*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 90373 ***
Public bug reported:
Ok, this is annoyed me for so much that i need to do something about it
and complain.
simply 60% of all forum activity is about:
1) wrong display driver / wrong resolution / wrong refresh rate / no 3d / no
picture
2) network doesn't work, cos can't change drivers, how to install windows ndis
driver for wi-fi
3) how i mount my windows disk, cos there's now way to do it graphically
4) i have 2 sound cards, and only that crappy sound card gives sound
make a decent Control panel to manage computer. not a freaking menu of
uncategorized items.
Managing ubuntu's hardware is still too much of rocket sciense and frustrating
searching for forums how to simply load a driver to system.... modprobe etc etc
and making hardware drivers to load at boot.
new entry name | now available as a menu item, future as a one
application
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display | resolution, refreshrate with override option
| AND ABILITY TO CHANGE X-DRIVER, also
| info that tells is 3d acceleration works.
theme | screen saver, desktop effects, emerald manager,
desktop
background and theme, windows
sound | sound, default sound card chooser, sound card driver
chooser.
keyb/mouse | keyb, mouse, keyboard shortcut, SCIM
network | network manager (ip/dhcp/wifi + driver selector
WITH NDIS LOADER ALL READY INSTALLED), avahi,
proxy
| shared folders, network tools, firestarter /
firewall control panel
as own items
fonts | fonts
print | print, hp print
discs | new shiny disk & mount point manager, + current
external devices module
language | language (which also change terminal font settings +
keymap)
users | users
update system | update manager + package source selector
add/remove programs | thing that is says
startup | startup manager, gui, theme, default items, ability
to delete kernels
| from that all mighty multiplying chaos
| also ability to install grup again
| (for broken systems & and startup from live
cd)
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there should be [advanced options] for people who know what they do as
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init.d runlevel manager, services, partition manager, synaptic,
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if X doesn't start with normal settings, don't just show a error message
that gdm is disabled, make nice popup and option to start X in safe mode
with vesa driver and 800x600, so ppl can fix display & system issues
from control panel and not by booting to windows to look how in damn
hell i use command line tools and cryptic commands to fork xorg.conf or
how to remember dpkg-reconfigure jadajada... for christ sake.
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mount points & disk manager is for this reason:
A) avarage John, like me, takes a hd from another computer and plugs it in,
but there's no way to mount it.
B) after i upgraded kernel, disk id's were created again, and alas,
there's no way to mount my windows partitions.
C) freaking annoying to search for forums etc, how to overpass this problem
manually.
i hope this post leads at least for some sort of reconsidering about
usability - making system just to look good doesn't help if it's not
easy to manage and use. and yes, you shouldn't disable features because
of ideology of easy use. Things can be made easy to use designing it in
mind of easy of use without sacrificing from features.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 7 14:07:32 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux reaby-desktop 2.6.20-9-generic #2 SMP Mon Feb 26 03:01:44 UTC 2007
i686 GNU/Linux
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Ubuntu needs a centrified control panel and disk organizer to manage mount
points graphically.
https://launchpad.net/bugs/90374
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