Hervé: good ideas, thanks! (some of which are already included, but perhaps not specifically called out). Don’t think we’re going to be able to leverage Network Manager, since the underlying layer is so different to that of OpenSolaris. I know the NWAM guys are looking at something pretty similar from a UI point of view – check out http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/ and their mockups.

andrewk: Yep, I think someone’s already started to look at Happy Face – here’s hoping some derivative of that is possible. I know there’s a dependency on getting Virtual Consoles landed so you can get to the console if all else fails.

Rahul: I’d personally *love* to see an IPS backend for PackageKit, and having a quick look of the code it doesn’t seem that hard. I wonder if the underlying concepts that IPS introduces map to the existing PackageKit assumptions? Will check out Plymouth though – thanks for the tip!

NET:

The boxes (DSL connection + support of a small network) are largely deployed in Europe. Multi equipment is also a basic fact.

It could be therefore of great interest to provide enhanced tools to set up and monitor samba services:

* printer management (system-config-printer, in which Fedora is deeply involved, is a good example whereas Solaris Print Manager cannot be used out of the box to configure shared printers throughout Samba …),
* discovery / management of networks (smbk4 like tools) ,
* configuration tools (see for instance system-config-samba -Fedora-).

DSK:

Services management could be improved (see for instance what system-config-services -Fedora- provides) in order to provide some more information concerning the services (explanation, status …) and to allow their management runlevel by runlevel.