http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com guidelines and check if your idea has been posted already! ]]> en-us Tue, 06-Jan-2009 00:00:00 UTC Tue, 06-Jan-2009 00:00:00 UTC QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/16809/ Or, it could be done in a way that voting on the duplicate increments the votes for the original idea.

Why is this needed?
Because presently, a duplicate shows a "duplicate" in rd written in small fonts. Sometimes users do not notice that and keep voting on the duplicate itself.

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No attachments. ]]> Tue, 06-Jan-2009 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/16809/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/16996/ comments for this idea. Coder543 wanted to make a quick mockup that would have looked like this (underscores added):
________/
_______/_
______/__
__I.E_/_Firefox
____/____
etc.

Instead he was left with a horribly mangled comment that was just a column of /'s. Please preserve whitespace for comments in brainstorm.

Edit: Also, please don't have the idea description font be monospaced when editing. The end result is normal isn't, so why can't we see what we'll get?


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If all this cannot be done because it is too much programming, then at least the user should be automatically taken back to the page she was viewing before clicking on the "Log in" link.

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No attachments. ]]> Tue, 06-Jan-2009 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/16912/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/16868/ Permalinks would be html links on comment boxes that, when followed would straight away open the specific comment on the idea page. This makes discussing about a specific comment easier.

DETAILS:

>> What are permalinks?
A URL pointing to a specific comment, opening which would directly take you to the comment.

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>> Why is it needed?
Consider idea http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/103/
Now suppose, you are discussing this idea on some IRC channel and you are refering to user 2cents comment in that idea.
Since this idea has a lot of comments, the person reading it has to literally scan the whole idea or use his/her browser's search tools.
If you use a permalink instead, you can simply give the permalink address that would straight away take the visitor to the comment.

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>> Some examples?

I will site examples from Ubuntu websites itself.

1. Launchpad has permalink.
Now consider this huge bug page: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1

Now this bug has so many comments. Now say you are discussing about Colin Watson's comment he made on 2007-11-23, you can simply find it, click on the (permalink) link and share this link instead: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/521
This would directly show the comment you want to talk about.

2. Ubuntu Forums has permalink
Rather, vBulletin has permalink ;)

For example in this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=998330
You can select out a single comment by clicking on the post number, for example: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6285812&postcount=10

In this way, almost all forum software/discussion boards that support comments from users have permalinks.

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>> How can it be done?

Static anchors (html label names?) for each comment box. Each comment has a comment number, so it will not be a problem.

For example, in the above example of idea #103, the comment ID for 2cents is 30960.
So if a html/bookmark link is created for each comment box, we can have a (permalink) link on comments that would point to, say: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/103#30960 or something.

That would help up to discuss about any specific comment anywhere, without having to making statements like "Scroll down almost to bottom of the page and find XYZ's comment there"

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Give us an button so we can report them! When enough people has reported them - have a look at them!



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- (http://www.example.com/) won't work because of the ")".

- http://www.example.com. won't work because of the ".".

etc.

Correct formatting would be great.

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No attachments. ]]> Tue, 06-Jan-2009 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/16761/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/16704/ Mostly ideas say: "Include newest version of Foo-Bar in repos" or "Include Foo-bar by default".
Meaning that ideas don't propose anything new as they should but are more an wish-list of things that are already possible just not included.
At least I understand concepts of wish-list and idea.
You can call it whatever you like.
I think it could be good to make more clear distinction between a
which idea proposes something that doesn't exists at all.
Which only proposes something that exists and is not included by default and similar ideas...

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Seeing as how it's going to be april reasonably soon, Ubuntu 9.04 is being developed, and the first alpha was released almost a month ago, I don't understand why 9.04 isn't on that page. Please add and populate it with implementation of ideas we can expect.

The same pretty much applies to the Implemented ideas page. Surely if an alpha has been released, new features were added and it's not unlikely some of them stem from ideas on Brainstorm.

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Currently available Bookmarks functionality is not really handy for this kind of thing because :
1. it's hidden 2 clicks away
2. it displays the contents of the issues, so one needs to scroll too much sometimes over multiple pages in order to see if there is "new comment" icon next to it. What's the point to show contents when i already marked it - i already know what it's about.



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It would be interesting to have markings of the type.

This idea is very good, we have interest.
This idea could be realized in the future.
This idea may be in short term.
This idea depends on other developers. We will suggest it.
Your idea is good, but can evolve.
We will improve your idea, and work on it.

It would be very good this action. People can understand better what the developers think. It would make a better cheer to all, because his ideas would have marked by developers.

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The same goes for the folders without permits

Sorry for my English, I translated with google

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The number of votes does not necessary reflect the true quality of an idea. Ask Galileo, he'll tell you.

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Please fix that.

Ironically Submit is the only page that shows Ubuntu Brainstorm - Submit.

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Just sorting the ideas on time submitted would solve this.

maybe this will change in Ideatorrent?

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with links inside RSS it would be far more easier, and will consume less data

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Then I started to think, what we really need. I think that is important to create a summary in brainstorm, not a top ten.

Until now, we only put and vote ideas, but we don't improve them.

They are ideas that need more than a vote, need to be improve by the users and give more importance to the comments (now: critical comments, in future 2 kinds= critical comments and improve comments). Why? comments normally to back or attack your idea, but is strange that people try to improve your idea (they aren't a special place to add ideas to improve your principal idea).

Example:
Ubuntu need to me more beautiful, at less like Mac OS X.

And the users:
Yep! we need cristal buttons, configuration more easy in this and this point, change the way to change the wallpaper, etc.

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"Computer Human Interaction, Designing Interfaces, User Satisfation, Better Software"

it becomes just list of meaningless keywords

"Better Computer Design Human Interaction Interfaces Satisfation Software User"

Please allow commas to allow logical grouping of words to form proper tagging

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No attachments. ]]> Tue, 06-Jan-2009 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/16543/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/16934/ 1- Voting, with an indicator to show the user an alert when his vote reach ubuntu server.
2- Adding new idea, when the user click on the "Add" button, a form appears on the same page, and when press submit, an indicator appears to show the user an alert when his idea reach ubuntu server.
3- My Ideas, show the user a live-updating counters on "Overall quality of my ideas" on the "Dashboard" page.

and may be in many more sections here.

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