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 ronjouch » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 1:10 PM UTC

tobltobs wrote: post #51

- FLAVOR: Desktop - HEADLINE: Option to disable all animations and transparency effects in Unity - DESCRIPTION: With a big (>=2560x1600) monitors and a not high-end graphic cards they are not smooth anymore anyway and my PC is freezing up randomly (but seldom) when switching between applications. - ROLE/AFFILIATION: developer

Ubuntu has exactly that since 16.04.1:

1. Open CompizConfig Settings Manager (if not installed, `sudo apt install compizconfig-settings-manager`)

2. Click the "Ubuntu Unity Plugin" plugin

3. At the bottom, "Enable Low Graphics Mode"

4? Restart Unity / reboot (? because I'm not sure it's necessary. See for yourself :)

Agree it would be neat to surface the option in the regular System Settings panel, though.

Source: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/11/enable-low-graphics-mode-...

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

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Post by jesus92gz-spain » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 1:12 PM UTC

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop (but may apply to all)

- HEADLINE: Add Expert Mode Install

- DESCRIPTION: This week I started installing Ubuntu, and the installer is just too basic. That's ok for the common user, but I like installing in expert mode. With expert mode I mean full control of what's being and how it's being installed (eg. network settings, software packages to install, mirrors, etc). I could not even change to a tty while installing. When installing Ubuntu along with my other Debian, and I missed the latter installer in the process. Another aspect to polish in the installer is being able to encrypt just one partition and even include an encrypted volume manager such as Debian's. As an issue, I managed booting in live mode and encrypting manually, but after a successful installation of the system, GRUB could not manage to boot the encrypted system. Watch out, I might not have installed it properly, but it seemed to me this feature was not implemented correctly. Anyways, I think Ubuntu is a good OS that's able to compete with others

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Web Developer @Spain

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

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Post by jcadam » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 1:12 PM UTC

JamesMcMinn wrote: post #66

skamoen wrote: post #14

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop: 1. HEADLINE: A way to have different scaling for external monitors hooked up to my HiDPI laptop. Currently I need can only set a single scaling factor, so I need to ajust my laptop screen resolution to match scaling of the external monitor. If that's not possible, a way to automatically set resolution and scale for both screens once you hook one up would already save me a lot of manual switc…

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.

I switched from Ubuntu to Fedora about a year ago and am quite happy with it.

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

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Post by alex_duf » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 1:12 PM UTC

JamesMcMinn wrote: post #66

skamoen wrote: post #14

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop: 1. HEADLINE: A way to have different scaling for external monitors hooked up to my HiDPI laptop. Currently I need can only set a single scaling factor, so I need to ajust my laptop screen resolution to match scaling of the external monitor. If that's not possible, a way to automatically set resolution and scale for both screens once you hook one up would already save me a lot of manual switc…

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?

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

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Post by noja » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 1:13 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 then I can kill my custom "remove oldest kernels, except the running one, and leave at least two other kernels" script.

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

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Post by alphadevx » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 1:13 PM UTC

JamesMcMinn wrote: post #66

skamoen wrote: post #14

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop: 1. HEADLINE: A way to have different scaling for external monitors hooked up to my HiDPI laptop. Currently I need can only set a single scaling factor, so I need to ajust my laptop screen resolution to match scaling of the external monitor. If that's not possible, a way to automatically set resolution and scale for both screens once you hook one up would already save me a lot of manual switc…

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.

Well 1 depends on Wayland actually detecting your external monitor, I normally end up having to drop back to X to get it to detect my secondary 28" 4K monitor :-(

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

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Post by noja » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 1:14 PM UTC

rxlim wrote: post #43

My biggest wish is Ubuntu (and Debian) switching from systemd to any other init system. I know that won't happen but I was asked and that's the only thing I want, whenever you like it or not.

Why? You need to develop your answer.

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

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Post by sixbrx » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 1:14 PM UTC

- FLAVOR: Desktop

- HEADLINE: Easy Dock/Launcher Customization

- DESCRIPTION: The user should be able to 1) drag any executable to the dock to make a new launcher 2) Right click any launcher to be able to choose a dialog to customize command line arguments, initial working directory, and icon.

The user should not have to edit a desktop item file or install or know about Alacarte. Windows got this one right.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software developer for chemists and biologists.

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

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Post by akx » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 1:14 PM UTC

nhaehnle wrote: post #42

skamoen wrote: post #14

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop: 1. HEADLINE: A way to have different scaling for external monitors hooked up to my HiDPI laptop. Currently I need can only set a single scaling factor, so I need to ajust my laptop screen resolution to match scaling of the external monitor. If that's not possible, a way to automatically set resolution and scale for both screens once you hook one up would already save me a lot of manual switc…

> 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…

FWIW, macOS changes a window's DPI mode when the cursor that is moving the window passes over from to one screen to another. Just tried that out. :D

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

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Post by randallsquared » Fri, Mar 31, 2017, 1:14 PM UTC

nhaehnle wrote: post #42

skamoen wrote: post #14

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop: 1. HEADLINE: A way to have different scaling for external monitors hooked up to my HiDPI laptop. Currently I need can only set a single scaling factor, so I need to ajust my laptop screen resolution to match scaling of the external monitor. If that's not possible, a way to automatically set resolution and scale for both screens once you hook one up would already save me a lot of manual switc…

> 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…

Leaving aside the implementation difficulty, the answer to "what should the scaling be" seems obvious? Use the monitor scaling for the part shown on that monitor. The switch should happen on a monitor level, not on a window level.