Contributor Auzy

In OS X if you delete an applications preferences and then run that application, it will automatically create default preferences for you. Too many applications depend on their configuration files already existing for them to work properly and I think it would really smart if the application checks if its configuration files are set correctly, and if they aren't, to offer to reset them. But if the configuration files aren't even their, then it can automatically create them for you without you having to even indicate it to do that. I really think this would be a smart approach to handling problems on a system where the configuration files are either missing or are incorrectly configured.

Samba is a good example of this. If you delete that smb.conf file, then it can't do anything. If it did this, that would be so awesome.

Certain apps that can't have a default configuration, would instead ask the user by going through a wizard of what they should be.

An example is the iptables app, if it noticed it had no preferences, then it would notify the user to go through a wizard to create default preferences again giving the choice of which default configuration they would want to use. One could be wide open, another could be locked down, and a third would be to import preferences from a file. Either way it would prevent an app from running without preferences being there.

For debugging an app without preferences, there could be a universal option such as --nopref and attempt to load the app when there was no preferences. Since obviously developers would know of this option to call and not end users.

It should not be required by the end user to have to manually edit or create any preferences that an application needs if that application can by default recreate default preferences, or if there is more then one default preference to start out with, give the user the choice of which one they would want to start out with.

this GUI will help the user to run the right application depended on what hardware the user plugged in or open up

this GUI will NOT be depended on if the application is installed or not installed.

for example:
if i plug or open up my scanner, Ubuntu will pop up a window and recommend to my to install and to run specific scanner tool.
but,if i plug or open up my scanner, and the scanner tool is already installed, Ubuntu will only ask my to run the tool.

the same with: mobile phone, PDA...

why is it good:
- i don't need scanner tool if i don't have scanner
- i don't need PDA tool if i don't have PDA
...
- easy way to use hardware
- those application will have a better from support
- better translations
- new level for hardware support