Two questions / bugs / issues with Fedora 17 Desktop, minor but kinda important for user experience [FIXED MESSAGE]

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Mar 15 17:51:38 UTC 2012


Elad Alfassa (elad at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> 1) who decided that system-config-date is to be installed by default
> and given the confusing (for new users) system-config-date as a name
> in the menu?
> From IRC:
> <adamw> elad661: it's called 'system-config-date' because it was
> previously called Date and Time. see the problem with that?
> <elad661> yes, I do
> <elad661> but I think we could either remove it (since gnome's control
> panel provides the functionality) or find a better name.
> <elad661> we probably need it for firstboot, so removing the desktop
> file might be a good idea

It's required by both firstboot and anaconda so it gets pulled in.

> 2) why is "remote desktop viewer" installed by default? I thought
> gnome boxes provides this functionality now.

No one has done the update to comps to pull boxes in appropriately yet.

Bill


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