Better desktop?

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

ons, 29.03.2006 kl. 01.43 skrev Rahul Sundaram:
> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 23:26 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > tir, 28.03.2006 kl. 17.30 skrev Rahul Sundaram:
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > Someone forwarded me this. Looks interesting.
> > > 
> > > http://chabada.sk/better-desktop/
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Rahul
> > 
> > Just a few questions about the article:
> > 
> > 1. How is "Notes" in Jpeg images stored? EXIF - so that i can open an
> > image 10-15 years from now and still read the note no problem? Or some
> > program-specific format?
> > 
> > 2.Progress of downloads etc. Something has annoyed me a long time about
> > gnome and downloading - why doesn't it tell me how quick its downloading
> > (ie. kb/s)? Its fine that it tells me "how much time remaining" - but i
> > want to know the speed - even if it is a (triangle) Advanced...
> > 
> > Pause/resume in Firefox/gnome would also be just great.
> > 
> > Should i just file a couple of RFE's?
> 
> Ya. you should do that.
> 
> 
> > 
> > 3. Way out, i know it, but yes - usb memstick auth/homedir could be
> > usefull, esp. in low-infrastructure settings. Think about it, a primary
> > scool or something like that. You hand out USB keys to the pupils, which
> > are preformatted with a "homedir" and a password (hell, it could even be
> > encrypted!).
> > 
> > Then its just:
> > 	a) Find a free machine. (that is configured to accept usb-auth
> > 		with proper parameters)
> > 	b) Plug in usb keystick
> > 	c) Gdm recognizes it. Ask the user to enter password (if that is
> > 		wanted/required - sometimes you migth possibly want to
> > 		skip the password alltogether)
> > 	d)Log in. Do what you want. Log out. Pull memstick out. Leave.
> > 
> > Of cource, there should be some mechanism to be able to have GDM only
> > accept memsticks that are signed by the rigth authority etc. And make a
> > nice gui to format and create a lot of those, intended for know-nothing
> > sysadmins.
> > 
> > This could probably be usefull for OLPC as well. Maybe the little laptop
> > migth even be able to function as such a memory unit, allowing it to be
> > plugged into a "bigger" computer (possibly just an ordinary stationary
> > machine with a CRT monitor etc. and some special software?)
> 
> If this is useful for OLPC, you might want to post to
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/olpc-software. We have ongoing
> active discussions about such issues.
> 
> Rahul
> 

And one more thing, thats *extremely* annoying. I was supposed to add it
to the mail, but i forgot, and it did annoy me:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133658

Firefox insists on formatting every printout in Letter format, ignoring
every setting. It can't even remember it from printout one printout to
the next. Thats an old one - and extremely annoying.

--- Kyrre