List ideas to build the upcoming Mandriva Linux 2007 distribution. Add your bugzilla# for each idea to be able to discuss it if needed.
Still, this Wiki page is useful to keep an overview of ideas that have been raised for the next release.
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Author(s) |
Bugzilla |
Status |
| Better Proxy Support. Includes ability to change proxy settings on the fly (something like resolvconf ?) and ability to set an automatic proxy configuration script for applications supporting it (mainly konqueror, gnome and firefox) |
yoho |
 Bug #10875 |
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| Use lzma by default in stead of bzip2, better compression and faster decompression! http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/dvalin/LZMASupport |
Per Øyvind Karlsen |
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Maybe wait for more finalized design of lzma with proper magic in place? |
| Dependency Optimization |
Per Øyvind Karlsen |
| Core Dependency Sanitization |
Per Øyvind Karlsen |
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A marketing lesson from Mandriva Poland : [1]
From Mandriva Poland: selling sets of 2007.0PP + 2007.1PP + Xtreme (Their own version of Mandriva) +more [2] Also: selling computers with Mandriva preinstalled in Carrefour (before) and Media Markt (now) [3] (news in Polish) and [4] (page 8)
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| Add JPackage repository again when it's properly cleaned upstream |
Per Øyvind Karlsen |
| Create a "gnome-burning-tools" meta package to install all in one both "nautilus-cd-burner" (burn data) and "serpentine" (burn audio CDs). |
| delta package use? |
Per Øyvind Karlsen |
Bug #24535 |
There are pro and cons |
| EDOS P2P usage for downloading stuff with urpmi? |
Per Øyvind Karlsen |
| RCS in /etc (like IsiSetup)? So that unintended or old drakxtools changes can be reverted? |
| One Live DVD |
Per Øyvind Karlsen |
| Create a Tracker Bug for organizing dependencies problems in some main and contrib packages |
Pacho Ramos |
Bug #30890 |
done |
| Change current mandriva.com webpages |
--Pacho Ramos 10:28, 9 June 2007 (CEST) |
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Was planned before Romain left... see web-discuss@ |
| Better Gnome desktop and related apps mandriva defaults settings |
Pacho Ramos |
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| Open a Mandriva Artwork public contest for improving mandriva artwork (sounds, wallpapers, splashes, bootsplash, gdm themes...) until one or two months before 2008.0 release |
Pacho Ramos |
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Has already been done without much success |
| break the tradition and make sure no mirror / package signature problems happen |
| add flat listing (alphanumerical order) in rpmdrake |
| The page "Show votes for this bug" in Mandriva Bugzilla shows users emails |
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Bug #23140 |
fixed |
| Correct buggy driver (like sky2 freeze) |
Nicola Chipaux |
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which ones ? bug# ? |
| RSBAC support : integration in RPM build system and creation of a graphic/ncurses tool |
Nicolas Chipaux |
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RSBAC will be dropped, replaced by AppArmor |
| Allow right delegation : privileged user should be able to modify date/time, wifi config without knowing root password. |
Nicolas Chipaux |
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Regular users can already change wifi network and bring up/down connection |
| Decrease memory consumption of urpmi (to work with less than 128 Mo of RAM). |
Nicolas Chipaux |
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| Add userland tools for iSCSI{targer,initiator} in the distribution. |
Nicolas Chipaux |
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| A traffice shaping graphical tools based on the same logic as diskdrake (with bandwidth instead of hardrive). |
Nicolas Chipaux |
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| Create a new "drake" for copying and or restoring partitions based on Partimage (or something similar) |
dalfa |
Bug #30813 |
| release a free (as in speech) version of all mandriva One flavour |
roudoud0u |
Bug #30836 |
| Allow "right click -> formating" (with options, like kfloppy) on the desktop icons for external drives pluged (usb keys and drives) |
Fredxx |
| Add Glipper or Klipper(depending on DE) in default desktop distribution, for better clipboard support |
Ahmad Yasser |
| Add an icon to rpmdrake at the end of Applications menu(and name it Add/Remove software,for example. This is done on Fedora and Ubuntu) |
Ahmad Yasser and Pacho Ramos |
Bug #30792 |
fixed |
| Clone packages.gentoo.org and adapt it to mandriva |
Pacho Ramos |
| Create Metalinks for ISO downloads, which list all mirrors & checksums for a increased availability & guaranteed integrity |
Ant Bryan |
Bug #31463 |
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| Equipment of certification and test of hardware, if it exists one with but participation of the community. |
Shinji_Otaku |
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| Suggestion |
Author(s) |
Bugzilla |
Status |
| Separate shorewall logs from /var/log/syslog |
MatthieuDuchemin |
Bug #22408 |
fixed |
