Hello folks!
My name is Mark McLaughlin, I am a Writer and a FAN of Fedora!
Here are suggestions for FUTURE Fedora Releases...
Borrowing from Windows Vista :
An Expanded Start Menu, showing additional helpful info A Sidebar of Widgets of Weather Forecasts, Alarm Clock, Stock Ticker, Sports Ticker, News Ticker.
Borrowing from MAC OS X :
Spotlight, a QUICK means to find whatever you need to find. Songbird Software Integration that works with an IPOD a la itunes.
My Ideas :
Star Wars Scrollup Screen Saver, text you type in, scroll into outer space just like in those classic movies!
A very good modular video editor, burrowing ideas from Final Cut Express.
A very good Podcast Studio software, something similar to Audacity and GarageBand.
Finally, older Windoze 98/2000/XP games should be supported via WINEX or something similar.
I maintain a BLOG at fedoraworld.blogspot.com, if you have any inside news on Fedora 7 and beyond, please e-mail anything to me so I can include it on my blog, thanks!
Mark McLaughlin - fedoraworld.blogspot.com
Quoting Markus McLaughlin markmc34@verizon.net:
Borrowing from Windows Vista :
An Expanded Start Menu, showing additional helpful info
Too cluttered IMHO.
A Sidebar of Widgets of Weather Forecasts, Alarm Clock, Stock Ticker, Sports Ticker, News Ticker.
Already available with an application called gdesklets and superkaramba in KDE. Microsoft Windows Vista is not that innovative at all because most of features are already available in both Linux, BSD and OSX (Yahoo widget formely known as Konbafulator which can be used in Windows XP/2000/2003).
Borrowing from MAC OS X :
Spotlight, a QUICK means to find whatever you need to find.
Already available with an search engine like Beagle to name a few.
Songbird Software Integration that works with an IPOD a la itunes.
Songbird can be made available for Fedora with gstreamer as backend engine without patented formats.
My Ideas :
Star Wars Scrollup Screen Saver, text you type in, scroll into outer space just like in those classic movies!
Already available AFAIK through xscreensavers.
A very good modular video editor, burrowing ideas from Final Cut Express.
Try Kino. Cinerrela is another tool but is not included in repository due to the use of patented format.
A very good Podcast Studio software, something similar to Audacity and GarageBand.
Audacity is already available for Fedora in repository.
Finally, older Windoze 98/2000/XP games should be supported via WINEX or something similar.
Wine is already available and can run most of Windows games. BTW, Winex is now known as Cedega.
Additional point is starting with Fedora 7, users will be able to further customize their own Fedora right before the installation. Only limit is the user creativity.
On 2/18/07, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
Additional point is starting with Fedora 7, users will be able to further customize their own Fedora right before the installation. Only limit is the user creativity.
Or perhaps we can add as "documents" or "attached to Release Notes" some notes and screenshots of those features that Fedora is shipping. Not everyone knows all the list of packages fedora is shipping and how they can be used. Possibly, if we can write somewhere in the spin, what people can do to customize their own fedora with fedora packages will be fun.
We have now Fedora Statistics showing how far Fedora has been successful and we are having more and more end users trying fedora. it would be nice to let them know the features fedora provides that are not setup by default.
Perhaps after Fosdem, I'll start doing my own list for the kde spin. Chitlesh
On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 13:31 +0100, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
On 2/18/07, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
Additional point is starting with Fedora 7, users will be able to further customize their own Fedora right before the installation. Only limit is the user creativity.
Or perhaps we can add as "documents" or "attached to Release Notes" some notes and screenshots of those features that Fedora is shipping. Not everyone knows all the list of packages fedora is shipping and how they can be used. Possibly, if we can write somewhere in the spin, what people can do to customize their own fedora with fedora packages will be fun.
There has been a "Tours" section¹ in the wiki ever since Core 5, so I encourage you to get involved for F7 and put these sorts of pointers there. The Release Notes need to stay oriented on what has changed since previous versions, and aren't well-suited to housing lists of fun facts and pointers. The Wiki is a better place for that, and we already link to the Tours section in the Release Notes "Overview" section.
There may be other suitable documents that the Docs Project has already, such as the Desktop User Guide or a Customization Guide.
= = = ¹ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tours
On 2/18/07, Paul W. Frields wrote:
There has been a "Tours" section¹ in the wiki ever since Core 5, so I encourage you to get involved for F7 and put these sorts of pointers there.
True, that should do it.
Chitlesh