Fedora 15 KDE 4.6 feature page, comments/feedback?

[Jaroslav Reznik]

On Friday, December 17, 2010 03:17:51 am Manuel Escudero wrote:
> 2010/12/16 Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu>
> 
> > Manuel Escudero wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks!  I'll try to comment on these...
> > 
> > > I like it, I seriously like it :D I'm in favor of changing the default
> > > phonon backend for VLC.
> > 
> > vlc isn't currently in fedora, but we're making slow progress to make it
> > so,
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=vlc
> > 
> > > I'll suggest to integrate LibreOffice into the KDE Spin of Fedora and
> > > removing Koffice of it,
> > 
> > that'd a big increase in space, though if we're successful in getting
> > libreoffice-kde integration working, maybe.
> > 
> > > Also it will be good to offer Double Click for default
> > 
> > I personally prefer that too, but I'm far from a typical user too.
> > 
> > > it will be nice to disable the "session remembering"
> > 
> > ditto as above.  (Though, a nice side-effect would be that login/logout
> > would be faster by default)
> > 
> > > I believe, another good thing would be adding some extra KDE Apps, some
> > > apps that most
> > > users would like to see pre-installed, like Kmess, k3b and the Kipi
> > > Plugins. Maybe also
> > > an alternative browser to konqueror and/or rekonq, maybe chromium? (as
> > > gnome has FF)
> > 
> > Installing multiple apps for the same function, feels wrong to me.
> > 
> > k3b, kipi-plugins was only omited from the livecd due to space. 
> > definitely want those.
> > 
> > chromium... not an option, it's not in fedora (and by the looks of it,
> > won't
> > be for a very long time).
> > 
> > > In that case, I recommend to pre-install some apps by default in KDE
> > 
> > spin,
> > 
> > > to make it more
> > > user friendly and ready for every day use, like:
> > > 
> > > DESKTOP EXTRAS:
> > > 
> > > kdeartwork kdebase-workspace-wallpapers kdeplasma-addons
> > 
> > kdeplasma-addons definitely.
> > The extra artwork/wallpapers is *very* big, I'd doubt we could fit that
> > even
> > on a 1gb spin (given all the other additions we want).
> > 
> > > RECOMENDED APPS FOR EVERY DAY USE:
> > > 
> > > audacious guvcview kmess pidgin gimp gparted sound-juicer xchat
> > > multiget k3b banshee
> > > xsane vlc kdenlive firefox unrar p7zip p7zip-plugins java-1.6.0-openjdk
> > > ntfs-config wine
> > > azureus tucan kid3 kipi-plugins java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin
> > 
> > Besides the > 1 app per function issue I mentioned above) anything that's
> > not a kde app will have to have a *very* good use-case to consider, so
> > that includes (at least):  audacious guvcview pidgin firefox gimp
> > gparted sound- juicer xchat banshee xsane azureus
> > Would you be interested in making such a case for each of these?
> > 
> > Items not in fedora cannot be considered, like vlc, kdenlive, unrar
> > 
> > -- Rex
> > 
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> 
> @Rex: Okey!! :D If I can help any way to make some changes happen Just tell
> me exactly what to do...
> I'll be glad of helping the Spin Out :)

The best way would be to fill a well separated bug reports - and bring more 
controversal ones to KDE SIG meeting ;-)

R.
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