Features that would be great for Fedora 10

[Valent Turkovic]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Yaakov Nemoy <loupgaroublond at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Valent Turkovic
> <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here are just few features that I believe would be great for Fedora 10 to have:
>>
>> 1. RFE: Add desktop folder with examples of what "fedora thing" can do :)
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=315171
>>
>> Lisa gets Fedora 10 Live CD from her Joe (her geeky boyfriend) and
>> puts it in her laptop. After she gets presented with a different
>> looking desktop that
>> she is usually presented she doesn't know what this "fedora thing"
>> actually does and can do. Joe gives her a CD version of Ubuntu, after
>> loosing temper with trying to explain what fedora can actually do.
>> Lisa puts Ubuntu CD in and after few minutes she clicks through a few
>> examples on her new desktop and sees that this "Ubuntu thing" does
>> more that that "Fedora thing" like plays music & videos, shows nice
>> spreadsheets and other documents.
>>
>> It would be great for Fedora to add directory on desktop with some
>> nice examples what Fedora and OSS can do. There are great videos on
>> redhat magazine page and I'm sure there are other great resources -
>> new users need to be exposed to them in this way. Also there is a
>> initiative for contriburots to make screencasts and this feature would
>> be a great match with it if they merged together.
>
> How about a welcome screen that pops up everytime you boot up, with an
> obnoxious shortcut to it in the top of our 'go' menu.  No matter how
> many times you 'disable this the next time it boots', it still nags
> you to install aMSN.
>
> </sarcasm>
>
> I think a folder might not be the best interface, but even so, putting
> in a default bookmarks like we do already is not really effective
> either.  Maybe this is something the myFedora guys might want to look
> at at some point.
>
> -Yaakov

I understand your sarcasm and appreciate it, I know that dolder may
not be the best interface but that is just one idea. I must admit that
I found folder that Ubuntu had (not sure if it still has it because I
don't use it any more) with some OpenOffice calc and Writer example
files is great for demoing what can be done with FLOSS software and
all from a live CD.

So if you and others have other ideas jus keem them flowing...

ps. what do you think about other two points?

Cheers,
Valent.

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