Suggestion

Do you have any suggestions or questions about this application?

I’m glad to see if someone has his suggestions or questions, please visit the Questions for Ubuntu Tweak, and click the Ask a question, You can say whatever you like: suggestion, question…

If you have some Bugs to report, please visit Bugs in Ubuntu Tweak, and click Report a bug.

Although I’m not a expert of developping softwares, but I can do my best!

  1. 74 Responses to “Suggestion”

  2. By Mr. Dreadsoft on Sep 28, 2007 | Reply

    Disabling/enabling mounted volumes on desktop (command line version)

    [code]

    gconftool –set /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible –type=bool false
    [/code]

  3. By Hooty on Oct 1, 2007 | Reply

    Add options to configure bit torrent like: ports, encryption, etc…

  4. By Harsh on Nov 10, 2007 | Reply

    Please add the ability to change the usplash themes and grub themes.

    Also the ability to resize left nav. menu would be nice.

    And the Ok and Quit buttons needs to be Apply and Quit.

  5. By shakaran on Nov 10, 2007 | Reply

    English:

    Hello,

    Have you included your project in LaunchPad(https://launchpad.net/)?

    It would be useful to resolve bugs and make future translations of the program.

    —-
    Chinese

    你好，

    你包括你的項目中的launchpad ？

    這將是有益的解決bug和使今後的翻譯程序。

  6. By TualatriX on Nov 10, 2007 | Reply

    the suggestion of Hooty and Harsh is added to my TODO list :)
    and Thanks of shakaran’s remind. I’ll register this project on lauchpad.net.

  7. By philipp on Nov 12, 2007 | Reply

    Starting Apps with Root rights should look like “normal” apps

    sudo ln -s ~/.themes/* /usr/share/themes
    sudo ln -s ~/.icons/* /usr/share/icons

    —-
    give nautilus a background

    /apps/nautilus/preferences/background_set –>true
    /apps/nautilus/preferences/background_filename — path to image

    —-
    nautilus quickinfo

    apps >> nautilus >> icon_view
    den Wert von “captions” editieren.

    change none to bottom, size on top
    —-

    thanks in advance

  8. By TualatriX on Nov 12, 2007 | Reply

    Thank you philipp.
    I will add these options to the new version of Ubuntu Tweak.

    And from now on, if someone has new suggtions or questions, please please visit the Questions for Ubuntu Tweak and submit.

  9. By Martin on Nov 21, 2007 | Reply

    Hi,
    nice work. Thanks
    I think you should really consider to get Ubuntu Tweak included in Ubuntus official repositories. Could help a lot of beginners. If installed by default I think Ubuntu can really benefit from your work.

    cheers
    Martin

  10. By m1r0 on Nov 28, 2007 | Reply

    hi, very good project, keep it up.
    will there be forum soon ?

  11. By tervel on Dec 4, 2007 | Reply

    Great tool, dude! I really like it.

  12. By M!W on Dec 4, 2007 | Reply

    This tool is great for beginners but it would be great if it had more languages, I could translate it in german for you! Just mail me if you’re interested

  13. By TualatriX on Dec 5, 2007 | Reply

    @M!W：
    I’ll ask you for translating to german. Thank you.

  14. By phil on Dec 6, 2007 | Reply

    Possible to include the function to configure compiz just the way mac os x does ? See picture

    [img]http://666kb.com/i/au5i5w0s2sd89oxsm.png[/img]

  15. By arkatis on Dec 31, 2007 | Reply

    Hi,

    thanks for your great tool! It would be very useful if you can add something to change the background color after you’ve logged in. Now I can choose the splash-image, but it would be fine if I can also change the background color of them.

    Workaround for coding:
    1) sudo gedit /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default
    2) search for “#dab082″ (standard ubuntu brown)

    Thanks a lot!

  16. By MadsRH on Jan 9, 2008 | Reply

    Hi.
    Thank you for this user friendly tool.
    I have some feature suggestions for your future development.

    - A short description on mouseover with each button
    - Add “keywords” to your website! I couldn’t find it when searching for tweak Ubuntu, but Ubuntu tweak worked.

    And here is some for boosting the performance:
    (http://www.zolved.com/synapse/view_content/28224/How_to_tune_your_Ubuntu_PC_for_faster_performance_)
    - Swap memory from hard disk to RAM (see the link above)
    - Freeing up more memory (see the link above)
    - Concurrent Booting (see the link above)
    - Scripted installation of fonts (http://www.zolved.com/synapse/view_content/28550/How_to_Install_Fonts_on_Ubuntu)

    Good luck with this wonderful project.

