PC-BSD® 9.0 TODO
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PC-BSD 9.0 Task List
The following items are features or bugs that we wish to get fixed and into PC-BSD 9.0
Base System Software
| Merge in FreeBSD 9.0-Release | Not Done |
Bug Fixes
List bug fixing TODOs for 9.0 here
New Features / Tools planned for 9.0
| Feature | Owner | Skills | Status | Completion Date |
| Allow selecting desktop / optional components at install (KDE/Gnome/XFCE4/Development/Games/Etc) | kmoore | DONE | ||
| Speed up installed boot-time, background system services / load desktop immediately? | jpaetzel | FreeBSD rc.d / Scripting? | ||
| Update Software Manager to allow changing optional components on the fly | ||||
| Create GUI front-end to new PBI9 format files / pbi-manager | kmoore | DONE | ||
| Allow file-system selection when doing auto-partitioning. | kmoore | DONE | ||
| Make UFS+SUJ the default file-system? | kmoore | DONE | ||
| Merge keyboard layout / timezone / language into single installer page | kmoore | DONE | ||
| Don't make "free space" a selectable option during install, require user to create partition first | QT4 - current/src-qt4/pc-sysinstaller | DONE | ||
| Front-end to text installer | jhixson | |||
| Convert all remaining apps which use KDE API to pure QT4 only. | kmoore | DONE | ||
| Allow specifying the hostname for installed system via the GUI | QT4 - current/src-qt4/pc-sysinstaller | DONE | ||
| Provide option in network manager to disable lagg0 device | QT4 - current/src-qt4/pc-netmanager | |||
| Create new PC-BSD specific configuration GUI, which provides access to all other config tools, ala system-settings | kmoore | QT4 | DONE | |
| Use the Graphical Boot Loader from OliverFromme | C / FreeBSD Commit Access / ? | |||
| Create a separate installer page for configuring bootloader preferences, like the password - Investigate | ||||
| Create 9.0 Handbook and include offline version with release | dru | |||
| Add help buttons to custom menus, write help text and add to Pootle | dru | |||
| Create magic file for webcamd drivers | dru | |||
| Add system info desktop icon to live mode | ||||
| Determine if BBB should be PBI or part of base system | dru | |||
| Animated splash screen | ||||
| Geli set passphrase via CLI | jpaetzel | DONE | ||
| Touchscreen drivers | ||||
| LD path *magic* for PBIs |
New Features / Tools we would like to see in 9.0
BlueTooth Manager GUI This project would be to develop a QT4 based GUI, which acts as a front-end to the FreeBSD BlueTooth configurations, such as /etc/bluetooth/hcsecd.conf
Dial-Up Tethering GUI
This project would be to develop a QT4 based GUI, which acts as a front-end to the ppp.conf file, and allow dial-up / tethering
configurations to be done graphically.
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