GNOME/Ideas/11.0

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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.

Accessibility

• Turn on by default
  • Development/Packaging: hpj
  • Testing/Review/QA: Bryen Yunashko aka suseROCKS and Darragh Ó Héiligh
  • Documentation: Bryen Yunashko aka suseROCKS and Darragh Ó Héiligh

• Visual-Impairment
• Enable simple screen magnification support during YaST OS install.
  • Maybe integrate this package http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/
  • Add screen reader support to the installation for the Blind.
• Add GNOME-Terminal feature to allow color overriding
  • If a user chose specific colors for easier viewing in gnome-terminal profile, then that should override any colors generated by ls, vim, etc. Otherwise, user has to hunt all over to find specific tricks for disabling colors in each function.
• Configure full-screen magnification support.
• Allow for mouse-based magnification support. (see http://magnifier.sourceforge.net. Dynamic mode only exists for non-Linux versions. Otherwise in static mode, it works great. They are in search of developers for the Linux version of dynamic mode. Any volunteers?)

• Hearing-Impairment
• Improving support for hearing-impaired users through visual effects to indicate sounds such as incoming instant message, etc.
• Add modules to enable VRS communcation support in Ekiga. (Need to research protocol information per FCC interoperability standards.)
• Add closed-captioning decoder support (This may already exist, but we need to verify.)
  • Seems that CC support exists for Xine, waiting to find out more about GStreamer.
• Set up TDD phone software for use with a modem. (Need to research protocol information)

• Physical-Impairment
• (Research needed)

• GENERAL
• Include full a11y options as part of YaST OS install, perhaps as a dedicated screen?
  • It would be easier for a11y users to select to enable options for accessibility during the YaST OS install than later on AFTER the OS has been installed.
• Ensure all yast modules are accessible to users of assistive technologies in Gnome. (See Bug #[1] 346987)
• Comprehensive documentation/wiki page with explanation of Accessibility tools shipped with OpenSuse.
• Comprehensive documentation/wiki page with summaries of each app shipped with OpenSuse's accessibility options (whether they're termed as accessible options or not.)
• Set up a new pattern in Yast Software Management Module (sw_single) that lists all the a11y tools available.
  • We've gotten tentative agreement from the yast-devel team to do this. I (Bryen) just need to start compiling a full list of apps and submit submit a bug report for the yast-devel team to take up on this.

Bluetooth

• Better integration into GNOME, the bluez stack should already be working here mostly
• network devices,PDA Sync,Mice,Keyboards,Headsets,SMS notifications on the desktop from phones,Printing
• Gypsy http://folks.o-hand.com/iain/gypsy/

Desktop

• Review GNOME/Desktop_Policy decisions
• Make GNOME Panel slightly transparent.
• Disable 'YaST repository parsing' stealing focus automatically in Gnome.

Doorman

• Accessibility
• Fonts (upgrading of 10.2 fontconfig hack)
• Old session state

Dual head

• dual head audit for problem apps - Gnome switches X from Xinerama to Cloned after GDM update. (Note! This bug report is locked but kept here as a reference; https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218849)

fonts.conf

• respect this and xsettings
• DPI work
  • Default to 96
• Default to SubPixel smoothing with Full hinting instead of Best Shapes

GDM

• smooth Boot->GDM/KDM splash transition
• Add face browser as default
• GDM F10 menu (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=259785)
• Update branding http://en.opensuse.org/Branding_Overview:os10.3:GDM

GNOME Main Menu

• Main menu UI updates
  • Redesign of GNOME main menu and application browser
  • User:MBoman/Slab
  • Development/Packaging: federico sreeves ivanz captain_magnus
  • Testing/Review/QA: suseROCKS
  • Documentation:

Infrastructure

• System to deal with revision control / packages / spec files and patches / bug tracking / upstream development.
• LXR for unpatched / patched sources, probably tied to the above. In the source displays, highlight lines which came from patches, correlate to bugs.
• Write a script / web page / etc. that periodically pulls all the GNOME-related packages from other distros, and presents an easily-browsable list of the patches they have. Make this a public resource, to eat mindshare away from Launchpad.
• Tool to make it easy to grab package version updates off the web
• osc plugin to pull a patch from a bug by bug id in bgo

