Accessibility category

When you install a new Windows program in Wine, Wine automatically creates a new group inside: Applications -> Wine -> "New program"

To me, it seems kind of silly to separate my Linux applications from my applications running on Wine. When I install M$ Word I would like to access it from: Applications -> Office -> Word
and not be reminded that Word is running using on Wine.

I know not everybody likes this model, witch is why I purpose an option in the Wine configuration. You would go to the options in Wine then select, "add applications to the Wine menu" or "Add applications to the application menu directly"

Bottomline - this is all about a better userexperience

//MadsRH

I did some googling on this, and all I found was an archaic and apparently obsolete program called mini-commander, and a note that similar functionality had been lost in KDE4. I'll try to explain it as best I can, because one nearly universal theme I saw from people asking for how to do this was people replying not understanding what they were talking about.

Basically, give the option to add a small text entry area on a gnome-panel, in which commands could be entered. Such commands would act exactly as if they had been launched in the "Run Application" window normally brought up by pressing "ALT+F2".

Deskbar-Applet does NOT provide this functionality, and nor does this replace deskbar-applet. Whereas deskbar-applet stays as an icon which is expanded, and searches for things to run automatically, a Run-Application-Applet should stay a simple text entry area on the panel, which can be clicked to enter text. It should act exactly as the taskbar in the ALT+F2 Run Application window; providing autocomplete, but NOT running anything other than the command line. It should not show similar results.

This functionality is NOT provided in GNOME currently, and only appears to be offered in KDE 3; not 4. I am NOT asking for a button to launch a terminal, nor would a drop down terminal such as Tilda fill this role.

The preferences window should contain at least two options; the first being a checkbox which would change ALT+F2's behavior from opening the Run Application window to giving focus to the panel applet. The second should be adjusting its width. A third one should probably be added for the 'run in terminal' checkbox the run application window already has.

This would be useful as a low-overhead way of launching programs. Let's use my real-world scenario of wanting to have easy access to multiple applications. Well, I can use application launchers. Each of these takes time to make, especially if I need to hunt down an icon for them, and each of them eats up screen space. Just five or six application launchers take up about the same room as a full window; thus making it painful to manage even one more window at a time. Worst yet, having my cursor off by a few pixels can be the difference between opening a calculator and opening a virtual machine; one of which obviously consumes more time to close if accidentally opened.

[....]

Nautilus to appear in a dual display support on a button or keyboard for easy management of files (similar FreeCommander on Windos) and the Simple File Transfer FTP.

Of course in normal (if dual pricing is not lit), Nautilus operate with a single display.

This idea is somewhat a derivate for my previous idea (http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/16512/ ).
The explanation below is based on a true story!

The situation:
One of my friends would like to set up his system to be able to play DVD-s, movies, mp3, etc. In one word: multimedia.
Because I knew what packages he needs, I wrote him down the command based on apt (apt-get install package1 package2 etc).

The solution:
It would be nice a GUI where I can make multiple selections on the available packages, and at the end to finish the work with creation of a metapackage to install all the selected stuff.

Advantages:
I could share the created metapackage with others, without the posibility to make errors when typing package names or forgetting something out.
I could make a metapackage for myself, and when setting up a new system, I could install all what I want with one command (similar to ubuntu-restricted-extras metapackage
for example.)

Disadvantages:
On a very customized system it could result some unexpected issues. (conflicts, missing repos, etc.)

I've been using Ubuntu for about 8 months now, and decided to tell all my friends and family about it, and I eventually talked my girlfriend into installing Ubuntu onto her computer. She likes it fine for the most part, but she's very "point-and-click" when it comes to computers, she expects things to work without having to think about them, and that seems to be the mindset of many people I've spoken to.

Anyways, to make a longer story not so long, she installed a program outside of the Add/Remove option in the menu, using the terminal, she copies the commands into the prompt and it installed the program, (you'll have to forgive me if I use incorrect terminology with naming these programs and commands, etc. as I am relatively new to linux) but after installing the program, she had no idea where it was. Sad to say, I wasn't exactly sure myself (I later found out after some research)

Would there be any way to create a folder or something called "Newly Installed Programs" or something similar, in the menu or on the desktop, for programs created without the use of the Add/Remove option? This issue has hindered her wanting to use Ubuntu, and I'm sure she's not the only one. Would there be some way to make it easier to manage these new programs and make them easier to find?


(I apologize if this is discussed here already, I searched but saw nothing related.)

Ubuntu has great way to manage applications menu by classifying the programs according to categories. After using ubuntu for a long time I come up with many office applications so the menu can not cover them. I suggest at this stage to make second auto categorization. For example.
|
+->Office->
|
+ KDE office
-Open Office
|
-> Writer
-> Calc and other applications
+PDF utilities
+Mail [Thunderbird, Evolution, Kmail]

the same applies to Internet, you can divide them again to chat and browsers ...

sound and video can be divided to video players and music players [itunes like]

maybe I am not good at suggesting the second stage of categories but having second stage will help a lot people who installed many applications.

