Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by robert_foss » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 3:29 PM UTC

FLAVOR: Ubuntu desktop

HEADLINE: Better testing and polishing

DESCRIPTION: Some small flaws never seem to be fixed or addressed. Like sound output selection. If I connect a HDMI cable, and previously have selected it as the audio output, I probably would like it to be automatically selected again.

On my XPS15, after disconnecting the headphone connector I can no longer get audio out from any output. Even if I reconnect the headphones.

Why do I have to select headphone type when it is connected? Why isnt it detected? Why isn't the previous answer select the next time a 3.5mm connector is connected?

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

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Post by serviceXnC » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 3:30 PM UTC

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: independent work-spaces for each monitor with multiple monitors

- DESCRIPTION: On MacOS when you maximize an application it creates it's own "workspace" and each monitor handles these independently. With GNOME 3 each additional secondary monitor is it's own workspace. These are both great but not ideal. It would be great if Unity could be more like the tiling manager i3 and have independent workspaces assigned to specific monitors. Let's say you have a laptop with two workspaces 1,2 and an external monitor with 3,4,5 then when on the laptop monitor ctrl-alt-arrow would switch between 1 and 2 only but the workspace on the external monitor would stay where it is. Then when on the external you switch only between the workspaces on that monitor.

- ROLE: software/infrastructure engineer

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

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Post by cabalamat » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 3:30 PM UTC

Jonnax wrote: post #104

pier25 wrote: post #65

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: text antialiasing options - DESCRIPTION: I'm not a Linux guy, but when I've tried it I'm always annoyed at how ugly text looks compared to macOS. It would be great if we could pick different text renderers or have a new one with an easy GUI for adjusting parameters.

The Windows method of having the user select what style of text they prefer from a set list of options would be a good starting point to take inspiration from. It's quite intuitive and the average user doesn't need to bother learning the details of how fonts are anti aliased

Yes, it's one thing Windows gets right.

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

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Post by zenonu » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 3:31 PM UTC

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server - HEADLINE: All configuration change managed & automated - DESCRIPTION: All configuration management in Ubuntu Server should be managed. For example, editing apache configuration raw on the FS should be strongly discouraged and logged as an error to reconcile with a legitimate configuration change. I should instead create my own configuration package that adds files, edits exiting files, etc. These configuration packages would then be versioned and stored in some central database. If I want to reinstall Ubuntu Server, I then login to the central database, indicate the name and version of the configuration I want to apply, and that's it. - ROLE: Software engineer / home lab hobbyist

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

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Post by sambaynham » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 3:31 PM UTC

FLAVOUR: (I'm British) Ubuntu Desktop HEADLINE: Less glossiness on Unity launcher DESCRIPTION: I use a flat theme (Paper and Arc) to make my desktop less obtrusive when I'm writing/coding. Unity has loads of glossy effects on the launcher, which is distracting. I'd prefer something modern, flat and out-of-the-way. ROLE/AFFILLIATION: Sr. Software Engineer, B2C Food company.

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

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Post by sambaynham » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 3:33 PM UTC

FLAVOUR: (I'm British) Ubuntu Desktop HEADLINE: Less glossiness on Unity launcher DESCRIPTION: I use a flat theme and icons (Paper and Arc) to make my desktop less obtrusive when I'm writing/coding. Unity has loads of glossy effects on the launcher, which is distracting. I'd prefer something modern, flat and out-of-the-way. ROLE/AFFILLIATION: Sr. Software Engineer, B2C Food company.

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

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Post by theandrewbailey » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 3:33 PM UTC

Symbiote wrote: post #291

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…

Why do you have a /boot partition? $ mountpoint /boot /boot is not a mountpoint I don't know if this is the default, but my KUbuntu machines have been fine for many years without a separate /boot.

I try to do the same, but sometimes there's no way around it. LUKS comes to mind: can't boot an encrypted kernel because EFI/BIOS has no decryption facilities. I'm sure there are other cases, but this is the only one that comes to mind.

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

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Post by tkuraku » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 3:33 PM UTC

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 - I didn't even know this was an issue. Usually i just use apt to update and run autoremove after I get a new kernel and verify it is working.

I recently installed Ubuntu on some old computers for my relatives and they really like it. If they keep updating and after a couple of months their system fails to work that will be a disaster for any good will they will have developed for Ubuntu.

This needs to be fixed NOW! How can Ubuntu even pretend to be a viable desktop operating systems if normal updating renders the system unusable?!

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

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Post by paperwork » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 3:33 PM UTC

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server

- HEADLINE: Default swap space doesn't make sense for servers with HUGE ram

- DESCRIPTION: Recently I tried to install ubuntu on a server class machine where it had huge amount of ram and disk storage was spread across many ssd disks. Apparently due to the size of the ram, ubuntu was attempting to set aside so much swap space that it was taking up most of the boot disk! It was very painful to change the default and i would have switched to centos if not for LXD availability. (Note that I am a programmer, not an admin and I was doing this as an experiment)

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

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Post by cabalamat » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 3:34 PM UTC

sathishmanohar wrote: post #32

Flavor: Desktop Headline: Polished and modern Desktop/User experience. I'm using Ubuntu full time for the past 4 years. Some how it still feels like I am using some what old software although Ubuntu has come a long way since the beginning. I don't mind a release with no new technical improvements but only dedicated to improve all the little details and a polished experience of the overall user experience. Given looks…

What, specifically, do you mean by polished? Please give examples.