If you’ve read my past two articles (here and here), you’re hopefully aware of several things:
- I am a very happy Ubuntu user.
- That said, Ubuntu is not perfect. <gasp!> Yes, it does have some problems. These are outlined in more detail in my Ubuntu Report Card (2009) article.
- Out of a desire to help, I’ve been compiling feature requests from fellow Ubuntu users. What has kept you from switching to Ubuntu full-time, and what do you hope Ubuntu changes in the future?
My next series of articles are the culmination of emails and comments received as a result of point #3.
You may be wondering why I’ve chosen to title this article “10 Days of Ubuntu 10.10 Feature Requests.” If you haven’t already, now would be a good time to read my case for the one feature Ubuntu 10.04 needs. In that article I make the case for Ubuntu 10.04 being a “featureless” release – e.g. one that focuses solely on stability and performance. I stand by that opinion, and to that end I believe that Ubuntu 10.10 could be a great place to focus on a feature-heavy release (having solved all it’s stability and performance issues in 10.04, of course :p).
So here you have it – 10 feature requests that I (and many others) would love to see by the time Ubuntu 10.10 rolls around.
(Disclaimer: efforts to implement many of these features are already underway, so kudos to the Ubuntu team in advance!)
(Disclaimer: I realize that some in the Linux community will take great offense at my interchangeable use of “Ubuntu” and “Linux”, but rest assured – I mean no harm by this, and I am well aware that Ubuntu and Linux are not the same thing. However, for purposes of clarity and brevity these articles will use the two terms interchangeably.)
Day 1 – A Great Package Management (Add/Remove Software) Experience
Day 2 – A Music Player That Doesn’t Suck
Day 3 – Improved Visual Aesthetics
Day 5 – Solid, Functional Video Editing
Day 6 – Simple, Reliable, Integrated Backup Tool
Day 7 – Mend Key Relationships
Day 8 – Better Online Video Experience
Day 9 – Renewed Focus on Marketing
Day 10 – Paper Cuts, Paper Cuts, Paper Cuts
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I would like to see an easier Video DVD creator in Ubuntu. The cryptic stuff is a pain. I’ve tried a ton of OS Software with little or no results.
Why does each new Ubuntu release wipe out applications that I have installed on the previous version? If it can’t cope with these files, could I please have a list of applications that I need to re-install (rather then waiting until I need to use one and find it’s not there!
You are aware of Ubuntu Brainstorm, right?
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/
I sure am. Brainstorm is a great idea. You’ll find that variations of many of my suggestions appear on Ubuntu Brainstorm (and I’ve tried to link to appropriate brainstorm pages when applicable).
About “Better Online Video Experience”.
I`m getting a lot better video experience with googles chromé/chromium browser than in firefox. Maybe it`s in the browser and not the plugin the problem is.
I gave up on Ubuntu after flailing around trying to get external monitor support happening on my laptop. Also, wireless setup wasn’t plug and play for me. If I do have another look I’ll do my research buy a machine with usb wireless cards and accessories that are known to work. But can’t afford that at the moment.
All that said, I really did enjoy the Ubuntu desktop experience.
Cheers
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well at least the highly requested feature: “we want gimp single window mode” is already being handled so no need to include that anymore ^^
well i like all your suggestions since these (basically all) are things they are already working on and hopefully they will be here by 10.10
anyway remember 2010 will be the year of the SmartBook and we need to focus 150% on that experience
meaning:
-faster
-lightweight
-simpler to use
-touch screen
-online-experience/integration
i bet the moblin remix will be wonderful, however since it was intel, its optimized for atom and not for arm probably. We also have jolicloud and the big daddy android and then later on chrome os (we’ll see if they prefer it over android)
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