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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 dustinkirkland »

rlpb wrote: post #347
lucky_cloud wrote: post #25

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server - HEADLINE: Python 3 as default - DESCRIPTION: In lieu of a description, I'll just link to this: https://pythonclock.org - ROLE/AFFILIATION: Developer, sys admin

Python 3 is installed by default, and Python 2 is no longer installed by default on Ubuntu Server since 16.04. Both versions can be installed concurrently. Python 2 is available under /usr/bin/python2 if it is installed. Python 3 is available under /usr/bin/python3 if it is installed. /usr/bin/python points to Python 2 (or nothing, if Python 2 is not installed). This is the upstream recommendation from PEP 394 ( http…

Everything @rlpb just said here is spot on ;-) Definitive +1.

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

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Post by dustinkirkland »

michaelt wrote: post #117

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: All updates reboot-free - DESCRIPTION: Short of a major-version update, the software updater should never ask me "Please restart the computer to begin using your updated software" again. I'm already using the "Canonical Livepatch Service" - but I still get asked to reboot much more often than I would like. - ROLE/AFFILIATION: Programmer

Ah yes, good catch. We are working on making the "System Restart Required" message more "Livepatch" aware. Good suggestion! We'll try to get an update out to 14.04/16.04 LTS and into 18.04 LTS.

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

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Post by dustinkirkland »

matthewbadeau wrote: post #164

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server - HEADLINE: Separate purge-old-kernels command from byobu package - DESCRIPTION: I like byobu, it's extremely helpful but I would prefer the purge-old-kernels script to be in a separate package. I like to run servers with the minimum amount of packages installed and don't really need byobu since most of my maintenance are remote commands. /boot gets filled up quickly and the purge-old-kernels…

Yeah, so see above... This one is 100% my fault. I wrote Byobu as well as purge-old-kernels to solve a really annoying problem. And I jammed purge-old-kernels into Byobu because Byobu is always installed every I have Ubuntu, and I always want purge-old-kernels everywhere I want Ubuntu. In any case, you're right. This is a distro-level problem that needs to be solved properly.

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

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Post by dustinkirkland »

Slackwise wrote: post #376

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Hide/Move/Replace the Unity Menubar - DESCRIPTION: Please have an auto-hide function at minimum? Better would be to move the time/settings to the "dock" when you set the "move the menus to the app windows" option, and then removing menubar entirely. - RATIONALE: It was awful the last time I used Ubuntu on a multi-monitor setup, wasting space on all displays. And having to click an…

Thank you for the feedback, and thanks for listening (and linking here for others)!

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

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Post by anonymouspro »

dallamaneni wrote: post #285

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Dismissable Notifications - DESCRIPTION: I have been using Ubuntu from 10.04. One thing that makes be curse Ubuntu is when my notifications cannot be dismissed. I expected it at-least when it moved to Unity but that never happened. Although I have been living with it, this is something which catches me frequently. - ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software engineer and maker

This is one of the worst things about Unity

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

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Post by majewsky »

paperwork wrote: post #409

- 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…

I heard an anecdote at $work where they ordered servers with positively huge RAM (in the TiB range) for big-data applications, then wondered why the storage box was filled up within a few days. Turns out some admin remembered advice from a 90s-era system setup manual that recommended to set swap size = 2 * RAM size.

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

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Post by Slackwise »

dustinkirkland wrote: post #934
Slackwise wrote: post #376

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Hide/Move/Replace the Unity Menubar - DESCRIPTION: Please have an auto-hide function at minimum? Better would be to move the time/settings to the "dock" when you set the "move the menus to the app windows" option, and then removing menubar entirely. - RATIONALE: It was awful the last time I used Ubuntu on a multi-monitor setup, wasting space on all displays. And having to click an…

Thank you for the feedback, and thanks for listening (and linking here for others)!

Thanks for taking the time to read. Hopefully it doesn't sound like a petty request. Keep up the good work!

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

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Post by Userwithaname »

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Ability to auto-hide the menu bar at the top

DESCRIPTION: I really like the compactness of the Unity desktop, and I think it can be improved even more by having an option to auto-hide the menu bar when the active window is maximized. The menu-bar would be revealed when the mouse cursor is at the top of the screen.

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

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Post by spv »

mattkevan wrote: post #178

FLAVOUR: Desktop HEADLINE: Sort out the default colour scheme I can't really comment on the more technical side, but the Ubuntu Grey/Purple/Orange colour palette is horrible - it makes the whole desktop feel claustrophobic. There's something icky about it. Together with the 'quirky' Ubuntu font, which is hard to read at small sizes and not at all helped by Linux's mediocre font rendering, it makes for a fairly unplea…

For me the default colors on ubuntu were never welcoming. Changing them would be great. Hopefully with Unity 8 they choose better and warmer colors

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

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Post by mijoharas »

pizza234 wrote: post #177
gbog wrote: post #131

FLAVOUR: Ubuntu Desktop HEADLINE: Bluetooh that works DESCRIPTION: I never managed to have my PC playing music through blutooth to a bluetooth loudspeaker. (I'm using Xbuntu, playing mp3s with mpv.) I think it could be because the audio system seems messy: should I have jackd enabled? What is it? So maybe the headline should be to cleanup audio system, specially its routes.

You have two options to try: 1. install the pulseaudio-bluetooth-module, if you didn't 2. follow the procedure below BT in Ubuntu is in an embarrassing state, and I'm not exaggerating. After they've upgraded bluez to version 5, the workflow for connecting BT audio peripherals is: - connect the peripheral (takes a few attempts...) - disable the profile (set to off) - disconnect the peripheral - re-connect the peripher…

There is also currently a bug where you can't connect to an amazon echo via bluetooth [0]. I suspect it is a bluez issue or pulseaudio, as it happens across distros, but it does make me feel quite sad that it is this difficult.

Reminds me of how much of a pain printers could be and scanners can still be..

[0] https://askubuntu.com/questions/871630/cant-send-audio-to-am...

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