Right now , for installing anything from launchpad, we have to open software sources, add the repository, and the install the package. This should be made easy.

For those who are taking their first steps in Ubuntu it can be a very alien landscape to use at first. One of the problems people have is finding alternatives to well known proprietary software in the Free world. The software center is a wonderful place to start, but unless people know what they are looking for (the name of the package) they won't have an easy time finding anything. They'll probably end up installing a lot of programs from the appropriate category, but might get frustrated if they don't find anything comparable quickly.

A lot of packages are not accessible via add/remove. This is ok, but maybe there should be a button like "extend search to synaptic" with an explanation what this means. Hitting the button would then open synaptic with the exact same search terms.

A lot of people only use add/remove and get stuck when not finding what they want although it's there (ready to be installed via synaptic). This could be improved with a simple button and a message in case no result is displayed ("you might want to extend your search in synaptic", clickable).

In the spirit of the codec installer; when you open a document that uses a font you dont have installed, a dialog pops up an helps you install a package that contains that font (or a similar font)

Running Ubuntu on a netbook/subnotebook you get some space problems really fast.
Therefore you have to kick out something or use external drives.

We could not deny, now days that, though malware threat for Ubuntu is low, it is not impossible. For years, we had been proud with the root user system as a solid structure that protect Ubuntu from viruses, owever, attacker had found ways to steal these passwords from us, and in short, the threat is coming.

Ubuntu Software Center can select best repository server automatically by scan the servers one by one,it works well most of the time,but we can make it better.
Every time I run "Select Best Server",it scans all the servers arround the world, and this takes a long time .However ,if it just scans several nearby servers according to the location of the user, we can save a lot of time.Since it's easy to position a computer from one's IP address,we can also select the best server automatically according to one's network segment.It is possible and effective, and much faster than scan one by one.

Hi all. I'll just get to the point.
The new ubuntu software centre is great but I noticed a great sit back. The USC is not "multi-installing" but it's multi queuing for installation which is a real time saver but still......

We know how hard to multi-install because of the lock and the deps and stuff and THAT IS NOT MY PROBLEM-IDEA HERE.

the problem is the queued software needs it's turn not only for installing but even for DOWNLOADING.

so why is this a problem? because when I fresh install or in need for multi programs I have to wait (for eg) netbeans to finish to install a MUCH smaller application.

In windows, when a file type is unknown there is an option to search what it is on the web or to open it with a chosen program.

In Ubuntu there is the option to open it with a program or a command.

There should be another alternative that would open up add/remove and would automatically input the file type in the search box. This would then yield all the programs that can use the file type.

Unfortunately add/remove would need to be changed to allow file types to be searched

Without resorting to a completely separate distribution, a "tablet PC" meta-package would collect applications, utilities, kernel modules, and all tablet/stylus/digital-ink related packages into a identifiable block as part of each ubuntu release. User and developers working in the tablet PC world, could follow the status of this meta-package instead of searching and following the various "tablet pc" related parts as individual packages.

More than one meta-package might become necessary if the set of manufacturer specific packages becomes large enough relative to the size of the packages common to all tablets.
For example, the HAL/ACPI parts needed to detect and respond to a switch from laptop to tablet or reverse is pretty common to all manufacturers. In contrast, each manufacturer has a unique set of tablet-mode programmable keys in addition to other programmable keys that are common across manufacturers.

It might make sense to separate low level (hal, udev, acpi, module, etc) packages from user-level (xournal, cellwrite, etc) packages. The low level packages could then be further collected where manufacturer (of the laptop) specific parts are needed. Where the manufacturer (of a component) has unique features for a tablet, it might remain a common package so long as other laptops are able to use that same component (eg-miniPCI video cards).

A "Tablet PC" is a family of laptop/notebook systems with features that enable use that some might call an electronic legal pad. These features include (but are not limited to)
display in both landscape [laptop mode] and portrait [tablet mode], input using a traditional keyboard [laptop mode] or a virtual keyboard [tablet mode], pointing using a touchpad or eraser-mouse [laptop mode] or a stylus [tablet mode], extensive use of programmed and programmable feature keys,
hardware detection of laptop or tablet mechanical orientation, and so on.

Once upon a time, there was a group trying to create a tablet pc specific ubuntu variant -- (?)TABUNTU(?). It seems to this author that that effort is either stalled or lost in the dust as other aspects of ubuntu evolution changes so rapidly (eg - xorg vs. mice and pointers and displays, etc) as to render tablet pc work impossible.