On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 08:01 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> * Beagle is installed by default and replaces
gnome-search-tool on the
>> UI like the previous release. Might be better to keep these entries
>> separate.
>
> No. Offering several different search tools in the menu is a bad idea.
> Medium-term, we're hoping to see a unified frontend for the various
> indexers.
I understand the long term view but there are two short term rather
prominent issues
1) Beagle sucks up CPU
2) With the default settings searching there gets no results.
I still think Beagle should either not by installed by default because
of relative immaturity or atleast by separate from the gnome-search-tool
in the UI so that I can keep using it without having to uninstall beagle
to get the UI option back
Removing beagle or installing tracker instead is certainly something we
can discuss for F8.
Tomboy is pretty useful though it is not visible in the user
interface.
I think we can place it in the panel by default along with Abiword in
the GNOME based live images atleast.
That too.
The prime spin still has Firefox, Evolution and three
openoffice.org
applications which makes sense for RHEL but not for Fedora. I would
prefer something more home user oriented for Fedora.
Why on earth do you think firefox, evolution and OOo don't make sense
for Fedora users ? The only reason OOo is not on the livecd is space.
>> * SCIM input icon doesnt show up on the system tray unlike
the previous
>> test release. Default is showing on demand but setting it to show always
>> does not make it show up on the system tray.
>
> You should get it by default if you are logging in in a CJK locale. For
> other locales, use the "input method" capplet to turn it on.
I am in the default English locale and I had to select custom input
method and choose scim (which was the only option) instead of the system
wide configuration (scim) setting which was enabled by default. If both
of these were using the scim methods why would choosing one of them make
a difference here? If scim is the only "custom" input method available
should that option even be enabled? Relogging and left click on the
hardly visible light grey icon does nothing. I couldn't figure out how
to enable Tamil as a alternative input method while logging into the
English locale. The SCIM setup UI does not seem to be following GNOME
HIG. All of this user interface details seems to be a mess that could
use a cleanup.
The input method capplet needs some revision, Warren posted about that
some time ago. I hope he looks after getting that done for F7.
Matthias