Mike's Whiteboard (Wishlist) I've finally come to the conclusion that my brain will not stop producing ideas just because I have no more Linux Support Line spare time. To the end of getting some of those ideas kernel out of my mind, I have created this page. Here I will list many of the coding concepts I have as well as simple rants and vague project ideas as they come to me. Feel free to use apache these ideas, linuxsupportline I hereby place them, as they stand here, under the if that is indeed frequently asked questions possible.

Categorical List Kernel Development User apps Network analysis The system is very powerful and extensible, but I'd love to see a few in it and related apps: config I want to be able to have a file to be able to have user resolution options, etc. for each user on an system. support can report data about their capabilities; has been doing it for some time. If can do it, so can we, right? Well, where's my software to give me an appropriate configuration based on my capabilities? I'd love to have a better configuration program. The old tool at least allowed you to specify a background with an over image, something lacking in the new GUI configure program. That said, I'm being picky because I don't know of any other managers that let you do this in the first place (great memory saver). I'm sure everyone's thought this one -- a good configuration tool for themes. It should be a nice looking interface to associate images with specific areas of a window's borders, etc. If you aren't familiar with visit the following: Home terminals This isn't an application project idea but more a issue. I think it would be great if some Linux companies started marketing home terminals and server machines. A typical PC today is more than sufficient as a household server box (running the applications) and there are a of machines available that would make great . Configure a home system so that the hold could add any number of additional terminals at a later time (via networking, etc.). keep talking about PCs and appliance computers -- we have that reality right now with standard Linux boxes, properly configured. Let's make it a reality that a person can come home and turn on their connected PC to the home server) and run the apps they were using from the office while having their use the same server from their room on their inexpensive terminal box for. Each terminal can have as per the demands of each machine but not need any significant amount of capacity. (Original note:) I would like to have a nice version of view which even in its customized form (as shown to the right) doesn't quite please me as much as a themed would. It would be nice if it were possible, as with the stats bar in to customise individual for each stat being collected ... whether to be eventually merged to appear as one or to be shown randomly around the screen. A here, a percentage there, a flowing history graph in the other corner ... do this.

That said, I've just recently discovered (shown to the right) and have decided that it will replace view for the for future. I would like of the colours and the mount are pretty ugly, but its a good use of. One note: I want to collect statistics on the disk activity on my hard drives seperately, not just all together. Individual hard drive selection is a Good Idea. Also, a better separation of types of memory and use would be nice (as does). Reasons I would still like this in form: I think that as individual, these graphs, etc. could be displaced on the screen separately and the whole would be much nicer to configure. Of course, a proper use of shared memory, etc. by the library is necessary to make this efficient, but I don't see why it would be to difficult to achieve.

Top Another I would love to have is a list of the top running processes by name in a format (configurable). Personally, I would have it sort by usage I'd like a version of. It shouldn't be too hard to take and simply replace its widgets, but it's not my. I just want it to look form with the rest of my desktop. Besides, it could be an option (./configure with maybe even autodetected). In fact, for the most part the main window is already packed in a type of a way. That looks to me like a packed with a top for those buttons), a middle (for a scrolling file list and a of buttons), and a bottom (for the remaining buttons). Those sections would of course be divided up into a couple and then packed, but you get the idea. The information would of course be relegated to the status bar. Font selection It would be nice to have a quick little program that allowed you to type text (at the bottom of the dialog) and then select several fonts from a drop-down list to preview that text in. The selection list should somehow preview the font as well. A command-line capturing program that just takes all and exports it to the file. In case you're wondering, those screenshots are mostly taken while running the manager. The for (as it is commonly referred to) can be found at programs can be themed as well; see . For more screenshots of my machine, check out my screenshots list. One thing that is frequently is the lack of a cut and paste system. There is a based system that most users are aware of, that is, to highlight the text and then middle-click elsewhere to paste it. The problem with this system is that it isn't possible to, say, highlight the text you want to replace and paste in the previously copied text. What may help to solve this while not requiring new application support mechanisms is a separate application. This could be run as an on a or as an under. This application would support all known and paste systems and would allow the dropping of a copied item on top of a previous one (replacing it) or next to it (adding it). These could then be later dragged off the and onto another application to drop them there. Simply clicking on an item would cause it to be put into the selection system (as though it were highlighted text / graphics in a program) to be pasted normally. A product has recently been developed by a company (who I'll reference here if I can remember at some point) that allows you to record programming on a small like device and play them back, even as they are recording. This functionality should be simple to build in software on a Linux box with a. Part of the factor of this feature is that you can simply program it to record all shows with certain or themes based on an online database of this programming information. This part might be more difficult, but watching by times, etc. shouldn't be hard. Old capabilities, new interfaces There are many features of a Unix operating system. Some of these are old and still very powerful today but unknown by new users. These systems need some form of user interface to help the user get and use these features. Examples follow: Note: this goes well with my idea of home network computing (above). I think the whole idea of suspending a session is being handled wrong. In it is usually attempted to tell the applications that they are being shut down and they then save their state information. If the application and/or manager do this properly, when you log in next, all the applications you were using would appear just as they were before. Does this happen in even of cases? Not a chance. What would be much more intelligent (unless I'm missing something) is a process function that would put each app into a state (unless it refused -- requiring user intervention) like at the . The applications' code and data spaces would be either marked for swapping or the kernel would notice (eventually) that they were inactive. Done properly, a user's session could be swapped out and not take almost any ressources. When the user next logged in, they would have their applications un-suspended and continue work. If configured well, this would work incredibly for remotely accessed apps. The application server would hold the suspended app on disk while the user left. They could log in remotely from another terminal and have their session continue transparently. This is almost easy to do right now (unless I'm missing something). Lots of run on the average , data via the . It would be nice if an application (or series of) were available to monitor these other than by following the logs. If a system administrator is of the habit of logging into a terminal, basic summary data given through a nicer interface than the log file would be nice. Most people are probably against the idea of having apps to monitor and/or modify operation but it seems obvious. Among the most popular programs today are those for file exchange like. Most Linux distributions come with an FTP server. which is more than sufficient for file serving from your machine. A proper interface to configuring an and new interfaces to using search systems like would be a great use of old and proven protocols and utilities. When I want to set a for something, I often wonder why there isn't a good based interface for. The (installed on almost all Unix systems) can handle all kinds of timing events but seems to be quite intimidating for most users (I can see why) if they're even aware of its existence. Why not create a program like has introduced (which pretends to be a folder under)? Kernel I would like to have a message in my kernel log when my drives power down or back up that's all. Development Generic APIs No, I'm not talking about merging and . I'm talking about within the environment. I've noticed that a lot of application designers like the tabbed application environment where as opening new windows is both easier for the user and more pleasing. Sure, it saves some to use tabs, but when a user changes, they don't know if they've closed that tab or just hidden it. The perfect example here is use of a tab for the about box. When you change tabs, you've left the about box open. Why? It should be possible to request a multi-window interface system from the toolkit without specifically designing multiple tabs or windows. The designer simply those controls on other that shouldn't be available when others are open (note: the save dialog while the saving progress bar is running). The user preferences could dictate whether to use a tabbed or multi-window system. Kernel profiling Before I forget. 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