| Add an option to allow a package to be reinstalled |
Michael Reinsch |
Bug #16112 |
fixed |
| Let the boot manager configure and find all of the other systems and add them to the boot menu |
Frank |
Bug #16604 |
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| Launch applications more quickly (Thunderbird, Open Office,...) |
xavy94 |
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| Mount automatically all the hard drives of the system (in read/write mode) even with Live CDs and NTFS disks |
xavy94 |
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| Support for fingerprint authentication |
yoho |
Bug #30791 |
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| Create an Updates applet that notify users about updated packages and lets them configure if they want to install the new packages, only download them... This is a feature already available in Ubuntu, OpenSuSE, Fedora and also Windows! |
Pacho Ramos |
Free Mandriva Online applet doing this already in place in 2007.1, but with less options : we need at least an "Do updates automaticaly" checkbox, maybe in the media add/remove zone. |
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| Use ntfs-3g by default in diskdrake, gnome-volume-manager, and KDE instead of incomplete kernel ntfs driver |
Frederik Himpe |
Bug #32146 |
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| Autodetect new partitions at startup with a GUI like Disk Manager |
Pacho Ramos |
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| Suggestion |
Author(s) |
Bugzilla |
Status |
| Big problem with soundcard driver snd-hda-intel on Asus W6A |
AtHome |
Bug #19962 |
Done |
| Add support for Madwifi-ng drivers (for Atheros wireless chipsets) |
FabienGaurand |
Bug #21273 |
Done |
| Improve support of Wacom device by better integration of linuxwacom project software |
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Bug #20928 |
fixed |
| Add support for rt61 drivers (for Ralink wireless chipsets) |
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Bug #22063 |
Done (already in 2007.1) |
| Automation of input into Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) |
WimCoulier |
Bug #20177 |
fixed |
| More wizards user oriented: wizard to automatically report working configuration (with tweaks while needed : bios version, firmware level, etc) |
StephaneT |
Bug #20177 |
not done |
| Support for the Belgian eID card |
WimCoulier |
Bug #16824 |
fixed |
| Support for the Pinnacle AV/DV (and other Pinnacle video capture cards) |
[email protected] |
Bug #16450 |
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| Automatic recognition of (gspca) webcams |
ReinoutVanSchouwen and Pacho Ramos |
Bug #30652 |
fixed? |
| Switch a maximum (if not all) sound cards to Alsa drivers (e.g. some well supported Intel ICH2 810 AC97 cards still use OSS) |
Frederik Himpe |
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| The system should enable automatically digital sound by optical output when aviable on motherboard and plugged (like windows. alsa supports digital sound) |
Fredxx |
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| Ship the very latest usb.ids and pci.ids files, 1 and only 1 per system (there are up to 3 or 4 files depending on installed packages, some outdated beyond 1 year !) |
chami78 |
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| Ship pppoe modem packages even in Free edition, and make sure pppoe works for every Mandriva brand |
chami78 |
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| Suggestion |
Author(s) |
Bugzilla |
Status |
| allow drak3d to set emerald as default window-decorator |
killer1987 |
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| Automatic rpm icons which could be used in rpmdrake |
Per Øyvind Karlsen |
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Probably not.. |
| Add functionality from nvidia and ati configurator to XFdrake as nvidia's or ati's own configurator don't care for existing config |
| Improve XFdrake to configure easily dual screen, with more options |
Fredxx |
| Stop polling in net_applet |
Frederik Himpe |
| net_applet should notify applications if network connection becomes available and unavailable like NetworkManager does, so applications like Pidgin, Evolution etc. can react to it |
Frederik Himpe |
| a simple installation program for graphical applications. We should have something like Ubuntu's gnome-app-install which only shows userfriendly graphical applications, browseable in categories and with a search function, and which explains in which program menu the application can be found after installation. |
Frederik Himpe |
| Diskdrake: Support for creation and management of encrypted partitions with luks and/or realcrypt |
Frederik Himpe |
Bug #30929 |
| Less need for logging out and in for simple tasks such as changing screen resolution, applying 3D Desktop effects,etc... |
Ahmad Yasser |
Bug #30896 |
fixed |
| improve draksound to give it better configuration tools, so as to configure easily digital sound (aviable in most motherboards, by optical output which is now well supported by alsa) by défault in most applications (amarok, kaffeine...), with a "test" button to test microphone, multichannel speakers and a window that describes the device is used (to help user configuring better somme applications like kmix, wengophone...) |
Fredxx |
