I just wanted to start this, let you know of some ideas I have, and know if you had some too.
Right now, I'm giving away copies of ubuntu to my friends, and found out that they dont get what they thought they would. So here goes some problems newbies have, and some possible solutions.
"Where are my hard drives?"
This is a common newbie problem, and I think that the "fdisk -l"+"edit /etc/fstab" solution isnt friendly enough. So why not fix it?
There could be some kind of application within gnome to manage hard drives. It could list all hard drives connected, and options for each one, like "Automatically mount at start up" and some other things. Or why not, have them all mounted automatically, and in the preferences of each device say if the hard drive should be mounted at start up or not.
"Why is everything brown? I want this thing to look different"
The user should easily be able to change the following things from a single place, without editing any weird option:
- wallpaper
- mouse pointer
- windows borders
- icon sets
- splash screen
- metacity themes.
Right now, there are tools that can simplify the work of searching for new themes and installing them, but all of the before mentioned items should still be customizable from a single application.
I already posted a backport thought about this.
What do you think about these ideas? What other apps should make it into the linux desktop?
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