  17. By lukeen on Jan 10, 2008 | Reply

    @Harsh (”Please add the ability to change the usplash themes and grub themes.”)
    try StartupManager! it’s a very good tool to change boot settings. (in universe repos since gutsy)

  18. By Vadim P. on Jan 10, 2008 | Reply

    In the system information, it lists your hostname - would be nice if you could change it there too.

    Right now, you have to go to system - administration - network - general to change it.

  19. By Jesenko Mehmedbasic on Jan 10, 2008 | Reply

    Change the default filemanager would be a nice tweak, for those of us who prefer Konqueror in GNOME.

    http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/nonautilusplease

  20. By Siegfried Gevatter (RainCT) on Jan 11, 2008 | Reply

    Will you try to get this into Ubuntu’s repositories?

    If not please tell me (rainct at ubuntu.com) and I’ll do so.

  21. By Robert Jakiel on Jan 11, 2008 | Reply

    Ubuntu tweak for KDE 3.5.x and KDE 4.x would be awesome. I just went into Gnome to check it out and was very impressed.

  22. By sicofante on Jan 12, 2008 | Reply

    Very nice app.

    USER INTERACTION SUGGESTION: If the parent menu has no items, don’t ask the user to select a child but go directly to the first child. You can also choose to put some of the generic tweaks in the parent menu option, removing the child containing these options. For instance, there’s no need for a child in Security; since there’s only one, you can put those tweaks directly under Security.

  23. By Ketil on Jan 14, 2008 | Reply

    Can you please set this up for translation in Launchpad? A great tool for beginners (and others) should be localized.
    Sorry if this has been asked before!

    Also, add a button to CCSM (if installed) or Visual effects in the CF section.

    On a broader note, I’d like to say that this kind of app should be bigger, including most settings that can be tweaked, with regards to window manager, desktop environment, etc (i.e. all visible, non application-specific tweaks)
    For starters, implementing BUM would be nice.

  24. By TualatriX on Jan 15, 2008 | Reply

    Thanks to the suggestion of sicofante and Ketil.

    About the translation in Launchpad, I’m going to set it up. I’m busy these days, but I think it will be done soon.

  25. By Glenn Tobey on Jan 16, 2008 | Reply

    Editing of the grub conf file would be good. And how about some Flash/Codec install stuff?

  26. By Jonas Haag on Jan 25, 2008 | Reply

    Hi,
    I don’t know if there’s anything to on the project.
    I’m writing PyGTK-applications and I know how to program python. I don’t know all the commands, you know, but I understand how it works and so on.

    However I’d like to offer you some help on the project. I’m interested in this tool.
    I’m german so I could translate, too.

  27. By Jonas Haag on Jan 25, 2008 | Reply

    Oh, I meant
    …anything to *do* on the project.
    sorry.

  28. By Asteroth on Jan 25, 2008 | Reply

    A way to have a different icon set on each workspace would be great.
    Ex.
    Workspace1- office tools
    Workspace2- internet shortcuts
    and so on…
    (currently I heard that there is a workaround to have this, but its very complicated, especially for newbies like myself)
    Perhaps it would be possible to make it store content of each workspace in separate folder like /home/user/desktop/1
    /home/user/desktop/2
    etc
    I don’t know if its possible, but it would be a great feature

  29. By TualatriX on Jan 27, 2008 | Reply

    @Jonas Haag:
    It will be better that if you want to take part in this project.
    And I’ve never cooperate with anybody do some work. Maybe it’s a chance.
    So how can I contact with you? Send you E-mail?

    @Asteroth:
    It a good idea. But I’ve no idea how to make it truth. Maybe in the future.
    Also Thanks of your idea.

  30. By matiit on Feb 4, 2008 | Reply

    I can help to port it for rest distributions.
    But i have one ask: ex. Compiz.py need apt-module?

  31. By TualatriX on Feb 5, 2008 | Reply

    @matiit:
    Hi, I use apt module to determine the version of Compiz.
    You can use your own method.
    I hope to see this application can be ported to other distribution.
    Thank you.

  32. By MadsRH on Feb 7, 2008 | Reply

    Hi
    I know this suggestion isn’t very linux like, but I would love to see a UPDATE button in the next version of Tweak Ubuntu ;-)

  33. By Ketil on Feb 7, 2008 | Reply

    NOOOOO!

    One package manager, all apps treated the same way. That’s how we like it!

  34. By luke on Feb 7, 2008 | Reply

    I recommend input device settings. On a default ubuntu install, my mouse’s forward and back buttons were nonfunctional. I’d like a way to be able to config this without messing with xorg.conf.

    Then some of my keyboard’s shortcuts that I had set via preferences>keyboard shortcuts don’t seem to work (lock screens shortcut never does), but this is more something for ubuntu itself to fix, probably. But mostly the mouse input config.

