcher in
   Gnome 3(it is very time consuming to launch an application from start menu).
   - Stability of Gnome3(I don't know what is the reason behind this but
   people ofen ask me that gnome 3 some time crashes but it is very rare.)

These are not my personal views people love fedora but some time the above
problems stops them to use this distro. i personally likes Fedora but my
laptop is not fully compatible with it. These are views collected from
different people who are connected to me via field of Linux.
I really hate when some people say that Windows have more in built drivers
than Linux or Hardware compatibility of Linux is poor than Windows.
So i think that these are required changes to be made in Fedora or people
want these changes to be made. I really want to  thank programmers & people
who are contributing there knowledge to Open source & Linux helping to make
Linux better and more better.

Regards
Navdeep Singh
Core Member
Technical Students Society's Panel <http://www.facebook.com/tssgndu>;,
Founder & President
The Linux Club <http://www.linuxgndu.webs.com/>;,
Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar
India

[Shakthi Kannan]

Hi,

--- On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Navdeep Singh Sidhu
<navdeepsingh.sidhu95(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
| so i figure out that linux & fedora needs a lot of improvement to do.
\--

... (1)

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| Hardware drivers like for  Canon printers needs to be update. Some drivers
| are missing or not avail.
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Did you write to Canon and ask? Most of the time vendors don't ship
hardware specifications for us to write drivers.

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| Drag & Drop functions are really poor.
\--

You need to be clear in your writing. Define 'poor'.

You might want to file bugs for things that you need.

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| i personally likes Fedora but my
| laptop is not fully compatible with it.
\--

So (1) is false.

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| I really hate when some people say that Windows have more in built drivers
| than Linux or Hardware compatibility of Linux is poor than Windows.
\--

As I mentioned earlier, blame the vendors, not the Linux kernel developers.

SK

-- 
Shakthi Kannan
http://www.shakthimaan.com

[Arun Prakash]

Hello,

 i figure out that linux & fedora needs a lot of improvement to do.
>  
Definitely. I personally feel Fedora 14 is better than 15.


>  
>    - Bugs in wifi drivers (Some time wifi card detects the
network but
>    don't connect to it or some time get connect but automatically disconnects.
>    there is no problem with network settings i have checked on many computers.
>    )
>  
> Frequently asks for passwords again and again to connect
to poor WiFi
networks.
Also Mobile Broadband (update) has bug, it doesnt connect to network most of
the times, which already worked fine.

>  
>  
>  
>    -
Drag & Drop functions are really poor.
>  
> When two or more files are drag and drop from anywhere to
NTFS Drive ,
nautilus crashes.

>  
>    - Missing the wobbly effect of windows in Gnome.
>  
> Also the CPU usage is more in Fedora 15.

>  
>    - Need to improve locations & organization of
application launcher in
>    Gnome 3(it is very time consuming to launch an application from start menu).
>  
> Moving from Windows to applications is slow always( also i
dont know
shortcut after F1).

Regards,
Arun

--

[Manilal K M]

On 21 September 2011 22:58, Navdeep Singh Sidhu
<navdeepsingh.sidhu95(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Need to improve locations & organization of application launcher
> in Gnome
>  3(it is very time consuming to launch an application from start menu). 
This is
indeed very slow in my desktop too. Sometimes it took 10-15
seconds to point the right icon in the Applications menu. May be I can
add the icon to favourites, but it's not ideal when dealing with less
frequently used applications. The search facility on the workspace is
also slow when compared to F14.

>  Stability of Gnome3(I don't know what is the reason behind this
> but people
>  ofen ask me that gnome 3 some time crashes but it is very rare.) 
I never
experienced a crash, but had a single instance at which the
workspace was frozen for few seconds and the culprit was firefox.

-- 
Manilal K M : മണിലാല്‍ കെ എം.
http://libregeek.blogspot.com