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Ubuntu One Integration? Or something...

I don't think there is much (any?) scope for this site to be part of Ubuntu One itself. However we could provide the ability to use the same username and password as is used for Ubuntu One, Launchpad, …
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Possibility of getting an Identi.ca button?

Identi.ca is supported by AddThis.com which is what all the share links on the frontpage (excluding email) are powered by, so I suspect it would be quite simple to do from a technical point of view. …
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Connect Ask Ubuntu with Help

There's currrently a Help->Get Help Online... option in most/all Ubuntu programs. It would be very cool if that could be linked up to Ask Ubuntu rather than Launchpad Answers. That could be chang …
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merge tags: repository and repositories

I agree that these should be merged. I think I prefer repositories, although this is the one with less usage. I think the important thing in these cases is to check the usage of both tags is fairly s …
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Software package installation Icon

There's also the Software Centre logo (as opposed to icon) 16px: and 24px: SVG version (GPL license according to Wikimedia Commons) Probably not preferable to the icons specially created to look …
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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 brow …
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Ask Ubuntu's favicon is too similar to the inbox alert

Whilst at first glance I nodded and went "hmm, this isn't ideal", I think it's something you're going to have to live with: Orange is "the Ubuntu colour" - changing the favicon would make little sen …
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Site <title> name

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Migration Paths?

I believe it should be possible to move questions from Ask Ubuntu to the Unix/Linux site. Examples of questions that have been closed that could have been migrated include: Where can I see Debian S …
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Should we target Social Media?

I think this is an excellent idea. I think it would be great to get the main StackExchange team involved in this, and have something that can be used across all the StackExchange sites. Of course it w …
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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 o …
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Should we add OSS ads (targeted at users)?

Personally, I don't think there's any point. Maybe that's just me though. I think it will only publicise the already popular applications. People follow places like OMG Ubuntu to find out what the la …
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23 votes
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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 quest …
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16 votes
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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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Should we add the SE network OSS ads?

I'm not convinced. These adverts are described as "providing free advertising to open source projects looking for programmers". Stack Overflow is a site for programmers, so adverts for programmers …
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