Ubuntu 10.04 is out now

[Npl]

Weird. I have always used wget a ton, and didn't encounter any issues with it, starting with Ubuntu 6.10 until now. The only release I skipped was 9.10, but even that I still installed on my laptop, just didn't use it extensively.

on 9.10 if you run wget and the file was already fully downloaded the program would wait indefinitely. Works right again on 10.04.

The thing that helps with network-manager is to check the "Available to all users on this system" (or somesuch) box in the connection properties. That makes it more of an old-style system-wide setting, and is the default in 10.04 as far as I can tell. All I really had to do this time around was assign an IP.
Wireless was already much better in 9.10 than it was in 9.04. Connections (w/ "Available to all users") were established before logon, as it should be. If it behaves the same again, I could live with that.

I have to put in the ip for my provider, which dint work at all with the first 2-3 releases that had the new Network-Manager (you could poke it into the UI but it had no effect - just tried to get an address via DNS).

 

[Blazkowicz]

New themes are really ugly and put some trouble changing the height of top and bottom panels
i know that's the least important things, but with close button on the left and some other changes i feel that too much things are out of place

I love the new theme (though not its attempt at a light-colored version) and found that people pick it up right away, I like getting a new corner to resize windows from.

software center is awesome, as plain non technical users can pick it up too and carry out nice single click installs. it was garbage when first introduced, as it didn't have a proper name, looked worse and had a smaller selection of software.
it's a huge improvement over using synaptic (which is just an ugly and slow and harder to use wrapper for apt-cache and apt-get. better to use the originals and piping the apt-cache search output into grep/sort/less.)

 

[Rolf N]

I like how software manager makes it easy to find packages and immediately presents screenshots and full descriptions. It doesn't seem to handle package updating though, which is weird. You still need update manager for that (or synaptic, but that won't show you the changelogs). It can't queue up a whole batch of changes and apply them in one go, which synaptic and update manager both can. It offers only install/uninstall, but no purging and no reinstallation. There's still a bit of missed opportunity there to fuse all relevant functionality under one roof so to speak.

As it is, synaptic and software manager have large, large overlaps of duplicated functionality with only small sets of non-shared features.

 

[Npl]

I guess I need to retract my statement, it works fine in Virtualbox, but trying the LiveCD results in a black screen. So that kinda keeps up my tradition with running against a horrible bug within minutes =)
Somehow managed to switch to the text terminal with Ctrl-Alt-F1 but when switching back to the desktop it seems it locked up hard. (got a GT240 card).

IMHO replacing the ancient but proven nv-driver with the not thoroughly tested nouveau at a LTS release wasnt a good idea.

Its no showstopper as I can replace the driver with vesa (and then with the nvidia-driver), but now Im in no hurry to DL the alternate CD and install it directly via text-mode.

 

[Gubbi]

I've also had a quick look at the GIMP (2.6) default interface and had the distinct sensation of being mocked when it opened 3 windows. Gnome people just can't be helped when it comes to that. Someone needs to write a rogue user interface for that program sometime.

Buggered the crap out of me as well in the beginning, too.

I then started to use a whole desktop panel for GIMP when I use it. IMO, it is better than the alternative fat app. window approach, since I can place all the auxiliary windows on one display and work on the image on my primary display. My displays are mismatched in size, so this is actually quite useful, since I can't have a single maximized window spanning two displays.

Cheers

 

[Arwin]

Yeah, my exact experience also. Would be nice if they at least made it optional, but if I had to choose between the one or the other, then the current separate window approach is the one I'd prefer. GIMP is like this on all platforms by the way. (Use it on Mac OS/X and Windows as well)