Contributor thk

Currently the Eclipse packages in Ubuntu lack heavily behind other distributions like lets say Fedora.
The packages in ubuntu are outdated and so are the eclipse language plugins like CDT or Pydev.

Properly supporting this top notch IDE should give new linux developers an easier start.

My printer, a Laserjet 1200, is pretty common and is supported by Ubuntu automatically. But I rarely print from it because it stretches my print output, vertically. For example, I have a table in OpenOffice Calc, as a to-do list organized by both importance and urgency, set up to print exactly in a certain way from OpenOffice on Windows XP. But when I open the same document on my Ubuntu computer, it prints stretched out more vertically, so that it doesn't all fit on one sheet. This is printing to the same exact printer. This seems to be the same with other programs.

This is one for the folks at Canonical, I guess:

The number one cited reason for your average non-techie or only slightly-techie user not coming across to Ubuntu, or any non-Windows distro, is that the backlog of games that they have invested in over the years won't play on it.

(well actually, the main reason is that most have never heard of it, but amongst those who have, this is the reason)

But it's not about the latest and greatest, mention Elite, Dungeon Master or even some old spectrum game to a grown man and you might just glimpse a tear of nostalgia in his eye.

Would it not be in everyone's interests for the companies who have a vested interest in linux (Canonical, Novell, etc) to get together and buy a few licences for some retro games that everyone else has forgotten about and then open source them?

This can then maybe lure in folks who can't play these games on windows...

Ubuntu is never really going to take off until the average user can do everything they need to do with their PC without ever having to see the command prompt.

All OS administration etc needs to be possible through the use of dialogs rather than obscure configuration files.

At the moment, there is no native Smb browsing in Thunar. I understand that Thunar must stay lightweight, but I would like the SMB function very much and I think a lot of others do.

As a manual solution, I have mounted fusesmb to a folder in Thunar, but I'm having problems with user privileges (fusesmb changes the rights of the folder).

Please make some kind of Smb functionality for Thunar. This is mainly a case for the XFce/Thunar-developers. If they don't implement it, Xubuntu won't have it too.

But maybe the Xubuntu developers could just make a nice interface to install the whole fusesmb-solution, including mountpoint and user rights, with one button-click.

The manual workaround I used is explained here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=304131&highlight=xubuntu and I hope in the next release there will be an automatic, nice solution.

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linux desktop should be reconsidered and rebuild around a fast light gui environment such as xfce.
- we need speed and simpleness
- good , standard comprehensive tools
- not a separate configuration tool for every aspect of the system
- get rid of unneeded services
- get a good -standard in every linux distro - search tool
- the menu of linux daryna is nice but still buggy
- better hardware driver support especially for laptops wi-fi ,printers ,scanners
- one small sure step forward is better than a large step forward and several steps backward.I 've seen many times linux distros loosing what they already got. Hardware supported in previous releases is not in later ones.
- let's not be so protective with our beloved child. lets start wanting more out of it . as linux is becoming more popular more people more and more will say it sucks and this is good - it means they use it and they want more out of it.

Just make Ubuntu 100% stable. Forget about everything else until this is accomplished.
It IS possible. The myth that software can not be withouts bugs is the worst bug of them all.