Desktop/Whiteboards

Design workspaces for things we may want to see in our desktop. Proto-features. Bluesky, crackrock, good shit, or low-hanging fruit.

These workspaces are meant for coordiating visions and bringing people together who might be interested in working on these together. Very concrete implementation plans are better off in a feature page, following the Fedora feature process.

Please add new ideas in the "Other suggestions" section at the end of this page.

Polish tasks

Small things that improve the look and feel of the desktop without big functional changes.

	Menu Icons	Removing icons from menus
	Power Management Defaults	Fix the power manager default settings
	Remove About Menu Items	Remove the About Fedora/GNOME/Computer menu items
	Better Fonts	What can we do to improve our font collection
	Better Face Images	Improve the quality of the default face images
	Wallpaper	Improve the quality of the default desktop wallpapers
	User Switch Transitions	Nice transitions when switching users
	Volume control	Intuitive volume control
	Volume Applet	De-appletize volume applet

Experiences

	Coffee Table Experience	Design the laptop evening coffee table experience
	Dorm Desk Experience	Design the laptop dorm desk experience
	Breakfast & Coffee Experience	Design the laptop breakfast and coffee experience
	Knowledge Office Experience	Design the laptop knowledge worker office experience
	Experience Index	Is it useful to have an experience index?

Rethinking the desktop

	GNOME Shell	A new environment for the GNOME desktop
	Desktop Search	Find my stuff
	Restructure 'Start' Menus	Arrange my stuff
	Notification Center	Better notification management
	Standalone Web Apps	Install web mail/apps as applications
	Remove Administration Tools	Remove the Administration and System Tools menus
	Control Center	Still a trainwreck. What to do?
	GDM Screen Lock	Use GDM as the lock screen
	Location Awareness	Integrate location awareness into the desktop
	Guest User	Support guest users
	Secure Desktop	A place to ask security questions?
	Inhibit APIs	Consolidate our various inhibit APIs

Applications

Make individual applications great.

	Better Last.fm	Make last.fm rock
	Better Instant Messaging	Improve IM workflow
	Video Chat	Video chatting
	Firefox Downloads	Make Firefox downloads not suck
	Evolution Phone synchronization	or Why is Linux still inferior as desktop
	Default CD ripper	Make Rhythmbox as good as iTunes for CD import

Online Desktop

	Music Sync	Make portable music players just work
	Photo Upload	Make it easy to upload photos from a camera to the web
	Weather Alerts	Integrate weather alerts into clock applet
	Background channels	Get your backgrounds online
	Better Hostname	A better hostname

Making other parts of the system better for the desktop

	Hybrid Suspend	Merge suspend and hibernate
	Firewall	What does a firewall offer a desktop
	Fast Boot	Start quickly
	Backup	Secure your data and feel good while doing it
	User Account Management	A new User and Group Management tool
	P2V Migration	Keep your previous OS - in a VM
	Drive Sharing	Share a CD drive over the network
	Modern Virtual Consoles	A modern replacement for VT+getty
	Per-user X Server	Run X server as user
	Smartcard Authentication	Make smartcards support great
	Fingerprint Authentication	Make fingerprint support great
	Wayland	Possible solution to smooth f-u-s, modern VTs and more
	Tablet Support	Make tablets just work
	Input Methods	Make SCIM not suck
	Live USB	Can we make the Live USB experience better than Live CD?

Other suggestions

	Generic Commands to Start Default Common Applications	Create a list of commands that open programs without the user having to know the name of the program. The command "text-editor", for example, would open kwrite or gedit. The command "web-browser" would open Firefox or elinks.
	Widgets	Built in Widgets/ Widget Based Desktops.