Questions tagged [tags]
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Do we need the `setup` tag?
Do we need an actual setup tag? I mean, for all intents and purposes, installation should suffice for setup questions related to Ubuntu, no?
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What should be done with the 'edge' tag?
There has been a discussion about it on the comments of this answer but that is another question.
I think that this tag (edge) is used for several case, such as mentioning a computer model, network ...
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Remove [desktop--envoriment]
It's obvious typo in the tag.
I see "1 questions tagged" here but can't retag because I see "0 question tagged" here
It has tag wiki so it'll not deleted themself as far as I know
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What's the tag for Ubuntu Edge?
Is it edge or ubuntu-touch? I guess it should be the first one, but it has no description and also was used before for screen edges.
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Software recommendation tags
I'm surprised no one brought this up before, but there are both software-recommendation and software-recommendations tags around representing the same thing.
Fix?
EDIT
Okay, found out too late that ...
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Unable to tag question using libvirt
I have a question asked recently here:
Unable to start libvirtd
which I am unable to tag with libvirt If I tag it, it disappears when the question is up on AU. What is going wrong here?
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Merge the Space and Disk Usage tags
The space tag seems dubious at best, given it's current tag wiki:
A space is a spot that is occupied or not occupied by something.
However the usage of the tag makes it pretty clearly a synonym of ...
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How can I find a list of tags that lack a definition?
How can I find a list of tags that lack a definition? I am wanting to provide tags with definitions (if I fully understand the tag) if they do not have attached information.
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Can we remove the synonym link between tags ‘appmenu’ and ‘applications-menu’?
The appmenu tag is for the global application menu AKA appmenu-indicator, that allows screen real estate to be conserved in desktop environments (DE's, AKA ‘graphical shells’) that support it. The ...
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Criteria for considering new tags
Where can I find information about what would make a beneficial tag on Ask Ubuntu or any other Stack Exchange site? What conditions must be satisfied before a new tag should be proposed/made? For ...
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New tag proposal: meta tags "Concern" and "Quality"
I think that a concern tag and quality tag should be added. This question (Windows 8 and Ubuntu Dual-boot: Many duplicates) could use these tags as well as many other meta questions.
Tag uses and ...
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Add "Minix" tag proposal
I asked a question (Use Minix Filesystem on Ubuntu 13.04 (Kernel 3.8)) concerning the Minix filesystem. Would it be a good idea for someone to add a "Minix" tag, or should we wait for more Minix-...
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Suggest Tag-Create [tag:legacy-bios]?
Many questions relating to driver, installation and boot problems if search for "legacy"; thought it would be good to suggest create tag legacy-bios to help narrow folks search results when using tags ...
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Tag creation request: [hybrid-efi]
Would like to ask if anybody would find it helpful creating hybrid-efi?
Hybrid-efi is efi compliant but is different to use especially when trying to install Ubuntu. Different manufacturers use ...
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Is there some pull medium for my favorite feeds
I'm using mytags when looking for questions (as suggested by Jorge Castro). This list is sorted by votes. So new questions are hard to find. I'd like to have some RSS feed which contains new questions ...
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Should tags also used for adding extra information
I saw an this post. The author describes a problem but uses the tags to define the version of Ubuntu, to give extra information. He doesn't mention the version in his text. I know that tags should be ...
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What to do with black-screen tag?
I just came across the black-screen tag that has about 81 questions tagged against it. A quick look at the questions seem to suggest that they are either graphic problems or boot error. I am not sure ...
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Do we need a new "ubuntu-for-phones" tag?
I see Jorge Castro has been replacing ubuntu-for-phones with mobile here and here. (Hi Jorge!)
Shouldn't those two tags be kept distinct?
ubuntu-for-phones is the newly announced project with the ...
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Why do we have a specification tag?
I just found out that we have a specification tag. Can we remove it because it doesn't say anything about the problem? Or just give me a reason for that we even have it!
specification
Now when there ...
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Tag cleanup list
We still need feedback on these tags!
Esp. the "Not Sure" ones.
I have started a list of tags that need some cleanup per request. Please contribute.
Burniate:
bits
z475 vm-guest-files
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Are [vsftp] and [vsftpd] dupes?
I came across the tags vsftp and vsftpd. Both have similar descriptions and are not related to each other. I would propose to alias vsftp to vsftpd (or the other way around). Because I see not reason ...
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Is the off tag really needed?
I suddenly came across a question which had the off tag. The tag itself has no explanation and I asked myself what the purpose of this tag is. From my perspective this tag is somehow confusing. Would ...
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What tags should we use for tablets?
Which tags should we use for the upcoming tablet releases? We didn't really talk about the classification when the phone was announced which led to some confusion, so I figured I would ask early.
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Tag synonym request: [persistent] to [persistence]
Remap persistent to persistence
Both deal with persistence issues on Live USB. While persistent has more posts I propose to make persistence (or persistance??) the main tag anyhow.
Suggestion for a ...
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Tags: Messaging-menu and memenu
Should we make memenu a synonym on messaging-menu
In looking at the questions in memenu it seems to be a abbreviation of "messaging".
Based on research by Eliah Kagan, the name is "Me Menu" and not a ...
