Updated Roadmap

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De-scoped
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Improvements selected for the future
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Mint 17.2
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Consider adding pipelight or freshplayerplugin (https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerplugin)
Consider porting cinnamon-bluetooth into gnome-bluetooth-frontend, for use in MATE and Xfce
nemo: remove duplication between Eject and Safely Remove (for removable devices)
hexchat: implement PR for /etc/hexchat for distro to set default list of networks https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat; http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/hexchat.git/ (sney mailto:drubo@drubo.net)
Mint 17
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mdm: stopping the MDM service prevents access to the TTYs. Using Ctrl+Alt+F2 only works when MDM is running. Thus, there’s no way to run anything in a TTY unless the X server is running.
Can’t play TS video files
The add-apt-repository command doesn’t work with “gksu” and “pkexec” which causes various scripts that require this to break under Linux Mint 16 (Y PPA Manager tool for instance).
mintinstall "show all results" not l10n
mintinstall: show license info
windows compatibility layer
bring back hardinfo
Cinnammon
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search providers
ibus support
integrate workspace management in nemo, panel, window-list, applet, muffin, settings
Nemo conflicts with fcitx, the best chinese input method. I can’t rename anything in Nemo with fcitx.
Cinnamon isn’t scaling user defined panel sizes properly. If I select Numix as my theme and set a customised panel size, when clicking Allow Cinnamon to Scale Panel Text and Icons, the text on the right side of the panel bar seems to go a bit blurry. This didn’t happen on the last release. The update shield sometimes goes wonky too which I assume is related.
The power button set to “shut down immediately” still ‘asks’
The cinnamon-sound-applet’s icon renders incorrectly in i3wm’s system tray (it was fine with the version of cinnamon that shipped with LM16 and the same version of i3 (4.7.2)). I was able to get it working via brute force specifying the path to the icon, but it would be nice if it worked out of the box.
When trying to connect my ext.hard drive via smb when double clicking on the globe icon (workgroup) nemo closes down
System Settings > Display won’t let me set the one on the right as primary. The “Set as Primary” button is grayed. It’s connected as DVI. The other monitor’s “Set as Primary” is not grayed. It’s connected as VGA. This is related to a very longstanding issue of Mint always opening dialogs on the left (wrong) monitor
Network setting does not let me to set Proxy.. The button “set system wide” is not there.
l10n:
System Settings -> Windows: The options in the four drop-down boxes “Action on title bar double-click”, “Action on title bar double-click”, “Action on title bar right-click” and “Window focus mode”.
Language Settings: “Apply System-Wide”, “Install / Remove Languages”, the associated tool tips and all the text.
System Settings -> Network -> Proxy: The options under Method.
System Settings -> Graphics Tablet: “No tablet detected – please plug in or turn on your graphics tablet”
System Settings -> Software Sources: Text in Maintenance button
System Settings -> Fonts: Options in the two drop-down boxes Antialiasing and Hinting.
System Settings -> Applets/Desklets/Extensions/Themes: Blue text “More info” (right-clicking opens a menu that is translated)
System Settings -> Monitor: Options in the drop-down box Rotation
System Settings -> Desklets: The buttons Highlight and Remove (configuring a desklet).
l10n: Menu Editor: “Main Menu” (title bar), “New Menu”, New Item”, “Move Up”, “Move Down”, “Restore System Configuration”.
settings: The search box in System Settings displays “Search…” next to the magnifier.
settings: mdm - The name of the login screen in the main Cinnamon Control Centre is different to the window when you open it (Login Screen in the main Cinnamon Control Centre vs Login Window Preferences). The names should be the same for consistency.
settings: mouse - The Cinnamon drag threshold and GTK drag threshold input boxes are not aligned to each other but appended to the end of the wording. They should be aligned as per other similar examples in the Cinnamon Control Centre.
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applets: Even after setting org.cinnamon.desktop.lockdown.disable-lock-screen to true, the lock button still appears on cinnamon menu applet…
cinnamon: Onscreen keyboard activates when clicking the menu on the panel because text entry is focused... if onboard is used, entry should not focus when showing the menu
cinnamon panel icon size sometimes show huge icons unless panel-scale-text-icons is set to true..
cinnamon-settings: in French http://imagebin.org/277997
Creating a user without password (stupid but nothing prevents it): impossible for that user to set one himself in Account Details.
In the “Users and Groups”, when on “Groups” tab, it could be great to have a way to see the members of a selected group and add new members to the group as well. Currently, we can only edit the group name…
Feature request: if a create a luncher on my desktop, I can select an icon for it (with preview)… instead, if a modify a launcher in the menu with the “menu editor”, I can select a different icon but without preview. Can you please add the preview feature?
