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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 ddalex »

Late to the party,but better later than never, so -

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Support i3 as full-integrated desktop

- DESCRIPTION: I'm using i3 for years now, just because I love the minimalism and the window tiling - I no longer see the purpose of overlapping windows. However when I install and switch i3, invariably something breaks in the inner Unity/Gnome system - the special keys stop working, the control panel needs magic invocations to bring up all the icons, etc. I would love to have the base graphical system working flawlessly even if I switch from Unity to i3. For extra points, please make i3 installed by default.

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: I work for Time Out, the leading global magazine about going out!

BTW, thank you for all the hard work you and the team put in over the years!

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

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Post by arprocter »

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…

Thanks for mentioning TLP - I hadn't heard of it before

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

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Post by jackewiehose »

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Terminal-Icon on LiveCD-Desktop

Please put a shortcut to a terminal emulator, somewhere visible, on the desktop of the Ubuntu LiveCD.

Whenever I have to use that disc in an emergency situation, I'm glad that there is an icon to amazon (in case I forgot the URL of amazon), but I'm always struggling to figure out how to get to a bash prompt

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

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Post by themtutty »

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

- HEADLINE: Add specific websites or help data (e.g. Zeal) into Unity Search

- DESCRIPTION: I would love to use Unity to search for API definitions for Angular, JS, Lodash, PHP, Postgres, etc...

- ROLE/AFFILIATION: CTO for a software product company. Use 16.10 all day every day.

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

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Post by qznc »

who_is_mr_tux wrote: post #629
Zarel wrote: post #557

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server - HEADLINE: Built-in support for installing up-to-date packages - DESCRIPTION: Currently, `apt install [package]` on LTS Ubuntu will install a package that is up to 24 months out of date (or more if you're not on the latest LTS). Literally one month ago, using the latest version of Windows 10, I installed Ubuntu for Windows (which installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS), and `apt-get install nodejs` insta…

This is the exact problem snaps are supposed to solve. Check out Snapcraft.io

This.

My laptop is on Ubuntu 16.04. Via apt, I get libreoffice 5.1.6 from last october. Snap gives me 5.3.1, which is the newest one.

Snap is not there yet. Finding stuff is hard, because uApp Explorer [0] is not good enough yet. It suffers from trying to appeal to servers, desktop, mobile, and IoT (which probably just means Raspberry Pi). It is confusing and messy.

Edit: Since GP mentioned youtube-dl, specifically. A `snap find youtube` gives me three different variants:

youtube-dl-casept 2017.03.26 casept

youtube-dl-snap daily fireeye

youtube-dl-bdmurray 2016.10.16 bdmurray

The first one looks recent. Maybe the second one is even better? As I said, it is confusing so far. We have to figure out how to do curation well.

[0] https://uappexplorer.com/apps?type=snappy

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

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Post by hsivonen »

FLAVOR: Ubuntu desktop

HEADLINE-1: Support for Wayland clients in Unity.

DESCRIPTION-1: I don't think it will be beneficial for Unity to have a different window system protocol from the rest of Linux desktops (including non-Unity Ubuntu flavors). I don't want X11 to stick around as the compat layer that works with both Unity and everything else. Please make Mir into a Wayland compositor.

(I like the Unity UX. I'm not a Unity hater. Currently, I'm sticking to 16.04, because I don't have confidence in Ubuntu not breaking things by making Mir have its own protocol.)

HEADLINE-2: Autoremove old kernels before /boot fills up.

DESCRIPTION-2: The UX of having to manually remove kernels with an LVM/LUKS setup (using the default /boot size the installer chooses) is bad and makes Ubuntu with disk security unsuited for non-geek users.

ROLE: Browser engine developer but speaking as a user.

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

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Post by dreamofkoholint »

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…

HiDPI is still a huge problem in the linux desktop I can't count the number of hours I've spent researching and fiddling with it. Wayland is the answer, but it's slow moving, and Sway currently looks terrible when scaling double.

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

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Post by ben_jones »

dawnerd wrote: post #508
karlmdavis wrote: post #52

- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop - HEADLINE: More stable dock/undock and sleep/wake handling. - DESCRIPTION: I've noticed that my system often hangs unrecoverably with a blank screen during dock/undock and sleep/wake events. I've learned, though, that I can reduce the likelihood of having problems by trying to minimize the number of state changes that the system has to handle at once. For example, if I'm leaving the house wi…

It's kind of crazy how long this has been a problem and across many different hardware configs. Sleep doesn't work on my desktop or on a windows laptop with standard intel everything.

Just want to note I have similar problems on MacOS especially when using multiple monitors. I.E. one monitor will work and the other won't until I restart.
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