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Packages for the release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.5.1 are available. Bugs in packaging should be reported to kubuntu-ppa on Launchpad. Bugs in the software to KDE. Users of 10.04 LTS can install it from the Kubuntu Backports PPA. To update, use the Software Repository Guide to add the...

The FreeMED Software Foundation has been involved with a medical clinic and teaching project in Guatemala for some time. The project, hosted by Pop-Wuj, a non-profit Spanish language school in Xela (Quetzeltenango), Guatemala, hosts a medical clinic for the poor in the city and surrounding pueblos.

As a result of the openSUSE Boosters’ ‘HackMeck‘ two weeks ago at FrOSCoN we are proud to present you with a new beta of openSUSE Connect. Connect is supposed to become the central user database for the openSUSE project. Sounds bland, don”t it? But you know the Boosters, everything we do comes with a grain of spice and Connect is no different. The spice here are a lot of nifty social network features like user profiles, friending, groups, an event calendar and possibly more. Thats possible because on top of the user database we use a Free Software social network framework called Elgg. Elgg will help us to go a step further in one of the most important areas of the openSUSE project: Connecting our community. We do a very good job connecting code at the moment but there is no central place for openSUSE users to mingle, form relationships and...

Home folder sub-folders as targets would be nice.

[4 votes] Solution #1: Provide home folder targets
Provide the Ubuntu sub-folders of the home folder (Music / Documents / Videos) as targets.

[7 votes] Solution #2: Make it like Firefox's bookmarks
When you bookmark something in firefox, it lists the last 5 folders you placed bookmarks in before. Beside that is a little down-arrow that when clicked opens a sort of "save file" dialog so you can save it anywheres.

This would be really useful in nautilus.

[2 votes] Solution #3: Places folders as targets
Use folders from Places menu instead.

After a clean installation of Ubuntu 10.04 a restricted drivers icon appeared in the system tray, with no information about what it was before clicking it.

[13 votes] Solution #1: Popup + tooltip on hover
A pop-up to draw attention to the icon and a tool-tip when hovering over it ("Restricted drivers are available, please click for more information") would be descriptive.

tlhIngan writes "Despite all the lawsuits and injunctions by Sony to keep the PS3 Jailbreak out of modder's hands, it appears that a third party has made a clone. The best part is, it only requires a cheap (approximately $40) development board by Atmel, and the requisite software is open-source. Get the Atmel code from GitHub and apply a small patch which will enable backup play (the code by itself only lets you run unsigned code, the patch allows for BD backups). The code is GPLv3. It would be highly ironic if someone ported this to Linux USB Gadgets, then you could use a Linux device to jailbreak your PS3, to which Sony removed Linux functionality. An Android phone would be suitable."

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I think that more than 2 panels its useful and practic.
Like the terminator multi-view

[-4 votes] Solution #1: Iterative adds with F3 keypress
Adds the tittle idea to the next version of nautilus.
Add views with F3 clicks and have another key to restore the default view for example F9.
2 panels when you're moving diferents files to diferent folders(films,games,webs...) sometimes isnt comfortable in graphical mode.

Ubuntu's use of sudo to simplify Linux administration is ingenious, but barely scratches the surface of what sudo can do. Follow along as Yvo Van Doorn of Likewise Software unlocks the powers of sudo.

Mongrel2 is a language agnostic web server capable of routing web requests to applications written in any one of ten languages...

As a user i would like to have an opportunity to _simply_ pass accounts created on one computer to other computers in house (ex. through interface like for Remote Connection [The popup when somebody want's to connect]). This way managing pictures, movies and other stuff could get easier across multiple PCs.

Example:
Amy shares her account details with Adams and then Adam can allow Amy's account access to specific directory/ies on the system through SSH connection.

[3 votes] Solution #1: Advanced control lists for multiple user access control
The multiple access roles could be achieved through ACL https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acl

Some programs / plugins add items to nautilus context menu. If item text is long, then menu becomes very ugly

See screenshot
http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/9544/nautilusmenu.png

[-6 votes] Solution #1: Autocut long items and animate sliding text when mouseover
two steps:

1. Really long items should be cutted automatically

2. If item text is really significant (like in example), it should be automatically slided from left to right, when mouse over.

