The Ubuntu community has contributed 13963 ideas, 66846 comments, 1291785 votes
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More Intelligent 'Open With..." Dialogue
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Written by pornographer the 6 Jun 08 at 16:23. Category: Look and Feel.
Related to: Nothing/Others.
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The 'Open With...' option in the right-click context menu in Nautilus merely spits out a seemingly arbitrary list of program options to choose from. While there are no doubt ways of registering file extensions with a given program, it is not always the case that you wish to open with the same program. Sometimes Nautilus remembers which programs you have used and adds them to the context menu, but this is sporadic, and appears to depend on the chmod setting of a file amongst other things.
This dialogue would be greatly improved with intelligent ordering of the options - if I have previously used "Text Editor" to open a .pl file, then move that to the top of the list. Likewise, if I have used a custom command, give that as an option at the top of the list.
Furthermore, as Nautilus appears to do a small sniff of files anyway for its awesome 'mini preview' icons, it must be aware that a file is primarily text / binary etc. This could then be used as a factor in the Open With options as well (so I do not get Mplayer as the 5th option for my .pl files for example)
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Work with Broadcom for Native wireless drivers
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Written by pornographer the 29 Feb 08 at 17:52. Category: Internet & Networking.
Related to: Nothing/Others.
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Broadcom wireless drivers are still common - see Lenovo V100 laptops etc, and having to fight with NDISwrapper or the terrible bcmxxxx driver is a terrible block for new users.
Ubuntu should now have the clout to get these companies to open up specs, especially for legacy hardware (as I believe the newer broadcoms work reasonably).
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Work with Creative on X-Fi soundcard Drivers
Creative labs X-Fi sound card unsupported (#63352)
| In : | linux (ubuntu) |
| Status : | Confirmed |
| Importance : | Wishlist |
| Assignee : | Ubuntu Kernel Team |
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Written by pornographer the 29 Feb 08 at 17:56. Category: Multimedia.
Related to: Nothing/Others.
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After 2 years of waiting, Creative eventually released a 64 bit version that required a compile hell, and crashed ubuntu on startup. There is no 32 bit support.
This soundcard is present in many high-end Dell workstations, and as such the Ubuntu/Dell partnership should be able to provide leverage to speed this situation up.
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Brainstorm : Better dupe handling
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Written by pornographer the 4 Mar 08 at 20:07. Category: Brainstorm.
Related to: Nothing/Others.
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Currently when reading ideas, if you are not aware it's a dupe and post a comment in it, that comment will be lost when it's dupe-flagged.
If an idea has been flagged as a dupe at least once, it should be visible when reading so you can check out the earlier post and see if you'd rather post on that thread, or even if your comment is a dupe of another comment - a sort of meta-dupe
Hope this isn't a dupe.
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