Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Add a Close > Bug category? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Ability to close a question as a bug report.
There are many questions that should really be filed as bug reports instead. Currently, these are closed as "off topic". Wouldn't ...
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Can I always see my inbox first?
I would like to see my inbox first instead of the hot questions. Is there a way I can fix this?
It's really annoying. Really!
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50 Reputation on comments is too much? Add new function to suggest?
I have low reputation as you see. And the problem i see with this is, that when i try to troubleshoot someone's question that requires some active or continuous communication, or a suggestion like "...
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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]
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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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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 understand a downvote
Is there any way to understand who or at least why a downvote was awarded?
Because in 2 cases that I got a downvote, the answer seemed perfectly fine and also had upvotes from other users.
The only ...
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Show how complicated an answer is
Is it possible to show how much a question or answer is for experts or newbies?
I see it as a newbie. My usual problems are:
Does this question relate to my problem?
Will this answer work for me too?...
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Flag disputed after post was edited
I was looking at my flagging history because... I don't know why, actually, but anyways: I had flagged this post as rude. It seems to me that my flag was disputed because the profanity had already ...
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Are Favorite Answers being planned?
Sometimes, there's a question that gets posted. You have that problem, as well, so you take a look at the answers.
Now, let's say that the answer was the most awesome, well-written answer ever, and ...
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AskUbuntu Chat Starring mechanism
I have been quite startled by the people starring messages in the chat without a proper reason and they just remove it a minute later. I want to suggest a mechanism: When actually 2 or 3 (2 makes more ...
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Can the bounty rules be changed so that users can offer bounties lower than fifty points?
Can the bounty rules be changed so that users can offer bounties lower than fifty points? I think that Ask Ubuntu would benefit from allowing users to offer five-point, ten-point, and fifteen-point ...
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Be nice: How to optimise interaction between Trolls and Unicorns
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For the sake of argument below, a user showing negative behaviour on this site is called a "Troll" and a user exhibiting positive behaviour a "Unicorn".
I've been pondering about ...
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Flag to close because the question is answered [duplicate]
Hi all I was just wondering if it would be possible to add a catagory in the to close section of the flagging menu that allows the question to be closed because it has been answered but the OP has ...
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Proposed flag for a link only answer
This is a not a duplicate of How should we flag link-only answers?
I want to propose the mods to create the flag for 'link only answer' in the answer flag to simplify flagging them. They are ...
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Anchors in tour page
In multiple cases with new comers, I have difficulties to mention how to use that small edit button (link).
So, is possible to have some anchors in tour page. To easy use like pointing user to the ...
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Flag Declining: Use of the Stock Canned Responses
To be extremely precise in what I'm targetting this to, so you know I'm not against all the canned responses:
I agree with the first and third canned responses. I have a problem with the use of the ...
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Wouldn't it make sense to create and promote a 'new-user' tag?
With the upcoming release of Ubuntu 12.04 and the attention ubuntu got on tech blogs lately it's very likely IMO, that ubuntu will get a lot of new users (even if it's just people trying).
Since a ...
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Why is there no spell checking in title and edit summary?
Why is there only a spell checking capability in the main body? Why not the title and the edit summary field too (if you are editing a question)?
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Filtering SPAM on AskUbuntu [duplicate]
Why are beauty products spam being constantly posted on AskUbuntu? Its very irritating. I know that this cannot be filtered by bots but aren't there a faster way to delete these spams? There had ...
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How about a flag for requesting an update to revive old outdated answers?
This question is a duplicate of this feature request.
We have a lot of good answers here on AskUbuntu, but as time goes by, they get outdated. How about allowing members with enough reputation to ...
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Is that possible to accept more than one answer? [duplicate]
Somehow a question have two (or more) answers. Somehow that answers is similar, and it's exactly same.
So, is that possible to accept more than one answer?
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When a post is edited, deny other users who want to edit the exact same post [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“Another user Is editing this post” warning
It sometimes happen when I am editing a post, that I can't save the edit because somebody else also started editing the post. Could ...
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Should there be a vtc option for "I'm convinced this user is a sockpuppet"? [duplicate]
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Is it allowed to have multiple AU accounts, intentionally, without having them merged?
For example I provide chat logs:
http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/...
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Option to add questions to reading list/subscribe to them?
I have some questions I feel like saying "Me Too!!!" to and some that are interesting enough so that I would like to keep myself posted on developments like this and this.
Would be awesome if I didn'...
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Add "Please" and "I'm sorry" to standard/canned/pro forma/flag answers
The "standard" comments on all of the "flag" and "close" answers are a tiny bit harsh for first-time users. Couldn't we make them a bit more gentle?
E.g.:
This question has been asked before and ...
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When I have completed the reviews, I still get the number in the top bar
So today I (unusually) reached the max (20) in the suggested edits queue.
As you can see, the orange box refers to the suggested edits queue - confirmed because when I click it goes to the suggested ...