May be, this solution can be applied to other areas too. Don't know. My use-case is for "diff-ext" extention for meld. Use it often for development.

[14 votes] Solution #2: Send a bug report to the plugin project
everything is in the title

I very much liked the ability of Banshee to autocreate the folder for the new songs/album added, but with Rhythmbox I have to create the artist folder, create the folder for the album, paste the music file and add it to Rhythmbox library.

[8 votes] Solution #1: Autocreate appropriate folders
Have Rhythmbox autocreate the folder hierarchy (as specified in the Library Structure setting) when importing a music file.

Google adds a new labs feature to its bleeding-edge version of Chrome to make it easier for users to test features that are still in development, but at least partially ready for users to explore.

I have several email accounts and so several evolution mail account folders in the left panel. As they have many subfolders, I collapse the folder tree of the not often used mail folders.
When a new email is downloaded/synced to an evolution folder that is collapsed, there is no sign to find out which one mail folder received new email. The title of the subfolders (like Inbox) would turn bold, so you know that there is a unread or new mail, but not with the account folder.

[4 votes] Solution #1: Indicator for new email in an evolution mail account folder
It would be great to have a indicator (star, name in bold letters, ...) that a new email has arrived in a evolution mail folder (see thunderbird).
(Please ask if this description is not clear enough!?

Back in July we reported that Unigine Corp, the company behind the advanced Unigine gaming/3D engine, was working on its own strategy game. This game was supposed to be announced by the end of July, then in private we were told it got pushed back to the middle of August,...

dotarray writes "An Australian man who took Sony to court over the company's decision to remove Linux functionality from the PS3 console has now lost his claim, with the court clearing the manufacturer of any wrongdoing regarding the upgrade."

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jj110888 writes "CyanogenMod has just been updated to version 6.0, bringing Android Open Source Project 2.2 (Froyo) to several devices. This fork includes enchantments to many of the built-in apps, Ad-hoc network connectivity, OpenVPN support, Bluetooth HID, Incognito browsing, extensive control over audio and UI elements, and more found in the extensive CHANGELOG. The CyanogenMod team uses an instance of Google's gerrit tool for code review and patch submission, helping make this former backport of Android 1.6 to T-Mobile's G1 into thriving development for the G1/MyTouch/MyTouch 1.2, Droid, Nexus One, HTC Aria, HTC Desire, HTC Evo 4G (minus 4G and HDMI output), Droid Incredible, and MyTouch Slide. HTC Hero (including Droid Eris) are coming soon for 6.0, with Samsung Galaxy S devices expected to be supported in 6.1."

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It happens often that you try to launch an application, then wait a few seconds, only for nothing to happen. To find out why your application doesn't start, you have to launch it from the command line.

[6 votes] Solution #1: Provide dialog with info when application fails to start
When an application fails to start, bring up a dialog saying: "[Application Name] failed to start" (perhaps with a return code), with a "More Detail" button. When you click "More Detail", it should show you, in the dialog, the standard output of the application.

[4 votes] Solution #2: Add option to "restart application" and "restart with error reporting"
I propose adding 2 options to the dialog (in addition to the close/etc button).

"Restart Application" would simply restart the application.

"Restart With Error Reporting" would capture the stdout and stderr from the application and generate an "error report" that could be read (for experienced users) or copy/pasted to a new bug report for the application.

New features enhance collaboration of the distributed version control system with GitHub's hosted service...

Right now, Nautilus's interface (namely the Main Toolbar) has a lot of clutter-making buttons, removing valuable screen space for actually viewing the files (the things you are actually using Nautilus to view)

[2 votes] Solution #1: Move the essential buttons out of the Main Toolbar
Move the essential buttons onto what is right now the Location Bar, leaving only extra buttons on the "Main" Toolbar that could be hidden and remove clutter.
This would also may call for renaming the Main Toolbar to just the Toolbar has it is no longer housing essential buttons.

A mockup I made:

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/oieP26zeTBmNbfNh7uimNg?feat=directlink

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/u4BndmB5UCZSKOqLDwQCbA?feat=directlink

[-1 votes] Solution #2: Same as #1 but move buttons to the left
all in the title (like nautilus-elementary)