Keyring

• gnome-keyring-pam by default - done mid-October 2007

Misc

• HAL device icons (1. Icon Naming Specification Additions, Define Icon Names 2. GTK+ Icon Fallback Support 3. gnome-vfs info.icon_name, HAL info.icon_name 4. Ask #tango to create all "base device icons" (loads are lurking around and already done) 5. Banshee/PodSleuth
• xdg-user-dirs
• Automatic purge of trash
• GNOME graphical config for fingerprint readers (although it is in yast now)
• Bug buddy downloads debuginfo packages (could be moot with minidumps)
• b-a-s/dbus/gconf/eds lifecycle issues
• really nice bittorrent workflow
• Find out why we are doing DNS lookups with session management
• Gtk frontend for SaX2

Multimedia

• Support gstreamer codec install with a rpm backend (--with-install-plugins-helper=/usr/bin/gnome-codec-install in gst-plugin-base configure) - I (ensonic_(at)_users.sf.net) offer help with the gstreamer side, if someone is willing to help on the rpm side
• Podcast creation platform: integrate Jokosher, Banshee, audio / microphone configuration, etc.
• Polish the "photo workflow": importing photos from a camera, classifying them, editing, printing, "burn album to CD", etc.
• Switch to pulseaudio - a To Do List
  • Development/Packaging: psp250 rodrigo cyberorg
  • Testing/Review/QA: cyberorg
  • Documentation:

Package Management

• PackageKit
  • Development/Packaging: sreeves, jkress, btimothy, dliang
  • Testing/Review/QA: banderso
  • Documentation:

Packaging

• split theme packages into individual themes
• kill off SuSEconfig files
• pidgin defaults http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2007-08/msg00420.html

Printing

• switch to system-config-printer from gnome-cups-manager
  • Development/Packaging: cmr
  • Testing/Review/QA:
  • Documentation:

PolicyKit/ConsoleKit

• leverage for more rootless admin possibilities
• Xnest screensaver and Lock screen functionality shouldn't impact the Monitor brightness for the parent session. (Note! This bug report is locked but kept here as a reference; https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=185480)

Performance

• Startup performance hackathon.
• Merge gconf database for i/o gains

Remote Desktop: FreeNX

• Package and integrate FreeNX.
• Add a YaST module to configure the server side.
• Add a nice GUI wrapper around the client (see knx). (bwhiteley)

Review other Distros

• Look at Ubuntu Studio or Fedora Art Studio - see what packages we are missing and what kind of integration we can steal / implement.
• Integrate the GNOME Build Brigade work into our build service. (rodrigo)

SuSE Integration

• Applet front end to the firewall

Synchronization

• look at opensync some more
• make process of syncing (at least) contacts and calendar to either a syncml device (opensync) or a windows mobile device (synce/opensync) work for average user joe

Testing

• zzzzz locale for checking for i18n issues

UI

• kill our notification-daemon changes to hardcode stacked only notifications and allow pointed notification
• international clock as the default and upstream - done Jan 17/08
  • Development/Packaging: federico
  • Testing/Review/QA: upstream
  • Documentation: upstream
• gtk file chooser improvements
• make focus stealing prevention not suck

UX

• decide whether developing a long-term alternative to Red Hat's 'Online-Desktop' - possibly based on AsusTek's launcher - might be a good idea

Xgl/compiz

• Install and activate compiz by default here is the script that will make it possible.
  • Development/Packaging:
  • Testing/Review/QA: cyberorg
  • Documentation:
• Come up with a clean or unified config solution
  • Development/Packaging:
  • Testing/Review/QA: cyberorg
  • Documentation:
• Easy/automatic activation of Xgl/AIGLX/nVIDIA according to the hardware detected, see [www.sabayonlinux.org/ sabayon's] application for ideas.
  • Development/Packaging:
  • Testing/Review/QA: cyberorg
  • Documentation:
• Individual cubes in XGL/Xinerama