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Clean up Preferences and Administration.  
Launchers under "System > Preferences"
and "System > Administration" have
similar names, leads to confusion. (#174277)


In : ubuntu
Status : Confirmed
Importance : Wishlist
Assignee : Oumar Aziz OUATTARA
20 comments, 7 subscribers and 0 duplicates
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Priority : Undefined
Definition : New (Needs guidance)
Implementation : Unknown
Assignee :
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Written by writser the 28 Feb 08 at 16:49. Category: System. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
First of all: What is the difference between Preferences and Administration? For example: why do I see 'Encryption and Keyrings' in Preferences and 'Keyring Manager' in Administration? What is the difference between 'Default Printer' and 'Printing'? Why do I have to disable the Tracker under Sessions and not under Search and Indexing? And why are these menu's so large? I have 24 items in Preferences (they don't even fit on my screen!) and 18 items in Administration. To put all this stuff in a popup menu is bad interface design imho. Besides, the number of option should be much smaller. A few suggestions:

- Merge 'Screensaver', 'Screen Resolution' and 'Screens and Graphics'.
- Merge 'Network', 'Network Proxy' and 'Network Tools'.
- Merge 'Update Manager, Synaptic Package Manager, Software Sources'.
- Merge 'Encryption and Keyrings', 'Authorizations', 'Keyring Manager'.


Below are all settings I can visit via the System menu. This is just way too much.


-- Preferences --
Universal Access
About Me
Appearance
Bluetooth
Default Printer
Encryption and Keyrings
Keyboard
Keyboard Shortcuts
Main Menu
Mouse
Network Proxy
PalmOS Devices (I don't have one)
Power Management

[....]

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List of installed kernels should not grow  
update manager /boot fills up with kernel (#199086)

In : kernel-package (ubuntu)
Status : Confirmed
Importance : Undecided
Assignee :
1 comments, 2 subscribers and 2 duplicates
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Written by probono the 1 Mar 08 at 17:31. Category: Installation. Related to: Nothing/Others. In development
Ubuntu currently doesn't upgrade the kernel, it just keeps adding newer and newer kernels to the system.

Currently, the list of kernels installed on a Ubuntu system grows over time. This takes up additional disk space and adds clutter to the boot loader.

Ideally, older kernels should be removed automatically.

Maybe leave current and current-1, but not _all_ of them...


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Thunderbird as default email client  
Written by cmayoros the 29 Feb 08 at 02:34. Category: Internet & Networking. Related to: Nothing/Others. Won't implement
While both Evolution and Thunderbird are great applications, Thunderbird should become the default email client available on Ubuntu.

Developer comments
There are currently no plans to move away from Evolution at this time.

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Post-install windows migration  
Written by Alan Pope the 28 Feb 08 at 14:39. Category: Installation. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
Whilst it's possible to use the "migration" tool in Ubiquity (the live installer for ubuntu) during the installation to migrate settings over, there seems to be no way to do this _after_ the system has been installed.

It should be possible to pick the migration functionality out of Ubiquity and make it a standalone application which a user could run over and over (as necessary) to migrate the current setup on their Windows partition into their Ubuntu partition.

A further useful feature would be a "delete windows" option which makes it easier for people to fully migrate from Windows. It should find the Windows partitions and (after confirmation/checking) delete them, reformat them and add them to Ubuntus storage. Either via LVM, or by massaging the partitions, or even adding the space under some mount point.

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Great login and logout animation  
corruption left on screen between usplash and
X starting (#95249)


In : usplash (ubuntu)
Status : Invalid
Importance : Low
Assignee :
2 comments, 2 subscribers and 1 duplicates
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Written by natureflow the 16 Mar 08 at 10:51. Category: Look and Feel. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
When I login to my Desktop, the panel is "blinking". :-( I want a clear build-up: First may a nice Splash screen, then the background, than the panel, the Icons, etc. It should be nice feeling. Do you understand me? Please show me a movie of a great ubuntu login without "blinking" and so one.

If I logout, I do not want to see a white text on a black background only for a bit of time. I want to see a nice logut animation. Please show me a movie of a nice logout with ubuntu.

I mean: NO extra startup movie clips on startup, but a clear build-up!

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Meta-package change...  
Written by tenplus1 the 11 Mar 08 at 10:45. Category: System. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
Wouldn't it be wonderful if after installing meta-packages like gnome-games, ubuntu-desktop etc. the package manager would allow you to un-install any of the files inside so-long as it isnt a dependancy...

e.g. You could remove Chess and Soduku without the whole Gnome-Games being removed... and... Gedit and Evolution without the whole of Ubuntu-Desktop being taken away...

This would make it a lot easier to save space and leave packages you want on your computer that will still be updated even if the meta-package is removed...

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Option to preorder upcoming ubuntu version CD's.  
Written by asdf21 the 2 Apr 08 at 15:02. Category: Others. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
Basically the way this would work would be you could preorder a CD of an unreleased version of ubuntu(in this case, 8.04)
on the ubuntu website. so once it was released, and they got some CD's in stock, they would ship it to you.

Maybe this would work for "request a free CD" too.

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