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/boot free space needs to be automatically managed  
Written by supercheetah the 25 May 13 at 02:01. Related project: Update manager. New
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.
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Solution #1: Old kernels are automatically removed
Written by supercheetah the 25 May 13 at 02:01.
There shouldn't be more than two or three kernels installed. There should be an option somewhere available to advanced users that want to have more than that, but for a default install, it should just automatically remove the oldest one.
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Solution #2: apt-get autoremove
Written by Ivan1986 the 31 May 13 at 11:03.
we have
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove-kernels
file whis new kernels
add apt-get autoremove in cron and all is ok

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Software Center option: Add to wishlist  
Written by PAtrickV the 25 May 13 at 06:32. Related project: Ubuntu Software Center. New
Hello,

Het would be nice to have the option 'Add to wishlist'in the Ubuntu Software Center.
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Solution #1: Do not have to purchase a product directly
Written by PAtrickV the 25 May 13 at 06:32.
When you see nice application you like to purchase you can place them in a wishlist for late purchases.

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Red flag files (prob. mainly graphical) - Shotwell / Unity  
Written by 0x000000023dffffff the 14 Jun 13 at 20:47. Related project: Unity. New
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.

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Solution #1: Option to flag files generally
Written by 0x000000023dffffff the 14 Jun 13 at 20:47.
I could think of a solution where in Nautilus you can just right click on files and flag (e.g. "work in progress", "favourite", "family" ...) them; there should be an option for a "red flag" or sth. which hides this file (without renaming it) from showing in automatically indexed lists like the Unity Dash or Shotwell, Rhythmbox etc. Ideally you can also add these flags in these other programs, especially Shotwell should definitely have this option.

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Reminder for Launchpad  
Written by Gustavo Silva the 13 Jun 13 at 21:56. Related project: launchpad.net. New
Hey 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.

Cheers
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Solution #1: Adding a new button/checkbox/link on the page
Written by Gustavo Silva the 13 Jun 13 at 21:56.
So, I'd like to know what is your opinion about adding a button somewhere named something like "to do" or even reminders, so every launchpad can check anything inside Launchpad to see it later.
It's actually useful for translators and probably for other works that are available on Launchpad. With this, people on their breaks from studies, work or anything else can check work to do later.

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The (awesome) changing launcher color clashes with unchanging orange highligter  
Written by TheGuyWithTheFace the 31 May 13 at 03:01. Global category: Look and Feel. New
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.
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Solution #1: Make the Highlight color change based on the background
Written by TheGuyWithTheFace the 31 May 13 at 03:01.
The automatic themeing of the launcher and notifications looks great, so why not incorporate it into the rest of the system? It would 1. Look better, and 2. Be much more convinient than manually editing every dconf file pertaining to highlight colors, window animation colors, etc.
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Solution #2: Use reverse video
Written by turbolad the 5 Jun 13 at 16:08.
Reverse video ensures foregrounds and backgrounds of text, highlighting etc are always visible and never clash and look ugly, e.g. no red against red.

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Erasing the content of the clipboard / too few clipboards  
Written by art.fiodorov the 30 May 13 at 23:01. Related project: Unity. New
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.
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Solution #1: Use HUD as a manager for multiple clipboards with a simple string matching
Written by art.fiodorov the 30 May 13 at 23:01.
I suggest running a clipboard manager in the background, which behaves like Vim 0-9 clipboards. Simply put, it remembers the last 10 clipboard entries.

To simplify accessing the 10 clipboards, bringing up HUD and typing the string you are looking for should result in a match and hitting "ENTER" should paste it (send CTRL+V/SHIFT+INSERT). Additionally, HUD + typing "current clipboard/system clipboard/clipboard 0" should bring up the content of the system clipboard.

This solves two problems outlined above: not knowing what you are pasting and too few clipboards (2 by default). To resolve an issue with saved passwords, something like HUD + "clear clipboards/forget last clipboard" options should be made available. Possibly an offline mode trigger should be included, which would stop rotating clipboards. This is so that power users can enjoy multiple clipbboards in a traditional sense.

