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Top 10 Gutsy Forum Feature Requests Revisited

October 18th, 2007tagsUbuntu userearobinson

A while back I posted about my top 10 feature requests for Gutsy on the Ubuntu Forums. Gutsy has brought some great new to Ubuntu many of which I did not include in my original top 10 feature requests but if I was to do it again I probably would. In fact when I wrote the original list I had a bit of trouble coming up with 10 and in my opinion “Allow Us To Vote (like ideastorm, digg, etc.) On Ideas Here.” while it would be a grate addition to the Ubuntu Forums is not a feature for Ubuntu and hence a bit of a cop-out. All the same with the release of Gutsy I think its about time I revisited that list and commented on that list again and congratulate everyone who worked on it.

10. [IDEA] Nautilus “Restore from Trash” - Still not implemented. This feature would be quite hard to implement and for me it is a very low priority, but I can see why other users would want it.

9. [IDEA] Modify the installer so that it asks for Timezone instead of City. - While this did not happen, as far as I could tell there where a lot more cities to pick from during the install.

8. [IDEA] Reliable Kill for Fullscreen Applications - I think the best way to do this is still <Alt>f2 then type xkill then click the application.

7. [IDEA] Auto removal of old kernels - Unknown so I will assume no. (kernels are removed during a dist , thanks Kai Schröder)

6. [IDEA] Bring back screensaver settings - The new screensaver settings manager is still being used, how do I change a screensavers options in this gui?

5. [IDEA]: Warning about disk being full - Nope, per this blueprint on launchpad this feature never got out of the idea stage. (This feature might be included according to Kai Schröder … Thanks)

4. [IDEA] External Monitor Support - This feature is now included, however using the propitiatory drivers nvidia-settings gave me more options

3. [idea] Fix the delay when searching in Synaptic - It feels faster, but then this is a fresh install.

2. [IDEA] Graphical Frontend for xorgconfig (dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg) - This works really well. I’m really glad to see this feature.

1. Allow Us To Vote (like ideastorm, digg, etc.) On Ideas Here. - As I said before this is a cop-out and It has not been implemented on the Ubuntu Forums, however the forum staff did a great job of communicating the forums needs.

So that gives us about three 3.5 (I rounded to three 3.5 because there was a few half implemented ex feature 9) out of the nine (I’m not counting feature number 1) that I blogged about all that time ago and that doesn’t even include the 10 rocking features in 10 days. All in all I think that makes Great Gutsy Gibbon.

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Re Idea 4:
It may be in there but it doesn’t work very well.
I built a dual-monitor box the other day.. (actually, it theoretically can handle 3 monitors), and the gutsy graphics thingy wouldn’t let me turn on the second monitor. I gave up and reverted to nvidia-settings.

Looks promising, shame it doesn’t work!

Comment by kirrus on October 18, 2007 4:23 am


If you have an Intel or an ATI card you can try URandR:
http://www.albertomilone.com/urandr.html

Comment by Alberto Milone on October 18, 2007 5:26 am


Re idea 7:
This is when you got an update the old kernel isn’t remove and at grub there are another kernel option for boot(and more large menu). Then if remove the old kernel this problem may be desapere.
(sorry about my english)

Comment by Miguel A. on October 18, 2007 5:49 am


5) this is implemented afaik
7) kernels are automatically removed after a distribution upgrade

Comment by Kai Schröder on October 18, 2007 8:25 am


5. [IDEA]: Warning about disk being full
I can confirm it has been implemented.

Comment by Dread Knight on October 18, 2007 8:33 am


kirrus, I hope I did not mislead you to think that it would work for everyone. I was just trying to report the feature as inclued URandR http://www.albertomilone.com/urandr.html is a great way to go if it dose not work for you.

Kai Schröder, thanks for the comments, any idea of a doc I can link to to show it, otherwise I guess ill write a script to fill a hd.

Comment by earobinson on October 18, 2007 8:38 am


By now you should probably know it’s Gutsy…

Comment by toni on October 18, 2007 9:53 am


Dread Knight: I think some of it has been implemented, but not all of it. I’ve been running the pre-release version, and I had this habit of writing a program that spewed an excessive number of debug files (which were bitmaps :)). You do get a warning when your drive is full, but the system was pretty unusable at this stage (I had to restart into recovery mode to delete the files).

I think the idea is to make sure you never have to do that, and also to allow more configuration with the messages (e.g. if you have a drive which is nearly full, but you don’t care, you might want to turn off the messages for that particular drive… I don’t think you can do that yet)

Comment by Andy on October 18, 2007 9:59 am


For me, the only thing that’s really lacking from Ubuntu is a way to manage fonts better - installing and uninstalling by session, rather than permanently. Otherwise, I’m very happy with it.

Comment by Peter Gasston on October 19, 2007 5:52 pm


Thats a feature i have not seen requested much, nor am I exactly sure why you would not rather just fully install the font (since they take up so little space)

Now is the time to be submitting features for the next ubuntu so get to it.

Comment by earobinson on October 19, 2007 6:02 pm


Maybe submitting these features to the actual projects would be my first guess to do.

Submit the Nautilus “Restore from Trash” to the Nautilus project at gnome?

Comment by MUD on October 22, 2007 1:07 pm


Hello my friends :)
;)

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