gnome

Pff I switched to fedora 10 a month ago because Ubuntu didn't have eclipse 3.4 in it's repository but I'm starting to have second thoughts.

1. It's freaking damn difficult to make a damn share. At least the first time.
How do you do it in ubuntu you say ? Right click and select share and click a nice check that allows guest accounts to check your share.
How do you do it in fedora ? Well you install samba. That's ok. You then have to configure samba a bit to add some shares and stuff. That's ok. Then you have to figure out that the firewall is blocking the smb port, normally I wouldn't have any problems with on a server but this should not happen on the desktop.

2. Printing
Why the heck does Fedora ask me to enter the smb address of my network printer and can't it detect it like Ubuntu / OpenSuse / Mandriva ?

3. Packagekit
Yum comes to the rescue. The add/remove interface for package is cute but the search functionality is retarded. You basically need to know the package name.

It seems that it's a cool meme nowadays to express your predictions for the next year so I thought I should give it a try.

1. AMD regains market share with Phenom II
2. Intel doesn't become an ass like the old Pentium 4 days when they didn't innovate at all and demanded high prices for their cpu's. Yes I'm talking to you Core 7.
3. Gnome reveals a roadmap to Gnome 3.0
4. KDE finally makes it mainstream with either their 4.2 or 4.3 release.
5. Nvidia buys VIA because of the increasing need of having a platform to offer to vendors.
6. More game makes start using OpenGL. That increases the change of games being ported to MacOSX / Linux ( See Unreal Tournament / Doom etc.)
7. I will get free cookies :D and finish my learning of django / drupal / jquery :P

1. Buddy State Notification

Notifies in a conversation window when a buddy goes or returns from away or idle.

It's useful if you're talking with somebody and he goes away and you want to be notified of his return.

2. History

A must for everyone that need to see past conversations.
To use this plugin you need to enable the Logging option from Tools > Preferences > Logging.

3. Message Notification
Provides a variety of ways of notifying you of unread messages.
It's usefulness is best when combined with the buddy state notification because that plugin inserts a text line in the chat window
that triggers the message notification.

4. Psychic Mode
Causes conversation windows to appear as other users begin to message you. This works for AIM, ICQ, XMPP, Sametime, and Yahoo!
It's useful if you want to make fun of somebody because nobody usually expects you to say something while they start typing to you for the
first time

5. Send button
Adds a Send button to the entry area of the conversation window.
Do you miss the send button from the chat area ? Now you can add it back easily

6. Off-the-Record Messaging
Preserves the privacy of IM communications by providing encryption, authentication, deniability, and perfect forward secrecy.
For people that need to be sure that what they talk with somebody remains strictly between them.

7. Muzic Tracker
The MusicTracker Plugin allows you to customize your status message with information about currently playing song from your music player.
If you want to show your chat buddies what are you listening to.