Please see the screenshot to get the idea:



The program ClipIt from the screenshot comes very close to the solution, but it does not work with HUD well. HUD does not match up with the content of the clipboard. Moreover, the project ClipIt has been halted for an indefinite time, hence this won't get fixed. But ClipIt could be taken as a base (it is GPL v3 licensed). Another problem with ClipIt and HUD is that users are forced to match the beginning of the string. This is too restrictive: if it is an email then "@" is all I can remember.

ClipIt was not designed to work with HUD. The ClipIt's current interface has an icon in the task bar / system tray, so that clicking it brings up the clipboard history. There one can select an entry to paste. Alternatively, a keyboard short-cut brings up a context menu with clipboard entries, where one can use arrows or a mouse to actually paste it. In any case, there is an unnecessary task of actually finding what one wants to paste in the long list of items: it is tedious and boring. One can also try to match what he/she has to a clipboard names, to rid themselves of searching through the list. However, this bears overheads of remembering what is where.

However, after using ClipIt on Ubuntu the realisation of how much more useful it could become combined with HUD is obvious: when people paste things they expect a particular, certain thing to be inserted. People do not think about data in terms of corresponding clipboards. They simply want that email to get inserted, that URL and that piece of code. String matching in clipboards is something so intuitive I started wondering why it has not been a standard feature of the OS's.

This is why HUD's interface is superior:
1) No need to sieve through the entire list of clipboards. HUD will effectively narrow the list down. My current clipboard history consisting of 20 items has just 1 email and 2 URLs. If I could just start typing "@" I would instantly narrow the list down to just 1 item. Typing "http:" would narrow the list down to 2.
2) No need to remember what item corresponds to which clipboard.

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Apt-mark manual only the top-most packages after default install  
Written by obadz the 23 May 13 at 18:09. Related project: Live CD installer. New
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:

language-pack-XX
linux-generic
ubuntu-minimal
ubuntu-standard
ubuntu-desktop
ubuntu-restricted-addons (optional)

Every other package depends on these.

This would make apt-get autoremove much more effective, especially after a dist-upgrade.

(I see this issue with Xubuntu, but I assume the same is true for the other Ubuntu bundles)
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Solution #1: apt-mark auto `apt-mark showmanual` && apt-mark manual [top-level-packages]
Written by obadz the 23 May 13 at 18:09.
I'm not sure where the apt state of the system comes from right after install, but the fix is rather simple.

Right after install, I generally do this:

sudo apt-mark auto `apt-mark showmanual`
sudo apt-mark manual `debfoster -n -q -k /dev/stdout`

It would be better if the system got installed with proper marks to get good apt-get autoremove behavior.

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Ability to hide single elements from web-search results in Unity lenses  
Written by mackuz the 22 May 13 at 08:43. Related project: Unity. New
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.
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Solution #1: Ability to hide single elements from web-search results
Written by mackuz the 22 May 13 at 08:43.
There is a preview in Lenses and there are some buttons in every preview. It would be great to have another one to hide an element from the lens. And maybe some way to see hided elements through filters if a user accidentally hided some important information. And another one button in preview for hided elements to restore them.

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Easier way to configure a home router  
Written by pczahra the 4 Jun 13 at 14:22. Related project: Network Manager. New
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.
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Solution #1: Router hostname
Written by pczahra the 4 Jun 13 at 14:22.
Just like you can type http://localhost into your web browser address bar and have it map to 127.0.0.1, it would be nice to be able to type http://router and have it map automatically to your default gateway (whatever it may be) without having to look it up every time. If the OS could also detect that it is a router there and not a direct link to the ISP, a button could be added under network configuration to open the default browser to that location.

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Most quadruple clicks are intended to be triple clicks  
Written by doryds the 30 May 13 at 16:57. Related project: Unity. New
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.

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Solution #1: Make quadruple clicks the same as triple clicks
Written by doryds the 30 May 13 at 16:57.
My suggestion is simple: make quick sequential quadruple clicks perform the same action as triple clicks. Specifically, quadruple clicks should select a select a paragraph, just as triple clicks already do. If you think about it, why would a user ever go to the trouble of performing three clicks to select a paragraph only to click once more a fraction of a second later to undo their action?

This is a simple tweak that I believe will not impact other behaviors. If a user wants to unselect the paragraph, all they have to do is wait a fraction of a second more before performing a single extra click. Making the fifth quick sequential click unselect the paragraph would work too.

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