This is the DebianDesktop Wiki, the hompage is here: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-desktop
The Debian Desktop subproject is a group of volunteers who want to create the best possible operating system for home and corporate workstation use. Our motto is "Software that Just Works". In short, our goal is to bring Debian, GNU, and Linux to the mainstream world.
Existing Information
DebianDesktopTenets - This page lists the initial tenets and proposals set forth by Colin Walters on the Debian Desktop Webpage Page. It is provided here for individuals to add additional proposals and ideas.
?DebianDesktopProjectGoals - Help flesh these out!
DebianDesktopHowTo - How to install a Debian Desktop, now.
Topics of interest (Where to help):
System Level Improvements:
- Boot - Make init scripts with unified and clear ouput or hide all boot up messages completely
BootProcessSpeedup - Make the boot times shorter
LinuxSpeedup - Specific tweaks to make the GUI crank!
automatic hardware detection, ["HardwareAutodetection"], (i.e. kernel development). See ?"LiveCD".
- supermount, automount or hotplugging !["FDs"] and !["CDs"] (making sure apps behave nice and allways close files and connections when leaving directories (konqueror!))
- This is probably best served in future by the Utopia Project on freedesktop.org. A lot of work is needed here on both desktops, however.
DevicePermissions - Default capabilities groups for users on the system.
Have an automatic and intuitive to handle snapshot/backup solution set up by default at least for /home and etc. (like http:''/www.rsnapshot.org or maybe http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu)
- ["XFreeCommon"] -- Common ["XFree86"] failsaife graphics (resolution, frequency, Desktop manager selector...)
UI Level Improvements:
?MenuStructure - Menu structure for desktop user
ConfigurationHandling - Configuration Management Systems
MimeTypes - Mimetype Management Systems
?DefaultPackages - Requirements for desktop-base
DesktopDefaultSettings - Settings for consistency and ease of use.
WoodyOrSid - debian-desktop-kde in Sid, apt-pinning in Woody.
NativeOrGeneric - A discussion regarding Native Apps vs. Generic Apps.
UsabilityLinks - Some references on usability
Old:
DesktopResolutionDraft - Draft Resolution for some changes.
Translations
*?DebianDesktopSpanish: spanish / espaƱol
*?DebianFrDesktop: French/francais
Other References
Debconf4 debian-desktop discussion:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/2004/05/msg00023.html
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/
Related work is also done by
- ["Kalyxo"]
["DebianGnome"]
["?DebianDesktopDiscussion"]