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In gThumb, select a picture, right-click on it, select “Set as Desktop Background”, once applied, click the “Preferences” button on the green banner that just appeared at the bottom of the gThumb window and you’ll get the error message “Failed to execute child process “gnome-control-center” (No such file or directory)”
cinnamon: Having links of files/folders on desktop from another hardrive at startup, then mounting the drive will usually crash then restart Cinnamon
Cinnamon menu: When creating a new menu item the icon does not appear. It is ok in the menu editor.
l10n: In System Settings\Windows the options (Toggle Shade etc.) for the first four entries are not translated.
l10n: In System Settings\Fonts “None”, “Greyscale”, “Slight”, “Medium” and “Full” are not translated to Danish though Danish is 100% translated.
ibus support
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/cinnamon-settings-daemon.git/plain/keyboard.patch
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/cinnamon-control-center.git/plain/region.patch
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The MATE user admin program (mate-users-admin), when setting a user’s type to “Administrative”, does not add the user to the “sudo” group. The workaround is to explicitly add the user to the sudo group
‘mate-screensaver’ still as flaky as it was in lm15 MATE 64-bit. Set to ‘Lock screen when screensaver is active’ sometimes upon resume after suspend I get a prompt for my password, other times NOT.
MPRIS support
marco: Java apps are almost unusable when maximized. http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=112470&p=709183 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918055 (won't fix in MATE, will try to convince the team or patch Marco in Mint 17)
mate-system-monitor under resourses doesn’t look great with the default GTK theme (need to give the notebook at widget class name or style name so we can make it flat in Mint-X, alternatively, we could try and make the cairo elements transparent)
caja: If you set a black wallpaper, the text below desktop icons becomes unvisible after reboot or logout and login.
caja: dng and raw images thumbnails in caja
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Post 17
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cinnamon: consider using "XDG_MENU_PREFIX=cinnamon- alacarte" instead of cme - coordinate with upstream to get cme improvements into alacarte
cinnamon: port cinnamon-menu-editor fixes to alacarte upstream
cinnamon: switch to Cinnamon XDG name
uxa: switch to UXA apps in Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce editions
revive Giver project?
integrate user guide in yelp help content
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Backports
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x-caja-desktop fix for Maya
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upgrade inxi to 2.1.28
upgrade xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin to 1.4.0?
KDE
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mdm: When loging in an existing session, doesn't unlock kde screensaver
Xfce
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mdm: When loging in an existing session, doesn't unlock xscreensaver
Next Release
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Consider adding pipelight
Consider porting cinnamon-bluetooth into gnome-bluetooth-frontend, for use in MATE and Xfce
fonts: try fonts-noto
fonts: Would Linux Mint mind changing the default CJK font in the future release?like Adobe’s source han sans. As a Traditional Chinese user, the default font Linux Mint now using is pretty awkward, and even didn’t follow the hand writing rules and education standard. The fedora team changed their default font to Adobe”s source han sans and it’s great.
fonts: ship with fonts-unfonts-core by default? Fixes https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=82400
oem: rephrase isolinux/grub option --> s/Start Linux Mint/Preinstall Linux Mint/g
see if we can make life easier for people using nonPAE kernels (live/boot args, and take kernel updates into account)
Consider for Mint 17.1
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kde: MintXKDE.colors https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11675431/MintXKDE.colors http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=153&t=61241
xfce: revive xfapplet
xfce: Many config-type things in the menu are missing from xfce4-settings-manager. Examples are mdmsetup; Languages; and ‘Users and groups’.
xfce: Menu doesn’t update automatically to include KDE applications. Installed kate and krusader (most useful file manager ever!)
xfce: switch datetime applet to Clock applet
hexchat: implement PR for /etc/hexchat for distro to set default list of networks https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat; http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/hexchat.git/ (sney mailto:drubo@drubo.net)
indicator-applet patch: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726030
nemo: remove duplication between Eject and Safely Remove (for removable devices)
ubiquity: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1325786
ubiquity: keyboard layout selection sets itself back to EN when no click is done in the table
ubiquity: import upstream fixes
ubiquity: fix installation for Swiss German users (fixed upstream https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1182784)
ubiquity: make sure LC_TIME follows language choice, not timezone selection
mint 17 mate 32 edition: screensaver kicks in during install... port this to Mint https://github.com/linuxmint/live-installer/blob/master/usr/lib/live-installer/frontend/gtk_interface.py#L196
mintinstall: should show licenses
mintinstall: should separate impacts between installs and removals
mintstick: Add % completion to window title
mintsystem: add APT priority definitions for known PPAs and repositories
mintsystem: make "apt download" download dependencies to the ./pkgname directory
cinnamon: fix spacing between systray icons
cinnamon: improve network settings
mate: http://mate-desktop.org/blog/2014-09-29-mate-1-8-updated/
mdm: When loging in an existing session, doesn't unlock xscreensaver / of KDE screensaver
mate: make compiz work out of the box?
