Desktop/Whiteboards

Design workspaces for things we may want to see in our desktop. Proto-features. Bluesky, crackrock, good shit, or low-hanging fruit.

Polish tasks

Small things that improve the look and feel of the desktop without big functional changes.

	Menu Icons	Removing icons from menus	2008-10-27
	Power Management Defaults	Fix the power manager default settings	2008-10-27
	Remove About Menu Items	Remove the About Fedora/GNOME/Computer menu items	2008-10-27
	Better Fonts	What can we do to improve our font collection	2008-10-27
	Better Face Images	Improve the quality of the default face images	2008-10-27
	Wallpaper	Improve the quality of the default desktop wallpapers	2008-10-27
	User Switch Transitions	Nice transitions when switching users	2008-10-28
	Volume control	Intuitive volume control	2008-10-27
	Volume Applet	De-appletize volume applet	2008-10-27

Experiences

	Coffee Table Experience	Design the laptop evening coffee table experience	2008-10-27
	Dorm Desk Experience	Design the laptop dorm desk experience	2008-10-27
	Breakfast & Coffee Experience	Design the laptop breakfast and coffee experience	2008-10-27
	Knowledge Office Experience	Design the laptop knowledge worker office experience	2008-10-27

Rethinking the desktop

	GNOME Shell	A new environment for the GNOME desktop	2008-10-27
	Desktop Search	Find my stuff	2008-10-27
	Notification Center	Better notification management	2008-10-27
	Standalone Web Apps	Install web mail/apps as applications	2008-10-27
	Remove Administration Tools	Remove the Administration and System Tools menus	2008-10-27
	Control Center	Still a trainwreck. What to do?	2008-10-27
	GDM Screen Lock	Use GDM as the lock screen	2008-10-27
	Location Awareness	Integrate location awareness into the desktop	2008-10-27
	Guest User	Support guest users	2008-10-27
	Secure Desktop	A place to ask security questions?	2008-10-28
	Inhibit APIs	Consolidate our various inhibit APIs	2008-10-27

Applications

Make individual applications great.

	Better Last.fm	Make last.fm rock	2008-10-27
	Better Instant Messaging	Improve IM workflow	2008-10-27
	Video Chat	Video chatting	2008-10-27
	Firefox Downloads	Make Firefox downloads not suck	2008-10-27
	Evolution Phone synchronization	or Why is Linux still inferior as desktop	2008-10-29
	Default CD ripper	Make Rhythmbox as good as iTunes for CD import	2008-10-29

Online Desktop

	Music Sync	Make portable music players just work	2008-10-27
	Photo Upload	Make it easy to upload photos from a camera to the web	2008-10-27
	Weather Alerts	Integrate weather alerts into clock applet	2008-10-27
	Background channels	Get your backgrounds online	2008-10-27
	Better Hostname	A better hostname	2008-10-27

Making other parts of the system better for the desktop

	Hybrid Suspend	Merge suspend and hibernate	2008-10-27
	Firewall	What does a firewall offer a desktop	2008-10-27
	Fast Boot	Start quickly	2008-10-27
	Backup	Secure your data and feel good while doing it	2008-10-27
	User Account Management	A new User and Group Management tool	2008-10-27
	P2V Migration	Keep your previous OS - in a VM	2008-10-28
	Drive Sharing	Share a CD drive over the network	2008-10-28
	Modern Virtual Consoles	A modern replacement for VT+getty	2008-10-28
	Per-user X Server	Run X server as user	2008-10-28
	Smartcard Authentication	Make smartcards support great	2008-10-28
	Fingerprint Authentication	Make fingerprint support great	2008-10-28
	Wayland	Possible solution to smooth f-u-s, modern VTs and more	2008-10-28

Other

	Tablet Support	Make tablets just work	2008-10-27
	Input Methods	Make SCIM not suck	2008-10-27
	Experience Index	Is it useful to have an experience index?	2008-10-27
	Live USB	Can we make the Live USB experience better than Live CD?	2008-10-28