Lucid Lynx: Codename for Ubuntu 10.04
Lucid (Adjective): Easily understandable, clearly perceived.
I decided to continue the previous post from Brian Curtis. My vision for ubuntu 10.04 is….a stable, well thought out, intelligent OS.
We have file sharing now with ubuntu one but so much more can be done. Id love to see everything of importance (this includes configuration too) being backed up and synced with your other computers, so evolution, empathy, firefox bookmarks, documents and images. If not on ubuntu one maybe using usb for people who dont have fast connections. In this way if ubuntu crashes its easily recovered.
I would like to see Gwibber and banshee included by default.
Id like the menu clutter to be cleaned up so that new users dont get intimidated by the different things they may never use.
Palm support and xsane not to be installed by default but when someone tries to use them they get installed automatically in the same way new codecs are installed. Open office drawing to be dropped too.
Less default crap games.
Parental control using zeitgeist.
Links to related screencasts in ubuntu system docs.
Put in a search that uses http://search.ubuntu.com/ into yelp.
Id like all the main ubuntu related sites to be bookmarked in firefox by default and also if the country you are in has a loco their loco website too.
Ok thats a big long list but all workable I think and would make 10.04 very nice.
Edit: Also id love to add GUFW to the default ubuntu install
If anything else I would like to see meta-contacts being used. Make People/contacts first class citizens on the desktop where they are objects. Have a people browser such as soylent, have empathy and evolution or any other program that uses contacts for that matter, use the people objects rather than having their own unique contacts special to their program. If I want to edit a contact it doesn’t matter which program I use because they’ll be connected to the one person object. Also for Empathy it would show one contact is online rather than the same person online for 3 different IM services. That is my one wish for Ubuntu 10.04!
Well, I think most of the request I’ve read here show stuff that can either be easily customised through install/uninstall, or something that is all about contacts and social connections…
Honestly, I think an OS is much more than that.
I for one would like to see how Ubuntu makes its weak spots stronger. For example, I would like to see better network management… Something that looks and feels solid, clear, easy to understand and that provides clear information about what is going on.
I would like to see better multiple screen support, not something that screws your laptop screen when using a secondary one.
I would like to see a stronger artwork effort, so that more and more users don’t feel the urge to change everything to make that “ugly brown desktop” less ugly.
And then, even it is not directly related to the OS, I would like to see a very clear and upfront list of recommended hardware, and a clear statement about those pieces of it which either are not working or have not been tested. I think a lot of the noise (big or small) Ubuntu (or any other Linux distro) gets is because of users installing the OS in a piece of hardware which is not working. They end up blaming the OS and represent a threat to all of the work the community is putting into showing this wonderful OS to the world. I would like to see honesty and transparency, so that nobody can blame Ubuntu unfairly.
For the rest of the stuff I want (GRUB2, ext4, etc) I think we just need to wait…
Shane Fagan: My Ubuntu Vision: 10.04 http://bit.ly/3CvBy0 #postrank #linux
Things I support you with:
Games – less crap
UbuntuOne – much more done
Links to screencasts – excellant idea
Ubuntu sites in firefox – good also
Not so sure:
Banshee
xsane – When I first used Ubuntu I wanted to use a scanner and xsane was installed by default, so I used it and I praised Ubuntu more. But if you plug your scanner in, or want to scan, having a prompt to install could work.
But above all, is hardware support,from conputer components to all kinds of peripherals. List of recommended hardware is good. I want the utopia vision of all hardware works so we don’t need a list.
I also like to see the Software Centre to very simply – install, uninstall, upgrade, downgrade applications, packages and drivers, and with the ability to offer commercial applications.I would like the Software Centre to easily enable beginners, hobbyists, and professional programmers to distribute their work through it.
Maybe a USB image which is not restricted to a CD of 700MB size. Ubuntu may require 850MB to get everything it needs on there and make it more appealing eg extra themes, drivers, configuration files, utilities that should be default etc. That may difficult though – a CD is cheap, convenient and easy to distribute. I just don’t want to see the size of the CD being the cause of people not installing Ubuntu.
Go Ubuntu!
sudo apt-get install gwibber
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gnome-mount libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprint2.2-data
libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgtksourceview-common
libgtksourceview1.0-0 libnautilus-burn4 libpolkit-gnome0 libtidy-0.99-0
policykit-gnome python-beaker python-bugbuddy python-chardet
python-egenix-mxdatetime python-egenix-mxtools python-evince
python-evolution python-feedparser python-gnome2-desktop python-gnomedesktop
python-gnomeprint python-gtksourceview python-gtop python-indicate
python-mako python-mediaprofiles python-metacity python-nautilusburn
python-rsvg python-sqlalchemy python-totem-plparser python-utidylib
python-wnck
Suggested packages:
bug-buddy python-egenix-mxdatetime-dbg python-egenix-mxtools-dbg
python-gnome2-desktop-doc python-gnome2-desktop-dbg python-sqlalchemy-doc
python-psycopg2 python-mysqldb python-kinterbasdb python-pymssql
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gnome-mount gwibber libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomeprint2.2-0
libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-common
libgtksourceview-common libgtksourceview1.0-0 libnautilus-burn4
libpolkit-gnome0 libtidy-0.99-0 policykit-gnome python-beaker
python-bugbuddy python-chardet python-egenix-mxdatetime
python-egenix-mxtools python-evince python-evolution python-feedparser
python-gnome2-desktop python-gnomedesktop python-gnomeprint
python-gtksourceview python-gtop python-indicate python-mako
python-mediaprofiles python-metacity python-nautilusburn python-rsvg
python-sqlalchemy python-totem-plparser python-utidylib python-wnck
its crazy, I just wanna try with gwibber, but so many packaged to be installed.
Most of those packages are updates to your system and dont have anything to do with Gwibber.