What i would like to see in Mageia in future
Posted: Nov 14th, '22, 01:28Mandriva 2006 and 2007 was my first GNU/Linux operating system installed on my hardware. It was amazing because with drakconf i could configure my "pppoa" network interface when on other distros it was impossible then in easy way. It was nice because on Windows i needed CD with drivers from my network provider but on Mageia the network worked out of the box. Now Mageia is in (my opinion) a little stagnation because desktop environments and their configuration tools evolving. I switch back from Ubuntu to Mageia because i do not like proprietary snapd and company behind this and when i saw DrakConf after many years - it looks almost same like many years ago... Here is my little wish list from Mageia in future. Maybe someone from developers has similar thoughts:
1. Add darkmode to main screen of mcc
2. Add option for minimal installation to Mageia LiveCD
3. Add new position to mcc for add/remove/resize swapfile or for enable zram instead of swapfile
4. Add new position to mcc for change swappines value of swapfile or a swap partition
5. Add to Classic and LiveCD installers option to run "cfdisk" during partitioning phase. For some people is more easy than partitioning tool from drakxtools
6. Add options to partitioning tool during auto allocate partitions: "All on one partition" or "Separated Home partition". Like in Debian
7. Remove "flatpak" from basic installation. If i select "task-gnome-minimal" i have flatpak installed too. If i unmark all packages and select in type of installation: "with X" + "Install recommended packages" i have flatpak installed too
8. Add gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-dock as a rpm package to repo. This gnome extension is essental part of gnome in Ubuntu and Manjaro. For security reasons i prefer to install it from my distro repo, not from gnome extensions website
9. Add Brave browser to repositoy. On Brave Website package for Mageia isnt avaiable, on FlatPak package isnt official and snapd isnt in mageia repository
10. Make rpmdrake and gurpmi working with dnf and allow user user to select: rpmdrake with urpmi or rpmdrake with dnf
11. Allow to run mcc without root privilegues with less of funcionality. Program called "bleachbit" for example offers to run as a root and as a normal user. Mcc should too cause we dont need root priviligues for browsing hardware in mcc for example.
1. Add darkmode to main screen of mcc
2. Add option for minimal installation to Mageia LiveCD
3. Add new position to mcc for add/remove/resize swapfile or for enable zram instead of swapfile
4. Add new position to mcc for change swappines value of swapfile or a swap partition
5. Add to Classic and LiveCD installers option to run "cfdisk" during partitioning phase. For some people is more easy than partitioning tool from drakxtools
6. Add options to partitioning tool during auto allocate partitions: "All on one partition" or "Separated Home partition". Like in Debian
7. Remove "flatpak" from basic installation. If i select "task-gnome-minimal" i have flatpak installed too. If i unmark all packages and select in type of installation: "with X" + "Install recommended packages" i have flatpak installed too
8. Add gnome-shell-extension-dash-to-dock as a rpm package to repo. This gnome extension is essental part of gnome in Ubuntu and Manjaro. For security reasons i prefer to install it from my distro repo, not from gnome extensions website
9. Add Brave browser to repositoy. On Brave Website package for Mageia isnt avaiable, on FlatPak package isnt official and snapd isnt in mageia repository
10. Make rpmdrake and gurpmi working with dnf and allow user user to select: rpmdrake with urpmi or rpmdrake with dnf
11. Allow to run mcc without root privilegues with less of funcionality. Program called "bleachbit" for example offers to run as a root and as a normal user. Mcc should too cause we dont need root priviligues for browsing hardware in mcc for example.