http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/5722/
Tab 1: Free Space
-integrate Baobab (and remove it from the applications menu)
-create an extensible disk cleaner with default plugins for emptying the trash, clearing the firefox cache, possibly deleting logfiles (using policykit), etc.

Tab 2: Health
-allow setting frequency of fsck, so an option something like:
[x]Automatically check my disks every [35] boots.
-a button for immediately checking all filesystems
-S.M.A.R.T. integration

Tab 3: Backup
-a scheduled backup utility that can image the entire disk or zip certain folders using cron.
-allow creating multiple backup 'profiles' for advanced scheduling
-incremental backup would be nice, but probably difficult

Tab 4: Advanced
-integrate the partition editor from the installer, and enhance it to allow fstab editing as well

The exact implementation of the above features/tabs is up for debate, but the concept is far more important.

This would address a huge number of brainstorm ideas floating around, and I think is a great candidate for the 'main feature' for 8.10 (like compiz-fusion was for 7.10).

[315 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #5722


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http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/57/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/183/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/323/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2426/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3313/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3343/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3678/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4913/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5331/

And I'm sure there are many more that I didn't find.]]> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:32:16 +0000
S.M.A.R.T monitoring very important.]]> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:00:55 +0000
I only have one thing to point: if a developer is reading it, please separate gui from logic (make the recovery of all the info and the backup process separate from the front end to this), so that kubuntu and xubuntu teams may quickly implement an equivalent of this on their prefered window file browser app.

I would love seeing this consistently supported both on my Kde3 at work and Xubuntu at my laptop, and keeping a common core may let people of all three projects work on improvement for all three.]]> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:36:00 +0000 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:31:37 +0000 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 01:07:47 +0000
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5607/]]> Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:58:58 +0000 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:13:11 +0000
@ Rouge: I think that rather than a privacy tab, LUKS should be supported by the partition editor.]]> Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:04:55 +0000 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:40:06 +0000
The software should definitely include clear, simple ways to:
-partition drives similarly/with gParted
-check SMART status, even of individual drives in RAID arrays or on hubs
-schedule drive maintenance and monitoring tasks using various existing tools
-tons of RAID control for mdadm

like I said I'm just now joining but lurking for some time. I could help make recommendations for interface design if something like this type of work is going on. feel free to pop me an email or point me to a feed of updates if one exists.]]> Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:24:47 +0000