[ubuntu-uk] What should be done for 12.04

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Paula Graham 
Director | Fossbox 
http://www.fossbox.org.uk


On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 14:45 +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
> On 26/09/11 13:48, Alan Pope wrote:
> >
> > I wondered what you lot might desire for 12.04?
> 1) better focus on accessibility earlier in the cycle
> 2) a more testable desktop earlier, this time it has been hard to test 
> detailed stuff because the huge breakages get in the way.
> 3) a more menu-like applications lens, grouping them by category.
> 4) window management improvements relating to workspaces so alt-tab 
> could have a per-workspace scope
> 5) aggressive and well funded marketing campaign
> 6) change Ubuntu friendly and Ubuntu certified stuff so that the sales 
> process is part of the certification - i.e. refuse to sell the stuff, 
> lose the badge. Also withdraw it from all products a vendor makes if 
> they ship something with EFI secure boot that won't allow non-microsoft 
> keys.
> 7) make an EFI secure boot signed live CD - this will be a problem as it 
> won't build bit for bit from source.
> 8) a pony
> 9) moon on a stick
> 
> Alan
> 
> 
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> 
> 

I'll preface this with positive praise for the improvements in Unity in
11.10 which is actually pleasant to use overall - especially the alt+tab
switcher is now very functional. 

But . . . 

Could we puhleeeeeez be allowed at least some dregs of pitiful control
over our Unity Desktops? Custom launchers and widgets? At the moment,
the only way I can mount my encfs folders, for example, is in the
terminal - unless I want to write a custom launcher by creating desktop
files. There used to be a widget but it no longer works and I can't even
create a custom launcher without setting aside half an hour. Sync-ui
doesn't create a proper launcher button either and it's a total pain in
the arse to fix. 

It's very, very irritating, wastes time and interrupts the flow of my
work to have to open a terminal every five minutes when I'm working in
LO or something - and I can't see how it inconveniences non-techies to
have custom launchers *available*. I want to add buttons to the launcher
for repetitive stuff like mounting things and syncing etc. Why is this
too much to ask? 

Paula