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I seem to understand that the major shortcomings of wine are with the dlls because not all the libraries are emulated and not all are emulated seamlessly (no guilt whatsoever, I realize that the wine guys are doing their best).

So here is the idea.
When installing wine, or from the libraries configuration menu at a later time, there could be an "import original libraries" option, I choose it and I supply an original Windows cd/dvd that I have lying around (we probably all have a couple, even if we just use them as glass coasters).
Then wine runs trough the cd, borrows what it needs to run smooth with direcx and everything else and configures itself.
Final step, playing that damn brand new game or that damn cad application we need so desperately.

It would not exactly be the ideal solution to bug #1 but for somebody it would be way better than dual-booting.

Like it?

P.S. I do not even know if this would be completely legal, if not perhaps it could be implemented as a separate script.


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I think this solution would have the best of dual booting and virtual machines together.

I don't personally use a bootloader, to dual boot because its such an annoyance. I use 2 hard drives, one is windows xp, the other ubuntu. I use my start up option from the bios to boot into windows if I need to play a game.

Dual booting is still quite a pain if you only have only have one hard drive. Using a virtual machine is awesome, but not practical for gaming. Also updating firmware for many devices still requires a non-virtual windows environment.

Most of the people with one hard drive that I have installed ubuntu on still use it to play video games with a windows partition.

When Windows fries or gets eaten by spyware reinstalling windows, then making it dual boot again with ubuntu is a royal pain in the neck.

Also doing a fresh install every 6 months usually means
more boot loader headaches.



So here is what I propose:

Make it possible in ubuntu to easily install another operating system, without using bootloaders.

This is how I imagine it working:

1. Starting with a clean hard drive or partition you install ubuntu.

2. Next you click "install another operating system"

3. A gui pops up guiding you through the process of making or erasing a new special partition for the other operating system.

4. The partition you made is somehow treated as though it was the complete hard drive, boot sector and all so this installation cannot replace ubuntu as the main operating system.

5. After preparations are done you reboot to a low level compatibility mode or something, it asks you to insert the cdrom of the other OS.


6. After installation you reboot not into the OS but into ubuntu, you click an icon for the operating system you just installed.

7. Ubuntu reboots into a low level compatibility mode or something, and starts to boot the alternate os.

8. If for reason some ubuntu needs to be reinstalled, it will automatically know not to delete this special partition, unless explicitly told to do so (warning prompts)

9. If the alternate OS becomes corrupt or full of spyware, you can boot into ubuntu and erase the special partition, and restart this process after backing up any special files or data.

10. If both OSes become simultaneously corrupt and its not related to a hardware failure. The live CD should be able to allow you to access data on both partitions and back it up either to a new third partition or on cd or network etc.











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example:

http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs37/f/2008/242/0/e/Gnome_Desktop_Icons_by_cowboy77061.png


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Integrating it with Ubuntu? Well, I have an idea for that too. Integrate into the System menu a submenu known as FreeLife. This menu would allow you to Register or Sign In. You can then have it auto sign in so when you login to your account on your machine, it automatically signs into FreeLife for you. Once logged in, the FreeLife menu would then provide options for changing FreeLife preferenced, going to the FreeLife homepage, Opening the FreeLife mail page or Opening Evolution with FreeLife in it, or opening Pidgin with FreeLife. The possibilities are endless =).

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I'm not sure exactly how Wubi works, and if this is even possible. But, if we could do it, it would help spread desktop Linux quite a bit.

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sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

I think that after the first installation there should be some directions on how to install those codecs, or at list just a link like:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

lets face it, nobody that I know listens and collects music in ogg, everyone needs those codecs of mp3 and wmv etc with a simple click,

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I actually use some of those folders, such as .purple to look at logs. To see them though, I need to have ALL of my hidden folders visible, which I don't want. There should be a feature that allows you to make a .nohide file or something to have nautilus show specific hidden files while hiding all the rest. For example, I use the .purple folder a lot, while I don't need or want to see the .gnome folder, or most of the other hidden things in my home directory. Right now though, I can only show all, or hide all.

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GScrot is better capturer.

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Every Ubuntu next-version is slowly that the precessor.

My PC is a:

AMD X2 5600
2Gb de RAM DDRII 667
160Gb SATAII Hard Drive 7200RPMS
MotherBoard is a Asus (don't remember the model, but it has 1 year max.)

Nvidia Geforce 8500GT

The systems boots up extremely low (like XP in a Sempron 2200) and compiz goes perfect but the flash movies on firefox are extremely slow.

