FESCo meeting summary for 2009-06-26

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Mon Jun 29 09:15:33 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 14:26 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 06/29/2009 12:54 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 
> > The user does not care, so why present things to the user as if they should?
> 
> I said nothing about users. You should as a Fedora developer care about
> integration with leading edge features that makes Fedora stand out.
> 
> > You're calling things "integration" which are just features, e.g.
> > fingerprint reading.
> 
> I guess that is a just a different perspective. My point of view is
> that, finger print functionality already exists for quite sometime.
> What is new is the integration with desktop environment and display
> manager.

Yes, and before that, the feature might as well not have existed, given
how hard it was for user to enable/implement.

I'm sure that a KDE hacker with access to a supported fingerprint reader
could implement the enrollment facility within an afternoon.

Cheers




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