Talk:Freespire Roadmap

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• XGL or AIGLX - has a final decision been made on this?

• Freespire already has a doreport GUI. The Diagnostic Report Wizard!

• I think the rapid inclusion of Xgl would be a very good idea, or at least make an easily installable version available asap. This would greatly enhance Freespire's appeal for me personally, as it is I am not in a position to be happy having Freespire as an installed OS (I already have openSUSE and Ubuntu on two seperate harddrives). Also I don't know what your fealings about Gnome are, but I have found that for Windows users a Gnome desktop formatted in the same way as the default Gnome on openSUSE (with only one panel at the bottom (and if possible the slab menu interface from SLED 10), is a very simple and intuitive environment. I'll tell you, if all this was in Freespire either by default or by selection then I would be typing this on it right now! BTW good start though!

• Hi to everybody, I'm an old Linspire user; because of my job I'm often on the road and I need to connect to the internet frequently for professional purpose. The best solution for me is to connect my lap-top to internet through a BluETOOTH connection with my mobile phone. Wi-Fi is still not everywhere so (in my opinion) the HDPA, GSM, UMTS and Edge networks are the best solution for people on the move. I do not think to be the only one..... So I do not really understand why Freespire and Linspire did not fullfill un important need for people on the move. Is linspire/Freespire only for desktop computers ? So for people that mainly use their pc at home ????? If so I think that an important future (Bluetooth) is missed and consequently aa interesting portion of the Market.

• I would highly suggest using XFCE if a "Freespire Lite" was ever created. It is a very efficient, light-weight DE, but is also pretty user friendly and easy on the eyes at the same time. -ZephyrXero (2006-10-04@17:25CDT)
  • As a personal note, I would much rather use XFCE than KDE. How hard will it be to install a different desktop environment with Freespire2? -- ZephyrXero (2006-10-30 04:15CST)

• How about having a music CD "autoplay" after inserting into drive? I have Freespire1 on three different machines and autoplay just does not work.

• Hopefully, Freespire will continue to support Win4Lin 9X....

Roadmap: "-Switch kview with ksquirrel"?

Roadmap: "-Switch kview with ksquirrel"? I am not sure if ksquirrel is the best choice for thumbnail/image viewing. As far as I understand it, Ksquirrel requires openGL to run. Is this going to cause problems for people that can't get hardware acceleration to work?

Anyway, I feel that Gwenview with the KIPI plugins (from CNR) is a much nicer solution than ksquirrel is at the moment. Gwenview appears to fit in with the current Free/Linspire theme a lot better, and its image viewing mode is faster for me than ksquirrel and it does a better job with the image scaling as you stretch the window. The konqueror embedded image viewer provided with the CNR install of Gwenview and KIPI is the solution I would like to see come integrated with Free/Linspire in the future.

user experience on the desktop - freespire roadmap

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A - selection I found that I had forgotton how to use a single click for icons on the desktop, it is in the launch-->Control Center-->Peripherals-->Mouse-->Single click to open files or folders

I found I forgot how to setup the konqueror file manager to be set to a default view, always open here! --that one was fairly easy, view profiles

Anyway, the point is..

A quick summary, user guide to a few common options on the desktop --if you are intending to help new users with their desktop experience (naturally the forums can provide a lot of this information, and is a great resource) --desktop logon echoing *, even when I have no echo turned on Launch-->Control center-->Security and privacy-->Password and user Account-->At Password Prompt--show Nothing

B - Selection Exactly how does the freespire samba sharemanager work (remounting rmtshares on desktop startup - logon) --can it be removed, or is it an integral part of the freespire desktop operations

If the video driver becomes damaged, how to reinstall the correct driver ie nvidia, or ati)

How to change the system services that start at boot.. --remove NFS, NIS, portmapper rc-update command for the rc init scripts or debconf ? (did not install) gui for a similar procedure

Note, not everyone needs or wants to use windows or needs or wants to connect to a windows domain or network (even when I have used windows, I have always removed the windows client from the tcp settings, as it is not needed to logon to the internet, and incorrectly assumes that the internet=windows network ?) --so the question is how to remove any facilities that are used to allow access to windows shares networks etc, or at least offer the option how-to guide

And if you are using freespire Linux as the desktop , for example at home, why would you want to also use windows ? (unless you had to: could not convince others to switch or the distribution could not handle normal user operations eg media players wma etc) --it also seems that the built in windows codecs wma media player seem slow when connecting to a streaming website (eg cfrb toronto). Is it checking something like DRM ? or is it sending something like I have connected with wma media player

--mDNSResponder needed or not ? --inetd needed or not --portmapper needed or not --ramdisk needed or not --zeroconfig, bonjour needed or not needed --at needed or not --artsd needed or not (can we install kde desktop without a sound server, jack seems ok though ) --ksmserver needed or not

Firefox browser --remove all exceptions from blocked pop-up windows (I understand that advertisers want to be included, but for the user, having any advertisers included as a trusted ? exception is not on, the user should decide --hopefully some users will be able to check the preferences in Firefox themselves without needing to be told how-to do it (windows refugees !)

I have and still do use Gentoo Linux (AMD64), --So I may have a different perspective on the desktop, and have only recently returned to a debian distribution (in the past I have used libranet, Storm, openbsd and freebsd (my first linux like os), as well as redhat (4.x version), Slackware, yraggdissel, gentoo, Suse and so on..so its been a while that I have used linux or BSD or Debian) --I initially did not like Debian (slow production cycle, slow security updates kernel 2.4 for way too long, but liked their apt-get package manager )

C - Selection You might not want to note this, but how to remove CNR from the menus, kmenuedit --use apt-get or synaptic to manage updates, the reason CNR seems to want to ask for payment for free software that already exists in the repositories --I used CNR initially to get the cnr desktop update, but after that and after trying various installs, I decided that apt-get install or synaptic was faster and easier to manage (I don't know exactly what CNR is doing with the 2-way conversation between my PC and the CNR respository)

Improving security, eg bastille, chkrootkit (rkhunter did not work)

Video, VLC did not work (DVD video player)

• Wow! Please move the plans to implement a sudo system and not just let the user run as root all the time be put into the A. Priorities list! This is extremely important if FreeSpire is to be even remotely secure. From what I've read, even Vista is going to follow a similar system, and that'd be really bad if Vista were considered more secure than a Linux distro -- ZephyrXero (2006-10-30@04:34CST)

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something else, but I have forgotton for now ? ----------

spelling suggestions.

I know you guys and gals have more important things to consider but when you get a chance can I make the following suggestions

All are under the.... A list ...first paragraph.

Change "An" new to "A" new.

Change "accompanied by a new and improved repository system" to "with a better repository system"

Could be inferred to be an advertisement when we are already a mature system?

Change "extremely current" to "up to-date"

Could infer unstable rather than based on testing or stable repositories?

Change "much more quickly with less man hours and work" to "quicker and easier to maintain"

BTW I thought the last one sounds like public servant speak.... please forgive me if that sounds like a criticism.....I am merely trying to make the English plainer for us simple folk.

good luck with version 2 of Freespire.