[ubuntu-uk] What should be done for 12.04

[Super Engineer]

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
>
>
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+1 to all of Paul's suggestions :)

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Bill B. *[a.k.a. "SuprEngr"]*

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