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Here's a list of ideas for Xubuntu Edgy. Please do not edit this unless for tidying and organizing, bring ideas up in xubuntu-devel first.

Some of these may be flashed out later to full specifications if necessary.

Important Features

These are basic features (think Win95) people are requesting and the code has yet to be written.

• New printer configuration (either adding this to xfprint or making gnome-cups-manager gtk-only)
• Browse Windows network (Thunar)
• Trash support (Thunar)
• Floppy support (Thunar)
• Sort out Audio/Video player situation (gxine looks better that xfmedia at this point) (I would suggest seperate clients for audio and video: something like Listen or Exaile for audio, and gxine/xine for video)
• Update-notifier to be included by default

:Note: samba, trash, floppy may already be available in some form in xffm but we are focusing on Thunar. :Note: Exaile! already supports playing Video according to this topic. -- VincentZekred 2006-09-02 10:07:27

Desktop UI improvements

These require significant changes to upstream code, which is in feature freeze. They would be nice to have but not as important as the previous group

• DnD launchers from desktop menu/appfinder to panel (w/o explicit need for customize panel mode)
• Menubar like in Gnome (Apps/Places/System) instead of simple menu (Applications)
• More freedesktop.org compliant menu
• Move item to arbitrary places on panel (like in Gnome) w/o the separator widget hack.
• Laptop support (hotkey handling for mixer/sleep, better power management UI)

Reducing duplication, reusing Ubuntu software

The main theme here is converting as much as sensible from gnome to gtk2 libs (will be even easier with GTK 2.10) and possibly from C to PyGtk.

• Xubuntu-system-tools (see how to reduce duplication with g-s-t)
• Evaluate gnome-power-manager
• Look into CDBS multibuild to be able to build gtk and gnome versions of binary packages from same source package

Infrastructure

• Import upstream svn into bzr in LP and work on that

LTSP

• Improve Xfce specific thin client support based on feedback, colaborate with edubuntu

  • Xubuntu themed login manager and bootsplash for MueKow: ltsp-build-client in the package ltsp-server needs theming support first (?)

Translations

• Xubuntu langpacks? Right now it's base langpacks + gnome langpacks (evince, gnumeric) for full desktop translation

Performance

• Revisit app selection (i.e. sylpheed-claws vs t-bird vs seamonkey)
  • consider using skipstone instead of firefox for lightness
• Get involved in various upstream or ubuntu-wide performance work (X startup, gnome-perf, faster boot, etc)
• More perf measurement tools working OOTB in ubuntu to get more users to test (systemtap, exmap, new memprof, vmlinux with debug info for oprofile)

• Try getting the UbuntuLite people involved (hello UbuntuLite people)