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Contents 1 Before Mint 6 2 For Mint 6 3 After Mint 6 4 Not planned, ideas 4.1 Ready for inclusion

Before Mint 6

• mintMenu: Sometimes when launching synaptic the "mouse could not be grabbed" ->> seems related to gksu and some timing issue.
• mintMenu: focus problem -- If any of the “Computer”, “Home Folder”, or “Networks” buttons receive focus, I can’t start typing an application name without clicking on the “Filter” text box.
• mintUpdate: icon in systray is acting weird (moves others, makes systray acting strangely)
• mintBackup: should know which version it is and whether it's compatible with some backup file.
• Start page: Have a way to tell users of an older release that a newer one is available.. make it noticeable, but not intrusive at the same time.
• Add XFCE packages to repository
• Package artwork for Mint 5 and Mint 6

For Mint 6

• mintCleaner: http://linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=15858&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
• Echo icon theme from Fedora?
• Fortune preview in mintAssistant - resize problem and non-fixed font make animal squished
• mintDesktop: http://www.linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=17400&p=106410#p106410
• mintAssistant: only system settings... but what about a first-run wizard for user preferences? Bling, theme, personal gconf entries..etc.
• mintNextRelease: develop a tool to upgrade to the next release
• Improve XFE look or change root's config to nautilus: http://linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=16290&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
• Search function in context menu --> gnome-search-tool --path=
• mintDesktop/mintAssistant: choice between one/two panels and mintmenu/gnomeMenu.
• OEM install
• User home dir is readable by everyone.. should it by default? should mintAssistant ask the user about this?
• Add Tasque
• Add flegita and sabayon?
• include SUM

After Mint 6

• mintUpdate: proxy authentication
• mintMenu: drag items to other categories, edit item, remove/create
• mintMenu: right click an application and define a shortcut to it
• mintBackup: progress report on backup and recovery.
• mintMenu: resize feature.

Not planned, ideas

• Replace alacarte with our own implementation
• include partimage on the liveCD
• Look and feel: include nimbus theme as an alternative (from OpenSolaris)
• Think of a Gamer Edition
• ACL support: http://rofi.roger-ferrer.org/eiciel/ and http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/06/21/facl-support-in-nautilus-with-eiciel/
• Advanced file permissions in Gnome: gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_advanced_permissions True
• Put /tmp in tmpfs and boost firefox by changing its browser.cache.disk.parent_directory to /tmp/firefox (as done in Bubuntu).
• Include lsscsi and midnight commander

Ready for inclusion

• mintNanny
• mintUpdate 3
• mintInstall 5
• mintUpload 2 (FTP support)
• upstream: giver
• upstream: gufw
• proper LSB info
• mintSystem: in apt script, test whoami to see if we're root, if we are then don't use sudo..
• mintSystem: add shortcuts in apt script for dpkg -L and dpkg -S.
• mintsystem: add shortcut for search: find . -type f -exec grep -il "foo" {} \;