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Setting GNOME goals (or the story of my secret plans for GNOME 2.16) - me

me — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:05:17 +0000

What would be great is to try to develop new and easy way do do things. In fact, not to do a back research of XP ans OsX, but to try something new. (We'll be good when Cro$oft & Apple will be steeling our ideas, but not having a likethemlike desktop).

Setting GNOME goals (or the story of my secret plans for GNOME 2.16) - Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:29:41 +0000

Well I can tell you one thing that GNOME needs is some apps, the following are desired, so how to get people developing.

Desktop Publisher (not Scribus)
Printshop type app. (card and banner maker)
Video app to put images and music on a DVD in sysnc (Diva???)
A photoshop app to handle more than 8 bit images.

Setting GNOME goals (or the story of my secret plans for GNOME 2.16) - Aldo "xoen" Giambelluca

Aldo "xoen" Giambelluca — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:25:19 +0000

I can agree with comment #12.
Also I think should be possible to set up more stuff from GNOME.
We have GnomeBaker, it's great, but it can be better, I know there is nautilus-cd-burner, but maybe for a little "advanced" things isn't the best :) (I like the idea).

We need also a GNOME chat program with HIG love and full featured (also video/audio chat), so it can be used also in internet cafè (so with also jabber, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ#, and so on...), many windows users need it ;)

OK maybe this is not GNOME-specific-specific, but it would be great, so dear santa claus, can I also have a free CAD software and a Ferrari? Thank you :P

Setting GNOME goals (or the story of my secret plans for GNOME 2.16) - Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:37:00 +0000

To me, GNOME still ahs many small gaps that can quickly be filled, mostly in the form of small utilities that need to be built. Examples of tools in KDE that need GNOME equivalents are KPPP (as the current system for configuring dial-up modems really is inadequate), a task scheduler (Cron front-end), an advanced cd-burner (like K3B. I know we have Nautilus burning but something with more advanced options would be good, even if it doubles up on functionality), a colour picker applet (GNOME 1 had this applet; why was it dropped?), a system hardware summary.

Adding these applets would greatly enhance GNOME's usabiity and make it stand alone for myself and many others.

Setting GNOME goals (or the story of my secret plans for GNOME 2.16) - Tiago Cogumbreiro

Tiago Cogumbreiro — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:44:54 +0000

I totally agree with mpt. The close button is useless and redundant...

Setting GNOME goals (or the story of my secret plans for GNOME 2.16) - mpt

mpt — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:45:50 +0000

Vincent, Totem could create shortcuts to those things in the Trash. Then if you change your mind, you can drag them from the Trash back into the playlist.

Meanwhile, about renaming "Close" to "Finish", I have another idea: rename it to "[×]", and put it right in the top corner of the window. ;-)

Setting GNOME goals (or the story of my secret plans for GNOME 2.16) - liberforce

liberforce — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:52:48 +0000

As a GNOME Lover, maybe I can give a hand on getting rid of popt, if someone can point me a bugzilla bug about this or some links to understand the problem, or the advantages of Goptions over popt.

I totally agree with you about all this Vincent. The real problem I see in free software world (not only GNOME) since I use it, is the lack of polish. Getting simple, clear goals can't harm.

Moreover, if more people work toward the same direction, newcommers will be more efficiently guided, following the people working on those issues.

Setting GNOME goals (or the story of my secret plans for GNOME 2.16) - Vincent

Vincent — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:52:11 +0000

mpt: you're good at making me doubt :-) Let's look at the playlist in totem. Select some items and drop them to the trash. What should it do? I find it reasonable to remove the items from the playlist, but I agree I'm no usability expert ;-)

duff: the problem is that libgnome links to popt. So you'll probably get the same result afterwards. But all our apps will have a nice --help output :-)

Setting GNOME goals (or the story of my secret plans for GNOME 2.16) - duff

duff — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:53:35 +0000

Anyone who feels like helping on the removal of popt, just run this to see whihch apps link to libpopt:

# find /usr/bin -type f | while read x; do [ -x $x ] && ldd $x | grep -q popt && echo $x; done

returns about 150 matches for me

Setting GNOME goals (or the story of my secret plans for GNOME 2.16) - nobody

nobody — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 02:13:28 +0000

Xgl? Xgl!

Setting GNOME goals (or the story of my secret plans for GNOME 2.16) - Diego

Diego — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:26:49 +0000

Add a video/image thumbnail view to the file selector......

It completely sucks that you've to select EVERY image in a directory to see a preview - and then it only supports he image formats supported by the pixbuf loaders....if you want to open a video (something completely normal for ej: a video app) you cant even get a thumbnail view nor get a preview selecting it, at least in debian by default. It remembers me so much of 1995... :(

Setting GNOME goals (or the story of my secret plans for GNOME 2.16) - mpt

mpt — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:59:46 +0000

More integration (and bugfixing!) would be great. One quibble: "Make drag and drop to the trash delete the dropped object"? That's not what it does in Nautilus. Either move the dropped object to the Trash, or don't do anything at all.

Setting GNOME goals (or the story of my secret plans for GNOME 2.16) - RubenV

RubenV — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:30:02 +0000

GG? Awesome idea! Great way to spice up the work (and hand out tasks to new contributors).

Setting GNOME goals (or the story of my secret plans for GNOME 2.16) - Reinout van Schouwen

Reinout van Schouwen — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:25:11 +0000

I have a suggestion if you don't mind :-) -- Desktop-wide XDS (bugzilla.gnome.org/show_b... ) support!

Setting GNOME goals (or the story of my secret plans for GNOME 2.16) - Sigge Kotliar

Sigge Kotliar — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:31:45 +0000

"The GG project, the GNOME Goals: find such a goal every two weeks and make people achieve those goals."

Sounds just cool enough to actually work! Good luck with the GG project!