consider installing timeshift
grub background and full screen?
full screen bootsplash? check how it's done in Ubuntu
muffin: do we need this https://git.gnome.org/browse/metacity/commit/?id=a6b29b2d2f6a7787c59cfffdc2bed1b5b5b99244
mintinstall: removing gnupg removes apt.. the info is there but it's far from obvious enough!
[RFT] firefox: don't preset browser.showQuitWarning
Nemo conflicts with fcitx, the best chinese input method. I can’t rename anything in Nemo with fcitx.
The power button set to “shut down immediately” still ‘asks’
remove modemmanager?
bring back hardinfo?
inconsistent names (menu vs cinnamon-settings):
Accessibilité (dans paramètres systèmes) → Accès universel (menu)
Programmes au démarrage (dans paramètres systèmes) → Applications au démarrage (menu)
Affichage (dans paramètres systèmes) → AffichageS (menu)
CouleurS (dans paramètres systèmes) → Couleur (menu)
Tablette graphique (dans paramètres systèmes) → Graphics Tablet (menu)
Pilotes de périphériques (dans paramètres systèmes) → Gestionnaire de pilotes (menu)
Écran de connexion (dans paramètres systèmes) → Fenêtre de connexion (menu)
Sources de mise à jour (dans paramètres systèmes) → Sources de logiciels (menu)
Todo for Mint 17.1
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artwork
rebecca backgrounds
grub background and full screen?
full screen bootsplash? check how it's done in Ubuntu
live
rephrase OEM isolinux/grub option --> s/Start Linux Mint/Preinstall Linux Mint/g
see if we can make life easier for people using nonPAE kernels (live/boot args, and take kernel updates into account)
set up build system to build with updates
guarantee the same version of Firefox-l10n as Firefox itself is installed post-install
select the new kernel for Rebecca
ubiquity
https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1325786
keyboard layout selection sets itself back to EN when no click is done in the table
import upstream fixes
fix installation for Swiss German users (fixed upstream https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1182784)
make sure LC_TIME follows language choice, not timezone selection
package selection / configuration
switch to fonts-noto
[RFT] firefox: don't preset browser.showQuitWarning
consider installing timeshift
gtk 3.12+
invisible checkboxes, too thin horizontal progressbar, and gtk-warnings about symbolic icons in an "open file" dialog.
fix ugly dialogs https://github.com/mate-desktop/marco/commit/42c63250abf2b4c7b1c704c907301bb5a5920b6e
cinnamon
fix spacing between systray icons
fix regression on umounting HDD in Nemo
don't show keybinding OSDs when notifications are off
muffin: do we need this https://git.gnome.org/browse/metacity/commit/?id=a6b29b2d2f6a7787c59cfffdc2bed1b5b5b99244
inconsistent names (menu vs cinnamon-settings):
Accessibilité (dans paramètres systèmes) → Accès universel (menu)
Programmes au démarrage (dans paramètres systèmes) → Applications au démarrage (menu)
Affichage (dans paramètres systèmes) → AffichageS (menu)
CouleurS (dans paramètres systèmes) → Couleur (menu)
Tablette graphique (dans paramètres systèmes) → Graphics Tablet (menu)
Pilotes de périphériques (dans paramètres systèmes) → Gestionnaire de pilotes (menu)
Écran de connexion (dans paramètres systèmes) → Fenêtre de connexion (menu)
Sources de mise à jour (dans paramètres systèmes) → Sources de logiciels (menu)
l10n:
System Settings -> Windows: The options in the four drop-down boxes “Action on title bar double-click”, “Action on title bar double-click”, “Action on title bar right-click” and “Window focus mode”.
Language Settings: “Apply System-Wide”, “Install / Remove Languages”, the associated tool tips and all the text.
System Settings -> Network -> Proxy: The options under Method.
System Settings -> Graphics Tablet: “No tablet detected – please plug in or turn on your graphics tablet”
System Settings -> Software Sources: Text in Maintenance button
System Settings -> Fonts: Options in the two drop-down boxes Antialiasing and Hinting.
System Settings -> Applets/Desklets/Extensions/Themes: Blue text “More info” (right-clicking opens a menu that is translated)
System Settings -> Monitor: Options in the drop-down box Rotation
System Settings -> Desklets: The buttons Highlight and Remove (configuring a desklet).
