Building the Ubuntu Kitchen Sink

[David]

Hi,
i thought a little bit about how the Ubuntu Kitchen Sink could look like.

Here the content:

System
 - Startup
    - Configure autologin
    - Open apps from last session
    - Select wich daemons/apps to start at booting
 - Unity
    - How to reveal (left side or top left)
    - Netbook or Desktop version
    - What can be tweaked here?
    - Hide specific lenses (if possible)
 - Users
    - Create new user
    - Manage groups
    - Manage rights
    - advanced options like wich shell to use ...
 - What could we add here?
Appearance
 - Themes
    - Install/Download more themes
    - Rate them?
    - customizing the theme
 - Login-Screen
 - Bootscreen
    - disable splash screen
    - change splash screen
 - Effects
    - more than simple-ccsm but less than ccsm (you can still install ccsm)
    - change the common animations
    - enable things like desktop cube ...
    - change speeds ...
    - what else?
Applications
   there could be a xml file or something that tells the Ubuntu
Kitchen Sink which tweaks are possible
   and how to enable / disable them
   We could force a disable option (when the user for example disable
a checkbox ...)
   When this don't disable the tweak this is a bug that should be fixed.
   This way we don't need a backup/restore solution.
  - under applications is a list of all tweakable apps

I would not add ppa's in the Ubuntu Kitchen Sink.
I don't think they belong there.
I would prefer a standalone application for ppas
 - where i can search ppa's for specific packages
 - see ratings by other users
 - disable them (with ppa-purge)
 - break my entire system :-)
But by enabling a ppa in this app i might get more tweaks in the
Ubuntu Kitchen Sink ;-)

When i have time i will be doing a few mockups to demonstrate how this
could look

What do you think?

David Reichling

2011/5/20 Joel Pickett <jlkpcktt at gmail.com>:
> I was wondering why it couldn't/hadn't been added to the universe section.
> It'd be good if the config section could be somehow repackaged and proposed
> for universe so it's a simple sudo apt-get.
> It's the kind of program that really has a lot of potential, allowing users
> who don't want to edit config files manually and help them tweak things that
> they didn't know were tweakable.
> Joel
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Mike Basinger <mike.basinger at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone approached the developers of Ubuntu Tweak and ask if maybe
>> they would make a lite-version with configs only that could be
>> consider to be added to the CD.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Jorge O. Castro <jorge at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Jono Bacon <jono at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> >> On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 22:47 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
>> >> In other words - are there technical limitations to Ubuntu Tweak in
>> >> that
>> >> regard?
>> >
>> > There was a discussion on Ubuntu Tweak in ubuntu-motu a while back,
>> > iirc the biggest concern was the enabling of untrusted repositories.
>> >
>> > I personally wish they would just split the config part from the
>> > repository part so we could put the config part in the archive.
>> >
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