Contributor sebsauvage

I have noticed that as compared to other OS (Win + Mac) softwares for Ubuntu always have large size. Eg. Firefox 3 for Win-7.2 Mb; for Ubuntu- 9.5 Mb
Opera for Win- 5to6 Mb; for Ubuntu- 7.5 Mb
Plz use better compression algorithms so that Linux users don't have to download more than there Windows brethen

[Sorry for misspell in the title - it should be keep not keed]


For quite long time I was fighting with ssh server. Finally I figured out the eth0 hadn't been set via /etc/network/interfaces (I wonder how my network was set if not in that file - for more see bug 241796 ;/). I'm not sure if was wrong from a very beginning or something happened after installation.

Keeping the /etc/ files in some 'CVS' probably would not help me resolve the issue but for sure help me trace what cause such strange network setting. As a person working in Support I would be really glad to have tool saying that some screw up file that time.

Many of support situation can be describe by following conversation:

Support - Have you changed anything in your system?
Customer - No
Support - Are you sure?
Customer - Yes of course.
Support - by file X looks strange
Customer - Oh yes, I changed my network card. Is it important?

Seeing log with etc changes will be great in such situation.

Interesting links:
inotify - 'cron' like tool working based on changes in filesystem
http://inotify.aiken.cz/?section=incron&page=about&lang=en

I would very much like to see Guake http://guake-terminal.org/ available in the Ubuntu repositories. Yakuake is a very nice terminal emulator, but since I have a Gnome desktop, I'd prefer to have a Gnome/GTK+ equivalent rather than have all those KDE/Qt libs running all the time.

Tilda is available, but frankly its terrible. It's slow to load, it renders funny (and causes other graphical glitches in other apps in my experience), its behaviour is idiosyncratic and crashy, and I just generally hate it. Guake is a much more polished, stable and user friendly terminal emulator, on equal footing with Yakuake IMO.

The program is GPL v.2 and a .deb file is provided on the site (it's technically for Debian Sid, but works fine in Hardy), so it seems like this would be relatively straightforward to do.

I think that applet 'Places - Connect to server' may have option for manual selection of encoding for displayed filelist on connected FTP server. Many FTP servers still have CP1251 or other non-Unicode international filenames encoding, and in this cases, applet can't display content of FTP server correctly.

during installation of and deb package from gdebi it should tell what size is needed to download additional package.
just like it download packages from synaptic.
currently it just tells 'n' number of packages to install and resolve all dependencies but does not tell what is the size of that dependencies to download.

The new update on Ubuntu 8.04 shows you the multiple files uploaded when you drag and drop different files at different times.
A PAUSE button to pause the individual transfer would be nice.

sTevoo

Imagine being able navigate through Ubuntu, without hands or voice. Eye tracking can take laziness to a new level! Just look where you want the cursor to be, and raise your eyebrows to click (blinking doesn't work to well). It could also help people who are paralyzed and can't speak.

Unfortunately, eye tracking requires expensive equipment. It would be neat if would work with one or more cheap webcams. Then there could be four point calibration between eye gaze and the screen.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2242757,00.asp

The livecd should allow the user to choose a textual installation, in a method similar to the safe graphics install feature http://ubuntu-il.com/wiki/images/8/8f/Installguide3.jpg

The textual installation should also be booted automatically, in case the system doesn't meet minimum requirements to boot the graphic installation program.

This will spare the user of having to switch to the alternate cd.

Freemind ( http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page ) is a free mindmapping software. Its' current version is 0.8.1. The version in the Ubuntu repositories is 0.7.1.

There are also plug-ins available from Freemind's site but not from the repositories.

Please update.

When I create a new file (for example, on my Desktop),
it is automatically world readable, that is its permissions are (output of ls -l)
-rw-r--r-- for a file or
drwxr-xr-x for a directory.
Every user has his own group by default, so the disturbing thing is the file is

world readable.