Menu Editor: “Main Menu” (title bar), “New Menu”, New Item”, “Move Up”, “Move Down”, “Restore System Configuration”.
In System Settings\Windows the options (Toggle Shade etc.) for the first four entries are not translated.
In System Settings\Fonts “None”, “Greyscale”, “Slight”, “Medium” and “Full” are not translated to Danish though Danish is 100% translated.
done:
mintupdate:
kernel page redesign
package descriptions are now complete and l10n'd
proxy support in changelog retrieval
handle source packages, not packages
window no longer hides after installing updates
mintsources:
better repository names
test mirrors in parallel
retry mechanism on timeout, remove erroneous mirrors from the list
mintsystem
pastebin command
cinnamon
cjs rebase
3 finger touchpad support
all cs icons in mint-x icon theme
multiple panel launchers
remove logout countdown
new background selection + slideshow support + slideshow applet
configurable fonts in screensaver
mate
[RFT] mate 1.8.x
mint 17 mate 32 edition: screensaver kicks in during install... port this to Mint https://github.com/linuxmint/live-installer/blob/master/usr/lib/live-installer/frontend/gtk_interface.py#L196
kde
[RFT] kde 4.14
xfce
Many config-type things in the menu are missing from xfce4-settings-manager. Examples are mdmsetup; Languages; and ‘Users and groups’.
Menu doesn’t update automatically to include KDE applications. Installed kate and krusader (most useful file manager ever!)
switch datetime applet to Clock applet
indicator-applet patch: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726030
mint tools
mintinstall: should show licenses
mintinstall: should separate impacts between installs and removals
mintinstall: removing gnupg removes apt.. the info is there but it's far from obvious enough!
mintinstall "show all results" not l10n
mintstick: Add % completion to window title
mintsystem: add APT priority definitions for known PPAs and repositories
mintsystem: make "apt download" download dependencies to the ./pkgname directory
mintdoc: finish user guide, package it etc..
docs
rel_notes
start page
migrate documentation to mintdoc
mate
http://mate-desktop.org/blog/2014-09-29-mate-1-8-updated/
upgrade path
implement visual upgrade path for Mint 17 users
folder-color-switcher
user-guide
nemo-emblems
Done:
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mintupdate:
kernel page redesign
package descriptions are now complete and l10n'd
proxy support in changelog retrieval
handle source packages, not packages
window no longer hides after installing updates
mintsources:
better repository names
test mirrors in parallel
retry mechanism on timeout, remove erroneous mirrors from the list
mintsystem
pastebin command
cinnamon
cjs rebase
super+e opens home
new network settings
screensaver
custom date formats
custom fonts and colors
3 finger touchpad support
smoother experience
startup animation
privacy settings
notification settings
login sound in sync
fixed a lot of memory leak
moved commonly used icons to the icon theme (decreases latency)
disabling compositing for fullscreen windows OFF by default and now configurable
super+e opens home
many bug fixes
many little UI refinements
desktop font configurable
nemo
highlight icons on hover in sidebar
toolbar UI changes
folder-color
emblem support
caja
folder-color
mint-x
color variations
mdm
better mdmsetup
slideshow in mint-x
.xsession-errors limit and filtering
include more HTML themes
user guide
mintlocale
new UI
regional settings
im support
handle all locales, not just UTF-8
cinnamon settings and menu categories are now sorted alphabetically
multiple panel launchers
new background selection + slideshow support + slideshow applet
privacy settings
notification settings
better theme settings
nemo
smarter bookmark section in sidebar
highlight icons on hover in sidebar
new toolbar UI with configurable buttons
folder-color
emblem support
caja
folder-color
mint-x
color variations
mdm
better mdmsetup
slideshow in mint-x
.xsession-errors limit and filtering
include more HTML themes
user guide
mintlocale
new UI
regional settings
im support
handle all locales, not just UTF-8
LMDE
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live-installer: turn avatar selector into a nicer widget ala cinnamon-settings account details
live-installer: check free space on /target before installing
glib 2.41 regression on mutex, PRs for mint tools and/or fix in GTK 3.14.1 and waiting for GTK2 fix https://github.com/GNOME/gtk/commit/fbf38d16bcc26630f0f721d266509f5bc292f606
gtk 3.12+
invisible checkboxes, too thin horizontal progressbar, and gtk-warnings about symbolic icons in an "open file" dialog.
fix ugly dialogs https://github.com/mate-desktop/marco/commit/42c63250abf2b4c7b1c704c907301bb5a5920b6e