Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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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: https:/...
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How to make link open in new tab
I know that in posts(answers/questions) I can use html, but when I try to write:
<a href="http://some_link" target="_blank">Link</a>
its not working, how to fix that?
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remove one question every 20 minutes limit
Please remove the ridiculous 20 minute wait time for each additional question. I often have more than one question and do not see any reason to waste time. You are disrespecting the members of this ...
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Should it be made mandatory to add a comment when downvoting questions?
I've seen a number of downvotes for IMHO reasonable questions with no explanation on why?.
Surely the idea with the site is that people that want to learn about Ubuntu can ask questions that they can'...
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Modify close reason banner and create an "Off-Topic Compass" site on Meta?
I have answered Add Elementary OS Stack Exchange to the off topic banner with a proposal which got a positive feedback, so I'm now writing it as separate feature request here:
Make a more flexible and ...
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We should be able to vote to change the close reason
I have seen many times when a question for instance is closed as off-topic, though in fact it should be closed as unclear, and is not off-topic though some may think so, but the change reason stays ...
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Automatically asking for specific information based on tags chosen
I'm suggesting this feature now because I've just seen this WiFi connection problem thread posted, giving no hardware information... But there are dozens of similar threads where hardware information ...
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Can we warn new users that questions about Kali Linux, Pop OS and so on are off topic when they attempt to ask a new question?
We get a lot of questions about Linux Mint, Kali Linux, Pop OS, and other distributions. Most likely, new users do not read all the rules in the help center before asking their first question.
Can we ...
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Can we get more close votes?
Currently we only get 24 close votes a day. I find this much too limiting, I can use all 24 of those votes really quick and still find a use for 24 more votes. Is there any way we could get a couple ...
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Should the site get a facelift?
Recently, well, maybe not too recently, we saw the Ubuntu homepage get a new look. Linked here. I'm also throwing an image below comparing the two if you don't want to go through the trouble of ...
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Detecting the language a question is written in
It would be great if the system could detect the language of a question, and pop up a little notice:
Please note that this site is in English only
Your question will be flagged for moderator ...
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Question Template in Help Center
Similar to Can we create a "template question", but not exactly the same.
While I do like the idea of having some sort of default "guided question" feature (where the user could switch to ...
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Broken links starting with http://%20https://
An edit suggestion like this pretty often appears in the review queue.
These edits are generally fixing http://%20https:// to https://. (%20 means an escaped space in URLs.)
Does anyone know why ...
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Output of relevant commands
There are many instances when the community requests the asker to run certain commands and post the output. They usually ask them to edit their answer and just dump the output of the requested ...
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Should we apturl whenever possible?
It seems that apt: doesn't work here,but there is a proxy for these type of sites
just provide apt.ubuntu.com/p/package_name
Should we use it(easy,fast and user friendly) or the traditional software ...
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Can we increase the minimum reputation requirement for creating new tags?
Currently, you only need 300 reputation to create new tags. If you couple that with the 500 reputation required to retag questions at your will, you can easily end up with lots of tags that should ...
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Can we create a "template question"
Some users (especially first time users) ask completely rubbish questions, such as https://askubuntu.com/questions/486830/wi-fi-on-ubuntu-14-04-hp-g70-laptop, they say "unfortunately wi-fi is not ...
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Please disable displaying a tag at the start of page titles
I'm sure many of us have noticed this recent change across all Stack Exchange site, where the most popular tag is displayed at the front of page titles (as displayed in search engines, and in the ...
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Are the official Ubuntu Base images for ARM on topic in Ask Ubuntu?
Canonical hosts Ubuntu Base images for ARM and other architectures. These are minimal root file system images. After installing them, one can install desktop environments and use GUI with VNC on the ...
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Add Elementary OS Stack Exchange to the off topic banner
This banner:
could now include the Elementary OS site.
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LaunchPad Single Sign On needs to be replaced with Ubuntu SSO
Related to this request only with an update in urgency and focus in completion.
Ubuntu SSO is the universally recognized login provider for the Ubuntu community, as such Ask Ubuntu needs to use it ...
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Should we add the SE network OSS ads?
Stack Overflow offers free, vote based ads for open source projects. They seem to refresh them regularly, here's the latest thread for this iteration.
I tried 2 experiments when they opened this time ...
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The site FAQ should indicate where Ubuntu stops
The description of this site's topic in the FAQ is not very informative:
Ask Ubuntu is a Q&A site designed to make it easy for users to get answers to Ubuntu-related questions. It's also a ...
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How about page numbers on the top of pages as well?
I was looking through the unanswered questions in Ask Ubuntu and after reading through some I was at the top of the page. In order to go to the page before or after it, I had to scroll down to the ...
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Add a reply option for comments
Don't you think that it is a good idea to add a reply button to comments to questions and answers? Most people forget to type @username when replying which makes the person who made the previous ...
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How to defend against negative incorrect votes
I have received a negative vote today for no apparent reason (Sorry for my English written skill, am from Venezuela) and i was wondering is there some kind of anti vote system that checks or at least ...
