Suggestions for Hoary

[Jerry Haltom]

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 21:10 +0100, Christoffer Soerensen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have some suggestions for Hoary. Here goes:
> 
> 1) Rename CDROM labels to model names, eg. CDROM1 -> MATSHITA CDROM.
> CDROM2 -> NEC DVDROM.
> 
> This makes the media handling much more intuitive. I think Mandrake does
> this.

I dislike this idea. Many PC's these days from, like Dell, come with a
DVD and CDROM drive with black face plates and other "you don't need to
know" type stuff. I don't think the user should need to know.

It would be nice to have this information exposed in a piece of metadata
somehow attached to the CDROM icon though. Perhaps in the properties
window, or a tooltip.

Not sure how that would be implemented. ;)

> 
> 2) Update Manager / Upgrade notifier. I could not get upgrade notifier
> to work, but hopefully it will work someday! 
> 
> Anyway, how about adding the _option_ to automatically download and
> install the updates ? 
> 
> Also, I guess that installing a new kernel update notifies the user that
> he/she has to reboot the system to make the changes take effect ?
> 
> 3) Take a look at bug https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3172
> 
> to improve the menu handling so non-Gnome apps will appear there as
> well.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Jerry Haltom <wasabi at larvalstage.net>
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