Category: Glowingwire Ideas
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Archival Media
My Pa told me to keep my floppy disks clean. Having a dirty disk that damages drives that damages other disks that damages other drives was an early lesson. This was also the analogy for sex education. Having burnt backups to CD rom and having them fail in a matter of weeks, I became aware…
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Wiki Best Practices
Wiki means quick. Mediawiki is a widely used wiki software. The owner needs to know who the editors and moderators are. Basic use: Each page is created by simply creating a new [[WikiLink]] to another page. If the grammer is not quite right, and one would like multiple [[Wiki Links]] to go to a single…
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DeviceTree for Login Page
I just realized that I can script a few commands to make a background image and or screen saver for sddm that shows some device details. it would be good to refresh it periodically. Top something that lists users logged in. This may already exist. lspci -tv and lsusb -tv
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KDE Plasma Ideas
KDE is by far the best desktop linux user interface. etc/skel enhancements, easier to configure the system out of the box for new users, a store /shared market for configurations of dolphin and panels and themes and widgets kiosk mode (perhaps embedded in the display manager, but starting as a ) fuse filesystem as a…
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Desktop Linux Wishlist
Revisions of filesLimit characters in filenames.logging and error messages.version system for documents folder.kiosk mode –integrate into sddm toocaptcha for new HID devices to prevent rubber ducky attacks Parental Controls/organization controls — time limits, filter for firewall, block vpns for user, program restrictions reporting of activities sandboxing of apps apply/cancel alt-space shortcut to get window menu,…