Re: Status + Future

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Bastien Nocera">

> 1) Look for potential caveats in the desktop
> 2) Write the code to sort it out
> 3) Try to get it integrated somewhere.
> 
> What I mean is that there is no need to rush build a server or that sort
> of thing. There are plenty of smalls tasks that are easy to take on
> one-by-one, and that make the whole project advance.

Yeah. Although I think we need some direction for achieving the goals
("GNOME-based corporate desktop") we've mostly agreed on.

> Here's a small list:
> - Porting PGI to gnome2

PGI?

> - Network configuration tool

I'm more and more convinced that with some hacking, GST (once-was-XST) is
the Right Way to do this, despite some of its warts.

> - Daemon replacing magicdev/magicplug (1 part system/1 part user inside
> the Gnome session, system daemon creates "events" and use daemon
> receives them and acts upon)

Yeah, I like this one.

> - Policies for new users (shall we create X/Y/Z directories in the
> homedir? shall we add her to the sudoers? etc.)

Perhaps we should do a quick document on the initial user experience, to
flesh this out a bit. A story of the user's first login.

> - Nice default configurations for Apache, Samba (and ssh?)

Maybe even a plan for how these are useful within the context of the
"GNOME-based corporate desktop". ;-)

- Jeff

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