[Pcbsd-developer] what to add to roadmap

[Andrei K. <an...@bs...>]

Kris Moore wrote:

>   Aside from that, and the things I have listed on the roadmap, are 
> there any other items that are "must-haves" for the 1.0 release?
>
1. Let's add some good TrueType  fonts and remove ugliest ones like 
Type1- I totally disabled Adobe crappy fonts in my DVD version.
2. I already posted some information about animated cursors for X so I 
think eyecandy ain't hurt eithetr.
3. Linux compat layer- I don't like default fontset with linux programs- 
it seem's like software from third world...
4. Monitor detection- I found some useful information how it can be done:

"Graphics hardware configuration is handled by a combination of the 
Debian anXious program (heavily hacked to work non-interactively), 
Debian's xviddetect, the Corel Linux hardware detection and a program 
for querying the monitor's capabilities via VESA DDC. The Corel software 
is used to probe for the mouse, with USB, serial and PS/2 mice being 
detected usefully. If the monitor does not support DDC, fairly 
conservative defaults are used to reduce the liklihood of the monitor 
being pushed outside specs. xviddetect simply compares PCI ids to a 
lookup table and spits out the X server that should be used. All of this 
information is then passed to anXious which writes an XF86Config and 
then exits.

In the case that the graphics card is not detected, the contents of 
/proc/pci are sent to the sysadmins. The system then attempts to carry 
on, defaulting to using the SVGA X server. However, a file is created in 
/local. On the next boot, if this file exists, the system will ask the 
user if the previous attempt worked. If so, the file is deleted and the 
XF86Config is left as is. If not, configuration is attempted again in 
the hope that the PCI IDs will have been added to the lookup table."

5. Hide soundcard module loading- it's distracting- users think that 
there is some problem.