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Always Allow Voting and Commenting Privleges For Users With More than 200 on other Stack Exchange Sites
As the question Am I allowed to ask for a rep boost indicates, offering a bounty without realizing that you will no longer be able to comment or vote seems to not be atypical. This is exactly what ...
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Why aren't there any gold tag badge(s)?
As title says, why aren't there any gold tag badges in this site? I've seen gold tag badge on other SE family sites.
Also in meta site.
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Is there an option to put audio in a question?
I want to ask a question with audio. But I want it to either be in the question, or in a link. Can I do this?
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google translator plugin for different languages
I see some a lot of Spanish (and other languages) questions. is it possible to provide a Google translator plug-in for those or all question? Or provide it through out Ask Ubuntu (Question answer and ...
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Chat bot to annoy us with questions from SU
This is a proposal. We have chat bots that annoy us in feed AUGR with new questions tagged ubuntu from U&L. Why not have one that feeds from SU.
I noticed some useful questions on SU tagged ...
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link up unanswered questions from a launchpad mailing list to askubuntu?
Is there a way to hook up unanswered questions from a launchpad mailing list to askubuntu?
I thought the poor man's solution would be to just copy+paste the mailing list question to askubuntu and ...
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Is there a plan to create a new category for Natty questions
Hope we will have many many question in the coming days regarding the new release Natty. Is there a plan to create a new category for Natty questions? shall we continue as it is?
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Can considering 75505 Questions as unanswered be useful? [duplicate]
As I write this 75505 questions on ASKUBuntu are considered unanswered, out of a total of 222,107 that have been posted.
As a newbie I want to answer questions to get reputation but looking at this ...
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Does "on-hold" mean you can't flag as duplicate?
For some reason, this question doesn't have a flag "as duplicate" option:
How to run graphical app in background mode?
It has been put "on-hold" because the user was having a small problem with ...
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Proposal to edit the Close-Reason "Not about Ubuntu" to also include questions about other *mobile* OS
The reason why I am proposing this is that I saw this question which is about an android app that the user falsely expected to find in the Ubuntu-touch repository.
My reaction would have been to ...
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Askubuntu.com Profile doesn't accept Unicode Character as name
I am from Myanmar and I try to update my Display Name in Myanmar language but it doesn't accept the Unicode character and it only accepts English characters. How to solve it?
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Blocking questions about Wubi? [duplicate]
Wubi was discontinued as of 13.04. 13.04 was marked as end-of-life in January of 2014. So, why do we still have questions about Wubi? What is the purpose if Wubi is now off-topic?
I think that ...
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How do I flag a question which seems more appropriate on android enthusiasts?
While flagging questions,we have an option which says This is not about Ubuntu. Questions about other Linux distributions can be asked on Unix & Linux, those about Windows on Super User, those ...
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`/me` command in chat
In essence, chat should have a /me <string> command.
How it works:
User pacificfils types /me goes to get coffee
Chat prints:
pacificfils goes to get coffee
This would add a nice, simple, ...
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Add systeminfo option to question
I asked a question
https://askubuntu.com/questions/146950/export-everything-from-iphone-3g-to-samsung-galaxy-s2.
And it almost got closed/deleted/moved. Cause i didn't put in the question that i was ...
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Format code with line numbers
Is there any way to quote/format code including automated line numbers?
Sometimes especially in quite long configuration files and scripts it would be very helpful for both question and answers to be ...
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Query for Basic information
I feel like every second question lacks the basic information about flavour, release and architecture, so I ask myself:
Why don't we just ask the users to give the output of echo $DESKTOP_SESSION, ...
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Mint "tag warning" proposal
I propose that we create a "tag warning" for mint, because it seems like we are getting a lot of OT questions about Mint.
Now you say, this is a dupe!
Well yes, sorta, but nothing came out of it. ...
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Questions that have been asnwered, but the OP no longer has an account so can't accept an answer
It's really bugging me, and I think that something needs to be done about it, I keep on finding questions like this one which have very good answers, and some of the answers have a lot of upvotes, and ...
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an stack app as a notebook
Is there any stack app for this web site which like a note book. This site is my google and I wish to find an ability which let me to put my notes on that. I am looking for any feature or stack app ...
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Could we change Recommend Deletion reason to simply, "This is not an answer"?
I just gave a "Recommend for Deletion" review to the answer quoted below.
"Sorry about the editing... The Stackexchange App is a bit unhandy..."
The single line above is the complete text of the ...
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Where is the number of questions which have an open bounty?
I used to see a number of questions which have an open bounty in FEATURED tab. Now it has disappeared. Why? Again I have to do a patchwork to this site?
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How to know if the question asker got his query resolved if he doesnt mark it as solved?
Sometimes the question ansker just sees the answer, but doesnt bother to reply or to mark an answer as solved.What should be done in that case?
Is there any way to know whether
an answer that one ...
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Meta Ask Ubuntu search needs to be more intuitive
I recently did a search and didn't get a result. That was because I was searching on Ask Ubuntu Meta and not Stack Exchange Meta. Even though the two overlap.
So instead of Ask Ubuntu Meta returning ...
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