I suggest setting a safer umask (not the default 0022), to prevent others from reading private files.

For instance, if you plug in a USB device that is malfunctioning or not detected correctly, errors will be generated in the System Log, but nothing at all will happen in GNOME. Things like this should generate friendly graphical error balloons so that people at least recognize that something's gone wrong, instead of just thinking the device was not even recognized.

As braaivleis points out, it doesn't have to actually pop up the balloon; it can be like the updates icon that appears, but only shows a balloon when you click on it.

Repositories of external software, may be of varying quality of use, my be available for only some hardware configurations and platforms, and some versions of Ubuntu.

A list of new Repos could be collated (users suggestions/recommendations for use or avoidance)(and Repos that are not listed in synaptic).

These could categorized by performance and reliability, platforms, and Ubuntu versions.
With comment section for discussion of issues.

New program developers could also submit their repos there.

There could be a section of the Ubuntu web site for discussions and sharing of information on programs used by Ubuntu users, which are not in the current Ubuntu repositories.
This section would be where people who are looking for additional software could go a find some good tips, hints, pointers as to where else to go and what to look out for.
Plus programs in this section that are found to work well with Ubuntu, might then make it onto the Ubuntu Repository, and maybe into an Ubuntu distro.

New major version of the popular Opera Browser is released today and is ready for download and install. Please update the version in the cannonical partners repository.

Source Download > http://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/950/final/en/i386/

Store the dpkg available and status files in an SQLite database to improve performance, reduce file size, increase integrity, have better flexibility when searching and simplify updates.

The proof of concept has already started.

http://people.debian.org/~seanius/dpkg-sqlite/

sean finney wrote:

I have checked it out, very nice, besides missing a -ldl flag, everything went
according to plan. The speed is simply amazing, here is a small benchmark I did
on my machine:

omega3:/home/joe/build/dpkg-sqlite# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
omega3:/home/joe/build/dpkg-sqlite# time dpkg -S /usr/bin/gcc
gcc: /usr/bin/gcc

real 0m4.778s
user 0m0.252s
sys 0m0.152s
omega3:/home/joe/build/dpkg-sqlite# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
omega3:/home/joe/build/dpkg-sqlite# time ./poc /usr/bin/gcc
querying as if listing package /usr/bin/gcc:
querying as if for owner of file /usr/bin/gcc:
gcc: /usr/bin/gcc

real 0m1.306s
user 0m0.240s
sys 0m0.096s
omega3:/home/joe/build/dpkg-sqlite#

[....]

Put some anonymity software into the software repository.

* ANts P2P
* Entropy
* Freenet
* I2P
* I2Phex
* iMule
* Marabunta
* MUTE
* OFFSystem
* Rodi
* Syndie
* Turtle F2F
* Mixminion
* Vidalia
* Newspost

Anonymity helps free speech and the avoidance of censorship and government oppression. It is vital for democracy and a free world.

Freenet is a decentralized, censorship-resistant distributed data store. Freenet aims to provide freedom of speech through a peer-to-peer network with strong protection of anonymity.
Freenet works by pooling the contributed bandwidth and storage space of member computers to allow users to anonymously publish or retrieve various kinds of information.
It can be thought of as a large storage device which uses key based routing similar to a distributed hash table to locate peers' data.

* http://freenetproject.org/
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet

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I open a document with OpenOffice (e.g. a .ppt presentation), I browse through it and decide it's not the one I was looking for. When I close it, OpenOffice will ask me if I want to save or dismiss the changes. If you open 5-6 documents like this, it can be quite annoying...

OpenOffice should ignore the fact that I'm closing the document at a different page than the one it opened to...

Please push this idea upstream to the OOo developers...

When you unmount an usb flash memory or a memory card, sometimes you can read "Device safe to remove", but sometimes nothing happens (I think that the message is only shown when it was copying).
I think it would be nice to always show "Safe to remove".

Thanks

Would be useful in tight situations when the CD drive button won't work.