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- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop: 1. HEADLINE: A way to have different scaling for external monitors hooked up to my HiDPI laptop. Currently I need can only set a single scaling factor, so I need to ajust my laptop screen resolution to match scaling of the external monitor. If that's not possible, a way to automatically set resolution and scale for both screens once you hook one up would already save me a lot of manual switc…
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Automated night mode so I can sleep well after work - DESCRIPTION: Reducing the amount of blue light during the night is proven to help people finding sleep after having used their computer at night. So during the night, the desktop automatedly reduce the amount of blue light emitted on the screen by shifting the color balance. - ROLE/AFFILIATION: Dev/Machine learner
By this I mean being able to completely segment my workflow between screens as follows:
Screen 1: Work
- Email filtered for work - All programs automatically put files into the project's folder - Docker containers and even separate localhost so I can bind to port 80 on different screens. - Different Browser history
Screen 2: Startup Project
- Same but everything focused on my startup project - Task manager built in.
Screen 3: Social media, hacker news and messing around and other email
- Limited to 15 minutes in any hour.
Programs can tie into tasks and tasks can be shared between people.
Not much to ask hey, but building in GTD at the OS level would be awesome ;-)
1. HEADLINE: Allow users to setup a caching drive in the standard installation process
Currently, the setup process for creating a caching drive(I have a 16gb SSD in addition to my HDD) is very convoluted, with lots of conflicting information about how to setup bcache. Even after finally getting it working, my computer will still hang occasionally when RAM is maxed out and the cache drive has to write to HDD
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Please, please, please fix space issues with /boot. - DESCRIPTION: I'm constantly running out of space in /boot, due to kernel updates. It drives me so incredibly batty. If I had to guess, this is due to poor defaults in the installer for folks that opt to encrypt their whole disk. Even still, this system was setup back on 14.04 (don't think it started on 12.04), and I have no int…
- HEADLINE: Stop releasing every six months. Instead, have an LTS, like you already do, and then a rolling release that is conservative and battle-tested, like Gentoo does.
To help with the rolling release, create an infrastructure that allows you to progressively release updates that could cause problems to some users (like an evdev -> libinput or a GNOME 3.22 -> 3.24 transition)
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Automated night mode so I can sleep well after work - DESCRIPTION: Reducing the amount of blue light during the night is proven to help people finding sleep after having used their computer at night. So during the night, the desktop automatedly reduce the amount of blue light emitted on the screen by shifting the color balance. - ROLE/AFFILIATION: Dev/Machine learner
1. - HEADLINE: Thumbnails in file upload window
1. - DESC: I can't preview thumbnails in the file upload window in Firefox or Chrome (Ubuntu 16.10 here)
2. - HEADLINE: Built-in flux-like settings
2. - DESC: Would like to be able to control blue-light with a native program, as I have had problems with flux (it doesn't seem to be developed with Ubuntu or Linux in mind)
3. - HEADLINE: Exfat support in kernel
3. - DESC: Some devices I use unfortunately are set to use exfat and I can't change them, current exfat support is pretty bad, so please get this working nicely
4. - HEADLINE: Bcachefs support in kernel
4. - DESC: I have been reading about this new and interesting fs, it seems like a good thing to add.
5. - HEADLINE: Add more i/o schedulers to the kernel
5. - DESC: The current choice of i/o schedulers in the mainline kernel is not great, add some popular ones.
6. - HEADLINE: I HATE the current archive manager, please change it or fix it
6. - DESC: The archive manager in 16.10 has to be the worst component by FAR, it is always crashing and doesn't support many archive types out of the box, so please do something about this, as I guess a lot of people depend on this, but it is SO shoddy that I am sure others feel my pain.
7. - HEADLINE: Please try to stop the NIH syndrome of Ubuntu
7. - DESC: for lucky number 7, please stop with the NIH mentality that is prevalent in Ubuntu, sometimes you don't make the best decisions and the rest of the Linux community does, don't let arrogance or your dominance over the Linux marketshare push you into making stupid decisions (see Mir) that go against the general trend in a bad way. Some of us just want an easy-to-use efficient Linux, if you keep making us choose between your weird decisions and comfort, there will come a point where we make the same decision we did when we chose to not go with comfort when we dumped Windows in exchange for a practical system.
8. - HEADLINE: Put more pressure on hardware companies for drivers
8. - DESC: Don't accept the status quo when it comes to shit driver support. Lean on Nvidia and the others until they start to realise we want proper driver support.
9. - HEADLINE: Look into more optimisation (like Solus)
9. - DESC: I was interested to learn about Solus, which uses some optimisation techniques that seem a little underused in the community, so look into giving Ubuntu users that also.
I know, I don't ask for much. And thanks for the great OS!
ROLE: Infrastructure Developer for multinational company
* FLAVOR: Desktop * HEADLINE: Swift for desktop apps * DESCRIPTION: Swift frameworks for Cocoa controls that allow development of desktop apps in a beautiful and consistent manner. And while we're at it, give also Google a hand on porting Kotlin apps for the desktop too. There is nothing better for a platform than allowing developers to build modern and beautiful apps to push the platform even further.
You can already use Swift in Linux (and I suppose there are already some WIP bindings to GTK). Cocoa is a totally different beast, really dependant on internal workings and semantics of macOS, and porting it would definitely take more than a single release cycle.
And Kotlin does not have any association with Google whatsoever.
If you want a single language / development framework for mobile and desktop, I think the best option right now would be React Native, given that Canonical created a Ubuntu Desktop fork.