Workstation/Tasklist

Fedora Workstation Tasklist

This document aims to outline the tasks planned for the workstation as derived from the Workstation/Workstation_PRD and Workstation/Technical_Specification. Also some general information on how to get involved.

How to get involved

There are two good steps to take to get involved. First you should decide where you think you would want to get involved. Are you a Coder? Web developer? Tester? Designer? Marketing? The tables beneath show some of the tasks we are currently looking at. We would love your help with any of them. If you are interested in joining one of these efforts send an email to the desktop@lists.fedoraproject.org introducing yourself to the project. Follow that up with either contacting the people listed directly or contact one of the working group leaders, for instance through the Fedora Workstation IRC channel, who will help put you in touch. Some of these tasks will also require you to get involved with various upstream communities.

Older tasks

Previous task lists are maintained in this archive page.

Fedora Workstation 25

Project Name	Developer/Owner	Status	Justification/Comment
GL Dispatch, EGL streams, EGL device	Adam Jackson	In Progress	Work is being done on this by both us and NVidia, expectation is that this will hit Fedora 25.
Make Optimus setup work smoothly	Adam Jackson		Once the GL Dispatch works land, ensure that setting up a system to use Optimus becomes simple
Boxes - OVF/OVA import/export of vms	Kalev Lember	in progress	https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723008
Software - Install shell extensions	Richard Hughes	done
Wayland - Wacom support	Peter Hutterer, Carlos Garnacho	done, split in "tablet" and "buttonset". both planned for 1.10	This is a crucial tool for animators and graphics artists wanting to use our platform. Working closely with Wacom on this. feature partity with X
control center - Wayland Wacom support	Carlos Garnacho	in progress
Wayland pointer locking and confinement - compositor implementations	Jonas Ådahl	done	needed for many games
Wayland pointer locking and confinement - SDL support	Jonas Ådahl	done	needed for many games
Wayland support in Firefox	Martin Stransky	in progress	The main prerequisite - GTK3-port - is pretty much finished. If Firefox is not stable enough on Wayland by F24, we will use XWayland and keep Wayland backend experimental for early adopters
Scriptless RPMS for desktop	Kalev Lember	ongoing cleanup File triggers are enabled in F24 rawhide. Need to actually use this functionality now.	We want to avoid requiring scripts to be called from RPMS as far as possible as any such manual steps increase the risk for bugs and issues happening during upgrades. Working on removing the need for such things will increase overall system robustness and make upgrades less of a challenge. It also makes our updates more alike to image based installations. gsettings schemas - file triggers in place gconf schemas - not worth doing im modules - file triggers in place gio modules - file triggers in place pixbuf loaders - file triggers in place systemd units - not a cache, just annoying post scripts desktop file mime extraction - file triggers in place mime database updates - file triggers in place app data validation: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1149141
Mac Port of Fedora Media Writer	Martin Briza	done	To support macOS properly LUC needs a complete rewrite, will be done for F25.
Fedora Media Writer for Flatpak	Martin Briza	in progress	This will allow support for multiple distributions with just a single installation file.
Fedora Media Writer as Primary Downloadable	Jiri Eischmann/Martin Briza/Dennis Gilmore	in progress	Make FMW the primary downloadable on getfedora.org, requires transparent builds
Firefox Enterprise Login	Jan Horak	In Progress	Improving enterprise login experience in Firefox - GSSAPI interactions should not block the main UI, domain name should be set automatically with a realm/domain, improving prompt UI.
Codecs - openh264	Kalev Lember, Wim Taymans	done	Build openh264 codecs in koji and make them available through a repo hosted by cisco
Desktop log viewer - hook up GLib logging to the journal	David King	done
Remote Windows Apps	Ondrej Holy and Alexander Bokovoy	In Progress	GOA account handling for Windows terminal server and remote windows applications, target Fedora 25

