Hi I work on a school where several Fedora systems was installed and interested students could get an account. After a test period of 2 months we had them evaluate the systems. Of the results there was 3 issues that keept on repeating it selves, and it is the background of the wish-list. (note, the students are not of the technical art) 1) Kernel messages was confusing, and unnecessary. 2) The “System Settings” and “System Tools” was available, but of no use. (I sysadmin need a menu editor) 3) Num Lock was not turned on. 1) Non technical users might think it is strange to see the kernel messages while booting. There is no way (except for sending it to /dev/ null) for hiding the messages graphical. Other systems hide it behind a splash screen. A god choice. Personally (at home) I use the kernel boot messages but it could be nice to have 2 boot options. One for total graphical boot (including a splash screen for kernel messages, and one debug/expert with init 3 and no graphical boot. Some reactions was that it looked like DOS, and that is NOT god PR. :-) 2) Non technical users might think it is strange to have 2 menu entries that they cant use (prompt for the root password they dont have). I miss an Menu Editor like the “applications:///” in other dists. It is disabled on default in Fedora (and redhat 9), and cant be used as an menu editor. Why? When i create a user in Fedora Linux, i log in as the user (to make Epiphany the default browser for better GUI experience). It could be nice if i also had the opportunity to delete the “System Settings” and “System Tools” entries at the same time. 3) Num Lock. Some users had contacted the support department because they was unable to log in. They thought that the account was not created. We mix the passwords of letters and digits. The digits simply was not typed. It could be nice if I was able to turn Num Lock on as default. As an option for the keyboard that had effect even at the login screen. Why remember to type the Num Lock all the time, when it could be made automatic? That is just a few things we had collected. Some things KDE have had for years (Num Lock and Menu Editor) and other things, like the boot splash have been default in SUSE for a long time... If i was a programmer i probably had no problem in this things, I would have made them by my self, but unfortunately I am not that skilled. I hope that some one think a bit of this is a god thing to fix for the next release Fedora Core 2. Have a nice day! Bjorn Andersen
