This is the wiki from the Debian-Desktop group. (http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-desktop)
Groups that help reach our common integration goals include:
- ["DebianKDE"] (Debian KDE packages)
- [kde-debian] (developer group for usability and system integration)
Our new mailinglist at lists.debian.org is debian-desktop.
Traslations
["?DebianDesktopSpanish"]: spanish / espaƱol
DebianDesktopTenets - Now available.
?DebianDesktopProjectGoals - Help flesh these out!
["XFreeCommon"] -- Common ["XFree86"] features for all the distros, thinking specially in newbies ( resolution, frequency, Desktop manager selector...) when the screen is black
Some topics of interest:
UI Level Improvements Issues:
?MenuStructure - Menu structure for desktop user
- ["KDEMenuStructureVolunteers"]
- ["XFree86MenusStructureVolunteers"]
MimeTypes auto-binding
?DefaultPackages - Requirements for desktop-base
WoodyOrSid - debian-desktop-kde in Sid, apt-pinning in Woody.
UsabilityLinks - Some references on usability
DesktopResolutionDraft - Work on this folks
System Level Improvements Issues:
BootProcessSpeedup - Make the boot times shorter
- supermount, automount or hotplugging !["FDs"] and !["CDs"] (making sure apps behave nice and close files and connections)
DevicePermissions - Default capabilities for users on the system.
NativeOrGeneric - A discussion regarding Native Apps vs. Generic Apps.
LinuxSpeedup - Specific tweaks to make the GUI crank!
Automatic hardware detection, ["autodetection"], (i.e. graphics cards). See ?"LiveCD".
Have an easy and automatic recovery/backup solution like http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots activated by default at least for /home an etc. (use http:''/www.rsnapshot.org/ or skolelinux's rdiff solution configurable with ["Config4GNU"])
miniwoody 1.2a has been released. A few bug fixes has been made, f.e. a after installation of german-environment users was not able to change their desktop behavior. This has been fixed within ver1.2a.
As Altioth seems to allow only uploads up to 2 MB right now, miniwoody development sites are available at ["berliOS"].
Changelog: http://gnulinux.de/downloads/miniwoody_changelog
Package List: http://gnulinux.de/downloads/miniwoody_1_2a_selections
["berliOS"]: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/miniwoody/
Download Mirror: ftp://ftp.lazzurs.net/
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