[manjaro-dev] Suggestions to improve Manjaro

[Philip Müller]

Thoughts about following suggestions by Jesper?

Am 03.03.2014 11:48, schrieb Manjaro Linux Forum:
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> My name is Jesper, I am a new user here in this forum and a very big fan of Manjaro linux, which one of my favourite distros. I have a lot of suggestions you might consider, and since you are part of the core team I think you are the right person to send these suggestions to :-).
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> First I want to say that you might consider adding two extra menu entries in the manjaro start menu in addition to the existing entries. They could be named:
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> Start the Graphical installer (Thus) directly
> Start the Command Line installer (cli) directly
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> Some people might want the option to boot into one of the installers directly instead of loading the Live system first
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> Of course it should still be possible to start the installers from the live system
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> In case people start i.e. the thus installer directly (both cli and Thus) then there should be an option in Thus to choose to install Non-free drivers instead of the Nouveau and other open source drivers if people choose "Customize Installation (Advanced)" as described below) or you can provide that option for both the default and the Customized installation. This option could be named "Install Non-free drivers (AMD, Nvidia, Intel etc...) and in case people check this option then the Non-free drivers will be installed instead of Nouveau etc..
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> In the older versions of Manjaro it always updated to the latest kernel..but now you are using kernel 3.10 as default....I know it is possible to add the latest kernel from Octopi or via the MHWD command in terminal - why did you change to an older kernel ??
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> Maybe you could add an option in the Thus installer to choose the latest kernel instead of the older default kernel ? or you could add an option to choose additional repositories (testing or unstable) repositories and choose to use either the testing or unstable repository as default instead of the default stable repository, so that the latest bleeding edge packages (including the latest kernel) is downloaded and installed instead of the default older packages included in the official iso-image if some people want the latest of the latest.
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> This option could be named "Choose default repository". These extra options could be shown if you in the beginning of the Thus installer, i.e. right after the Welcome screen at the language selection step add an option to choose "Customize Installation (advanced)" where additional options are available in  the default installation windows for more advanced users and for users who wants more customization options.
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> Here people might be able to add additional popular programs (multimedia, Desktop environments (KDE, Cinnamon, Fluxbox, LXDE, XFCE, Gnome-shell etc..), Web browsers, Package managers etc..Internet tools i.e. Deluge etc..)that will be downloaded and installed too during the installation.
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> Another think you might consider is to add the Manjaro logo and name in the bottom of the grey GDM login menu in the Manjaro GNOME edition, where no logo and name is present now. Maybe you could also provide the user with an option to choose a number of different backgrounds/artwork if they want that instead of the default grey GDM background, of course all including the manjaro logo and name too. This "Select GDM theme" option could be available in the default installation or only if people choose the "Customize Installation (advanced)" option in the beginning of Thus.
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> This could be applied to all Manjaro editions, Mate, Cinnamon, KDE, Gnome, LXDE, XFCE etc... In the other distros the option should be named
> Select MDM theme, Select KDM theme, LightDM theme etc... Or in general you could just call it "Select Display Manager (DM) theme" which then loads the number of available themes to choose from from for GDM, KDM etc..depending on which Manjaro Edition is installed.
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> Since people are often installing with Internet enabled then you could in addition to the default DM themes add an option named "Get more DM themes online" so that additional corresponding (KDM, GDM or MDM etc.) themes can be downloaded from the Internet either from the official GDM or KDM themes page or from a webpage you create where people manually can choose from an increasing number of awesome themes.
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> I also like The new Turbulence in KDE and Openbox where people after installation can choose font size, Desktop theme and wallpaper etc..I think you should add that to all the manjaro editions, Cinnamon, Gnome shell, Mate etc..
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> Alternatively the choice of manjaro themes for MDM, KDM or GDM could also be added as an additional option in Turbulence post-install (instead of an option during installation with Thus) and this could be named"Select Display Manager (DM) theme" where the user can choose from a number of Manjaro DM themes and maybe also have the option to download additional themes online.
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> I think Thus is a great GUI installer and very user friendly. But adding the extra suggested options above would be really nice.
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> You are doing a great job with Manjaro and it keeps impressing me with every new release....the graphical user interface is awesome, both the DE and the GUI installer (Thus)
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> I look forward to hear from you....maybe you can use some of these ideas ?
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> Best Regards
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> Jesper
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