Is this mailing list defunct?

[Jorge O. Castro]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Sebastian Rösgen
<s.roesgen at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps later on there could be an easy way to write static QuickLists for
> the launcher? I hope that in Ubuntu Next (12.04) they will finally have
> solved the problem with nautilus' dynamic QuickLists. I really want my
> bookmarks to appear in the QuickLists entry of the home icon.

This should be fixed in 12.04, it was slated for 11.10 but never made it.

> But, in addition, it would be really nice to have an easy way to create new static
> lists, without opening an editor and copying files around. Especially if,
> sometimes, you have to search for the place in which you want to copy this
> files; and especially if you have to search for the right file to
> overwrite/edit.

I put this together so people can just submit their quicklists to
Ubuntu so we can have it in the distro out of the box:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerUsers/Quicklists

Any help here would be appreciated.

> Here, people are discussing ideas  and they want these ideas to somehow get
> into Ubuntu. But you do not read any reply by some official Ubuntu developer
> or Canonical employee. So where is the encouragement? If you (Canonical)
> really want a power user community then do something for it.

As far as I can tell this mailing list is to coordinate these things:

* produce a central hub of documentation for how to tweak, extend and
customize your Ubuntu system. Imagine a fantastic library of wiki
documentation for tweaking every possible aspect of your desktop…
* provide communication channels and support resources.
* build tools and facilities to provide post-installation facilities
for configuring different elements of Ubuntu.

But so far it seems to me that this is mailing list is just a list of
people either talking about their setup or complaining about pet bugs,
so I don't really know how to fix that.