October Wish List

1. Application control panel
Wouldn't it be great if there was a user-friendly control panel for all your apps, not just a few parts of the system? Raise your hand if there is a better way to do this in compiz. Advantages would be a central place to set up the attributes of each individual application such as the following:

A) When and where to open on which desktop
Sorry, I really don't want to start fiddling with compiz, just an easy way of doing this thanks.

B) Timed close of each application
I'm usually too sleepy to open a terminal when I want to tell an application to stop at a certain time.

C) Intelligent statistics.
You system could learn habits about particular applications and then prompt you for permission to open.


2. LibreFM scrobbler
Rhythmbox defaults to the LastFM scrobbler. I've tried to change over to a free scrobbler and even installed a LibreFM scrobbler plugin but it appears the plugin needs a bit of work. Thought I would just mention this issue, since not many people know about LibreFM, an open source scrobbling service which could benefit other audio apps.

3. Drag 'n Drop
While I'm encouraged by the work being done since I raised this issue, I still feel drag 'n drop is a Cinderella activity in a Ubuntu when it comes to most applications.. I am therefore including it in this months list to remind the community of where we fail miserably in comparison to OSX which has been intoning the mantra of drag 'n drop for years..

4. Home DJ Mixer plugins for Banshee,. Rhythmbox or Nautilus
I know this one issue grates a lot people, but wouldn't it be great if you could mix tracks in any one of your favourite audio applications? There has got to be an easier way to hold a party than using Audacity or LiveMIX.

5. No to bloatware
Users in the third-world don't all have high-end machines with multiple cores and tons of ram. Compare Rhythmbox to Banshee. Current releases of Banshee have turned the application into a whale. Heck, its worse than opening an instance of the latest Firefox, developed by people who believe, the browser should replace the OS in terms of weight. PS: I know this sounds hypocritical after I making a wish for more audio plugins, but the issue is related to elegance in programming and design. Achieving what you need with the least amount of overhead. Perhaps applications should come with design specifications, like "needs x amount of ram and diskspace to run" and so on?