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A decentralized sync system, similar to Windows Live Mesh would be quite useful for users. Some users use Ubuntu One, not for backup, but for syncing files between computers. This is slow, and unefficient, as it does

Computer 1 -> Ubuntu One -> (Ubuntu One on Computer 2 notices updated file) -> Download to Computer 2.

Instead, with decentralized sync, we can reduce the storage overhead, and the 5GB storage space can be solely used for backup. Here, Computer 1 directly transfers changed files to Computer 2, and vice versa. This allows for a much faster sync.

Computer 1 -> Computer 2.

[1 votes] Solution #1: Decentralized sync utility should be added to Ubuntu One
An option should be given in Ubuntu One for synchronizing folders between two computers through the LAN/WAN. The computers that are syncing should be logged on the same Ubuntu One account on both computers.

donadony writes "LinuxMint13 RC is available for testing, this release comes with 2 versions in a separated dvd`s: Mate and Cinnamon. LinuxMint13 Cinnamon is very light and offers some customization, integration of new applets, extensions and themes that can be found on the official website."

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Many useful options are still missing, like natural-scroll. The main today's features are not easily accessible from these menus and user may be frustrated when trying to use it.

[2 votes] Solution #1: Add natural and elastic-scroll option for both Mouse and Touchpad
Users may be frustated when coming from other systems (like tablets or even MacOS) with not having these options in the menus. Adding a checkbox for both these options in mouse and touchpad menus would solve this.

Natural-scroll:
When scrolling down with the touchpad (or mouse), the page go up. The racional is that you are moving the page down, so your view goes up. With the tradicional scroll you move your view, so, when going down in the touchpad your view goes down too.

Elastic-scroll:
Easy video explaining (on MacOS X Lion)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMKd5ZFFBwM


[0 votes] Solution #2: Add 2-fingers-clicks for touchpads
Easy change the behavior of the 2-figer-clicks: triggering middle-click, right-click or even zoom!

It seems to me that many using a guest account would not be knowledgeable Linux users. The guest account should be usable for most people not experienced in Linux. That is particularly the case as changes in settings only last during the current session.

The default Xubuntu desktop will in my view be virtually useless for many such users. The menu is hard to find, new users are faced with a panel they usually can't see at the bottom and won't be familiar with it so as to be aware what they need to do to see it and anyone without good young eyes will have trouble with the small resolution and dark on dark colours.

One will probably guess that I'm not crazy about the default desktop anyway. That is true, but for the most part it really doesn't matter to me as like most users I change the desktop. Still, I wouldn't recommend Xubuntu to someone trying Linux for the first time for the same reasons I don't think the desktop is suitable for a guest account.




[0 votes] Solution #1: Xubuntu guest account desktop
Changes I'd suggest for the default desktop on the guest account include:

-not using the smallest possible resolution

-not autohiding the bottom panel. I like the bottom panel being hidden-but wouldn't make it default in a guest account as for that sort of account it is important that a person not knowing the system be able to find things easily.

-making it easier to find the menu. Right now if I didn't know what I was looking for, I'd never know what that barely visible (to my eyes) small light coloured thing on the top left was on the default desktop. I'd suggest for a guest account it be put on the bottom left with the button title showing.

-brighter colours, perhaps, especially on the login screen which on my monitor, with my eyes, isn't easy to read.

You can not tell rpcbind to listen to a specific interface for TCP requests. The -h flag provides this functionality for UDP requests only

for those of us who need to mount an NFS client on a machine with a public interface, this is not great. It can be limited using tcpwrappers, or iptables, but I would feel more comfortable if it weren't even listening in the first place.

this was inspired by a similar issue patched by FreeBSD
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84494


[1 votes] Solution #1: modify rpcbind to listen to a specific interface
Please modify rpcbind so it only listens to a specific interface for all requests.

Version 0.9 of the video editor includes a rewritten effect stack, a new automatic audio alignment function and various usability enhancements...

Version 0.9 of the video editor includes a rewritten effect stack, a new automatic audio alignment function and various usability enhancements

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SugarCon, the SugarCRM user meeting held in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago, did some important things for Sugar. It was a coming out party of sorts for a company with a distinct business model and strategy, namely open source. It was also validation of that strategy and, for...

SugarCon, the SugarCRM user meeting held in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago, did some important things for Sugar. It was a coming out party of sorts for a company with a distinct business model and strategy, namely open source. It was also validation of that strategy and, for many, a new realization of what open source means. In my discussions with CEO Larry Augustin and CTO and cofounder Clint Oram, I got a new sense of how pervasive open source really is in the software marketplace.

 

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MediaGoblin, which released version 0.3.0 this month, is a free and open source media hosting platform. Chris Webber, project founder and lead developer, took a few minutes to talk to us about the project so far and its future. Read more... 

MediaGoblin, which released version 0.3.0 this month, is a free and open source media hosting platform. Chris Webber, project founder and lead developer, took a few minutes to talk to us about the project so far and its future.

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To further enhance the Linux virtualization experience with VMware products, the company is preparing to push the Virtual Machine Communication Interface and VMCI Sockets into the mainline Linux kernel...

To further enhance the Linux virtualization experience with VMware products, the company is preparing to push the Virtual Machine Communication Interface and VMCI Sockets into the mainline Linux kernel...

