Comments on: Day 3 – 10 Days of Ubuntu 10.10 Feature Requests

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:15:29 +0000

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ADD voice/video chat SUPPORT BEFORE IMPROVING USELESS INTERFACE(U CAN’T GIVE IT HI PRIORITY, ISN’T IT?). how long we use Windows only for this purpose ?

By: Mario

Mario — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:18:24 +0000

I install linux since 5.0 release and now I have 9.10 installed on AMD64 dual Processor.
1. Mozilla Firefox this has been a disaster from day one with the multi media drivers. still you need to be an expert to solve this problem.
2. Graphic programs I do not know who is writing those programs, but they are the less user-friendly programs that i never encounter in my life.
3. non flexibility to install other OS like Leopard or XP. Wine is a ridiculous application, but the idea is good. We need to open different windows under different OS. VirtualBox is NOT the solution !

By: Felix Holst

Felix Holst — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:27:34 +0000

What you have said is true, I like using Ubuntu but when I show it to people looks are a big factor for them.

At the first boot of a computer, if compiz effects are enabled, it would be a good idea to have some kind of introductory dialogue/program to the commands and let people play around with it for a few minutes. This should obviously be a discreet dialogue box that pops up and can be closed by experienced users or clicked and activated by inexperienced.

By: Fred McKinney

Fred McKinney — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:38:30 +0000

Canonical would do well to completely forget the brown. I just took a look at the proposed themes for Karmic Koala, and in all honesty, I think they’re even uglier than what they’ve had in previous versions of Ubuntu.

It’s my understanding that Mark Shuttleworth likes the brown look, but he needs to give up that idea completely. If he insists on sticking with warmer colors, why doesn’t he go with orange instead? After all, Ubuntu’s “Human” icon theme has been orange for some time now, so it would make perfect sense to go with an orange GTK theme and wallpaper if you ask me.

Besides, Linux Mint’s “Gloria” release, which came out back in April, has a very nice default green theme to it that uses the “Shiki-Wise” GTK theme, the “Shiki Metacity” theme, the “GNOME-Wise” icon theme and its own wallpaper that’s been designed to match with all of the above, and it looks very nice indeed. By the same token, there are also orange versions of all of the above with the exception of the wallpaper, and for that, there’s always the Arc-Human wallpaper and GDM screen, which would, IMHO, make for a much more inviting appearance.

By: molecule-eye

molecule-eye — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:26:59 +0000

When Gnome 3 comes out, Gnome Shell should make a big improvement towards having by default a highly usable and nice-looking compositor and window manager. And yes, the default Ubuntu theme is UGLY, and so are the aliased rounded corners of metacity (if your theme has rounded corners, that is). The problem is, metacity sucks, as a window decorator anyway.

A lot of people play down aesthetics, but look how successful OS X has been because of it. (Of course aesthetics has not been the ONLY cause of its success.)

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:05:51 +0000

Canonical’s inability to do nice design work leaves me tearing my hair out. Like with the new 9.10 beta, they update the icons and wallpaper to something acceptable (though not great), but then decide what consumers really want is an even browner window theme that people have compared to the Breezy Badger theme. Did they not get the memo? Everyone freaking hates the brown used by Ubuntu. They should have kept the orange.

The new design team seems to have been making some strives with Ubuntu, but really not enough progress when you consider anyone can go to Gnome Look and find a better theme in a few minutes. Why don’t they just customise an already beautiful theme? From what I’ve seen I have no confidence that 10.04 is going to beautiful looking.

By: Travis Watkins

Travis Watkins — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:35:33 +0000

We already detect compatibility and turn on compiz if possible. We don’t want the crazier effects (wobbly, cube, firepaint, etc) so we don’t have any autotune to see if your system can run them. Not that it matters, really. Other than a few effects if compiz can start at all they all work just fine no matter how fast the hardware is, we’re not doing anything taxing here.