Because I spent too long on the lottery machine yesterday...

[sally_maria]

One of the big advantages of open source is that if you don't like something you can fix it, or pay someone to fix it for you. So, if you'd won the Euro lottery (£117 million), what little "quirks" of your favourite distro or software would you pay someone to fix?

What projects would you donate to?

Comments

[sally_maria]

I'm afraid my immediate thoughts were on little niggles, rather than the big picture stuff.

For example, I want somebody to change Nautilus so I have the option to rename files just by clicking on them, no right-click or F2. (For that matter, I'd like Open/Save dialogs where you can rename/delete/move files, but I suppose that's dependent on the individual program.)

I'd also like to maintain a repository for Debian that contains things like the latest (stable) version of Firefox, and various other things that are available in PPAs for Ubuntu. I get why people who run production servers need stability more than anything else, but on my home computer, once the project releases it as a final version, it's stable enough for me. That's why I want to run a rolling release in the first place.

I'd definitely be donating to Linux Mint, as I think they have one of the best starter/low effort distros around.

I'd also give good money to a project to develop a proper GUI pdf editor - just for those times when I spot a typo or want to edit the meta-data...

A newbie-proof, competent audio/video converter would be another project I could get behind - somehow I just can't get ffmpeg to do what I want it to.

[kerravonsen]

A newbie-proof, competent audio/video converter would be another project I could get behind - somehow I just can't get ffmpeg to do what I want it to.

Oh yes. There are so many options with ffmpeg and they are so confusing that you need a degree in computer graphics in order to understand them.

[asenathwaite]

I'd also give good money to a project to develop a proper GUI pdf editor

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. (I've been wrestling with pdfs all day.)