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Can we kill the "bounty" tag?
Yesterday a question about Ask Ubuntu was asked (by a user with more than 300 rep) on the main site. It was eventually migrated, but the tag the OP created (bounty) is still around.
Can a ...
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Can I create and maintain a tag to support unity-tweak-tool?
Unity Tweak tool is a configuration tool meant for Ubuntu that I and some of my friends are working on. It is not yet available in official repositories but we provide a PPA for those who want to try ...
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Do we need a tag for every Apple product?
I was editing a Mac related question, and noticed we had a macbook, mackbookpro, macbookair and mac-mini tags.
Do we really need all these tags for Apple products? I'm not sure anything needs to ...
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Can we merge the 'dev' and 'devices' tags?
I was re-tagging a question about developing applications when I noticed there was a dev tag. To me, both dev and devices (or maybe development) cover exactly the same thing.
Can we merge the tags ...
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Mozilla tag redundant
It seems to me that the tag mozilla is not used well, and should be removed. All of the mozilla questions are (or should be) tagged with either firefox or thunderbird, and not with mozilla. Should the ...
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Why the ccsm has duplicated tags?
The Compiz Config Settings Manager or ccsm have two tags:
compiz used 1169 times
ccsm used 25 times
Why don't include the cssm tag into the compiz one?
No one of both could be deleted?
Or no one ...
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Can we make some low quality tags synonyms, and outright remove some others? [duplicate]
Credit goes to jokerdino for making me aware of almost all of these tags. He sent me a list of tags he considered low quality, and asked me to post on meta about the ones I think we should take action ...
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Can a moderator please symlink x11 to xorg?
x11 has a number in it, so the system assumes it's a version number and won't let me submit it as a proposed synonym.
Can someone make it a synonym of xorg?
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I can't find a tag called windows-8. Would such a tag be useful?
There is the uefi tag but I feel a windows-8 tag would be more "friendly". In any case, there are tags for Win 7 and XP.
I feel it could be useful for questions possibly arising from difficulties ...
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Do we really need "release-upgrade"?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/tagged/release-upgrade
This tag makes no sense to me, it looks like it's just a subset of what should just be in "upgrade" anyway, should we just merge/symlink it?
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Tags: is *gnome correct when referring to "the gnome 3 shell"?
A user stated "I use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and the gnome 3 shell ", what would be the correct tag to use? As I read it *gnome refers to the Standard Ubuntu
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Can we please disambiguate or discourage the 'mobile' tag?
I've decided to branch off my mobile concerns from Do we need a new “ubuntu-for-phones” tag?.
In my opinion 'mobile' is too ambiguous and broad in its name being an adjective. Yes, we may have a ...
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How are we going to deal with Qt 5.0 questions?
Now that Qt 5.0 is released, we can expect to see a number of questions popping up on the site relating to the new release.
We already have a tag: qt5
So my question is thus: are we going to merge ...
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Desktop tag must go!
desktop is something we all use, unless you want to specifically refer to server (as in, I dont have a desktop, this is a server) most questions will be directly related to it.
That renders the tag ...
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How do I create a new tag?
From time to time, I notice some missing tags that would be useful. How do I add one?
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Are language specific tags needed? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tags related to languages
It has came to my notice that there are some language / country specific tags floating around (actually, there are a lot of posts using them).
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Use of the macbook-air tag and the macbook-pro tag instead of the macbook tag
I think that we should use the macbook-air tag and the macbook-pro tag instead of the macbook tag if the question is Macbook-Air or Macbook-pro specific, since Macbooks are discontinued.
I spent some ...
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Add the retag button back after getting the edit question privilege
After I got the Edit Questions and Answers question privilege the retag button is gone in questions.
I have used it for a long time and liked it. Maybe add it back?
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Moving from packaging to platform-development tags
One of the coolest integration stories we have is the tie in between Ask Ubuntu and developer.ubuntu.com, which enabled us to build a pretty impressive library of q+a for application developers. You ...
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Should askubuntu implement a "Humble-Bundle" tag?
Since Linux support for the Humble Bundles is pretty highly publicized (including integration with the Ubuntu Software Center), should askubuntu implement a "humble-bundle" tag to address bundle ...
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PSA: When reviewing, remember to think of the future!
I've been reviewing a ton lately and the version tags are becoming worse and worse.
Note to selves, Jeff warned us about this:
When should we use the versions tags?
Version tags can be dangerous ...
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Should [encrypted-home] be a synonym of [ecryptfs]?
Should the tag encrypted-home be a synonym of ecryptfs? While there are other ways to encrypt a home directory, Ecryptfs is the official method under Ubuntu. All three questions tagged encrypted-home ...
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Tag synonym request: [gksudo] -> [gksu]
While they can behave differently (mostly on non-Ubuntu systems), gksu and gksudo are not really separate topics. They're provided by the same package (gksu). They're even the same executable (which ...
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Tag synonym request: [xfce4] -> [xfce]
There is really no need for a separate xfce4 tag, since virtually any question about xfce in Ubuntu will pertain to major version 4. Previous versions are not currently supported in Ubuntu. (They use ...
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