I think Ubuntu is one of the best operating systems but performance is important. We are always telling how Vista is or XP but I think we have to look inside us and speaks about the performance.

Perhaps it's only to me, with my hardware... but XP or VISTA flyes on the same machine.


I hope my english was enough good to explain what I want to say.

Thanks a lot.

P.D.= I saw another posts speaking about performance at boot but I think the problem is the whole system (for me, of course).



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Here is solution, but please, it must be in Ubuntu by default!
http://sudan.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?t=528890

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I remember when I changed from windows to linux I decided to renounce to all the tags that I had in picasa.
It was a surprise to find out that all my tags were still there in linux. That is not the expected behavior, if you delete the config files all your settings should get lost but not if you move/rename a folder.

****OSX vs XP vs LINUX thumbnails:

If I am not mistaken, OSX and XP store thumbnails in the same folder where the pictures are while Linux have a special folder for all the thumbnails.

In Linux if you rename or move a folder with pictures inside all thumbnails have to be rebuild again leaving behind lots of broken thumbnails. Also applications that keep track of files and allows to tag them lost their tags.
Regarding thumbnails, in OSX and XP that doesn't happen.

****THE IDEA:

My idea brings together the best of OSX, XP and Linux. With the plus of been useful to other applications too. Tags will not get lost and thumbnails will not be broken when renaming or moving folders at the price of storing one tiny, tiny, very tiny file in contrast to OSX or XP that store the thumnails.

I know that nautilus renames the thumbnail when you move or rename a picture, thunar doesn't and it doesn't work if you rename or move the folder. With this idea there is no need to add support in any application, only in the thumbnailer itself, and it will work for all other applications, file browsers, picture viewers etc...

****HOW IT WORKS:

For example: You open a folder (~/Desktop/photo_album_1) and thumbnails are created as usual. Also a file named ".id" (just an example) is created in the same folder where the pictures are.
The file contains:
pic-thumbnailer = 0007aa92d9925ab287c0a31eae141742

pic-thumbnailer is the name of the application and the number is the path (~/Desktop/photo_album_1) encoded.

Now you move the folder to "~/Pictures" (~/Pictures/photo_album_1).
Then, you open the folder and the thumbnailer starts to do his job again. First it compares the actual folder (~/Pictures/photo_album_1) encoded with the one in the ".id" file. If it doesn't match it will find the previous created thumbnails, rename them and update the ".id" file.
Thats all!
It requires a little modification to the freedesktop standard regarding the names of thumbnails. It should be: "$encodedpath-$encodedname.png"

Other applications could take advantage of this, for example a music manager or a picture manager that allows to tag and to set ratings. They only have to add:
music-managerX = 0007aa92d9925ab287c0a31eae141742
picture-managerX = 0007aa92d9925ab287c0a31eae141742

The Advantages are many:
Less broken tags.
Less broken thumbnails.
To rebuild the thumbnails fewer times implies less disk usage (read/write) and space usage and less cpu usage.

****FINAL WORDS

I don't have many expectation that this get implemented since it implies a change of the standards. I do think that a different implementation is needed.
That all the thumbnails get broken and get left there taking disk space if you rename a folder for all pics in that folder and all sub folders is not very efficient.

Another solution could be naming the thumbnails with the picture inode + size in bits + modification time in seconds.

I am not sure about that...

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How can the community describe its wants and needs if the admins close ideas just because Canonical is not planning to change something the community clearly wants.

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Synaptic its very good pack-program..

Im use (mostly) Gnome.. So i dont install progs for KDE.. So it could be more more easy to install software and decide what i want IF there was some icon that show what Desktop the program are fore.. If it are for Gnome or KDE...

Put icon/logo of Gnome Or KDE beside name of Package../progs..

Sorry my english...

Hope u understand.. this vil be very important for many users...

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Whenever software is updated in the repository, the updates are pushed to all users automatically. For example, when the repository version of Firefox updated from 3.0 beta to 3.0 final, all users were able to use the Update Manager to easily update to 3.0 final. Unfortunately, the software in the repository is not updated very often. Most software is only updated in the repositories in 6 month intervals with new versions of Ubuntu.

If only the software in the repositories were updated more frequently, Ubuntu would have a killer feature - near-realtime updates to all software.

Other requests for this feature:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4330/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1439/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5181/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5893/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5894/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/6082/

[Note to admins: I realize that this idea would probably be considered a duplicate as there are similar posts on Brainstorm. But the purpose of this idea is to aggregate all individual concerns regarding this issue so that it can be made clear how very important this issue is to Ubuntu users.]

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