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Can Elementary OS be added in the help section for topics not to ask about?
currently the list of off-topic subjects include the following:
Linux Mint, Backtrack, Gnome-Remix (prior to 13.04) and other Linux distributions (try our friends at Unix & Linux Stack Exchange)...
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Can we reduce the volume of off topic questions?
Over the past couple of months, I've seen questions asked here about Linux Mint, Arch Linux, CentOS, Windows 10, OS X, Android, iOS and something one person uses called "Lumia".
Somehow, this
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Add tag synonym for [tag:wsl]
As the global maximum tag length has been increased to 35 characters, now the tag wsl should be renamed to windows-subsystem-for-linux (or similar) and act as a synonym to the latter.
Other SE sites ...
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Would adding a beginners section to this site make it easier to use?
I have been using Ask for a while now, but have noticed a problem, there are many spam questions, if you will.
To clarify my meaning if you search the site for things like "how to burn a live CD" or "...
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'livedvd' should be a synonym for 'live-cd'
livedvd:
a CD or DVD containing a bootable computer operating system.
live-cd:
Questions related to live CDs, which allow you to test drive Ubuntu without installing it.
I'd suggest to have ...
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How to prevent answers and comments to question in non-english before they're translated?
Which mechanisms exist to prevent excluding users from questions and the discussion on non-english questions. Currently it's possible that users discuss and answer in non-english and receive credit ...
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Mentor program for Ask Ubuntu(Read: StackExchange)
Is there a possibility of creating a mentor program where an experienced user helps one or two specific users to get used to the site and its operations? When I had signed up, the complex reputation ...
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Make links visible on escaped text
There is no visible difference between AskUbuntu and AskUbuntu, even though the first occurence points to a link and the second doesn't.
It could be argued that it is not necessary, but stackoverflow....
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moving question-related discussions from comments to chat seems pointless, destroys clarifying information
After a bit of fact finding back and forth in the comments about a fix-it question, the site will now display something like:
Please avoid extended discussions in comments. Would you like to
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Delete Tag: 4096
A new tag called 4096 has been recently created.
It is linked to only one question.
I personally don't see future questions using this tag and I don't see any value why the one linked question ...
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Tag elimination: [problem]
I believe the tag problem is useless as it gives no help to the question. True, it could be argued that some questions are not problems, but attempts to do even more, but this tag is still useless.
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Review audits should NOT include questions with bug reports
I just "failed" a review audit. I saw the question and read the comments. Comments directly under it included:
add yourself to the "affected" people :) (see the "reported" link in my answer)
And ...
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Flagging message, for ubuntu +1 questions
I think we need a specific flagging message under offtopic because, for ubuntu +1(Saucy Salamander) questions?
Update:
Some relevant screenshots.
As we can see above, we can mark offtopic based on ...
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Why isn't career 2.0 available for askubuntu users, why only for stackoverflow users?
Askubuntu is wholly and solely community dedicated to Ubuntu, why doesn't it provide career options in its field to reputed users like stackoverflow. It would be great if we have website as http://...
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Finding community wikis
Why isn't there a listing of community wikis?
It seems to me that being able to easily find community wikis would be a great resource based on the description of community wikis.
I would assume ...
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FAQ Update: Add "Chrubuntu" to the list of unsupported derivatives
Since people are naturally lazy, perhaps we should replace this line in the FAQ:
Linux Mint, Backtrack, Gnome-Remix (prior to 13.04) and ...
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Linux Mint, Backtrack, Gnome-Remix (...
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Add Unix and Linux to the off topic menu
Sometimes I come across questions that I believe to be better suited on the Unix and Linux StackExchange site. E.g. How can I set up radius authentication properly? .
When using the flag as off ...
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What to do with answers that should be comments, but get deleted?
As the reputation requirement to comment is pretty high (50), many new users who want to contribute to the site use answers to leave a comment on questions, e.g. to request additional information ...
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Can we have "tools" link at the top of Ask Ubuntu site?
For users (not moderators) who have more than 10,000 reputation and who have access to o moderator tools why doesn't exist a link for tools at the top of Ask Ubuntu site?
How can we have it there? I ...
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Ask Ubuntu for mobile
I was away from my home computer and I wanted to check Ask Ubuntu for any notifications, so I decided to check from my mobile phone. The interface isn't too bad for browsing on a mobile phone but it ...
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Provide way to link to headings from within both Questions and Answers and from comments
Use-case: Intra-Question and Intra-Answer Linking
As a user posting either Questions or Answers, I would like to be able to add a link within that Question or Answer to another heading within that, or ...
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Software package installation Icon [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Change the software icon
In regards to The package installation problem. it's become clear we would like to add a custom launching icon that can be used to open the apt.ubuntu....
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Section with reference to manpages, official documentation
I think there should a section above or below posts/answers with the option to add link(s) to (if any) manpages and/or official (or a similar) documentation to command used in the answer as this will ...
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Should we add OSS ads (targeted at users)?
There is this question "Should we add the SE network OSS ads?" about whether to re-use the SE ads which aim at gathering new developers. One of the comments is that those ads aren't a good match for ...
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