I'm willing to bet that it's very confusing for newbies to be getting an error message that there isn't enough free space when a new kernel is installed, but when they check the free space on their main hard drive, it's showing more than plenty of free space.
It would be nice to have the possibility to red flag files - probably mainly interesting for photographs and videos - so that they do not show up in Unity or Shotwell etc. My personal main interest lies with graphical content, like erotic photographs of your girlfriend that you took with your camera. If I show pictures of my vacation to friends and family, I do not necessarily want those photos involved but I also dont want to have to go through all my folders and remove single pics into a non-indexed folder.
Aside from graphical content one may also want to hide just any kind of files from showing up in the unity launcher, especially when you have a machine that you use for business and private. If you give a presentation in front of a large audience and go to the Unity Dash where your last opened files show up, I personally always fear what's gonna be listed there.
It's not the first time I decided to translate something and, whenever I close my browser, I forget where I saw that page/package/something else needing a translation. I know I can change some settings to open the browser where I closed it, but seems unnecessary to have 6 or 7 pages opened related to Ubuntu.
Written by TheGuyWithTheFace the 31 May 13 at 03:01.
Global category: Look and Feel.
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I really like how the launcher and unity notifications change based on the background. However, the always-orange highlight color, always-orange window switching highlight color, always-orange window buttons etc really stick out like a sore thumb depending on what the background is.
Written by art.fiodorov the 30 May 13 at 23:01.
Related project: Unity.
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Often I find myself erroneously erasing the content of the clipboard(s). Moreover, sometimes I am not even sure about the content of the clipboard at all.
Something as simple as pasting an email address turns into a painful exercise of pasting the content, realising it is wrong, erasing it, grabbing my mouse and looking for the actual email address and, finally, pasting it.
We need a simple way to access clipboard history, which will also give advanced users multiple clipboards.
Right after you've installed a default system, a ton of packages are apt-marked manual. You can see this with
apt-mark showmanual | wc -l
It would be much cleaner to only mark the packages that define that install as manual, as mark the rest as auto. In Ubuntu Desktop, these packages would be:
Written by mackuz the 22 May 13 at 08:43.
Related project: Unity.
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When i'm looking in Video lens, for example, i see some interesting videos from the Internet and some videos, i'll never watch. I see them every time the Lens is opened.
People who ask me to set up their home router don't know that you can type an IP address into a web browser address bar to get to the config page. In some cases, they can't find the address on the device sticker either and have to look for the "default gateway". It's a minor inconvenience that can take several minutes to explain over the phone.
Written by doryds the 30 May 13 at 16:57.
Related project: Unity.
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I find it a frequent occurance when using my track pad that when I try to use triple click to select a sentence or paragraph, I often click one too many times. What this means is that my triple click will flash the selection of my intended paragraph before my fourth click undoes my intended action. It is actually quite frustrating.
I suspect that the majority of quadruple clicks are actually intended to be triple clicks to select a paragraph.