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Create an Ubuntu for developers  
Written by marceloandrade the 4 Mar 08 at 22:11. Category: Programming. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
Hi,

I suggest to the Ubuntu community, we should have a unique and complete development studio, in order to create great applications very coupled to the Operating System, in order to take advantage of the environment, standardize programming languages and not to fill up the system resources with a lot of interpreters, runtime or whatever frameworks.

For example, on Mac OS they have XCode, in Window$ Visual Studio, inclusive on KDE they have KDeveloper.

From my experience, when I try to make some software for ubuntu, I find great quantity of software development tools which makes difficult the choice.

I know that freedom comes with the liberty to choose too, and is ok, but in this aspect i thought that as a community we need to follow a North, and not everyone go to everywhere without any roadmap, each one going some on foot, some on cars, and in other parts (Mac, Win) going on airplanes...

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Spinoff - ubuntu Gamestorm  
Written by perrabyte the 4 Mar 08 at 21:53. Category: Gaming. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
ubuntu Gamestorm or just Gamestorm would be a place focused on open source games where you present ideas of different games and where you also could join forces in these projects.

Here people could show off their skills that otherwise would be lost in time.

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Mas juegos en los repositorios, con descripciones de requerimientos minimos  
Written by victor manuel marino the 29 Feb 08 at 00:03. Category: Gaming. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
La idea, es atraer a mas usuarios, con un servidor repositorio de juegos, o al menos la unificacion de de una pagina que recopile todos los juegos que se pueden jugar en linux, nativos en linux o multiplataforma, exceptuando a los de windows que corren en wine,etc.

Esto sumado a una breve descripcion del juego, y los requerimientos minomos del sistema que los puede correr.


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Easy Gaming Platform  
Written by cheviman the 4 Mar 08 at 16:10. Category: Gaming. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
The idea it's easy. make able the game run like a console. you put de disc one time, and if the game is ins't installed, he do it by himself, but if the game was avaiable, run it. And make a frontend to manage savegames. just like a console

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Ubuntu Gamer Edition  
Written by anoopjohn the 4 Mar 08 at 17:26. Category: Gaming. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
Create a Ubuntu variant with lots of freely available games and trial versions of Linux based games. This should allow more gamers to try out Ubuntu. Doesn't matter even if the distro becomes bigger than a DVD or two. Lots of games available in the market are anyway huge.

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Compete with directx  
Written by kd7tck@msn.com the 29 Feb 08 at 01:04. Category: Gaming. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
Ubuntu should develop it's own open source game development libraries. This could push for a unified way to develop games on Linux platforms. Fast ANSI C libs that don't act as an engine, but rather as a easy way to gain access to the systems hardware from languages like python,c++,java... Why should Windows attract all the game developers. If a standardized library is developed for Linux it would certainly make anyone Question the need to use Directx.

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Include more programming pdfs.  
Written by days_of_ruin the 3 Mar 08 at 19:54. Category: Programming. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
If "dive into python" is included in help then why not throw
some more free programming books in?There are plenty of good ones.

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Num lock on by default on login  
numlock does not stay enabled Hardy alpha4 (#190579)

In : ubuntu
Status : Fix Released
Importance : Undecided
Assignee :
33 comments, 18 subscribers and 3 duplicates
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Written by Grummfy the 6 Mar 08 at 20:34. Category: System. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
Hello,
in gdm or kdm I think make numlock on by default is a very good thing


thanks

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Unmount resolution  
Cannot unmount volume: show which application(s)
still use the drive (#81239)


In : gnome-mount (ubuntu)
Status : Triaged
Importance : Wishlist
Assignee : Martin Pitt
22 comments, 10 subscribers and 0 duplicates
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Written by Vivien the 28 Feb 08 at 16:35. Category: System. Related to: Nothing/Others. In development
When someone wants to unmount a volume and the mount point is used, he gets a message telling him that the volume can't be unmounted because an application uses it. The user has no idea which application is actually using it and can't remove the device.

I propose that the popup tells him which application(s) is(are) using the device and propose to terminate them (that list should be kept up to date when the app. dies).

Developer comments
Upstream bug (GNOME #528559) has a patch in discussion. Volunteering to work on it.

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Provide a simple graphical interface to manage _any_ type of network connection  
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Priority : Medium
Definition : New (Needs guidance)
Implementation : Unknown
Assignee :
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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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Enhance mobile devices sync  
please merge 0.22 from debian unstable (#81831)

In : opensync (ubuntu)
Status : Fix Released
Importance : Wishlist
Assignee : Debian Opensync Team
43 comments, 28 subscribers and 0 duplicates
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Definition : New (Needs guidance)
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Written by jherran the 28 Feb 08 at 15:01. Category: Hardware support. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
There are lot of people having troubles syncing their devices (pda, smartphones, etc.) with ubuntu. At this poing there is only one solution available, multisync, and works for only a few devices, and it's very limited on their functions.

And I think, this is a very important point for lots of people.

**Suggestions from duplicate idea 397 work on that idea :

1) Clean up the Opensync and SyncML plugin packages to work properly with Evolution by default.

2) Set up an official Ubuntu SyncML server for Ubuntu users.

3) Possibly clean up open source SyncML clients for the different mobile platforms.

Developer comments
The current status of mobile devices synchronization in Linux is generally is quite shaky. It *can* work but it's a lot of work usually. There are a few efforts around but there's no single project that works in the majority of the situations.

This is also caused by manufacturers not using a single synchronization protocol. The most promising project now is OpenSync[1] which supports basically SyncML 1.1 and the Nokia variation and it works with several degrees of success between phones and desktops but the project itself is in a constant alpha state with a lot of issues, the GUI is simplistic and there are no integrated resources to sync with online contacts/calendars
like Google's. This can be overcome by preparing Evolution and/or Thunderbird to do it.

In short, despite the infrastructure is mostly there, we need work to make it a seamless experience for the user.
Bear in mind that this is a huge effort. Synchronization looks simple but there's a lot of factors and situations that need to be addressed like how to synchronize devices with different capabilities and how to keep 3 way synchronizations (desktop, online and mobile).

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