1. There needs to be a GRUB GUI!!! The GRUB interface (not boot menu, but configuration) is totally convoluted as it stands, and it would be no challenge for someone with moderate python/QT knowledge to create a GUI frontend for it.
2. Multi User support is bad. I don't want my users to have admin rights by default nor should they be able to reboot the entire system.
At the same time, it should be possible for common users to install a limited number of preapproved programs from adept or apt-get without a password. Maybe a "user" tag on the .debs? I shouldn't have to install every game they decide they have to have on their system, and they shouldn't have to request it.
Also, when I am in a common users session, I should be able to use my admin rights to read/write/execute as I see fit (some sort of user overide?), although I don't see how sudo would be able to do this.
3. *.* TTY12 in syslog.conf. It's usefull, it doesn't take much resources, and the newbies/novices who would benefit from a message log screen won't have the skills to set it up themselves (for the record it's echo '*.* /dev/tty12' >> /etc/syslog.conf to set it up).
While on the subject separate user logs would be a wonderful addition... Maybe a var/log/user/*/
with a ~/log/ symlink? Of course the var/log/user folder would have to be no read/write access for common users.
4. During startup a key (TAB, CTRL-S, whatever) that will kill the pretty loader and show me the boot process in real time. I know, I can dmesg after boot up, but I'm sitting there anyway, and I would like to see if any problems come up as they happen, not after I notice some service isn't working quite right.
I'm sure there is other niggles I have, but I can't remember off the top of my head. Really, I love Kubuntu! It is by far the best distro I have come across, and edgy is super clean, almost no issues on upgrade. I am impressed enough to promote it to my non-geek friends.
2. Multi User support is bad. I don't want my users to have admin rights by default nor should they be able to reboot the entire system.
At the same time, it should be possible for common users to install a limited number of preapproved programs from adept or apt-get without a password. Maybe a "user" tag on the .debs? I shouldn't have to install every game they decide they have to have on their system, and they shouldn't have to request it.
Also, when I am in a common users session, I should be able to use my admin rights to read/write/execute as I see fit (some sort of user overide?), although I don't see how sudo would be able to do this.
3. *.* TTY12 in syslog.conf. It's usefull, it doesn't take much resources, and the newbies/novices who would benefit from a message log screen won't have the skills to set it up themselves (for the record it's echo '*.* /dev/tty12' >> /etc/syslog.conf to set it up).
While on the subject separate user logs would be a wonderful addition... Maybe a var/log/user/*/
with a ~/log/ symlink? Of course the var/log/user folder would have to be no read/write access for common users.4. During startup a key (TAB, CTRL-S, whatever) that will kill the pretty loader and show me the boot process in real time. I know, I can dmesg after boot up, but I'm sitting there anyway, and I would like to see if any problems come up as they happen, not after I notice some service isn't working quite right.
I'm sure there is other niggles I have, but I can't remember off the top of my head. Really, I love Kubuntu! It is by far the best distro I have come across, and edgy is super clean, almost no issues on upgrade. I am impressed enough to promote it to my non-geek friends.
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