Questions tagged [feature-request]
You have an idea for a new feature, or for a change to the existing functionality.
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Pretty <kbd> tags for U&L?
Stack Overflow and most (all?) other sites got a pretty kbd style not so long ago.
Will this eventually be propagated to Unix & Linux, or are we sticking with the old one on purpose?
Sample ...
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Question title font renders 0 (number zero) much like o (lower-case letter)
Currently, the font specification calls Georgia as the primary serif font for question titles. While undeniably an attractive font, its zero renders almost exactly the same as a lower case letter 'o'. ...
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Is it possible to have the <kbd> for the comma enlarged?
I was answering a post that involved the key combos ctrl+, and ctrl+,. I was going to use the <kbd> tags, but they look the same for . and , - or at least too close for me to tell the difference ...
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Icons of the badge counts
Can we change badge icons to something Unix&Linux specific?
Recently many sites changed their icons, for example:
close related to us android uses their robo mascot
emacs uses parenthesis () to ...
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Give me an EASY way to see my daily vote count
I vote a lot on Unix & Linux. I often run into the measly limit of 40 votes per day.
In order to ration my votes and not overly favor questions posted early morning, I frequently check how many ...
asked Dec 4 '13 at 22:58
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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Please blacklist the /install tag
We've long held that the install tag is bad and should be split into system-installation and software-installation.
There are over 200 instances that need to be disambiguated manually, so we're doing ...
asked Nov 26 '13 at 0:08
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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Inappropriate animations on /about
The new /about page is nice overall. Great work!
However, there's something there that considerably mars the result, and is especially inappropriate on this site.
Various illustrations slide into ...
asked Jan 15 '13 at 13:14
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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The suggested edit queue needs to be clearer if it's a question or answer
Both @slm and I managed to vote to approve this suggested edit, not realizing it was fixing broken code in the question as opposed to an answer. (Faheem Mitha rejected, after I admitted my mistake in ...
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Enhancements to CSS for <kbd> needed
If two consecutive lines have a tag, the CSS effect gets overlapped. Maybe the height of the rectangle for can be reduced or the line height can be changed?
Screenshot for reference:
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More visible tags
Would it be an idea to change how tags are displayed on a question?
Make them more visible.
It is not a big issue, but seems like people, (me included – though
I'm better now), sometimes jump to ...
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New off-topic close reason for question that are… off-topic?
Lately we've seen a bunch of question about Windows, english usage, general programming questions, and when we should take the dog to a walk... so, I was thinking that instead of writing up a "custom" ...
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Retracting an edit suggestion
I just realized that I submitted an edit request when entirely too tired to sanely do so, and accidentally sent an incorrect title correction, and realized that there’s no way to retract it.
However, ...
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Make “Offtopic — problem that can't be reproduced” as separate close reason
When reviewing the "vote to close" queue I see a number of "off topic" votes. When I look at the question, it seems perfectly on-topic. But when I dig deeper, it's because of a typo or a simple ...
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Links colours are not distinctive enough
In the main site, the links are slightly blueish: rgb(43, 109, 151), I find them difficult to distinguish from the body text color: rgb(51, 51, 51).
Perhaps it's my monitor, or my eyes, but I don't ...
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add support for news/nntp URLs
I was trying to link to a gmane article in that answer, but none of the:
[message](news://news.gmane.io:119/4DC939FC.2040407@redhat.com)
[message](nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.standards.posix....
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How does one relinquish his/her right to close questions without review?
At Why is the result of this for and while loop different? [duplicate] (and that's just an example), I've voted to close the question as a duplicate.
But because of my reputation on the shell tag, ...
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Mark accepted answers on side panel
The sidebar next to each question shows miscellaneous related/unrelated questions. On Server Fault, it's clear which of those have accepted answers, because there's a box around the vote count:
Here ...
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Is there a policy for dealing with orphaned questions?
People sometimes ask questions that need clarification. That's quite understandable. But I can see that occasionally, some people just leave such questions and don't come back to improve them in ...
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inform about edits after downvotes
You can change your vote for a question (or answer) after it has been edited. Quite often at least questions improve soon (because the questioner is told that the question is bad and what information ...
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Do not automatically expire single-use tags
There is an automatic job that deletes single-use tags after 6 months. No attempt is made at determining whether the tags are good and should remain, or whether the tags are a variant name of another ...
asked Nov 25 '12 at 21:50
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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Don't allow posts with only the linux tag
I'm starting to change my mind about the linux tag. It was originally blacklisted with unix, but we had it reversed because there are legitimate uses. But over and over again I see it misused -- two ...
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Can the list of targets for “does not belong here” be expanded?
The current list belongs on... only contains Meta UL.
I request to expand this list to
Server Fault
Superuser
Stack Overflow
IT Security
In descending priority.
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Could the link colours within post text be made to stand out more from regular text?
I find the link colours in posts (questions and answers) quite similar to the colour of regular text -- to the point that I'm not sure if I can tell if there is a link in the text at all.
Could the ...
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Yearly Revisit of List of Sites to Migrate
I've read a few of the discussions relating to migrating off-topic questions and haven't got to the bottom of why the list cannot be expanded beyond Meta and SO.