  35. By Jonas Haag on Feb 11, 2008 | Reply

    Tualatrix, send me a email to jonasNOSPAM@jonashaagNOSPAM.de.
    But I’m not sure if I can help you.

  36. By Blair Peery on Feb 11, 2008 | Reply

    I agree with Vadim. I was about to suggest the same ability.

    -Blair

  37. By Blair Peery on Feb 11, 2008 | Reply

    [To be more clear, Vadim's message was:]

    “By Vadim P. on Jan 10, 2008 | Reply
    In the system information, it lists your hostname - would be nice if you could change it there too.”

    I agree with Vadim. I was about to suggest the same ability.

    -Blair

  38. By Anthony Laviano on Feb 18, 2008 | Reply

    I’d like to see a graphical way to create a soundrc file, so users could get stereo sound through all speakers of a 5.1 or 7.1 speaker system

  39. By Ubuntu4fun on Feb 24, 2008 | Reply

    In my opinion very useful feature would be ability to edit bootloader (GRUB) and setting the order of booting the systems installed.

    Is there any chance to implement this feature in Ubuntu Tweak?

  40. By Vadi on Feb 29, 2008 | Reply

    @ above: I don’t think that’s needed, especially when a program that’s designed for everything to do with grub/usplash already exists already: http://getdeb.net/app/Startup+Manager

    I’d like to see Ubuntu Tweak do some “performance” tweaking too, also. A big one is to detect if the swap partition is mounted or no.

  41. By Robvdl on Mar 1, 2008 | Reply

    I’ve been using Ubuntu Tweak for a few weeks now, and it’s been a great program so far.

    I just Googled for “ubuntu tweak” today, to put onto a friends PC, and Google gave me a stopbadware.org “malware warning” page page instead, indicating that ubuntu-tweak.com may harm your computer, in the end I had to come to this site by typing the address manually.

    I knew this couldn’t be right, you may wish to check this out, and get the software cleared by Google.

  42. By TualatriX on Mar 2, 2008 | Reply

    Hi, Robvdl, Many thanks to you!!!
    I don’t know that this site has been marked a harmful site by Google.
    I’m now dealing with this problem. I think it’s a mistake. There’s no harmful information here.

  43. By Pablo on Mar 6, 2008 | Reply

    Does Ubuntu Tweak works fine with others ubuntus, like Kubuntu? I think the answar should be in “ABOUT”

  44. By Lee Jarratt on Mar 7, 2008 | Reply

    Not a suggestion for Ubuntu Tweak but for this page, I think new suggestions should be displayed at the top, working down rather than new suggestions at the bottom etc.

    Lee

  45. By frafa on Mar 7, 2008 | Reply

    good job :)
    please adapt the size screen
    to eee-pc 800×480 …

  46. By Lee Jarratt on Mar 8, 2008 | Reply

    Put latest version change log in the ‘about’ pop up window. Make some sort of Button saying ‘change log’ etc.

  47. By Vadim P. on Mar 8, 2008 | Reply

    Another suggestion - to disable the Wacom stuff. Most people don’t have the tablets, and could be just fine without them…

    Maybe you should make a special “Performance” category for that though.

  48. By paul on Mar 8, 2008 | Reply

    thank you for this.

  49. By MadsRH on Mar 11, 2008 | Reply

    Make an option to disable “Recent Documents” tab.

  50. By Lee Jarratt on Mar 12, 2008 | Reply

    Fix spelling/grammar errors on 0.2.10 - Power Scripts:

    Correction -

    You can do many kinds of work with Scripts.
    Drag and Drop from the supported file manager.
    It will be added to your context (right-click) menu as ‘Scripts’.

    This is how I would change it but your the main man ^-^
    Great job on the work, you put a lot of effort into this and it’s paid off for you :)

    x

  51. By javielinux on Mar 13, 2008 | Reply

    You have a lot Scripts here:

    [url]http://nautilus-scripts.javielinux.com/[/url]

    You can work with images, sounds, pdf, etc.

  52. By UTweak on Mar 13, 2008 | Reply

    BUG:

    “Search in folder”-script doesn’t support folders with space in the name!

  53. By Lee Jarratt on Mar 14, 2008 | Reply

    Add an option to remove the confirmation message when deleting items from the deleted items.

  54. By Phil on Mar 16, 2008 | Reply

    it would be useful to include an option to disable animations in gnome. there is an option in the gconf-editor /apps/metacity/general/reduced_resources

  55. By Oskar Hollmann on Mar 17, 2008 | Reply

    Hello,
    I’ve run into a small issue lately. It would might be good to have in Ubuntu Tweak an option to enable Num Lock after starting a session. Current solution in Ubuntu is fine for me [you are to do it only once], but for a beginner, poking in terminal because of such a detail is a bit annoying.

