What do you want to see added or improved for Quantal Quetzal?

[VinDSL]

Day 2 at UDS is winding down...I see a lotta dudes enjoying happy hour before the evening circus, hosted by Google...

Heh! That's the way it always goes.

Then, when they sober-up, they're meaner than ever...

[kaldor]

One thing that's always bothered me on Linux that I'd love to see fixed...

I'd like to be able to do gaming in Unity 3d (Compiz). As it stands, I get horrible stutter and FPS drops when any form of compositing is enabled. Prior to the Unity switch I was able to simply disable desktop effects. Now, this is no longer an option.. I need to disrupt my workflow by logging into a non-composited desktop session.

Windows and Mac OS X, and even KDE to some extent, seem to manage this very well. However, gaming on GNOME 3/Unity with compositing is quite suboptimal and not really playable. Maybe it's different on certain higher-end cards.

I don't think this is specific to my hardware, either. It happens on both my production machines (always has), and I've fixed problems for people in the past by telling them "disable Compiz". Cards range anywhere from Intel graphics to high end NVIDIA.

This has annoyed me quite a lot since upgrading to Precise on my main PC.

[jbicha]

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• GIMP 2.8 in main repos
  
  • That's already being worked on. The Debian package just landed in Debian experimental today.
  
  
• Gnome Boxes
  
  • That will happen after libvirt gets updated. It won't be on the default CD but it will definitely be available for install in 12.10.
  
  
• Google Drive client
  
  • Judging from Google's previous record, I'm going to assume that their client won't be open source so it won't be in Ubuntu's archives. Google has promised that it's coming soon.
  
  

[pressureman]

Judging from Google's previous record, I'm going to assume that their client won't be open source so it won't be in Ubuntu's archives. Google has promised that it's coming soon.

Not even in the partner repository, or extras.ubuntu.com? Skype isn't open source either, but that's in the repos.

Meh... in any case, I've seen a few other Google-sponsored projects offer 32/64 bit debs and rpms. That probably covers a good 90% of Linux users.

[Starks]

Delta debs. I've been waiting since the Feisty cycle.

I'd also like hybrid graphics support, but I can't see it before 13.04. A third of the necessary work will land for 12.10.

[Skaperen]

I want to see an installer ... specifically the partition editor ... that can handle an existing GUID partition table that has a large number of partitions because it is a multi-boot system. On mine with 58 partitions (set up to test logs of distros and editions), every Ubuntu edition fails to go to the next page where partition selection should be done. It just hangs at that point.

Programs should not hang on valid conditions.

If they don't want to support that many partitions, it should at least gracefully say so, such as:

Disk /dev/sda has 58 partitions.  That's insane.  Please delete 43 partitions and try again.

[wilee-nilee]

I want to see an installer ... specifically the partition editor ... that can handle an existing GUID partition table that has a large number of partitions because it is a multi-boot system. On mine with 58 partitions (set up to test logs of distros and editions), every Ubuntu edition fails to go to the next page where partition selection should be done. It just hangs at that point.

Programs should not hang on valid conditions.

If they don't want to support that many partitions, it should at least gracefully say so, such as:

Disk /dev/sda has 58 partitions.  That's insane.  Please delete 43 partitions and try again.

A extended partition in a standard mbr setup would support that and gparted would do the work just fine.

[VinDSL]

One thing that's always bothered me on Linux that I'd love to see fixed...

I'd like to be able to do gaming in Unity 3d (Compiz).[...]

Valve is working on a solution.

They're making their own Linux Client and Engine, e.g. no Wine library or other "fake" support..

Purdy pics ("Left 4 Dead 2" running natively on Ubu 11.10):

http://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer...inux_l4d21_lrg

That seems to be the way to go...

[effenberg0x0]

Not that it will ever happen, much less on QQ but... I think the last barrier for Ubuntu adoption, specially on corporate, is an Office suite.

I know, I know, LibreOffice, gnome-office, Caligra, KOffice, etc. I'm cool with any of them and I run MS-Office in VMs anyway. But I'm talking about business, ordinary users that really need 100% guaranteed compatibility to Excel, PowerPoint, Word. I know a lot of medium/large companies that can't replace windows because of Office.

If Canonical took that as a priority project, like they did with Unity, create something with a decent, smart, compact code base, with the goal of creating full compatibility to MS... I think it would be a game changer.

Regards,
Effenberg

[sudodus]

Not that it will ever happen, much less on QQ but... I think the last barrier for Ubuntu adoption, specially on corporate, is an Office suite.

I know, I know, LibreOffice, gnome-office, Caligra, KOffice, etc. I'm cool with any of them and I run MS-Office in VMs anyway. But I'm talking about business, ordinary users that really need 100% guaranteed compatibility to Excel, PowerPoint, Word. I know a lot of medium/large companies that can't replace windows because of Office.

If Canonical took that as a priority project, like they did with Unity, create something with a decent, smart, compact code base, with the goal of creating full compatibility to MS... I think it would be a game changer.

Regards,
Effenberg

+1
I think you are right. This is thing to do for the company market. And I think increased focus on hardware detection is the thing to do for the private market.