Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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How can one retract or undo a flag on a post?
OK,
to give an example - How does one customize Kubuntu Search and Launch (with the Plasma-Netbook interface)?
When the user posted the answer it clearly wasnt an answer - in this case it was just ...
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Feature request for "private messages" privilege for user communication
I don't know why askubuntu doesn't have a way for users to communicate with each other like as we have in Ubuntu Forums (via private messages).
If the reason is preventing malicious activities like ...
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Should we get review audits?
Today (2013-12-11), in 3-4 occasions, regulars in chat rooms expressed their concerns that users do not know how to use the site. Is not surprising considering that our eternal September hasn't ended ...
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Activate migration paths to Unix and Linux, should we?
First of all, lets remember the golden rule of the migrations:
DO NOT MIGRATE CRAP
That said, why don't we open the migration paths from AU and UL? There has been 10 migrations to UL in the last ...
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Forcing "leavers" to accept an answer
Something I have noticed a lot is that new users with 1 rep ask a question and never appear on the site again. Good answers are posted, but the question stays "unanswered" forever. Often, these are ...
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Blacklist the [installation] tag
We've created two tags to separate questions that are about installing Ubuntu and installing something in Ubuntu: system-installation and software-installation. This is with the purpose of getting rid ...
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Can we have a feature where downvoting is only possible if the user has left a comment or filled out a form? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Down voting consequences
Sometimes down-voting is done without leaving proper comments or reason. The person next-in-line commenting on the post telling them what's wrong ...
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Can we have more than 3 custom close reasons, pretty please?
Ask Ubuntu mod here. We've exhausted our custom close reason slots and we need a few more.
We are a very broad site. We cater to development, application support, installation support, hardware ...
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Can we please ban unrelated programming questions?
This issue has been discussed in the past: http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/5695/why-was-a-purely-programming-related-question-not-moved-closed
But I disagree with Andrea Corbellini because I ...
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Cannot specify other SE groups for transfer
I have noticed that when you mark a question as 'off-topic' the only choice is to send it to the meta site......why not include the UNIX, SuperUser, StackOverflow SE sites as well?
Therefore, my "...
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Please make the "Ask Question" button on AskUbuntu more prominent
I'm a user familiar with StackOverflow websites but it took me a while to locate the Ask Question button on Ask Ubuntu.
Reason: Insufficient contrast (as can be seen below). A single grey / ...
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Similar background for Blockquote and Preformatted(code)
On AskUbuntu there is similar background-formatting for Blockquote text and Preformatted code text.
Example-1 (with preformatted/coded text):
sudo apt-get update
Example-2 (with block-quoted text):
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Share Link via identi.ca
I can share links for questions via mail, Twitter and Facebook. But what about identi.ca?
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How do I delete my account?
Answers, Questions, Comments, Everything....
I don't care about the points system, but when I get negative comments on the recommendations I make to help solve a problem, I'm done here.
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Can we make the "ask question" button stand out more? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Please make the “Ask Question” button on AskUbuntu more prominent
I'm new to askubuntu.com and when I first wanted to ask a question it took me a while to find ...
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Clean-Up Week - Event planning
We (your moderators) have been mulling over an idea for a good way to deal with old, unanswered and unanswerable posts. We've been in discussion with the StackExchange team and while we're a long way ...
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Migration Paths?
Migration paths allow for questions to be moved from Ask Ubuntu to other sites in the Stack Exchange network. The idea is that rather than simply closing questions as being "off-topic", then the ...
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Dark Theme for Ask Ubuntu
(Edit: looky looky Dark Theme Ask Ubuntu)
I've been using a color inverter extension in Chrome to make websites with prominently white colors be primarily shades of dark gray or black. It's a lot ...
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Ability to close a question as a bug report.
We're getting an influx of questions of people having problems that are best served by them reporting bugs. We should use the information for this question to allow us to close questions as bug ...
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Should we target Social Media?
Update
This project as been added to GitHub the current planning board is on PivotalTracker
With the recent addition of this question: Gwibber and OAuthcalypse I began realizing an opportunity to ...
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Would a off-topic tag warning be a good-idea? [duplicate]
Here on Ask Ubuntu we have quite a lot of tags for various Linux distributions/Operating Systems/things that could be off-topic if specific about them:
debian, mint, fedora, crunchbang, windows, ...
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How do I cancel a flag request? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
how to undo a flagging
I don't see a way to cancel a "flag for moderation" request once I've made it, if I see that it was in error.
Is there a way to do it? If not, should ...
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YouTube embedding request
While trying to maintain a question of mine by adding some more media, I bumped into the issue of not being able to embed YouTube videos. I asked in the Teachers' Lounge and was pointed to make a meta ...
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Finding questions that other questions have been closed as a dupe of
Is there a way to find questions with a high closed as dupe points here count?
If there were, I think it would be a great way to get a list of questions for people with close-votes without as much ...
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Should we be able to review 40 close votes when the queue length is less than 1000?
I recently asked this question on Meta
Close Vote review queue 40 or 20?
