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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…
HEADLINE: Embrace the spirit of Open Source, not just comply with the letter of the law
DESCRIPTION:
Here's an extract from the Software Freedom Conservancy report on Canonical's licensing policy:
> Redistributors of Ubuntu have little choice but to become expert analysts of Canonical, Ltd.'s policy. They must identify on their own every place where the policy contradicts the GPL. If a dispute arises on a subtle issue, Canonical, Ltd. could take legal action, arguing that the redistributor's interpretation of GPL was incorrect. Even if the redistributor was correct that the GPL trumped some specific clause in Canonical, Ltd.'s policy, it may be costly to adjudicate the issue.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/jul/15/ubuntu-ip-policy/
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Wayland, Wifi support - DESCRIPTION: numerous wifi dongles still don't work or require unnecessary work
sudo service network restartEarlier 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?
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Better Mouse Settings - DESCRIPTION: Right now mouse acceleration is enabled by default, and for heavy mouse users this is really not usable. There is no way to change this behaviour in the mouse settings. The only way as a user to get a workable mouse configuration is with custom startup scripts, and it took me as an experienced Linux user and software engineer a long time to fig…
HEADLINE: Secure, immediate isolation or power down
DESCRIPTION: When a zero day like heartbleed comes out I want the operating system to give me the option to immediately disconnect from the internet, or even power down the OS. I also want the ability to call these commands myself so that if I have a wider scanner, like Appcanary, I can trigger the shutdown command myself.
I want this command to get called anytime there is a reasonable (>10% chance) that the server could give out shell level access through nothing more than normal internet traffic, and I want the OS to take care of it.
Ubuntu is awesome because it doesn't make me learn stuff unless I want to learn them. The defaults are sensible and configuration is usually pretty easy. I'd like security to be as easy as this.
Excellent support for Apple laptops.
Apple laptops are known to come with hardware with very shitty open source driver support, there's not alot Canonical can do if they don't get good drivers for the various hardware components.
E.g. the 2016 Apple MacBook Pro with TouchBar supports DisplayPort-daisy-chaining, while under macOS you can only daisy-chain monitors if they support Thunderbolt.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: Automated night mode so I can sleep well after work - DESCRIPTION: Reducing the amount of blue light during the night is proven to help people finding sleep after having used their computer at night. So during the night, the desktop automatedly reduce the amount of blue light emitted on the screen by shifting the color balance. - ROLE/AFFILIATION: Dev/Machine learner
- HEADLINE: Integration with Microsoft Active Directory
- DESCRIPTION: Would be nice if in enterprise environment single-sign-on (logging on with kerberos) would work out of the box :). Samba shares in nautilus are usually also slow (against windows server, between linuxes is ok) or have some other logging in problems.
- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Software developer using Ubuntu in enterprise, which officially supports Windows.