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Purge, reinstall and change app's version in Software Center  
Written by mackuz the 2 May 12 at 07:32. Related project: Ubuntu Software Center. New
Only because of theese options I'm using Synaptic.
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Solution #1: Add purge, reinstall and change app's version options in Software Center
Written by mackuz the 2 May 12 at 07:32.
Maybe theese options must be hidden for newbies but advsnced user must have a possibility to purge application, to change it's version back from PPA's for example, to reinstall installed application and to remove config files remaining after simple uninstall.

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The update-manager is very outdated  
Written by fernando_silva the 2 May 12 at 00:43. Related project: Update manager. New
The update-manager is very outdated and it's not integrated with the rest of the system.
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Solution #1: Integrate the update-manager to the "Software Centre"
Written by fernando_silva the 2 May 12 at 00:43.
Add an new item on the top of the "Software Centre", on the right side, called "System Updates", and create a more simple user-interface for the update-manager, integrated to the "Software Centre".

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Include prior kernels in the repositories  
Written by lewac the 7 May 12 at 15:38. Related project: Update manager. New
Recently we upgraded to 12.04 from 11.10, kubuntu 32 bit. And lost google-earth in the process (OS freezes). There's a bug report on it but its not fixed yet. So to make things a bit easier why not retain a coupla previous kernels within the repositories? That way what worked prior to updates/upgrades will probably work again (if it happens to be a kernel issue like this one).

One may require some type of "Regress" checkbox within the package maintainers (synaptic, muon, whatever)... or a new source list could be implemented to make the prior kernel(s) available.

Of course would not normally regress unless a specific app critical to normal usage went bust from a subsequent kernel update (such as was my (and many others) situation).
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Solution #1: Add a repository
Written by lewac the 7 May 12 at 15:38.
which would include at least a couple of past kernels.

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Ubuntu could be more intelligent and suggesting adding devices found on network  
Written by Egarretsen the 4 May 12 at 23:11. Related project: Unity. New
After a fresh install i have to manually do a lot of things like searching for printers, my NAS, my scanner all attached the network. Als almost everyone has a (wireless) router. I think it would be very convenient if Ubuntu would be clever and tries to do some of this for me.
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Solution #1: Let Ubuntu scan local network for devices not setup yet
Written by Egarretsen the 4 May 12 at 23:11.
When starting Ubuntu after network connect, Ubuntu could perform a local network scan and report devices found which are not yet configured and aks if i would like to configure these devices.

Now i have to:
- go to system settings printers
- add printer
- then a search starts and it finds the network attached printers

This is nice, but wouldn't it be cool if Ubuntu did this automatically on each startup (or the first startup if this is really resource heavy) an informs me in a notification that a printer / scanner / NAS / router admin panel is found which is not yet configured.

Also most routers use a default address something like 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.100 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.100 it would be nice if in the network settings a link to router settings would appear.

A smart system is really cool and useful!

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