Future ideas

Project Name	Developer/Owner	Status	Justification
Optimus support	Bastien Nocera	initial support integrated	Design work here: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/DualGPU. Better support for dual-GPU (Intel+nvidia, or Intel+AMD) systems. Also important for a long range of power users and developers.
Boxes GPU passthrough	Zeeshan Ali	in progress	Being able to assign a separate GPU to a virtual machine is a crucial feature for a lot of developers, for instance game developers and animators https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746345
power tunables		research underway	Some of the kernel tunables such as SATA link power management and USB autosuspend can make a difference of multiple watts. These need to be investigated and udev/kernel configuration adjusted as appropriate.
GDM kdc proxy access	Ray Strode, Alexander Bokovoy	planning	Integrate two-factor authentication into GDM. Design work here: https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Whiteboards/EnterpriseLogin#Tentative_Design
Goa Kerberos improvements	Debarshi Ray	planning	Make SSO experience better in epiphany, nautilus, evolution; support Kerberos with more online accounts
Fleet Commander	Alberto Ruiz	Proof of concept under development	We want our systems to be deployed in large software engineering organizations. Providing good tools for managing such deployments could be an important differentiator for us.
Software Installer - Third-party repo (chrome, etc)		New proposal being developed	https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Third_party_software_proposal
Screencasting with audio	Wim Taymans	Need community member involvement	We been getting requests for better screencasting support in the desktop, needs review of current status and what can be done to improve performance and features. https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Potential/Recorder
Wayland - remoting	Jonas Adahl	prototyping	Offer remote access to Wayland sessions over VNC (and perhaps other protocols)
Qt application menu	Jan Grulich	needs work	status: Qt apps can export their menus via the com.canonical.dbusmenu interface. They export the complete menubar though so we should probably just utilize the first submenu or the complete menu in one button (it's possible, yet the menus are quite complex)
Qt - test Qt/KDE apps under Wayland/XWayland	Jan Grulich	in progress	Wayland should become default in F24, test if Qt/KDE apps can run on Wayland/XWayland in GNOME.
Qt - hi-dpi support	Jan Grulich		Make sure Qt applications support hi-dpi scaling when running on high resolution displays (experimental patches to land soon in qt5/rawhide). The topic explained here: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/highdpi.html
Qt - accessibility	Jan Grulich		Verify if setting accessibility features such as screen reader works in Qt/KDE applications in Workstation. Link: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/accessible.html
Qt - High Contrast theme	Martin Briza		Accessibility is important for us and should work without a hitch accross toolkits
Software Installer - Offer a way to override 'metered' connection heuristics	Network Manager team	In progress	The idea is for !NetworkManager to offer this information on a per-connection basis, then we can offer a user override for it in the network panel https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741725
Prefer D-Bus activation in gnome-session	Ray Strode		Part of the move to systemd user sessions
Move apps to desktop file name == bus id			Part of the move to systemd user sessions, and isolated applications. Suitable for crowd sourcing
Abrt - improve crash collection	Bastien Nocera, Abrt team	in progress	https://github.com/abrt/abrt/milestones/Fedora%2022, https://github.com/abrt/abrt/issues/891, https://github.com/abrt/abrt/issues/887
gnome-shell - bring weather notifications back	Florian Muellner
Define 'portals' policy	David King	need to do some experimental prototyping	more than for server containers, desktop containers need to be able to access various system services, like online accounts.
Caldav support for general IMAP connector in Online accounts	Milan Crha and Debarshi Ray		the generic IMAP connector should be suplemented by a general caldav one as most email servers using IMAP would be used with a caldav server. Tasks: write a goacaldavprovider.c and glue it into evo/eds
Boxes - file transfers from/to vm	Zeeshan Ali		https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730259
Wayland - mouse accessibility	GNOME a11y team		Feature parity with X
Wayland - input device information	Jonas Ådahl		Feature parity with X
Wayland - IBUS	Rui Matos	Wayland protocol needs defining, sync with Daiki Ueno from the IBus side	IBUS is the input system we rely in in Fedora for a large range of languages. We need IBUS support to be to notch in order not have switching to Wayland be a regression for our international userbase
Wayland On-screen keyboard	Rui Matos	Not yet begun, needs to be synced with IBUS support. A protocol needs to be defined	Important for especially non-desktop use of Wayland
kdbus	Systemd team	abandoned upstream	Important in order to have an efficient way to do data transport between containers.
kbus glib support	David King	blocked on kdbus happening	Needed to benefit from kdbus in the desktop
Initial setup - skip timezone	Matthias Clasen		Anaconda will add a way for us to learn if the user configured the timezone during installation (or if it was detected by geoip). In that case, we don't want to ask the user again, but skip that step.
