For years, I have wondered about being able to sign on to any computer (even a library one) and have your own desktop appear.
Imagine my surprise when I loaded the preview version of Windows 8 in Virtual Box to find that Microsoft will be doing exactly that! Well, OK, not quite any computer, but along those lines.
Microsoft's method is to let you log in to Windows using your Microsoft Live ID (subject to Administrator approval), and synchronise your desktop settings.
This is, of course, opt-in (imagine the privacy implications if it were not).
I think that Ubuntu would be well placed to do something similar.
Written by neokril the 24 Jan 12 at 19:23.
Global category: Hardware support.
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Today I accidentally opened disk utility and found out that my HDD has bad sectors and big amount of IO errors. It would be nice if Ubuntu tell me bad news in time when it happens and write something in logs. Because this information is very important for me and now I even don't know when first bad block has appeared.
The ubuntu update manager starts bouncing up and down like a seperate application to notify a user of updates.This makes it an annoying distraction. Further more when applying changes, The progress bar comes in front of what you are working on.
Written by PaddyLandau the 1 Jan 12 at 17:43.
Global category: System.
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When you use encrypted home folders, the swap is also encrypted (to protect privacy).
However, as Linux is currently structured, this means that hibernate does not work.
However, the menu still offers hibernation as an option, and does hibernate, but of course when rebooting the computer, it starts afresh because it cannot recover.
This is inconsistent, because people can hibernate without any error being displayed.
Obviously, we would like the problem to be fixed, but this depends on development that is not guaranteed to happen (I understand it affects all Linux, not just Ubuntu).
Many users use mobile internet plans with limited data traffic and now Ubuntu does not have a method to query the amount of data traffic in this type of connection.
Written by j814wong the 24 Jan 12 at 20:21.
Global category: Usability.
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Various times, I select a large group of words but sometimes I want to change the selection to select more of less and when the selection is really long, I don't want to have to scroll all teh way up or down just to reselect all the stuff.
Written by rcheetah the 6 Jan 12 at 11:42.
Related project: Kontact.
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Now in gnome contacts you have all contacts from everywhere and you are able to merge or connect two contacts. But when you firstly start the programm, you may have a facebook-account and an addressbook, and now many duplicates. You can connect them all sepparate, but that isn't very user-friendly.
Written by Laslow the 17 Jan 12 at 05:16.
Global category: Usability.
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On desktop systems, it is very annoying to see a warning stating the NumLock is disabled, when it serves no practical purpose these days. For laptop/mobile users it is understandable, though.
I use the number pad a lot, so a warning that it is Disabled would be more helpful. I know that it's practically the same as having the enabled error, but I often gloss over the text and just assume that the CapsLock key is on, press that, and then subsequently get my password wrong. Then, in cases where NumLock is disabled, I don't see the error and then mistype my password because I don't see the warning and naturally assume all is well.
Written by turbolad the 12 Jan 12 at 02:14.
Related project: Unity.
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The scrollbars in Unity are too thin and this makes them *very* fiddly to use because it's hard to position the mouse pointer onto the scrollbars. Attempts to move the mouse pointer over these thin scrollbars means you can easily miss and end up too far left or right of the scrollbar itself.
This problem is even worse with some brands of computer mice which operate very fast when plugged in!
Written by sanjayasanju the 18 Jan 12 at 15:57.
Related project: Unity.
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Unity is gaining much popularity over GNOME and so are Unity Lenses, With the Advent of so many Unity Scopes and lenses it would be rather helpful if One-Place Manage for Unity lenses be done