Contributor kevinfishburne

When I am opening a file (Archive > Open) in any program (for example, Gimp) I sometimes found in this "Open file window" some mistakes in some file's name and I want to correct them. If I want to do that I have to go back to Nautilus. The same thing if I want to delete a file. I would like to be able to change name and delete files in this "Open file" window. In Windows you can do that.


kevinfishburne explains very well what I wanted to say in a comment (thank you!):

Most applications whose functionality include allowing the user to select a file or directory accomplish this by presenting the user with a GUI. The GUI is usually a separate (child) window of the main (parent) window, created with code from the API/library of the developer's choice. KDE, GNOME, and GTK all have their own libraries with their own different GUI's for selecting files and directories.

In contrast, MS Windows typically has two GUI's for selecting files and directories. The legacy GUI, with limited interactivity (can't delete, rename, etc.), and the Explorer GUI with full Explorer functionality (open, detail/thumbnail view, properties/permissions, etc.).

The problems being addressed here are that:

1) There are too many different GUI's being used for file/directory selection in different programs.

2) The GUI's are all terrible with extremely limited functionality.

KDE's doesn't list GNOME bookmarks, none of them let you manipulate files with much of the functionality of their respective file managers, and they generally either don't show thumbnail previews or do so in a limited way.

This problem needs to be addressed on two levels:


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I'm currently installing Ubuntu in as many PCs as I can, almost on 4 PCs a week, most of them are household Family PCs used by children. And i find the password too simple warning at login root enforced password change a hard obstruction into the usability of the machine. All kids want their passwords to be real simple like candy, or dog, or secret... but they cant because of this _dumb_ message, this is one thing that really annoys me in newer releases of ubuntu. i found in another thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=275457) a way to disable it but, still its an annoying procedure.

I think its fine that the ubuntu team cares about the user security but Blocking the use of simple passwords its abusive. I think if a warning showed up, kind of:


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Your password is too simple and may be insecure
[Change Password] [Use Anyway]

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It would be insecure but you still be able to set your password too 0 if you want to.

Am I being clear? i really hope this will be a reality

Support Gambas Run-time files on the default set-up, so the gambas developers can distribute their applications easily.

I think that if Canonical ends supporting the Gambas project, It could become the next Mono, but this time more programmers will join and start compiling their Windows Visual Basic applications to Linux, also windows enthusiasts will change their sides more easily.

When you start gparted from a running version of Ubuntu in order to format a USB drive, you need to unmount it first. Unfortunately, automount remounts it automatically directly afterwards which makes it hard to know if it's safe to start formating then. As I wasn't sure, I chose to do this operation from the liveCD but it would be better if gparted stopped automount when it starts.