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Browse files with administrator privileges
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Written by Melkor73 the 31 Oct 08 at 10:45. Category: Usability.
Related to: Gnome.
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Some operations needs to alter or copy files in system directories, so with administrator privileges.
It's the case for installing application files for all users (themes, scripts, etc.), fix problems or tweak modules for better hardware support (alsa, wifi, etc.) and so on.
These operations need to be performed from the command line, or to launch nautilus with gksudo from the command line.
It would be nice to have, by default, an entry in the 'System->Administration' menu for 'gksudo nautilus', like "Browse system with privileges", and set preferences for having nautilus background in red, or anything that can remind the user that he can do dangerous things.
I don't think it's a duplicate for #4347, as it's specifically an _administration_ item, not an "unlock" option in the "usual nautilus".
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Automatic updating recommended by default in 9.04
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Written by AndrewLuecke the 15 Nov 08 at 01:10. Category: Security.
Related to: Update manager.
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At the moment, the default state of security in Ubuntu is quite poor, and guarantees that if we got 100% market-share tomorrow, viruses would become commonplace in 3 or 4 months.
The problem is that most people wont update manually, because they are scared of what the consequences are. Users who aren't power-users tend to take the approach of doing as little as possible with the system, so if it breaks, they can't be blamed. However, this also means many users will not install security fixes, which in large groups, becomes a virus infection risk.
I propose that during the installation, the user is prompted, and recommended to enable automatic updating by default (at least security updates should be). Otherwise, the linux ecosystem will quickly collapse as soon as Ubuntu goes mainstream, and we start taking on basic computer users who don't update often!
The Automatic updates being disabled by default is one reason why viruses were so dominant on older Windows versions. OSX suffers this same problem (and it too, will become a high infection risk if Apple doesn't fix it).
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Separate user preferences and user data in hidden folder
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Written by ploum the 7 Apr 08 at 08:03. Category: Others.
Related to: Nothing/Others.
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When keeping the same /home/ for years, it quickly becomes an unmaintainable mess of hidden folders.
You can't even delete them without being sure because it might contain important data.
Freedesktop has issued a recommandation to solve this problem :
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s03.html
Implementing this would allow to easily reset your configuration to the default one without loosing any data. For Ubuntu beta testers or people that care about having the default config, it would be a big advantage. It would also solve a lot of upgrade problems that some people have and that cannot be reproduced because it's a particular preference migration bug.
The problem and its solution is described here for the GNOME desktop but it applies for any application : http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?184-cleaning-user-preferences-keeping-user-data
My suggestion is to make the FD.o recommandation an official Ubuntu recommandation, trying to lobby so applications in Ubuntu follow this spec, at least the one in main.
A suggestion for the GNOME desktop has also been issued :
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders
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