GNOME/Ideas/11.2

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Rough list of ideas until feature planning method is decided, please keep the entries short

Note! These plans are not set in stone. They may change without notice.

This is based on the 11.1 ideas list and therefore needs a small review.

Desktop

• new desktop default setups
• Color management on the desktop
• ship a selection of screensavers
• composited nautilus desktop window and individual desktop wallpapers (BGO#48004, BGO#444320, Implementation, WM-SPEC Hint Discussion)

GNOME Main Menu

• remove bonobo from libslab
• fix the applications menu
  • the structure (too complex, too many submenus, etc.)
  • the desktop files appearing in many places
  • hiding desktop files that we don't care about
  • fix the GenericName vs Name vs Comment stuff in desktop files

Hardware Integration

• DeviceKit integration to replace HAL

Infrastructure

• Package review (excessive build requires, splitting)
• move packages to Contrib

Misc

• scheduled jobs tool
• flickr slideshow screensaver
• time machine

Multimedia

• further PulseAudio adoption
• sound themes
• podcast creation platform

P2P

• P2P integration (bittorrent)
• Implement this feature on MonoTorrent, which will bring an interesting usability idea from the eMule community. (knocte)

System integration

• PolicyKit deeper integration (RunAsRoot in .desktop/AdminKit)

• HIG improvements in upstream and opensuse-specific things
• Find 10 common items people do on 1st install and make those work really well
• Boot/desktop loading performance improvement
• More marketing:
  • tips&tricks on linux, non-opensuse specific, things (screencast howto, hardware usage (TV cards, webcams, GPS, etc), etc, etc) to get more people to try openSUSE
  • Daily ISO/live CDs?
  • Prebuilt VM images?
  • More blogging
• Upstream:
  • Working-out-of-the-box jhbuild
  • build brigade/build service integration
  • more housekeeping in g-s-d
  • move gconf schemas to /usr/share (schemas are data, so will remove lots of rpmlint warnings)