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Start taking advantage of Upstart

Ubuntu

In :
Priority :	Medium
Definition :	Approved (Needs guidance)
Implementation :	Deferred
Assignee :	Scott James Remnant

Written by Ubuwu the 28 Feb 08 at 15:12. Category: System. Related to: Nothing/Others. In development

Replace initscripts with upstart events. Our boot sequence is currently slow, full of race conditions and poor interactions, especially with competition between the series of tasks run by sysv-rc, udev and sometimes just with the kernel. We developed upstart so that we could have a truly event driven boot sequence that would be fast, reliable and flexible; we should take advantage of it.

Developer comments

The primary reason that we're not taking full advantage of Upstart yet is that it still requires some development to have sufficient features to actually be better than sysvinit. You can follow Upstart development at its homepage.

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4112

Improve dual-screen function

Ubuntu

In :
Priority :	Undefined
Definition :	Approved (Needs guidance)
Implementation :	Implemented
Assignee :	Bryce Harrington

Written by clemdup the 28 Feb 08 at 20:32. Category: Graphics. Related to: Nothing/Others. In development

I'm bored with dual-screen on GNU/Linux, it really has to have a graphic configuration, and better features.
I would like to move windows from a screen to another, but when I maximize I need it to be in a single screen.

Update: Xrandr GUI blog post by Bryce Harrington

Developer comments

Response from Bryce Harrington: http://blog.qa.ubuntu.com/node/9

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5256

Provide a simple graphical interface to manage _any_ type of network connection

Ubuntu

In :
Priority :	Medium
Definition :	New (Needs guidance)
Implementation :	Unknown
Assignee :

Written by Alan Pope the 28 Feb 08 at 13:50. Category: Internet & Networking. Related to: Nothing/Others. New

At the moment it's possible to manage traditional wired and WiFi connections using Network Manager. To connect via a modem, a 3G/GPRS card, over bluetooth to a cell phone or via USB to another device requires that the user installs extra packages, and does a fair amount of configuration that isn't found in Network Manager.

A single unified tool should be provided which allows the user to connect to a network (or internet) via any supported method. It would also be useful to provide an extension to this tool to manage firewall rules and network connection sharing.

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5957

Fix Suspend and Hibernate

Written by tighem the 28 Feb 08 at 17:22. Category: System. Related to: Nothing/Others. New

Suspend and hibernate still seems to be a big issue based on forum posts. Really focus on fixing it, even with proprietary drivers.

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