Regarding why on some days I have been able to review 40 close reviews but on others only 20 and received the answer that ...
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Can we make version tags a must for every question?
There are many questions where users dont mention their Ubuntu version and ppl then ask them to add the version of Ubuntu they are using to their question so question could be answered accordingly. ...
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Moderators should be able to mark questions as answered
I know about similar requests, but after stumbling over this question (just an example; question poster answered himself using edits instead of an answer) I thought you should at least add an option ...
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Require obligatory user registration! [duplicate]
Ok, I'm mad... why? because users that need to use Live sessions use the cookie registration, etc... then when that live session is deleted because they restart, reinstall, re... whatever, we get 2, 3,...
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Launchpad Single Sign On
There was a link on a popular Facebook 'Ubuntu fan page' to the site today. Somebody commented to ask "Why can not use Launchpad username and password??".
Of course you can use your launchpad account ...
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Add support for apt:// link schema
Instead of having to remember the whole apt.ubuntu.com/p/package shebang, it would be easier to just support apt://package links.
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Tone down "edited comment" icon
Compared to other SE sites I've participated in, especially SO, the icon for "this comment was edited" sticks out like a sore thumb on Ask Ubuntu.
Could it be toned down?
Here's my crude attempt, ...
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Tag synonym request: [library]->[libraries]
library has 15 posts, and libraries also has 15 posts. They should be merged into libraries, as both tags have fairly similar questions about missing libaries.
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Launchpad SSO should transition to login.ubuntu.com
Posting on behalf of our infrastructure folks,
The launchpad team would like to consolidate their single sign on in favor of a SSO for all Ubuntu users, login.ubuntu.com, which is what all the newer ...
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Often used off-topic close reasons, more default reasons for off-topic?
Now that we have new close reasons I noticed that sites have custom off-topic reasons.
The site allready has reasons for bugs and "not Ubuntu".
But, the major one I see missing is End of Life ...
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"Another user Is editing this post" warning
Sometimes, I find that before I post my edit, someone already has edited the post.
Can't we make a system like this:
Without the Feature
So, lets say User A started editing X post, and User B ...
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Does Ask Ubuntu support the unity webapps feature?
I am hoping omgubuntu.co.uk while writing this aricle list of websites that supports unity's webapps feature they simply forgot to put askubuntu on that list.... but just in case
does askubuntu ...
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Should users be able to flag comments as obsolete that they have previously upvoted?
I understand why I cannot flag a comment I've upvoted. When I upvote a comment, it means I think it is of especially high quality.
But an especially high quality comment can become obsolete (for ...
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Site <title> name
All the sites pages have Ubuntu - Stack Exchange in their title.
I believe this should be changed to Ask Ubuntu - Stack Exchange (or even simply Ask Ubuntu).
This will help with branding our site ...
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New starters to Ask Ubuntu
As a new user to Ask Ubuntu, or for that matter any other forum based site, upon registering, it would be very useful to have some kind of basic introduction on how to ask questions. Not the process ...
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Add a "Migrate to xx SE site" option in the Off-Topic section for flagging questions
When I see a question that is off topic, I'll flag it.
But, should we add an option like:
o belongs to (dropdown list of SE sites)
Questions about (bla bla bla) should be asked here instead ...
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Not using accepted answer option
Don't get me wrong, it's not about the points (but I do enjoy getting them). It's more of a site cleanup question.
Is there mods that you can ask to mark an answer as accepted, when you clearly ...
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Automated prompt for system details
Could there be a system that, for certain tags, like freeze, or crash, gives a friendly prompt to the user to give details like the output of lspci or the Xorg logs before the question is posted, but ...
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Make numeric only/composed of just numbers tags that should only be created by moderators
Everyone knows I hate with burning passion version specific tags. The reasons are explained here and elsewhere, but that's not what I'm going to ask about.
Today, I again removed the 14.04.1 for ...
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Show a notification count in the title
At present, the Ask Ubuntu questions page changes the title to add a count of questions with new activity since the page was loaded. I think it'd be a lot more, if not just as much, useful to show a ...
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Why doesn't Ask Ubuntu use HTTPS?
Why does Ask Ubuntu use plain ol' HTTP?
In this day in age, I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be HTTPS.
Isn't this a huge security risk?
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newbie User ask and GO away forever
I see a lot of users who do the following:
Sign up to askubuntu
Ask a question
And never respond or comment or reply
Can we add a timeout for the activity on the question so that if no body returns ...
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Require registration to ask a Question
Ok, since people are doing a fuss about rejecting seemsly invalid edits and other quirks, I'm suggesting this again. Why? Because each time we do a fuss about something or other that could be solved ...
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Let's burninate [mint]
If Linux Mint is off topic, why the heck do we have the tag [mint]?
How does it help to tag Ubuntu questions with it?
This user wrongly assumed Mint was on topic due to the existence of said tag: ...
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More destinations for off-topic questions
Often, I see a question that is off-topic, but I only see options on the flagging interface to flag for a close or to flag to send it to meta, which is quite limited. Is this by design since other ...
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