If you are connected to internet during Ubuntu (or any of its variants) installer, you have the option "Download updates while installing".
But even if you check this option, there are updates pending when you boot on your fresh installed system. So my question is, what is the reasoning to decide which packages can be updated during installation and which packages can not?
In Unity the sortcut Alt + F10 allows to access the Unity Menu, including AppMenu and AppIndicators. Does Gnome Shell have a similar shortcut to manage the panel with the keyboard?
The last versions of Ubuntu allow to download updates during the installation process.
Is it possible to configure a PPA to fetch updates instead of using the default repositories?
E. g. configure the Kubuntu backports PPA when installing Kubuntu 11.10 to get KDE4.8 during the installation process.
I installed JDownloader in ubuntu 11.10 with gnome-shell. Everthing works perfect, but when I 'm using JDownloader, it also creates an additional "window" called JavaEmbeddedFrame (the app with the java logo without window in this 
, if you select it from the dash or from the alt+tab menú it shows nothing. How can I remove that window?
There is a utility called y-ppa-manager https://launchpad.net/y-ppa-manager which helps to manage your ppa repositories in ubuntu. One of its best features is to backup your repository list. Is there any command line or graphical tool to backup your repositories without installing any ppa tool?
When you install some qt apps in ubuntu like smplayer and lyx, you can change their appearance eiher with their preferences menu or with the qt-config utility. You can choose between several themes like motif, gtk+ or plastique but you can't choose the oxygen style unless you have installed some kde packages and i'm not sure if you have to install the whole kde desktop. Does anyone know which package i have to install to select the oxygen theme for qt4 apps?
Summary: What i intend to do is to set the oxygen theme to qt apps in gnome, but without changing gnome apps using oxygen-molecule or another theme