submitting ideas to Fedora

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>  On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 22:41 +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
>  > > We've seen it all, on this very list, already.
>  >
>  > Who said Ubuntu is modern :> ?
>  >
>  > As we have most of that features or were GOING to have them, we would
>  > have different ideas on such list.
>
>  Went through some of the interesting ones:
>
>  - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/138/
>  Filed as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=435402
>
>  - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/95/
>  See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBluetooth
>
>  - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2/
>  See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureFingerprint
>
>  - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/84/
>  Easy to add, file a bug against gnome-settings-daemon if you're bothered
>
>  - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/111/
>  Needs upstream approval/discussions
>
>  - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/204/
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RandrSupport given the right
>  support for the video card chipset
>
>  - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/161/
>  This is ongoing. HAL support in X should make this easier for us in
>  Fedora 9.
>
>  - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/82/
>  Not really an idea, but GPS integration is planned for GNOME (see the
>  geoclue project), and hardware support for the Bluetooth ones as above
>
>  - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/179/
>  Already planned in GNOME Scan, not sure about the status
>
>  - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/208/
>  That's already something people want to work on in GNOME, there's a lot
>  of discussion on how this should integrate with the online desktop, etc.
>  See the GNOME bugzilla (about-me lives in the control-center)
>
>  - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/168/
>  Same reason ndiswrapper isn't in Fedora, pretty much, although it lives
>  in user-space.
>
>  - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/174/
>  The drivers seem to be done by linuxtv people, so it's only a matter of
>  time (from our POV) before they show up in the upstream kernel
>
>  - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/185/
>  That was already rejected by upstream
>
>  - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/76/
>  Already in development:
>  http://blogs.gnome.org/cneumair/2008/02/17/new-column-wise-nautilus-view-user-data-backup-replay/
>
>  - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/241/
>  Google Calendar integration got worked on for last year's SoC for GNOME
>  I'm pretty sure CalDav and other such protocols are being worked on
>  upstream
>
>  - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1/
>  Hard one because all the solutions seem to have been half-finished
>  before. Didn't we have this as a Fedora SoC as well?
>
>  - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/80/
>  We don't have as much of a problem as we have sub-menus for those, but
>  it's on-going work upstream and for us.
>
>  - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28/
>  Yes please. OpenSync sucks, and I'm tip-toeing
>  Conduit/gnome-phone-manager integration for F10, for a small part of
>  that puzzle.
>
>  - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/240/
>  Applications can provide this if they want/need it, file bugs against
>  specific applications
>
>  - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/120/
>  Agreed it's a good idea, but this btnx is far from being the right
>  solution. See also:
>  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140279
>  Should be easier to fix with the HAL support in the X server
>
>  - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/129/
>  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519438
>
>  - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/132/
>  Bugs should be filed against applications that should have joypad
>  support but don't (gnome-games!)
>  See also http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519439


All the more reason to consolidate the effort.


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