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An anonymous reader writes "Enterprise Storage Forum's long-awaited Linux file system Fsck testing is finally complete. Find out just how bad the Linux file system scaling problem really is."

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we use scrollbars to look for the information we want, but what if forget the place we checked and wanted to turn back to that place without searching?

[2 votes] Solution #1: scrollbar bookmarks
especially for web browsers and e-readers, the lenght of pages can be quite alot, so it would be nice to put some 'bookmarks' on scrollbars on the unity one. I am aware that evince such a feature for memorizing the page like bookmarks, but its not efficient way as i imagine

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it can be further expanded and new ideas may come out, and it may be good for unity

Adding for example the PPA from Launchpad's ~maverick-bleed you are able to get the newest vlc (for normal users) but also, unexpectedly, a new version of dpkg.

If that new PPA version of dpkg happens to be poisoned, or even just old-but-renamed, you can unwittingly hand it root access!

[-1 votes] Solution #1: Low default priority for user added sources
Give every user added source a priority of for example 100.
So you can still download vlc, but dpkg will not update automatically.

/etc/apt/preferences /etc/apt/preferences.d/
Package: *
Pin: origin useraddedsource.com
Pin-Priority: 100

An anonymous reader writes "The CEO of the once fledging Linux Game Publishing, Michael Simms, has announced his resignation. Simms attributes his resignation from the Linux game porting company he founded more than a decade ago to being burned out and having little success as of late in his work." In his place, Clive Crouse will be taking the helm.

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The problem is on the Ubuntu One website is an exact mirror of my synchronised folder.

That means when I publish various documents over time I lose track of which ones are published.


[4 votes] Solution #1: Provide option to list all published documents
Provide and option to list all published documents which include the options (deleting, stop publishing etc) when clicking on the item.

New submitter udas writes "Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of the Linux kernel's stable branch, has left his job with SUSE Linux. He is now a fellow at the Linux Foundation. 'There were no direct conflicts working for SUSE, as the people there understand how important the individual developer, and their voice, is in the Linux community,' Kroah-Hartman told Ars this week in an e-mail interview. 'But, working in a vendor-neutral environment like the Linux Foundation allows me to spend a larger amount of time interacting with other companies and vendors, as well as helping Linux out in environments that were not necessarily the focus of my previous employer.'"

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The problem is when someone sets up a CIFS share on a non-root drive. If a user has a single hard drive with Ubuntu, this isn't a problem, and shares are accessible whenever the computer is on. When the user tries to create a share on another hard drive however, it won't be accessible by other users on the network unless the user has logged in locally and clicked on the drive with the share so that gvfs mounts the drive. This can be really annoying for sharing out files, and for situations in which someone chose to use Ubuntu Desktop for a file server (to get the GUI by default) instead of Ubuntu Server.

[-1 votes] Solution #1: Automounting of all local drives, or at least ones with shares
I think the best solution would be to have Ubuntu automount all local drives like Windows does, but at the very least it should mount those with network shares on them which are *supposed* to be accessible.

This could either be done by Gnome/gvfs or by creating a fstab entry.

(There should also be an easy way for GUI users to have network shares automatically mount, too, similar to Windows' "map network drive", and perhaps the same solution, mechanism, or user window/prompt could be used for dealing with both of these problems.)

Every now and then I feel I have to change the desktop background to make it less old/boring/dull. I think the computer should be a bit more "alive" and do this on it's own. We have a lot of look and feel setup in Ubuntu: colors, window decorations, icons etc. Maybe there should be a time element in this as well so the computer look and feel follows the seasons?

[4 votes] Solution #1: Desktop theme that changes with the seasons
What if the desktop follows the seasons? Either the weather, cultural happenings, your sports team, your favorite community or something completely different? Regular users just select a seasonal theme they like, more advanced users create them. A theme could consist of background images, menu and window colors, and maybe sounds as well?


Setup for regular users

Example on how the desktop would look through the year.

While id Software may have recently lost its main Linux game developer (Timothee Bessett), they haven't abandoned their open-source ways. This afternoon John Carmack had an interesting tweet...

While id Software may have recently lost its main Linux game developer (Timothee Bessett), they haven't abandoned their open-source ways. This afternoon John Carmack had an interesting tweet...

 

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jfruh writes "Mandriva, a venerable Linux distro, is on the verge of shutting down. One of its main problems is that it never grew into more than just an OS vendor. The big players in the commercial Linux space — Red Hat, SuSE, Canonical — all built Linux into their larger computing visions. Is there any room in the marketplace for just a straight-up Linux distro anymore?"

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Browsing the internet could be much easier if you would not have to open up your webbrowser.

[1 votes] Solution #1: Include a Unity lens
Include a Unity lens which makes it possible to type URLs directly into the Unity search box and also search for browser favourites and visited pages from your browser's history right out of Unity. Unity could then open these with the standard webbrowser set in the system's settings.

current unity runner (Alt-F2) does not search from window title but only from installed programs/applications.
KDE has this functionality built into krunner, which searches from running application window titles also.

it is really comfortable to press Alt-F2 and if you have for example terminal with titles "ssh: user@server" then typing just server name and all windows containing that server name will be listed.

[-2 votes] Solution #1: implement/copy functionality from krunner
as same functionality already exists in KDE's krunner or SuperKaramba then it could be not that hard to implement it into unity's built-in search/runner (which is also invoked by Alt-F2).

Ubuntu should get a ratting system for desktop environments.

Sort of what Windows has at the moment but could evaluate CPU/HD/3D acceleration/MEM req/etc.


For users that have doubts about their system performance the tool could evaluate and make a suggestion for the user to switch to a lighter flavor of Ubuntu if the system fails under certain points.

[2 votes] Solution #1: Ubuntu tool to measure system performance and sugest changes to user desktop env
A tool that would assess the system's performance and suggest to the user possible alternatives to desktop environments and programs / services he might be running.


Would be nice to have some tool that said: "you can run 3D already but your are very short on memory and your HD access seems slow, running Unity on this computer might not be the best choice, here are the recommendations for your system: desktop environment 1, desktop environment 2, turn this feature off, turn that service off..."

Is that impossible to create?

[1 votes] Solution #2: Build upon Ubuntu Friendly
Ubuntu Friendly (checkbox) is a set of tools that check for system compatibility. As this testing application matures, the same tests can be used to rate and/or recommend.

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