This Ubuntu is getting almost as bad as windoze for just assuming and doing things without asking.
Nev
"doing things without asking" - you clearly have a magic touch with ubuntu!
In my case it seems unable to do things when i ask it to! I gave up with ubuntu in 2009 when it seemed almost impossible to set screen resolution. Xubuntu was my next step which i really liked - minimal approach which i added to instead of adding and removing with ubuntu. Thunar had a few features which weren't in ubuntu. The Bulk Rename i liked for all those photos; kRename was too fancy and didn't do the job as half as well.
The last straw (well two actually) with xubuntu for me was the bug that resulted in the generation of .goutputstream******* every time you logged in and the inclusion of development version Abiword ver 2.9.2 - stable version is 2.8.6. Why on earth put a test version in a release? As one of the developers said in their mailing list it's very buggy... so what on earth are ubuntu developers thinking of. I don't like Abiword that much but it is a bit more lightweight than LO-writer (which i've also discovered bugs in).
I've ditched the use of debian distros now and am trying out Fedora which considering it is a Red Hat test job seems to be remarkably stable (their quality control seems very good unlike ubuntu which just ships a release when the date arrives). The 'dependency hell' seems to have left rpm distros with the yum/yumex package management... but i think it's slower than apt but i can live with that.
james