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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 cdvonstinkpot »

AresMinos wrote: post #669

-FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop -HEADLINE: Default ZFS from the installer -DESCRIPTION: There is way too much work now to get Ubuntu Desktop up and running on ZFS. I think everyone would love for you to make Ubuntu install on ZFS by default from the gui installer. ZFS is the one and only reason why I currently use FreeBSD. If Ubuntu would install on ZFS without me having to spend so muvh time on hackery it I would run back t…

FWIW I think NexentaStor's zfs configuration interface is the easiest way I've seen to configure zfs. Something like that where it's dead-easy to apply an SSD to cache & multiple HDDs to redundant pools would be wonderful.

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

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Post by davidbanham »

FLAVOUR

Ubuntu Desktop (xubuntu)

HEADLINE

Make a2dp Bluetooth audio work right

DESCRIPTION

I've given up using my bt headphones. You need to reconnect a bunch of times to even be able to select a2dp mode instead of headset. If I try and direct audio from a web browser to the a2dp sink via pulse, it stalls the rendering thread and videos won't play at all. They start working again as soon as I switch the sink.

ROLE/AFFILIATION

Consulting architect / web developer

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

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Post by skykooler »

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Allow moving the dock to the right-hand side of the screen

- DESCRIPTION: It's pretty annoying, especially with multi-monitor setups, that the launcher is fixed to the left side of the screen. By tweaking a dconf value you can move it to the bottom but there is no way to put it on the right.

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

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Post by DoofusOfDeath »

tambourine_man wrote: post #604

Tangentially related, has anyone thought of a Kickstarter or something similar for Adobe Creative Suite on Linux? I'm curious how much would be needed to justify the investment

I've thought about that, but I find it difficult to believe a Kickstarter campaign would ever raise enough money to get Adobe to bite.

For one thing, all of the Kickstarter campaigns that I've seen specify up front the amount of money they need to reach a given tier of output. But I think we'd have little luck convincing Adobe to give guidance on what that number would have to be.

Perhaps it could be structured as something like this: "We're guessing that $75 million USD would get Adobe's attention. If this campaign reaches the $75 million mark, we'll propose to Adobe that they make a port of CS6 for the most recent Ubuntu LTS, and grant a one-year license to every member of this campaign who contributed at least $100 to this campaign. If they accept this offer, this campaign's funds will be collected and placed into escrow, releasable when Adobe completes its end of the bargain."

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

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Post by semi-extrinsic »

asperous wrote: post #676
egnehots wrote: post #584

Earlier quoted context omitted.

User: I want hi-res apps! Dev: Sure, here you go. User: But why is it so small on my new shiny tablet high density screen? Dev: (SHit it worked okay for me) Okay now it detects the density and scale.. User: But when I move the window to my old good lcd screen it becomes way too big! Dev: Okay let's see if I can dynamically adapt to a new monitor density, it's just one scale factor. User: But when I put it on my big t…

MacOS actually in my experience seems to handle this all perfectly. Normal-DPI screens you chose resolution and dragging windows between monitors works as you naturally expect (it pops between DPIs).

Does it understand "I want 2x magnification on my 15" 4k laptop display, but not on my 43" 4k monitor"? Windows 10 decidedly does not, so I have to switch manually every time I switch display (just forget using both together), and it then tells me to close all my work and log out and in again to make scaling consistent between UI elements on screen.

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

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Post by sargun »

Flavour: Ubuntu Server

Headline: Add systemd updates to HWE stacks

Role / affiliation: containers @ Netflix

The HWE stacks y'all have been rolling out for LTS are really awesome. We're big fans.

Unfortunately, another component of Ubuntu is detracting from their awesomeness. Systemd isn't updated, and unfortunately it's becoming tightly coupled to the kernel and making certain kernel capabilities available like file system features, and networking. It would be great if systemd was included in the HWE.

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

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Post by zerocrates »

planteen wrote: post #69
nhaehnle wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 1. HEADLINE: A way to have different scaling for external monitors hooked up to my HiDPI laptop. This would be awesome. Even when both the laptop and the external screen are 1080p, different scaling could be helpful if you want to use a dual monitor setup effectively. Unfortunately, it's a tough nut to crack given current desktop behavior. For example, you can have a window that straddles both monitors. What should…

Widows 10 handles different scaling (zoom) between monitors far better than any Linux distro I have used. A window keeps the zoom of where it came from until it is entirely on the new monitor. Works pretty well.

I get correct auto scaling-switching like this on Gnome 3 with Wayland, but only for a subset of programs (basically those that are fairly vanilla GTK+3), and at the cost of weird bugs with Wayland and program support thereof that still crop up fairly regularly.
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