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?

#801

Post by petre » Sat, Apr 01, 2017, 5:26 AM UTC

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packages - DESCRIPTION: Currently, `apt install [package]` on LTS Ubuntu will install a package that is up to 24 months out of date (or more if you're not on the latest LTS).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…

Use a rolling release distribution (like Arch or the more conservative OpenSuSE Tumbleweed) if you want the latest and greatest packages. The point of LTS releases in minimal breakage during uptates coupled with some two or more years of updates.

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

#802

Post by canada_dry » Sat, Apr 01, 2017, 5:32 AM UTC

cabalamat wrote: post #410

sathishmanohar wrote: post #32

Flavor: Desktop Headline: Polished and modern Desktop/User experience. I'm using Ubuntu full time for the past 4 years. Some how it still feels like I am using some what old software although Ubuntu has come a long way since the beginning. I don't mind a release with no new technical improvements but only dedicated to improve all the little details and a polished experience of the overall user experience. Given looks…

What, specifically, do you mean by polished? Please give examples.

I get frustrated as hell by the inconsistent dialog boxes! When saving a file, the filename text is highlighted (i.e. selected), but when you start typing it sends the text to a search input box. Like... WTF?!?

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

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Post by amarok-blue » Sat, Apr 01, 2017, 5:34 AM UTC

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Better support for Wacom Tablets

Description: Add advance configurations like Gnome 3.24

ROLE/Affiliation: Game and Web Developer

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

#804

Post by amarok-blue » Sat, Apr 01, 2017, 5:36 AM UTC

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Better support for gestures

Description: Like macOS, configurations and visual examples

ROLE/Affiliation: Game and Web Developer

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

#805

Post by amarok-blue » Sat, Apr 01, 2017, 5:42 AM UTC

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Solve HDMI bug to connect TV

Description: I connect HDMI plug but not automatic sound to TV and not speaker sound to disconnecting the cable

ROLE/Affiliation: Game and Web Developer

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

#806

Post by petre » Sat, Apr 01, 2017, 5:45 AM UTC

stymaar wrote: post #281

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

> the software updater should never ask me "Please restart the computer to begin using your updated software" again. Is it still a thing ? I've been using Linux Mint (which is based on Ubuntu for updates) and I haven't been asked to reboot my computer in years !

On Ubuntu? Yes. For every update that grabs a kernel or syatemd, dbus sillyness.

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

#807

Post by amarok-blue » Sat, Apr 01, 2017, 5:47 AM UTC

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Better support to Nvidia

Description: Suspend does not work properly, support Nvidia Optimus and provide nvenc ppa or snap package

ROLE/Affiliation: Game and Web Developer

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

#808

Post by amarok-blue » Sat, Apr 01, 2017, 5:48 AM UTC

FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE: Support Wayland, not Mir

Description: Unified work with the community

ROLE/Affiliation: Game and Web Developer

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

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Post by petre » Sat, Apr 01, 2017, 5:55 AM UTC

tajen wrote: post #613

VonGuard wrote: post #561

No one has been ragging on Unity.... They should be. Unity is still garbage. Ruined Ubuntu for me after about 10 years of usage... Still never returning because Unity is such a resource hog, so non-standard in its interface, and the fact that teaching someone Unity is a useless skill. We used Ubuntu for years to teach people how to use a computer for the first time: we gave them old PC's with Ubuntu installed. Unity…

Ubuntu dropped the ergonomic Gnome to whip us with their own custom, unpolished Unity. Now they're doing it all over again with Mir, while Wayland could be a Linux standard. Sounds like IE all over again. That gives me trust issues with Canonical. More, they now leverage trademark law to forbid people from using ubuntu-? packages. Then they pulled the Amazon search in the menu, it showed Canonical's misunderstanding…

Sounds like systemd vs upstart all over again.

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

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Post by nityananda » Sat, Apr 01, 2017, 6:00 AM UTC

utku_karatas2 wrote: post #49

- FLAVOR: Desktop - HEADLINE: Make trackpads great again! Bring on gestures by default. - DESCRIPTION: Trackpad config situation is a mess. Pretty much every Ubuntu derivative has its own simplified (reads severely lacking) interface. What's worse is the gestures configuration. It's mostly done via some dude's one off scripts found on some forum post 2 years ago. Give me a MacOS like experience on the trackpad (espec…

Yes. I tried to use Ubuntu on MacBook Air. Was missing smoothness if scrolling as on MacOS and support for resting thumb on trackpad.