2011 Pre Alpha
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So, Mandriva 2011 Tech Preview is on the table, now it's time to fix the most bizarre bugs on this release and deploy a more reliable first Alpha. You are invited to help in this litlle cleanup mission. To make it a bit more clear, this usually is an internal page wich we use to build our next release, in this case Alpha1, but why not share with you on what we are working now? These are simple fixes that cannot pass to the next stage ;). And you can help us spot them all!
Bugs on KDE
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There is no Home icon on KDE Desktop-
Icon is present in wrong kde package
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The Kwin theme still IaOra, we want QtCurve for the first Alpha -
Switch the Mouse cursor to Oxygen-Zion - Package and set QtCurve CurveDomina SubTheme
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Improve 'Favorites' on Kickoff Startmenu:-
Dolphin -
MCC -
System Settings -
Browser -
Instant Messenger -
Music Player -
Video player
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The NetworkManager icon is hidden in the systemtray-
plasma-applet-networkmanagement should be installed instead of knetworkmanager
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Switch Clementine sidebar to 'Plain' instead the bluish-bar-
A more polished playlist on clementine
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Nepomuk 'Indexing Disabled' window popup-up randomly - No Qt style is applyed over GTK apps
Instalation
- Review and simplify the installation steps, actual steps are:
- What's your country ?
- You accept the license ?
- What is your timezone ?
- Setup of date, hour and timezone
- Choose your country
- Choose your keyboard layout
- Choose de conection you want to configure
- Select the network interface
- IP auto or dhcp ?
- Ethernet IP setup , hostname and DNS
- Ethernet network conectionc control - permit users to manage, start connection on boot ?
- You want to start the connection now ?
- root password
General
- Restart X via 'service dm restart' is not working correctly
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Package missing locales -
Fix installation copying contents of initial ram disk into new filesystem - Time is detected incorrectly sometimes (hwclock issues?)
- NetworkManager systemd unit does not starts due to a conflict with udev
