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

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 13:51 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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.

If desktop team considers the GNOME tool a complete replacement now (I
haven't checked if they're feature-equivalent), it could always have
NotShowIn=GNOME added to its .desktop file.

> > 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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