User:DanielDrake/12.2.0 ideas

Trivial items/short projects

• Use full dejavu fonts instead of LGC slimmed version. improves our international support, I think we've had a few requests in total, and now a new one from OLPC Canada.
• add an optional mechanism to let the default keyboard layout be selected at build time, rather than autodetected on first boot.
• add an optional mechanism to let the default system locale be selected at build time, rather than autodetected on first boot.
• remove rsyslog in favour of systemd's journal?
• remove cron in favour of systemd's equivalent functionality?
• avoid shipping both signed and unsigned kernels (just needs agreement from the team)

Bigger projects

Highest priority first.

Replace totem

Now requires clutter. Replace it with gstreamer-browser-plugin for media viewing in the browser (work already started), and with a regular GNOME UI for Jukebox to replace the standalone player on the GNOME side.

olpc-update and related improvements

• Allow olpc-update-query to optionally ignore OATS signature (off by default) (trivial) (pushed to git, but needs os-builder counterpart)
• Factor out Sugar activity update into some kind of Sugar shell helper process
• Shell helper would try hard to update activities automatically after an upgrade (in the background?) (off by default in Sugar, on by default in OLPC builds)
  • bitfrost's urlrange would be adapted for use here
  • Would also support the additional microformat headers added in dextrose to keep people happy?
  • (nice to have) Adapt Sugar's activity install code to use python zip classes instead of "unzip", then we can only download parts of the activity that changed during an update
• Shell helper sends dbus messages to shell after updating an activity (if needed, maybe the Shell watching the filesystem is enough)
• Drop "Your activities need updating" on-upgrade-message from Sugar (will be a pain to port to GTK3 anyway)
• (nice to have) olpc-update could handle "out of disk space" issues by deleting activities that are available on the school server before starting the update

To be performed by FZT

• Multiple update streams in oatslite (to allow for a mixture of laptop models over a whole deployment)
• Multiple activity update streams in xs-activity-server (to allow for a mix of software versions running in the same school)

iwmmxt

Help with the fedora inclusion of iwmmxt support in gcc, and pixman packaging.

Kernel upstreaming

Knock a tricky item or two off the list .

PulseAudio

Move to PulseAudio on all 3 laptops. If time is too short or workload too high, at least do an investigation of the blocking issues.