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< Desktop
Design workspaces for things we may want to see in our desktop. Proto-features. Bluesky, crackrock, good shit, or low-hanging fruit.
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 |
Rethinking the desktop
| GNOME Shell | A new environment for the GNOME desktop | |
| Desktop Search | Find 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 | |
| Widgets | Built in Widgets. |
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 | |
| 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. |
Other
| Tablet Support | Make tablets just work | |
| Input Methods | Make SCIM not suck | |
| Experience Index | Is it useful to have an experience index? | |
| Live USB | Can we make the Live USB experience better than Live CD? |