Suggestions for Breezy...

[Jane Weideman]

On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 13:18 -0400, Tim Hull wrote:
> I had a lot of suggestions during the Hoary development cycle.  While 
> many were implemented, there are still some that weren't.  I'd like to
> share some of these here and get people's thoughts on these. 
> Unforunately, I'm unable to actually do any work on these features 
> currently myself.
> 
> First of all, the default fonts on Hoary could look better.  This could 
> be done by 1)enabling autohinter (for Latin fonts only) 2)Reducing font 
> sizes across the board (especially in Firefox - the defaults are too 
> big) 3)Using sans serif in apps whenever possible (for instance, make it 
> the default in Firefox rather than serif).
> 
> Also, I'm really interested in better Linux laptop support, and I think 
> that a few things would really help.  For instance, there is no good 
> wireless roaming tools installed in Hoary by default - you have to go to 
> universe to find anything, and even then the tools are unsupported and 
> have known bugs.  It also would be nice to see more suspend support 
> (including suspend-to-RAM) as this is critical for many laptop users.
> 
> One other area where improvements could be made is in dial-up support. 
> Currently, Hoary comes with no decent graphical PPP dialer installed by 
> default (the Network control panel applet doesn't work good at all for 
> me), and no winmodem drivers are included (maybe these could go in 
> restricted?).  Not all can get broadband, so it seems like dial-up would 
> be a good thing to look at in Breezy.
> 
> Additionally, I think it would be a good idea to use dmix for sound 
> rather than using a sound server, as dmix doesn't require applications 
> to be written for it specifically as does esd.  I've noticed many people 
> have been asking about setting up Hoary to allow non-esd sound, so this
> seems like something that should be considered for Breezy.
> 
> Could these be considered for Breezy?
> 
> 
> Tim Hull
> thully at umich.edu
> 
> P.S. - I have a suggestion for the GNOME panel, to make usability easier 
> (especially with regards to customization).  After I install, I move the 
>     non-notification icons in the system tray (volume, power status) to 
> the left of the notification divider, so there is a clear separation 
> between notification icons and non-notification icons.  This makes it 
> easier to add/remove things (as you don't have to lock all the icons in 
> place) and
> makes it easier to keep this part of the panel clean after customization.
> 
> 


Hi I am not sure if anyone responded to this...
Have you had a look at:
http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDownUnder/BreezyGoals ? 
This is what is currently being worked on for the Breezy release, much
of the stuff you mentioned is included.

regards
JaneW