On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 01:44, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <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?
http://hackers.progeny.com/pgi/
It needs i18n and a g2 port.
> > - 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.
Yep. My found-again Perl literacy would love this.
> > - 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.
Idea (tm) Owen Taylor. That's what he told me the future of magicdev
would be.
> > - 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.
Nod.
> > - 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". ;-)
They are definitely useful in a SOHO environment. Maybe less in a larger
corporate environment where file sharing infrastructure is already in
place.
Cheers
--
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net
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