2011.0 specs proposal

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Contents 1 Distribution Core 1.1 kernel, hardware support 1.2 xorg 1.3 others (gcc, glibc, udev...) 1.4 RPM 1.4.1 Switch to rpm5 1.4.2 Adopt distepoch 1.5 Security 2 Servers 3 Mandriva Tools 3.1 mdkonline, rpmdrake 3.2 urpmi 3.3 drakxtools(mcc) 3.4 installer 3.5 drakx-net 3.6 one / draklive-install 4 Desktop Environments 4.1 GENERAL 4.2 GNOME 4.3 KDE 4.4 Moblin 4.5 Printing 4.6 Multimedia apps 4.7 Office apps 4.8 Internet apps 5 Internationalization 5.1 Input method 6 Build Infrastructure

Distribution Core

• Update basesystem and busybox to allow a lightweight install (e.g., create a busybox-symlinks package which Provides: cureutils, findutils, ..., ...)
  • (eugeni) this is actually a work in progress from my part, I have something to start in a private git repo

kernel, hardware support

• Adopt BFS scheduler for netbook and desktop kernels

xorg

others (gcc, glibc, udev...)

Adopt systemd for use with initscripts

Proposed by: Maarten Vanraes.

Status:

RPM

Switch to rpm5

With current rpm maintainer being active in rpm5 development upstream, all mandriva patches has been merged, it provides a lot of desired features+++, rpm5 is the only sensible choice.

Proposed by: Per Øyvind Karlsen.

Status: 60% - started (package is about to hit main/testing, perl-URPM has been rewritten for rpm5, several other tools has already got support added, several others will need to be ported)

Adopt distepoch

Adopt distepoch & disttag tags to free ourself from the use of mandriva specific %mkrel macro, distribution suffix being used in rpmvercmp() and also separate package release from distribution release. See earlier thread on maintainers list.

Proposed by: Per Øyvind Karlsen.

Status: 30% - started (support available in rpm5, mostly implemented in a separate urpmi branch, needs to be ported to rpm.org, or even better, switch to rpm5).

Security

• replace tetex with texlive

Servers

• consider adopting/developing Ajenti [1]

Mandriva Tools

mdkonline, rpmdrake

• When a reboot is needed after updates, change the mdkapplet trayicon alerting user this. Idea Nº 454 by aapgorilla
• Improve rpmdrake search function

urpmi

drakxtools(mcc)

• Clean-up visuals, switch to a smaller font.
• Insert the option to use OSS4 on draksound, check this link
• drop unused wizards

installer

• Verify if drakfirsttime is still needed and used.

drakx-net

• Adopt NetworkManager as a replacement for net_applet.
• Fix regressions with PCMCIA UMTS cards (see Bug #49963 and #59399) and connecting UMTS phones using data cable (see Bug #59421)

one / draklive-install

Desktop Environments

GENERAL

• Drop timeoftheday wallpaper engine and the wallpaper variants it needs from /usr/share/mdk/backgrounds, grab some

new wallpaper from the Mandriva pool on http://www.flickr.com/groups/mandriva2010/pool/ Trying wallpapers in .svg format, so they would automatically scale to any resolution, for further tests, this can be done on alpha and beta.

GNOME

• Possibilty to use moving background-images similar to a screensaver.

Maybe a waterfall, a beach with waves coming at you, a rainforest, a river etc. etc.

KDE

• Switch from Iaora widget style - widgets, kwin and color theme, suggestions are:
  • Oxygen widgets + Oxygen kwin and define a new color theme.
  • QTcurve + Plastic Kwin border + color theme (Suggestions: kde4's Norway or Bright - modified)
• Switch k-menu icon, suggestion is this icon
• Switch from fullscreen to a smaller ksplash screen, like original kde one's size.
• Switch the systemsounds to a new theme, designed and voted by the community.
• Switch Amarok2 with Clementine.
• Switch kopete with kmess and psi. Not accepted.
• Switch to kickoff menu, prioritizing favorite apps, check this screenshot why not lancelot it's much more ergonomic than kickoff, I prefer classic to kickoff and so did an overwhelming number of users when polled to choose between kickoff or classic aapgorilla 22:45, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
• Switch gtk applications with Qt equivalents
• Switch to phonon-xine phonon-xine is a dead project and phonon itself seems moribund aapgorilla 22:45, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
• Remove DPI force on fonts.
• Drop unused apps

Proposed by: Sergio Rafael Lemke.

Moblin

Printing

Multimedia apps

• Introduce VLC as default video player. (This includes removal of totem and dragon)

• Enhance Rhythmbox to have language-section when using Jamendo to filter out some languages.

• Improve/Repair installation of codes using Codeina (Bug #61382)

Office apps

Internet apps

Internationalization

Input method

• Migration default input method from scim to ibus, a next generation input framework, which is also available in contrib repository of Mandriva. This includes integration of localdrake and drakxtools.
• Move scim from main to contrib. (Optional)

Build Infrastructure

• rething the buildsystem, consider switching to koji or suse (?)