Very important point indeed , I understand the need to snap the “app Store” but if it keeps ubuntu from supporting flatpak OOTB , we need to choose a better solution :
See Bug #1950158 “[RFE] Consider adding Flatpak plugin” : Bugs : snap-store-desktop
Thanks Tony, it’s likely to be iterative change to start with but we’re going to keep adding and refreshing over the year.
I would also like Software to be shipped as a deb. There’s no point having it as a snap - having it as a normal app means it can not only install snaps, but also normal APT packages and user can easily add flatpak support. Also Snapping the software store breaks gnome’s excellent updater
Maybe some user friendly way of getting new kernels? Ubuntu often struggles on bleeding edge hardware, especially LTS
The Snap Store does allow installing normal APT packages. There is a bug interfering with that on 22.04 but it’s being worked on.
Give an option to decrease the blurring in the lock screen
I don’t seem to be able to create a new topic (I guess because I am a new user here), so I am posting this here.
I find Jammy to be much more polished than any other Ubuntu release since 16.04 (I am happy that this is the case and hope this trend will continue), however there is a small polishing issue that is easy, but unintuitive (for new users to fix).
By default Ubuntu does not theme software using the Qt toolkit and those apps therefore use some ugly “default” theme that does not fit in with the rest of the Yaru aesthetics.
The fix is of course to install qt5-style-plugins, qt5ct and then edit /etc/environment to include the line QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct. Then after reboot, qt5ct can be used to set the Qt theme to GTK and also configure the font and icon theme used by the Qt apps.
Are there any plans to extend Ubuntu’s default theme/branding to Qt apps?
The above mentioned method might be suboptimal in the long run as iirc the GTK Qt theme relies on the now-deprecated gtk2, however for Adwaita there is QGnomeStyle and Adwaita-Qt. Maybe it would be worth it to create a Yaru-based fork of Adwaita-Qt to ensure that Qt apps are always consistent with Yaru?
I think a good change would be a way to theme all applications not just legacy
The qt5-gtk2-platformtheme is available within Jammy packages.
Including the qt5-image-formats-plugins [image formats module]
Also the package qt5ct [Config Utility] They are part of the
Universe packaging.
It could be good to have a welcome screen like the one of Ubuntu MATE or Ubuntu Budgie in original Ubuntu and all the flavors, instead of no welcome screen or a not-so-informative one.
Upon reviewing 22.04, I have found it to be very well tuned OOTB; however, I would like to see ttfmscorefonts added to the installer (Times New Roman etc) as well as a nice top panel weather app.
You can get the weather by installing Gnome Weather application. Once done and you set a place you get weather forecast in the calendar/notification pane.
You must get Microsoft to re-license those fonts to something compatible with the Ubuntu license before that would be possible. The blocker here is Microsoft, not Ubuntu.
Community members who want this change should feel free to work together at convincing Microsoft to change their policy.
Another cool thing I would add would be an included selection of nice screensavers – although the X-screensaver package on Software Manager is what I use.
It is fantastic how I cannot open any file through Firefox. Shall I give credit to snap? Drag and drop is the only option with FB, Twitter and etc posting.
I don’t use Firefox. I only used it to get to the Brave website for the Ubuntu installation commands lol. Brave works great on 22.04!
A post was merged into an existing topic: Feature Freeze Exception: Seeding the official Firefox snap in Ubuntu Desktop
At least we can access pretty much everything we need via Ubuntu repositories and OEM repositories using commands 
… and for new users, most of these commands are copy + paste with right click into terminal – preventing error.
Well, Mint ditched Gnome, but since I have Mint 20.3 on one machine and Ubuntu 22.04 on this machine, I can say definitively, that Ubuntu is better (newer kernel and latest Gnome). The app store on Ubuntu loads very fast – and the categories do take some time to populate, but if you do the update and upgrade commands, they populate much faster… and once they’ve been populated once, they are lightning fast the next time they are loaded. Mint lacks the device integration smoothness that Ubuntu has.
I honestly believe that Gnome is still the best option – and Canonical – as well as all of the community development team – knows what they are doing
I am also a Mint user, but I believe that Mint (Cinnamon) is better for Windows 7/8 machines, and Ubuntu (current) is better for newer machines.
This thread has run it’s course for the 22.04 cycle…and 22.04 has been released for over a month so suggested changes would require a time machine. So I’m closing this thread.
There are a lot of good ideas. Keep in mind a couple tips: