Like the title says, I want to turn off my monitor sometimes. With a hotkey. Complete with LCD backlight. Sure, you can usually do it by pressing the power key, but on a laptop you've got to close the lid, and sometimes I want to turn off the montitor without closing the lid, for example, when I'm using the notebook as a substitute audio player. Conserving the energy, yet having access to back/forward/volume/etc...

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It would be great to integrate the most useful keyboard shortcuts into Nautilus itself, as it is common in most of commanders (Krusader, GNOME Commander, Midnight Commander etc.).

There are my proposed shortcuts (others you can propose in comments below):

F3 - quick view of selected file(s) [*]
F4 - edit selected file(s) in default text editor
F7 - create new directory (mkdir)
F8 - delete selected file(s)

[*]:
There is Gloobus project in progress, which seems very useful and helpful. What about integration into Nautilus?
https://launchpad.net/gloobus

Since there are many applications having installation and access through a web server, there should be a good interface for Apache.

google and ubuntu can collaborate to sync all the ubuntu desktop data with the google services.this way the user can access the data from anywhere and use it to keep it safe[back up]

below are a few examples of what could sync .
thunderbird = gmail [imap]
calendar = google calendar
rss feeds in firefox = google reader
address book = google contacts in gmail
pictures folder = google photos
documents folder = google docs

what else can you think of ? do add your comments

this can be done in collaboration with google which already has these services available.
i dont think they would mind and its a pretty neat idea for people on the move or users who love google as well as ubuntu. :)

Appearance Preferences menu, you will see that a new option has been added to the interface. You can choose between different background as you always could, but now you can multi-select pictures. Multi-select works by CTRL-clicking each item you wish to include.

Here's a mockup:
http://img293.imageshack.us/my.php?image=backgroundscreenshotnt4.jpg


Clearly this is something most people can live without, but small details like this matter when we're talking about accessibility, user experience, out-of-the-box experience and so on.

//MadsRH
anotherubuntu.blogspot.com

Currently there is no way to easily share files between multiple local users. I am talking about full read-write access to particular folder, eg. music folder.

Example: Alice and Bob uses the same computer. Alice has read access to Bob's home folder. Bob has read access to Alice's home folder. They want to fully share (read/write) their music. So they should ideally create /home/music folder, put all the music there and use it. Everything Bob puts into there, Alice should be able to read and remove, and vice versa. This is currently impossible in Ubuntu. Bob has to manually fix permissions every time Alice wants to delete something Bob's (Bob creates /home/music/Britney, but Alice can't delete /home/music/Britney/song1.mp3).

I have discussed this issue with several linux gurus and there is currently no easy nor difficult way to achieve this in Linux on the same (ext3) partition. With every proposed solution I can give you counterexample (group permissions, ACLs, local Samba, local NFS, etc - there is always problem when moving files). There would have to be created utility to set shared folders and some daemon would have to monitor changes and modify permissions.

Currently the easiest solution known for me is to share files on separate (ironically) NTFS partition, because when mounting NTFS you can force user/group/permissions on file access. What a shame, we use Microsoft technologies just to share files between Ubuntu users.

This problem is quite serious, give it a thought or two. Everyone who is not using Ubuntu computer alone and wants to share music/films/etc between multiple users knows what I am talking about.

//New info:
Atany has proposed in the comment that BindFS project can be used to achieve this functinality:
http://code.google.com/p/bindfs/
I have tried it and it works very well. Developers which would like to implement this idea should have a look on BindFS, it's very promising tool, it could provide all necessary background for this.

So I noticed that the package archives (tar.gz installation files) can be very confusing for the new users. Especially since they can be either easily installed in the case of gtk themes etc or not so easy when installing a new program from its tar.gz. So my idea is to find a way to not confuse them.

Sometimes, there's a moment where you just want one program to start without all the background tasks and processes. Like when you leave the computer on during the night if you want to download. Or just if you want to play a game, and don't want to wait until Ubuntu booted.

When I click on something to drag and drop (drag-n-drop) it e.g. in Nautilus, the window gains focus and is raised. If the destination of my drag (e.g. another nautilus window) is above the window it is lowered and obscured. This forces me to arrange my windows before starting a drag and drop so that my destination is still visible when the source window is raised. This could be fixed by windows not being raised until mouse release instead of mouse down. Ideally, though, there would be a special case where if drag and drop is initialized the window isn't raised until release, otherwise it is raised on click.

Before installing Ubuntu, you are asked, in which language you want to install it and the base system is installed in that language. However, there are some porgramms that are still in English (for example OOo I think).

In addition to that, if you install some packages they are in English although there is a language package in the sources (Enigmail for Thunderbird for example).

You have to go to the system menu and then to language to install all the missing language packages. Ubuntu knows which packages you might be interested in so why doesn't it give me that list earlier?