Luke Satin wrote:
It would be good if user would be able to select additional packages
from other repositories (including Fedora Extras) during the installation.
Choosing between GNOME,KDE,XFCE,Enlightenment,Project Looking Glass,etc.
would be great.
Yes. This is exactly what we have done in Fedora Core 6 installer.
It would be also good if user could
switch between Compiz(XGL,AIGLX).
Compiz is available in Fedora Core 6 in
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/compiz.
There are thousands packages to choose from - classic menu with
software
categories such as Development,Office,Games would not be very user friendly.
Refer to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/CompsXml. Participate in
fedora-extras list if you have any ideas to improve the organization of
packages.
you have to use something
like Macromedia Fireworks which is not available for Linux - the only
opensource alternative I've found is Xara Xtreme.
Thats good news then. Xara is available in Fedora Extras.
http://fedoraproject.org/extras/5/i386/repodata/repoview/X.group.html
Next, there should be some kind of checkboxes that will allow you to
install MP3,Flash,Sun Java,XVID/DIVX support and 3D accelerated
NVIDIA/ATI drivers directly. During the installation or after the
first-boot, but it should be automatic and simple. Yes, if you open a
terminal and execute 'yum install xmms-mp3', you'll get mp3 support, but
only for XMMS, not for XINE/GSTREAMER. You have to type tens/hundreds of
commands or manually download non-rpm installers if you want to do
something more than read e-mails,browse the web and chat in Linux.
See my earlier replies on this on my take on this.
Microsoft doesn't have very secure and stable operating system,
but they
have made everything user-friendly. Why my Fedora Core Linux can't be
user-friendly too? There are other distributions which are already
user-friendly.
Sure. As a developer, the best thing you can do to change this is to
contribute your skills to improving this.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Usability
Rahul