Continue towards the perfect desktop replacement OS

[tighem]

Basically keep doing what you are doing. Here's some areas that I think could be improved:

1) Better integration of wpa_supplicant into gnome's network manager and have network manager keep track of wireless network profiles.

2) Suspend/Hibernate/Resume - this needs to "just work". Lots of laptops flying off the shelves and unfortunately this really doesn't "just work" for a lot of people.

3) Ability to read OOXML files in Open Office (Don't really care about saving in the format but we do need to be able to convert it to the Office 97/XP/2003 formats). By focusing on reading instead of writing OOXML, I think this can be achieved much more quickly. Also, I know OOXML is a bad standard, but the reality is it's out there and growing in use.

4) Continued improvements in Evolution<->Exchange connectivity. It dramatically improved speed wise in Gutsy, now the focus needs to be on making it more stable.

5) Performance tuning. I'd like to see Hardy focus on overall performance enhancements. I hear my hard drive far too often on a machine with 2GB of RAM. I still see the grey busy window too often for my liking, too for a dual core machine.

[Zdravko]

I don't get the 1. point :(
2 - I agree.
3. I care about Office 97/XP/2003 format!
4. Nope. I don't use Evolution.
5. Yepp. Fully agree with you. Hardy must run on a 256MB RAM machine!

[FlyingIsFun1217]

As to the Open Office issue, this is something that you will have to address the OOo devs.

And yeah, I'd love to see performance tuning. Maybe different releases for laptops, desktops, etc.

FlyingIsFun1217

[ZebCarnell]

It looks like (from a news post I read the other day) that Open Office may take over development for Thunderbird (after they lost the 2 main devs) and bring it up to speed with M$'s Outlook.....

[Izkata]

3) Ability to read OOXML files in Open Office (Don't really care about saving in the format but we do need to be able to convert it to the Office 97/XP/2003 formats). By focusing on reading instead of writing OOXML, I think this can be achieved much more quickly. Also, I know OOXML is a bad standard, but the reality is it's out there and growing in use.

One of my friends found a third-party Open Office plugin for Linux that supports opening and saving the 2007 formats. So it does exist.

[w3stfa11]

ooxml translater
http://download.novell.com/SummaryFree.jsp?buildid=ESrjfdE4U58~

[Zdravko]

Performance tuning is very important! Don't neglect it.

[ronacc]

perfomance tuing is very much an individual thing . preload a bunch of things to cut down on 1st run drive access and you increase boot times and memory requirements . also exactly what do you preload ? your apps aren't my apps . maybe some tools to make fine tuning easier or heuristicly adapt to the individual user.

[Zdravko]

Yes, exactly.

[airencracken]

I totally agree with 2. I'm fairly sure that laptop use is on the rise (I'm contributing from one right now) and there are a lot of problems with laptop hardware. For instance, my particular laptop doesn't suspend/hibernate properly, nor does my headphone jack work, and the mobile video card is poorly supported (ati 200m). Since laptop computing is very popular with less than tech savvy users, laptop issues are important to a user friendly distro like Ubuntu.

[Zdravko]

Okay. We need a laptop flavor. Definitely.

[screaminj3sus]

perfomance tuing is very much an individual thing . preload a bunch of things to cut down on 1st run drive access and you increase boot times and memory requirements . also exactly what do you preload ? your apps aren't my apps . maybe some tools to make fine tuning easier or heuristicly adapt to the individual user.

They could include soemthing similar to vista's superfetch which learns what apps you use the most and when you use them.

[amlucent23]

They could include soemthing similar to vista's superfetch which learns what apps you use the most and when you use them.

So that it can report them back to Bill so he can decide at what date is best to come in the middle of the night and eat your babies!

[aamukahvi]

Basically keep doing what you are doing. Here's some areas that I think could be improved:

1) Better integration of wpa_supplicant into gnome's network manager and have network manager keep track of wireless network profiles.
Network Manager 0.7 is the thing you're looking for, and it's pretty much guaranteed to be in HH:
http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/networkmanager-07-feature-list/

[rahulthewall3000]

I just despise network-manager, the interface and everything about it. During the feisty development process, wireless just did not work with it. Now, everything seems to work with it, at least all that I tried work, but now I prefer WICD.
http://wicd.sourceforge.net/
It has a much better UI, and works pretty well.

[Zdravko]

Anyway - Hardy will be the perfect OS!

[tighem]

I just despise network-manager, the interface and everything about it. During the feisty development process, wireless just did not work with it. Now, everything seems to work with it, at least all that I tried work, but now I prefer WICD.
http://wicd.sourceforge.net/
It has a much better UI, and works pretty well.

I'll have to check it out. I think network-manager falls way short. I should have made that more clear on my #1 above.

[Zdravko]

Yes, network-manager must be improved.

[tighem]

I'll have to check it out. I think network-manager falls way short. I should have made that more clear on my #1 above.

Installed it today and it is much better than network manager so far. Not sure why this isn't included by default (but I'm sure I'll figure that out soon enough).

[rahulthewall3000]

Installed it today and it is much better than network manager so far. Not sure why this isn't included by default (but I'm sure I'll figure that out soon enough).

Hear Hear!

[ssam]

They could include soemthing similar to vista's superfetch which learns what apps you use the most and when you use them.

there is a package called preload. i install it on all machines install.

also see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutomaticBootAndApplicationPrefetchingSpec