In this post I’m going to list 16 things that I think could be improved in Lucid.

* Window Controls

There are two things wrong with the new window controls in the Lynx.

Firstly, the controls are on the left. This is bad. Secondly, the button order has been shuffled around so that maximize and minimize are swapped.

* Bug #403135 – Notification area background transparency

This bug has been around since Karmic alpha, and just appears to be gathering dust. It affects a tonne of non-default applications that users are likely to try out, such as Pidgin, Banshee, VLC etc.

Basically the problem seems to be that certain applications aren’t appearing in the panel with transparent backgrounds, even though they have transparent .png images in /usr/share/pixmaps and the like.

I have noticed that it’s fixed when using Clearlooks, Kin, Homosapien or Turrican. So it’s obviously a theme thing – why the “professional” default themes have this bug but community themes don’t is beyond me.

* Rhythmbox search for plugin

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