 

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The Control Center in Ubuntu is not resizable, so working with it is not very comfortable.

[7 votes] Solution #1: Manually resizable Control Center
Manually resizable Control Center would make the job with it more convenient.

[1 votes] Solution #2: Automatically resizable Control Center
If fixed Control Center size is a special idea, it must change it's size automatically, depending on screen size to make it more comfortable to work with it.

Many apps offer help on IRC. Many user do not know what IRC is or how to connect.

It often goes like this: 'You can get more help on #our-channel on freenode'.



[6 votes] Solution #1: Use Telepathy
In such case, we should make #our-channel clickable: clicking it should open IM window, and automagically connect user to correct server/channel.

This could use proposed IRC URL scheme: http://www.w3.org/Addressing/draft-mirashi-url-irc-01.txt

Running OXID eShop Community Edition (Version 4.5.9) On Nginx (LEMP) on Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10 This tutorial shows how you can install and run OXID eShop Community Edition (version 4.5.9) on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced...

Running OXID eShop Community Edition (Version 4.5.9) On Nginx (LEMP) on Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10

This tutorial shows how you can install and run OXID eShop Community Edition (version 4.5.9) on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). OXID eShop is a feature-rich ecommerce platform; I will use the Community Edition here which is licensed under an open source certified license (GPL v3.0). nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.

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Version 0.9 of the Kdenlive video editor has been released. Improvements in this release include the ability to align multiple video tracks using the audio stream, a rewritten effects subsystem, improved importing of online media, and a number of usability enhancements.

Version 0.9 of the Kdenlive video editor has been released. Improvements in this release include the ability to align multiple video tracks using the audio stream, a rewritten effects subsystem, improved importing of online media, and a number of usability enhancements.

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Hi, Plain and straight to the point.

While the progress tab is showing. we have a problem (missing feature) of not showing if that progress is on old until we check the tab. For example. A new user is installing the nvidia driver using jocky and installing some software. Jocky would lock and the software center in the progress tab will say that but the user wont know until they actually go to the tab.

The problem escalates when its synaptic or hanged jocky having the lock because software center progress wont tell you but it will not move even if it stayed forever!

Thanks for reading.

P.S. This problem would occurr for alot of reasons not just the mentioned above.

[3 votes] Solution #1: A flickering exclamation mark
I suggest if the progress is held. just beside the number that showing how many items are dealt with there is a small exclamation mark flickering. sorry I don't have time to make a mockup of my suggestion. I'll try to do that later.

darthcamaro writes "Guess What? Linux is not a primary platform for Mozilla. For Mozilla's upcoming Web Apps marketplace, Linux support is not part of the initial release. Some Mozilla developers simply are shrugging this off as Windows and Mac dominate the Mozilla user landscape today."

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Wasteland 2, the very successful Kickstarter game project as the sequel to the two-decade-old Wasteland RPG, will be running on the Unity Engine with its Linux client included...

Wasteland 2, the very successful Kickstarter game project as the sequel to the two-decade-old Wasteland RPG, will be running on the Unity Engine with its Linux client included...

 

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A calm seventh release candidate for Linux 3.4 presages a release of the new Linux version next weekend...

A calm seventh release candidate for Linux 3.4 presages a release of the new Linux version next weekend

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The new version offers improved jack detection support and can reduce the power requirements of audio output via alternate sample rates...

The new version offers improved jack detection support and can reduce the power requirements of audio output via alternate sample rates

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We haven't got a easy manner to reduce battery consumption in ubuntu.

[26 votes] Solution #1: Add Economy Mode to Power Manager
Could be good if there's be an option to enable a "economy mode" like in Windows SO http://postimage.org/image/dnnkiebzj/ to reduce battery consumption.
But, we can do it better and not as complicated as in Windows SO. Only few options, and a simple checkbox to enable this mode.

Windows have two modes, the simple mode and the advanced mode.
The simple mode is good, but doesn't allow to disable the "limite CPU", result in a slow interaction that some user wouldn't allow. Also doesn't allow to disable bluetooht and wifi easily and automatically, but all laptops have now a shortcut to disable bluetooht and wifi, so it's not serious issue.

The advanced mode is a complicated and ugly interface, so we have to do a simple and efficient and understanding decissions settings to a common user.

Mock-up (actualized 14/5/2012, change names to a understanding names, not technical names like "CPU"):
http://postimage.org/image/vwyxqg6cv/

dartttt writes "There was a very interesting session at the Ubuntu Developer Summit by Google developer Thomas Bushnell. He talked about how Ubuntu, its derivatives and Goobuntu (Google's customized Ubuntu based distro) are used by Google developers. He starts by saying 'Precise Rocks,' and that many Google employees use Ubuntu — including managers, software engineers, translators, people who wrote the original Unix, and people who have no clue about Unix. Many developers working on Chrome and Android use Ubuntu. Ubuntu systems at Google are upgraded every LTS release. The entire process of upgrading can take as much as four months, and it is also quite expensive, as one reboot or a small change can cost them as much as a million dollars across the company." Bushnell also mentions that Google Drive will soon be available for Linux. Other news out of UDS: there was discussion of a GNOME flavor of 12.10, Electronic Arts reaffirmed that they "won't delay their Windows work for Linux," and Unity 2D is likely to disappear in 12.10.

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