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Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Post by avian »

simosx wrote: post #349
mverwijs wrote: post #266

FLAVOR: Desktop HEADLINE: Pick an official laptop for the release. ROLE: End-user, Sysadmin, Developer I would love for Ubuntu to, with each release, pick a laptop vendor and a laptop and just Make It Work. All the components. Out of the box. As near perfect as one can get it. So when I'm in the market for a new laptop, I can just buy that one. And I'm not talking about a pro gear like the XPS. Just simple, cheap con…

Both Dell and System76 sell laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed. Are you looking into some sort of certification of the sort "Ubuntu Verified"?

My experience with Ubuntu-preinstalled Dell laptops is far from perfect.

At one point, Ubuntu updated the binary nvidia driver in the LTS release (the one that came preinstalled on that particular Dell model, I think 14.04). The new driver removed support for the chip in the laptop, making it unusable without some extensive fishing for old driver packages and freezing further updates.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Post by cabalamat »

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: make the GUI more like traditional Unix GUIs

DESCRIPTION:

the default GUI to have a look-and-feel similar to xfce (as I have it set up on all my machines), specifically:

- 8 virtual desktops - the window with input focus doesn't have to be the one at the top - minimize, maximize and close buttons at the right of the window title bar

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Post by benwaffle »

stsp wrote: post #96
karlmdavis wrote: post #60

- 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…

+1 -- This is the one and only problem I have to regularly help my non-technical Ubuntu friends (and their friends) with. Every few months they cannot install updates anymore because their /boot fills up and apt fails to install a new kernel package. The simplest fix would probably be to make /boot large enough by default (in the order of 10GB or 20GB or so -- the current size is 512MB IIRC). A better fix would be to…

Solus uses https://github.com/ikeydoherty/clr-boot-manager now, which purges old kernels and modules, but keeps the modules for the currently running system so HW still works

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Post by rhodysurf »

alex_duf wrote: post #74
JamesMcMinn wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fedora with Gnome shell on Wayland already handles both 1 and 2, although power managements is about the same as Ubuntu and Wayland comes with its own set of issues.

really, there's a native multitouch support for touchpads? do you have more info about that?

Yes there is native 4 finger swipes to change desktop on Wayland. And I wrote an extension to add 3 finger gesture support for an action of your choice. Check it out here: https://github.com/mpiannucci/GnomeExtendedGestures

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Post by rhodysurf »

eutropia wrote: post #151
utku_karatas2 wrote: post #49

- FLAVOR: Desktop - HEADLINE: Make trackpads great again! Bring on gestures by default. - DESCRIPTION: Trackpad config situation is a mess. Pretty much every Ubuntu derivative has its own simplified (reads severely lacking) interface. What's worse is the gestures configuration. It's mostly done via some dude's one off scripts found on some forum post 2 years ago. Give me a MacOS like experience on the trackpad (espec…

>Give me a MacOS like experience on the trackpad (especially the 3/4 finger workspace switching) and I'd never look back on MacOS again. This. This. This.

This exists in Gnome 3.22 and up

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Post by jncraton »

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Core

HEADLINE: More robust Wifi

DESCRIPTION: I use Ubunut Core on my laptop. Wifi generally works fine. I don't use network-manager or any GUI tools for managing networks, I just edit wpa_supplicant.conf directly. This works fine, but often after my machine has been idle for a long time the wifi link just goes down. A simple restart of the networking service fixes this. I assume that something is crashing or hanging, but I haven't looked into it in detail. It would be nice if this sort of thing was detected and the service restarted automatically, or this just didn't happen to being with.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

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Post by cabalamat »

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Make kwrite extensible

DESCRIPTION:

Having used lots of text editors, I always seem to come back to kwrite.

Make it extensible so that you can add commands to it which, when run, invoke an external executable which gets passed:

- the contents of the file being editted - the contents of the current selection - the filename of the file being editted

These commands can then be run from the menu or the toolbar.

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