For debugging problems with installed apps, it would be nice if one could install the -dbg packages and automatically get the source code installed as well. This makes it much easier to analyze backtraces in the debugger (you can see function calls in their context, maybe with source code comments etc.).

I have seen this on RHEL 5, where I could debug (and, as result, work around) a Firefox freeze: after installing the existing -debuginfo packages, the source code was installed somewhere on disk, and gdb automatically picked it up (and so did kdbg then). It took maybe 10 minutes to get this working, where most of the time was spent looking for the -debuginfo repository.

In contrast, I suppose the only way to get source code for debugging under Ubuntu is to build the packages again on the local machine, with some "debug" flag thrown in somewhere. This is really annoying and time-consuming (all in all, the process probably takes ~ 1 hour), and usually discourages me from starting actual debugging.

I have been using the ROOT software for my research. I installed it via some unofficial repository :

http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root/ubuntu/

Which is already good. But since I upgraded to Hardy Heron. This repository is obsolete and I cant install all I need anymore from it.

So my request is to add this (really good) software to the official ubuntu repositories.

That would be great :)

Thanks

As far as I can tell, there are four main ways of installing software in ubuntu:

Through the CLI with apt-get,
Via Synaptic,
Via Applications>Add/Remove,
Opening a downloaded package with GDebi Package Installer.

Synaptic and apt-get seem to do the same job as each other, just through different interfaces.

What confuses me though is why we have Add/Remove Applications as well as Synaptic. Add/Remove seems to reference a much more restricted list of applications than Synaptic.

Allow hibernation like state for applications .

Not everyone edits videos. But, for those of us that do, this is a must-have feature. Even if we’re just doing some basic edits to a home movie we filmed of a birth day party (and adding a little bit of title text to be fancy), it’s something we simply can’t do without.


Microsoft’s solution to this is the Windows Live Movie Maker. It’s a simple tool that handles the basics. On the upside, it is pretty easy to use and comes with some very nice transition effects and titles. But, for anything more, you’re going to need to go out and buy a more expensive software editing package (such as Adobe Premier or Sony Vegas).
Apple, on the other hand, ships new Macs with iLife. Which includes iMovie and iDVD. The combination of these two applications is pretty extraordinary. They allow for simple video editing, using some stellar effects, as well as numerous options for authoring your own (professional looking) DVDs.Well Many People Buy a Mac only for this.

But what about Ubuntu?
Nothing. Nada. Zilch.
Ubuntu 9.10 not only does not ship with any video editing software, there is (at present) no polished piece of software that an average user can pick up and create videos with. Certainly not anywhere near on the level of what is doable with iMovie or Windows Live Movie Maker.

Despite the fact that I'm using linux for quite a long time I'v got confused, I guess some of my friends who are newbies to linux got confused as well but they are to scare to ask. Anyway, the problem is with unplugging usb thumb drives / hard drives ( I didn't tried this one).

Take a look at the picture:
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/5024/complicatedp.png

I often have problem entering a password, specially when it's longer than usual. I sometimes mistype something or over type some chars in the password.

I've noticed that Drawers on a panel will leave graphical anomolies behind and there's only one way to get rid of them. Open a window and wipe the area of the anomoly to force a redraw.

When you want to install new packages you often copy something from the wiki or the like. But sometimes it is tedious to switch back to another window just to copy text or look up again what you wanted to install.

It would be much nicer if there were some auto-expansion mechanism to package names - like when you type "apt-get install ubuntu-v" and then TAB it will expand to the only possible solution (I guess) "ubuntu-vm-builder" - just as an example.

In bash, known commands get expanded like that, another example is when you configure an ssh_config of your own.

Maybe even generally speaking - it would be nice to have some more auto-expansion of options and all that in shell commands - just in order to save some tedious looking up manpages for the 1000st time because you can just not remember each detail of a command.

I would never want to give up my beloved command-line ;-) but I guess there could be even more comfort using it.

I often see computer beginners who try to convert a image file just by renamming it.