[ubuntu-uk] What should be done for 12.04

Andres andresmp at gmail.com
Mon Sep 26 20:35:26 UTC 2011


-- 
Sent from my Nokia N900
Please do not send me word documents
plain txt or pdf are prefered. 

----- Mensaje original -----
> On 26 September 2011 14:00, paul sutton <zleap at zleap.net> wrote:
> 
> > On 26/09/11 13:48, Alan Pope wrote:
> > > Now we're perilously close to releasing 11.10 onto the world, it's
> > > been asked [0] what things the developers would like to see the focus
> > > on for the 12.04 (Long Term Support) release.
> > > 
> > > Personally I would like all core applications to support proxy
> > > servers properly. Especially as it's an LTS release which is arguably
> > > well-suited to corporate users who are those most often behind proxy
> > > servers. (ubuntu one file sync being something that doesn't work
> > > behind proxies)
> > > 
> > > I wondered what you lot might desire for 12.04?
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Al.
> > > 
> > > [0]
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2011-September/012901
> > 
> > 1.   Focus on stability rather than new features.
> > 
> > 2.   Good documentation
> > 
> > 3.   Posters and promo materials etc in the repositories so they can be
> > downloaded easily as a package and accessed by users
> > 
> > 4.   If we don't have any perhaps some sort of content filtering system
> > so we can allow people to filter unsuitable content (I know this will
> > be controversial but if we don't it will work against us)
> > 
> > 5. not suire if this is possible but linked to the above perhaps age
> > ratingfs for games and again give users control so we can install games
> > with more adult (usually blood, gore, violence) on a system but have
> > the main (sudo account holder) choose which users can run the
> > software, (so tight restrictions) have clear warnings about content on
> > the software / games.     If there are ratings then include these, doom
> > for example was given a 15 rating,   ok that was almost 15 years ago, 
> > but its still 15, if people choose to ignore that,   then at least we
> > cover our backs.
> > 
> > I think this could be fairly easy to implement, the ratings can be
> > included in software centre.
> > 
> > 6. if we are not including synaptic make it easy to install this more
> > 'advanced' stuff from software centre,
> > 
> > 
> > Hope this helps if i think of anything else will reply to the above
> > 
> > Paul
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
> > 
> 
> +1 to all of Paul's suggestions :)
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Bill B. *[a.k.a. "SuprEngr"]*
> 
> registered Linux user   523667
> registered Ubuntu user 32366

i agree with all but last suggestion. I would leave synaptic available in software centre. And not installed by default. And remove the advanced stuff from software centre. 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20110926/33c82858/attachment.html>


More information about the ubuntu-uk mailing list