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Hey guys, I'm just an ordinary dev looking for something to work on. While messing around with my hobby projects, I couldn't help but notice that under the surface, there are a lot of places that the libre desktop can be improved. I'd like to take on your suggestions on what I should seriously consider working on and helping out with.

Thanks for any comments and suggestions.

(For those wondering, I'm still working on my other stuff.)

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you're into desktop functionality, better VNC implementations are badly needed. It's not intuitive on most desktop distros how to configure a remote desktop solution correctly. We're nowhere near the "it just works" quality that RDP has on Windows.

If you're into hardware, I suspect there's work that needs to be done with BD-R DL/XL support. I don't think I've ever successfully burned a multi-layer Blu Ray disc across multiple distros, burners, and drives.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Seconding a desire for a defacto RDP solution for Linux. Bonus points if it works on android

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

X2Go is the closest I've seen to ease of use, and it's based on already widely available components (X over SSH). It also has an explicit confirmation counterpart (x2godesktopsharing) so people can give explicit permission to remote into their already running desktop session.

But the UI is terrible. It's badly laid out and wasteful and has dozens of arcane options that you have to dig through and figure out.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

gnome-remote-desktop works really well for me. 1-click config too.