Contributor fwolfste

This is concerning the graphical and the text based installer.

It`s a bad habit introduces by microsoft. Do not ask questions in the middle of the installation after you did already started to copy things.

(1) The user starts the installation.
(2) He is asked if he wants to install.
(3) Make as many hardware tests as you need.
(4) Now ask all needed questions.
(5) Install Ubuntu in one run. Tell the user he can no go away for perhaps X minutes.

Otherwise it`s annoying. Input answer, wait a bit, input answer, wait again over and over again. You can improve this!

We all have to admit, that every now and then there is a need to boot windows. Like when you and your friends want to start playing starcraft again. The problem is, I constantly miss the grub menu because I'm grabbing a beer (to help me deal with windows a little better), which is a pain in the ass. A practical easy way to fix this would be to have a "boot to windows button" option in the shutdown menu.

top is old and well.... old

UPDATE
Thanks to the community. Feature was allready implemented (alt+mbr)!


I use Alt+Mousedrag a lot to move windows around in gnome.
I would like to have a feature like this for resizing as well.
Problem is that resizing with the mouse is sometimes a bit tricky (window might be bigger than screen, no task bar to access context menu with right click etc).
For example CTRL+Shift+Mousedrag (or Alt+Rightmousedrag) would work nicely i think, as ctrl and shift are really close to each other and i do not know any application that uses this combo.

I want Gnome to remember and reapply the size and location of all windows / apps / panels that I open.

I'm constantly resizing / maximizing / repositioning the same windows over and over again. It's a productivity drain.

Applications *should* remember / restore their size and position, but they don't.

Apparently, "the Gnome development team will not develop Gnome to handle these issues. Saying it is the job of the application to save its state of size and position". I think that's wrong, and if Gnome won't do it, Ubuntu should patch it.

One thing that's always bothered me, no matter which OS I've been on, is the way I can be typing in one window when another program tosses up a notification or error which immediately gets closed because I just pressed space or enter. I propose a mechanism be developed by which keyboard input is temporarily paused or halted if a window appears when more than X number of keys is being pressed per ten seconds.

I realise the difficulties inherent in this; a daemon or service would eat up unnecessary CPU cycles, it's impractical to patch every program in existence to follow this behaviour, and most other ways of doing this have one argument against them or another. However, if this were presented as an opt-in behaviour, I believe it would benefit a fair percentage of people for a relatively small amount of coder output.

When I logged into Ubuntu 8.04 Beta, my CPU was pegged. Using top, I found it from a process related to Evolution. I think evolution-data-server-2.22.

This is annoying, because I never use Evolution. And with the advent gmail, yahoo mail, etc. I suspect fewer people each day use non-browser mail clients.

Similarly, when Beagle indexing was enabled by default, we once again had a case of imposing a nasty, unexplained CPU burden on users who didn't even want to use the service. Same thing for 'updatedb' for mlocate.

Now, to make things worse: in order to prevent evolution-data-server from hogging my CPU, I tried to uninstall it. But doing so would have uninstalled, among other things, ubuntu-desktop. If I had uninstalled ubuntu-desktop, then I wouldn't automatically receive other packages were later added it. So that wasn't a good option either.

I propose:
1. Do NOT include these annoying packages in the base installation.

2. Having a post-install (for the person doing the install) wizard. Here, prompt the users about installing sometimes-desired but sometimes-actively-undesired packages such as the ones mentioned above.

3. Haveing a post-first-login wizard, run the first time each account is logged into. Have it ask users about whether or not they want Beagle's indexing to be enabled, evoluation-data-server to be enabled, etc. This will both make them aware of these services, and let them avoid the unexplained CPU peggings.

It often happens to me that i want to copy/paste with selection and middle mousebutton, but by accident mark something else in between. For this cases it would be GREAT if there is some means (e.g. keeping middle mouse button pressed) to access a history of the formerly marked contents.
E.g. I mark (dont know if "selected" is more correct in english, sorry) a url in a text document, want to paste it via middle mouse button into the firefox adress- bar but 1) there is something written in the adressbar already or 2) i accidentaly double- click. Now, I press the middle mouse button for longer (or click on a applet or press a hotkey or whatsoever) and chose the url that i actually wanted to paste.

I've seen a lot of webpages with tips'n'tricks how to get the most out of the shell(s), and its stunning. Really, really useful stuff. A convient tool or document that shows how to configure the/a shell (dont argue here whether zsh, bash, sh... there are other ideas for doing that) or even does the job for us would really make me happy for some moments.
Or a repository for those tricks (links anybody?), or a snippet- base or ... well, _something_ that eases or helps with shell configuration and shows me what other cool things we miss out there.

Sometimes when you use the console or terminal todo stuff, like for example 'cat' a (binary) file, then the characters in the terminal might get garbled.

Make some thing that prevents it from getting garbled.