Terminal -automatic title updates	Debarshi Ray	working patch posted	This feature will make working with a large quantity of terminals easier as identifying each one will be a lot easier. Feature parity with other OS's. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711060
Terminal - Allow to search selected text on Web	Allan Day	Under discussion: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723088
Terminal - Allow to send selected text to a pastebin	Allan Day	Under discussion: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723089
gnome-shell - Better tiling	Florian Muellner	in progress upstream patches here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751857	Another crucial feature for developers working with a lot of terminals.
Multimonitor - edge resistance	Florian Muellner	Florian has an unfinished patch	A lot of developers and sysadmins use multimonitor setups. We need to have best of class handling of these kind of setups.
gnome-boxes hi-dpi support	Zeeshan Ali		The details are described here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726743
Fedora account integration
Pidgin integration			With 3.16, gnome-shell is much less entangled with empathy. We should look at making pidgin work nicely in GNOME
Easier langpack installation for Libreoffice	Parag Nemade		Currently langpacks for Libreoffice and KDE etc are not installed by default after a Workstation installation - ideally they should be installed more or less semi-automatically (maybe via gnome-initial-setup or gnome-software say?)
Software Installer - Chrome/firefox webapps	Tomas Popela	Stalled on the proprietary soft inclusion	A lot of desktop development these days actually come in the form of webapps. We need to integrate these apps into out platform so that they help drive people to our platform and not away from it.
Software Installer - support developer tools	Allan Day	needs design	A lot of developer tools are command line and thus might not be a great fit for the application installer. Could be that for instance the Developer assistance is a better home for installing such tools. Or maybe a 3rd separate tool.
Software Installer - hosting + generation of app data for Fedora	Fedora Rel. Engineering		q.v. https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5721
Software Installer - hosting + generation of app data for coprs	Fedora Rel. Engineering
Desktop log viewer - per-application logs	David King	unfinished patch exists	The desktop log viewer is meant to be a good debug tool for developers and a bit easier to interact with for such purposes than the log viewer included in cockpit.
Desktop log viewer - move log-triggered actions (eg SMART, abrt) from gsd and abrt	David King	needs discussion with abrt team
Desktop log viewer - add support for activate-by-message id to journal	David King	needs discussion with systemd guys
Desktop log viewer - clean up logs			suitable for crowdsourcing
Mylyn support added to Online accounts			Mylyn can be a portal for enabling developers easy access to a lot of developer resources
Qt - CSD under wayland	Dan Vrátil/Jan Grulich	unlikely to materialize	status: Qt Wayland apps don't run in Rawhide at all. There is support for CSDs in QtWayland but there is no application utilizing it. Upstream KDE (Martin Graesslin) is strongly against using CSDs, see http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/02/client-side-window-decorations-and-wayland/
eclipse-jbosstools integration?		talk to jboss team about linuxapps and their needs
improve git GUI tool		more like sourcetree?	Great tooling is a big part of the issue we need to address. Especially as we try to lure developers away from MacOS making sure our development tools like gitg are top notch is crucial.
Wayland - xsettings replacement for Wayland		not a short-term priority	If we ever want be be able to run the desktop without requiring some form of X Window support, then this needs to be resolved.
gnome-shell - system keybinding overview			https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/OS/HelpOverlay#System_Shortcuts
Docking station teardown behaviour	Design team/Jon McCann	design needed	A lot of developers, sysadmins and other power users use a docking station at the office and then bring their laptops home in the evening to continue working. Currently we don't have a great behaviour for dealing with the external monitor appearing/disappearing, with all apps just migrating to the internal screen on disconnect.
Application grouping support	Design team/Jon McCann	design needed	Developers and devops are task oriented more than application oriented and we want to have a way to group a large set of application/windows together and be able to deal with them as a group. So that you can have for instance 5 terminals and a browser with 10 tabs set to specific pages associated with one project and another set of applications and terminals for another project.
Virtual 3D for SPICE	David Arlie	progress: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-10/msg02418.html	Need more community involvement to move forward
Drop hard xwayland dependency from mutter	Jonas Adahl
Windows network integration - Printers			Make sure assigned printers from AD show up in the print dialog when the machine is enrolled in a domain
Windows network integration - Shares			Make sure assigned file shares from AD show up in the file chooser and nautilus when the machine is enrolled in a domain
Deal better with binary NVidia driver	Peter Jones		Change the behaviour of grubby so that using the NVidia driver with Fedora becomes a smoother experience
UI enablement of VDI mode		Make this more discoverable - gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface enable-animations false