Two potentially crazy ideas for Feisty

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Fri Oct 27 15:34:29 BST 2006


On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 07:43:27PM -0400, Evan Dandrea wrote:
> Would it be feasible to maintain a database of known-to-have-issues
> hardware, keyed against the hardware ID and used by a
> post-installation utility that links the user up with the appropriate
> help.ubuntu.com page via a libnotify popup.

We'd already like to do something like this, in fact.  But rather than
notify the user about every piece of hardware, I think we should provide a
link from Device Manager to direct them to relevant web resources.

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 - mdz



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