| Improve and simplify diskdrake espacially to configure easily user's rights after formating external drives (usb hdd and keys), as GParted wich is easier than diskdrake. Besides, Diskdrake should be able to reseize partitions "by the left" (as partition magic) : today, diskdrake cannot merge 2 partition when a blank partition is located before the partition you want to reseize (extend). see http://forum.club.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=66934 |
Fredxx |
| Integrate gnome-system-tools/kcontrol system tools(depending on the DE used) to MCC, would remove confusion, and possibly errors of duplicate tools(like having two ways to change screen resolution, two ways to edit users,etc..) If not possible, just remove the tools from KDE or GNOME that duplicate MCC's functionality |
Ahmad Yasser |
Bug #30969 |
| Add an option menu to Mandriva Online GUI : "unlock urpmi base" to make it easier for everyone ! |
Fredxx |
| The user adding/removing/editing tool in MCC should allow to use an image from a file for the user image |
Ahmad Yasser |
| A new tool in MCC should be added for setting up webcams |
Ahmad Yasser |
| Automatic bug report implementation in DrakBug (or another way) |
EmmanuelAndry |
Bug #21578 |
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| Add a wizard for PAT/NAT configuration |
EmmanuelAndry |
Bug #21108 |
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| Add in drakconnect network interfaces parameters such as MTU, duplex, speed and so on |
EmmanuelAndry |
Bug #20471 |
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| Add the possibility to execute PRE/POST commands with DrakBackup (for example: stop mysql before the backup and start it after it's done) |
EmmanuelAndry |
Bug #20358 |
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| A new tool in MCC should be added for setting up bluetooth, and if possible, bluetooth devices(headsets,phones,etc..) |
Ahmad Yasser |
| Use Logical Volume Management as the standard way of partitioning |
Nicolas Brouard |
| Use action verbs instead of [Yes/No] in dialogs buttons in all the Mandriva tools |
Luis Menina |
Bug #31857 |
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| Reduce net_applet and mdkonline memory consumption. Together, they eat up to 50MB of RSS memory. Where's my RAM, dude ? |
Luis Menina |
Bug #31859, Bug #31860 |
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| Suggestion |
Author(s) |
Bugzilla |
Status |
| Make urpmi kernel-latest install sources if needed |
Jérôme Martin |
Bug #30886 |
WONTFIX |
| Make urpmi download next packages in the background while upgrading package to speed up process |
Per Øyvind Karlsen |
| Make urpmi use synthesis always by default and easily in combination with hdlist to increase speed |
Per Øyvind Karlsen |
| Usability improvements in edit-urpm-sources.pl (other reports coming up) |
Vedran Ljubović |
Bug #30841 |
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| Create a new drak tool for simplified adding a DVD installation medium |
Vedran Ljubović |
Bug #30842 |
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| Add total progress in gurpmi/rpmdrake when installing multiple packages |
Vedran Ljubović |
Bug #25181 or Bug #29158 |
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| rpmdrake-find-leaves |
Christophe Gaubert |
Bug #30557 |
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| Add support for package Suggests everywhere |
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Bug #29155 |
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| Add limited undo functionality in rpmdrake |
Vedran Ljubović |
Bug #31007 |
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| Better support for backport medias |
Nicolas Vigier |
Bug #31020 |
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| Ability to disable that long check when rpmdrake starts |
Ahmad Yasser |
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| Better use of task meta packages in rpmdrake, similar to Ubuntu's Automatix |
Per Øyvind Karlsen |
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| Suggestion |
Author(s) |
Bugzilla |
Status |
| Package TEXLive and consider it as a replacement for the dead TeTEX |
Frederik Himpe |
Bug #28206 |
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| Backup servers (svn, mysql, ...) data |
Jérôme Martin |
Bug #30887 |
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| Create a migration tool for Windows (ubuntu have done that) |
xavy94 |
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fixed |
| Create a tool to automatically install the required codecs and plugins (ubuntu have done that) |
xavy94 |
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| Drakbackup should allow to define different configuration |
Jérôme Martin |
Bug #30888 |
fixed |
| Drakbackup should propose external usb drives to make backups |
Fredxx |
| Kplayer for watching videos |
| Add a meta package task-multimedia |
trem |
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| Add Truecrypt [5] as it is one of the strongest (and best) applications of its type. |
D. McABR |
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Good news[6] and bad news [7] |
| Provide Mandriva-style templates for OpenOffice.org (colors, fonts) |
Olivier FAURAX |
| Provide Mandriva color palette in Inkscape, GIMP and Scribus |
Olivier FAURAX |
Bug #10875
