What's missing in Debian, or why my parents use Kubuntu
While at Debconf11, I have several times during discussions mentioned the issues I believe should be improved in Debian for its desktop to be useful for more people. The use case for this is my parents, which are currently running Kubuntu which solve the issues.
I suspect these four missing features are not very hard to implement. After all, they are present in Ubuntu, so if we wanted to do this in Debian we would have a source.
1. Simple GUI based upgrade of packages. When there are new packages available for upgrades, a icon in the KDE status bar indicate this, and clicking on it will activate the simple upgrade tool to handle it.
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