Ask HN: What would you like to see in Ubuntu 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot?

I use Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS at work and I keep experiencing a serious desktop bug. Namely, gnome-settings-daemon leaks memory at something like 1G/day, so every week or so my machine slows down until I kill and restart g-s-d.

That's the one thing that has been making Ubuntu look bad to be for a couple of years now. Memory leak bugs have been reported and allegedly fixed in g-s-d prior to 10.04, but mine persists.

The only thing that's unusual about my setup that it occurs to me to note, other than that I changed my window theme and a couple fonts from the default, is that my homedir is NFS mounted.

First of all, great job. I've been using Ubuntu as my sole OS for years now. It's a pleasure. I primarily use it for browsing the web and programming (I like the *nix environment). That's basically it.

I run GNOME with the Courier font in terminal and the black-white system color theme. It looks sleek and has improved since I did my first install.

When Update Manager runs, I see a ton of things to update some times without a clue of what depends on them. The UI could have some sort of small text under the dependency that says something like "used by app1, app2, and N others."

Also, it seems like when I authenticate for an update to occur the prompt to authenticate just sits there. I have to close it manually after clicking the "Authenticate" button to actually watch my updates stream in. That didn't use to happen.

Perhaps the update process could suggest removals. For example, I never have and probably will never use the Gwibber social client. Similarly, I have installed for some unknown reason two photo managers, two desktop mail clients, a video editing program, etc. Over time, my OS should maintain or decrease bloat unlike Winblows.