There's been a few observations that ...
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No vote options on low quality posts queue?
I've seen some discussions regarding voting to delete wrong/low quality answers and it seems that is the incorrect course of action but instead they should be down-voted.
Based on that I wonder why ...
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HTTPS links not recognized as valid URLS
When trying to vote to close a question as a duplicate, I copied the link to the duplicate question and, as I use HTTPS by default, the link was rejected with an error message along the lines of "not ...
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improving closed questions without reopening
I edited this post, which had been put on hold as primary opinion based.
Although I did not get to review it in the Close Review queue, I would have voted to close it myself as well. I did not want ...
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Can a user be notified when his post hits low quality queue?
From time to time I review Low-Quality-Posts which are in fact very high quality from technical point of view, but lack the explanation. These kind of answers usually come from higher reputation users....
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404 Image Nominations
According to the Top 7, we need to select a 404 image - an image that will be displayed when users try to bring up a page that does not exist.
Please quote the source so the team can negotiate ...
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Make Link Colors Brighter and/or add Dotted Underline
I think links are a pretty important aspect of many answers. However, while reading an answer (and I was rereading it for about 30 minutes), I never noticed that there was actually a link in the ...
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Add specific close reason and explicit point in the help pages for learning material requests
Prelude:
How do we feel about requests for learning materials?
I'm tagging this as feature-request and discussion since there was already previous discussion about the topic, but recent events may ...
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Tip for Trogdor: please eat our homework
We have a couple of meta tags on this site. tips-and-tricks and homework are both meaningless tags: they don't indicate anything about the topic or audience of a question. Even conservative Stack ...
asked Aug 16 '12 at 23:55
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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Add suggestions in user template about mentioning OS/distribution and version
Perhaps we could add to the question template that users see, a suggestion to mention the operating system or distribution, and also the version/release of that operating system. This should of course ...
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Knowing about Imgur's thumbnailing abilities
In this answer to another meta question I have been told about the thumbnailing features available within Imgur. I for one had no idea that these features were even available, and hadn't even ...
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Extend [edit] link markup to allow arbitrary text
I'm a great believer in reminding new users that they should edit their question to include updates rather than losing them amongst comments. What I find, though, is that the single word edit is ...
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Can the system check for “[enter code here]” in the text?
I wanted to answer this question, and while doing so decided to change the two commands in the text to preformatted text. IIRC I selected the text in the rendered output, and not (as I should have) in ...
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show the effect of favorite questions more effectively
It took me a year of membership and 9000 points rep to learn that you are notified about new answers if you make a question a favorite. And I learnt it just by chance: Someone mentioned that in a ...
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Why can't I change my close-vote reason or not close-vote anymore after retracting?
I just close-voted this question with reason "Needs details or clarity".
Afterwards, I saw, that this question fits very well, and I would like to change my vote to "Duplicate of ...&...
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The blog link still points to the main Stack Exchange blog
Even though the blog is online, the "blog" link in the top bar dropdown still points to blog.stackexchange.com. It should be fixed.
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Are /virtualization and /virtual-machine synonyms?
We have a tag virtual-machine and a tag virtualization. I can't see any difference in usage between them, nor can I think of a reason why there should be, so I think they should be synonyms. Any ...
asked Oct 25 '12 at 22:19
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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Is it possible to stop bounty from being automatically awarded?
Got this notification when I signed in this morning:
The logic seems faulty to me, but maybe someone can explain it. Basically I have a bounty question where Ramesh answered after the bounty was ...
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Can't suggest an edit or flag the missing image, because the post is locked
It seems there is no possibility to suggest an edit or flag the missing image when the post is locked. Is that a bug or feature?
Here is the post.
Despite image is hosted at stack.imgur.com server, ...
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Reviewing links on a answer
Today I came across this answer, while searching for a duplicate.
(For those of you that do not have the privilege of being able to see the now deleted post, and for which my link seems broken:
)
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Reviewing has become harder
Is it just me or has reviewing become harder with the changed interface? It now takes two clicks where I'm sure it used to take only one. Not a lot of difference perhaps, but enough to put me off. I'...
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Zero (“0”) is looking like a lower case letter “o” in titles: o0O0o
The number 0 is looking like the letter o.
Someone already drew attention to this almost 10 years ago, but nothing has changed.
I recommend to change the font.
Question title font renders 0 (number ...
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The plain text alternative of notification emails is not usable
As I imagine that happens for every other Stack* user, I receive eventual emails about questions I have made/comment and changes in my account here.
I usually don't see the HTML version of these ...
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copied content when rejecting suggested edits on tags and tag wikis
I have the habit of cut-and-pasting the content of suggested edits on tags, and tag wikis, into Google, especially if they are completely new content.
This proposed edit for /u-boot:
Das U-Boot is ...
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recovering from error
I just visited the question-section, and opened some of them in - da-da-da-dam - 4 or 5 tabs.
Unfortunately, there was a server side error, and I got 4 or 5 tabs with the message:
https://unix....
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Feature request: Watch other person's question for answers/updates
Let's say I see a very interesting question, one to which I do not the answer but would very much like to have. I see no way to "watch" that question. Is there a trick to doing this? Is this a feature ...
