20 Ubuntu Karmic Annoyances

“My list of Ubuntu Karmic papercuts (okay some are big and most
are application specific so they’re not strictly “papercuts” – that
could be easily fixed or were once working.):

“1. If you are mounting shares from disks on your network and
you are using wifi, the shares don’t unmount when you try to shut
down. This is a major pain. (The pain is amplified because folks
keep marking the bug “fixed” when it’s not.) I switched from Hardy
(and Jaunty) to solve another problem using remote shares, so this
was a nasty surprise.

“2. Empathy won’t set status to “hidden” or “invisible”.
(Empathy sets you to “busy” even if you choose “hidden”) and
Empathy won’t let you set a default status. (There must be a reason
that Empathy replaced Pidgin, but I can’t detect what that reason
might have been.)

“3. Empathy doesn’t work easily (or well) with the Facebook chat
plugin. Once you get it working, a major pain, Facebook contacts
won’t stay in their group.”

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