  56. By leandrox on Mar 20, 2008 | Reply

    Hi man, check this webpage

    http://www.openside.com.ar/wordpress/?p=148

    the are a lot of nautilus scripts!

    hope u like it, they are very usefull!

  57. By Thomas on Mar 25, 2008 | Reply

    Hi,

    Can you support all default ubuntu compiz versions?

    Keep up the good work!

  58. By Dave on Mar 25, 2008 | Reply

    can anyone help me with Ubuntu Tweak? Does not seem to open up under system tools? Is it not supported by dapper drake?

  59. By DnaX on Mar 29, 2008 | Reply

    Hi! Look this page for KDE4 support: http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Hidden+configuration

    There are a lot of tips ;)

    PS. Look this blueprint on LP: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu-tweak/+spec/nautilus-thumbnails

  60. By n-pigeon on Apr 2, 2008 | Reply

    Tool for installing apps from sources will be great. Good and comfortable for new and old users, with function finding libs that are needed. :)

  61. By John on Apr 6, 2008 | Reply

    It would be great if you had an option to set the vm.swappiness levels in /etc/sysctl.conf so the user can set a number between 0 and 100, and maybe be able to turn off/on the swap file altogether…

  62. By Smegzor on Apr 8, 2008 | Reply

    I think I’ve found a bug. If I use Ubuntu Tweak on Hardy, I lose the ability to change desktop wallpaper.

    All I did with Ubuntu Tweak was hide desktop icons. Once only, when I unhid them, I got back the ability to change wallpaper but then I hid icons again and lost that ability again. I have not been able to repeat that and get wallpaper changing back so far.

    Deleting .gconf fixes the problem.

  63. By Stebalien on Apr 29, 2008 | Reply

    There is a very small yet problematic bug in ubuntu-tweak 3.0. You wrote gcon.VALUE_STRING instaid of gconf.VALUE_STRING on line 55 in Settings.py.

  64. By TualatriX on Apr 30, 2008 | Reply

    @Stebalien:
    Thank you very much. I’ve fixed this bug and released the new 0.3.0.

  65. By ProMIX on May 1, 2008 | Reply

    Very Good Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!

  66. By Lee Jarratt on May 7, 2008 | Reply

    Re-Design/freshen up the UI of Ubuntu Tweak :D

    Keep up the great work,

    Lee

  67. By Ubuntu4fun on May 8, 2008 | Reply

    What do you think about this idea:

    http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/8214/

    Maybe Ubuntu Tweak could solve the problem?

  68. By Okki on May 12, 2008 | Reply

    You can change the number of documents recently opened by gedit with /apps/gedit-2/preferences/ui/recents/max_recents

    Perhaps there are similar options for evince, eog or other applications, but I don’t found them.

  69. By Okki on May 12, 2008 | Reply

    /apps/file-roller/ui/history_len for file-roller, /apps/deskbar/max_history_items for deskbar, /apps/gthumb/general/max_history_length for gThumb…

    That would be a good idea to have an option to respect privacy and put all these keys to 0.

  70. By Jim on Jun 2, 2008 | Reply

    Your tool is excellent but what i really wont to see in Gnome is that config button in the screen saver settings

  71. By Nattgew on Jun 4, 2008 | Reply

    Could you include the “Conservative” governor in the CPU scaling options? It’s like OnDemand, but it only increases the speed when there is a lot of load, while OnDemand increases when there is a little bit of load.

  72. By unimatrix on Jun 5, 2008 | Reply

    Hi. Could you please add a simple checkbox to disable the ugly Metacity minimize effect.
    Thank you very much and keep up the good work!

  73. By basic on Jun 9, 2008 | Reply

    The ability to change domain would be nice for SAMBA…
    “workgroup” is default and in hardy you can change it by using command line “shares-admin” however any normal user would be stuck with the domain “workgroup”.

  74. By erriko on Jun 24, 2008 | Reply

    hi, i’ve installed ubuntu-tweak and I’ve modified the desktop icons. Now my desktop doesn’t show icons and screenletes and if I click dx mouse button nothing happens… I’ve had this problem before and I’ve seen that if I create a new account this works well.
    Why?
    How can I solve without creating new account?

  75. By romain on Jun 27, 2008 | Reply

    Bonjour,
    je vous ecris en francais car je ne parle pas bien anglais / I speak in french because I can’t speak english

    j’ai une suggestion,
    dans Ubuntu tweak, section Compiz fusion, vous vous etes trompé en marquant “menu opaque” alors qui faudrai dans ce cas marque “menu transparent”

    merci beaucoup, en attendant une future version,
    Romain

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