- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
- HEADLINE: graphical easter eggs
- DESCRIPTION: there are some easter eggs available for terminal. it's nice to have some ubuntu specific graphical easter eggs. it's right day to request it!
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?
#822Flavor: Ubuntu Phone[0] Headline: Availability and Development Description: I would love to see Ubuntu as a serious alternative to either iOS or Android in the mobile space. The availability of phones with Ubuntu pre-installed as well as the devices[1] that support the image (for self-installation) are extremely limited. Its also not clear to me whether the project is still alive. [0] https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/…
In the last month two friends went shopping for new phones and both considered the Ubuntu Phone. The models were sold out. I've heard similar cases in the recent past of models not being available. I hope they can fix these supply chain issues.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#823- 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…
+1000
My ubuntu laptop has now became a stationary computer permanently stuck to the docking station and i never put it to sleep because I'm scared every time i unplug or plug in an external device. Anything from the most simple USB keyboard to ethernet, to VGA monitor, HDMI/DP/DVI monitors, USB3 docking station, close laptop lid, wake from sleep... EVERYTHING has a big chance that the hot plug will fail and you either have to reboot for the device to be detected or in worst case the OS just freezes.
This is a must fix for ubuntu to ever be viable as a desktop OS.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#824Full disk encryption with nvidia driver. Instead of adding niche features, why not fix critical bugs that have been sitting for years?
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#825- 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…
This is an annoying problem indeed but there is an easy workaround. Here is a script I use whenever I ran out of space on /boot partitition:
https://gist.github.com/vzaliva/bee68ed709ddd2724791a56714ec...
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#826FLAVOR: Desktop
HEADLINE: better language switching for 2+ languages
DESCRIPTION: The first thing I've noticed switching from Mac to Ubuntu is that is almost impossible to use 3 keyboard languages! It is easy to fix, see this post for details:
http://lambda-files.crocodile.org/2017/01/switching-between-...
I would like this to be a standard behavior of keyboard switcher.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#827FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop HEADLINE: Open terminal from Nautilus right-click menu DESCRIPTION: It would be useful to be able to open a terminal from any direcrory of Nautilus and the terminal would point to the same directory immediatelly. I know Nautilus is a Gnome development but thought it would worth to ask for this. I find it hard to open a terminal each time when I'm a middle od something and cd t the directory man…
It works like that in Ubuntu 16.04. I tried right now, both from Nautilus menu and from the right click menu. I'm using the Gnome flashback desktop and nautilus 3.14.3. I don't have the nautilus-open-terminal package installed.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#828- 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…
A huge +.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#829- FLAVOR: Desktop - HEADLINE: Shared Electron - DESCRIPTION: With the rise of JavaScript applications running on top of electron, it would be nice to have an electron package to depend on (much like Android WebView). This way not every Electron app weights over 50mb.
I think the Electron people need to do some work on this, right now they seem to release updates very frequently. Perhaps they need an long term support version.
Re: Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?
#830-FLAVOUR: Ubuntu Desktop
-HEADLINE: Native support for Adobe software
-DESCRIPTION: Please get together with Adobe and get their software working natively on Ubuntu.
I do frontend dev and need to work with PSDs supplied by designers often. Gimp is simply not good enough.
I also have a lot of designer and animator friends who would love to switch, but can't because Photoshop or After Effects.
Since Apple is serving overpriced hardware lately a lot of pros want to jump ship, Ubuntu can capture that creative market along with the growing number of discontent developers.
I have seriously considered buying a MacBook Pro just to get my Photoshop needs met. Please don't make me have to buy a MacBook Pro. :(