In the keyboard shortcuts one can set keyboards shortcuts to rhythmbox. Unfortunatly they do not function with Youtubes flashplayer, totem or any other. Please apply those shortcuts (play, pause, next, previous, ...) to any player!

nowadays, laptops are more common than PC, and every one has a built in bluetooth

when i put liveCD into my latest laptop, in order to play with bluetooth, i have to setup network connection, and download some software

theese packages are not so heavy - for ex bluez-utils have 215 kB package size

bluemon - 25 kB

and so on

Even if ubuntu has a lot of advantages over vista, in a lot of ways it doesn't provide some basic functionality for a lot of stuff. Hardware recognition is a huge issue. It's behind technology, and although it's great for ppl that want to bring their old pc back to life it's not what a user with a new pc will like on his drive. Webcams don't work... and that's a fact. Pidgin still doesn't provide the necesary protocol for videochat. Also calls don't work. Phone software isn't compatible with Ubuntu... and so on. There still isn't enough basic functionality with the system. Although the philosophy of ubuntu is the "humanity to others" thing... why aren't subcomponents so human? Pidgin will never change because some things are the way they are as developers say and it's a big hasle for them to bring video and sound to pidgin.
So... we're lookin at a system with huge potential, a lot of good ideas, and a lot of people behind it ... but it's in 256 color mode(meaning it's kinda stale). I have both vista and ubuntu on my pc. i use vista about 80% of the time and it's a disapointment to me every time i boot into ubuntu and find that i can't get my gadgets to work with it and i can't really see or hear my friends online. My idea is to focus on the isuses mentioned above, so the system can become more popular and more people can take advantage of it.

Rename Preferences and Administration in Settings menu to some more clear one. Like:

Preferences --> Personal settings
Administration --> System management

This could clear things out on new users.

There is little program that can be used to quickly share files within a local network called Giver that would be ideal for Ubuntu, as it is easy to use.

http://code.google.com/p/giver/

That would allow me to select multiple files and open their context menus with one mouse click.

I press the right button, the selection box is drawn, I drag the mouse to select a bunch of icons while the right button is still pressed, then release it to have the menu popped-down for those icons. very handy..

Here a new idea for Control Center

(Users and Groups)
About Me
Sessions
Assistance
Authorizations
Search and Indexes
Interface
Preferred Applications
Groups
Users
Encryption
SCIM
User template
(Look and Feel)
Theme: Icons, Screensaver, Sounds, Compiz profile, colours...
Wallpaper
Fonts
Interface
Visual Effects
Sound Effects
Language
(Internet and Networking)
Networks: Allow to link to a proxy server profile
Proxies: Enter number of profiles
Remote Desktop
Firewall
(Hardware)
Drivers
Printing

[....]

Have two taskbars in Gnome is very handy, but it greatly reduces the usable area for applications, especially with the laptop's screens.
It would be nice to create a fourth button in the windows border (-> System -> Preferences -> Windows -> Add button fullscreen) to make a fullscreen of applications as is possible with Firefox (F11) or OpenOffice.org (Ctrl + Shift + J).

PS: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/810
I have this addon on firefox but it is an icon under the windows border.

In compiz, it's possible to configure a shortcut in CompizConfig -> Extra WindowsManager actions -> Toggle Fullscreen, but not a graphical shortcut.

Why don't make an option who fullscreen the windows when the second button is double-cliced or when the user clics two second on the button ?

We just only want to know what author think about self package and what are solutions from author.

This is mostly a forwarding of this blogpost I found through Digg. Link:

http://www.matusiak.eu/numerodix/blog/index.php/2008/12/19/linux-audio-confusin g-as-ever/

Maybe there should be a collaboration in the linux world to bring forward a universal audio format that also work on all plattforms? Right now there seem to be a jungle out there.

To access internet i have alt-I.
To access ftp i have alt-F.
To access messenger i have alt-M.

I use several applications for each of those though, for instance I use both Opera and Firefox to access the internet.
And if i create a shortcut for all those applications it both gets difficult to memorize all of them and also the shortcuts get less logical for more and more combinations are getting taken.

Currently i just choose one favorite application for each of those tasks and have them pop up when i click the logical shortcut (eg alt-I launches Firefox for thats my mostly used Internet access application now).

But in that manner i cannot launch with an easy logical shortcut the rest of the browsers.


It would be great if the launch of multiple applications were allowed through a single shortcut.
That way i could manage to maintain logical setup of shortcuts (eg alt-I for internet) and at the same time use shortcuts to a large number of different applications without doing much memorizing.

So I would press alt-I and then my chosen browsers appear in a menu in the lower right corner with my most preferred browser highlighted.
And while holding down alt I can press I again and that would move highlight to my second most preferred browser.

And then when i release the alt whatever application was highlighted at that moment in the menu gets launched.

1. Detect a pheripherie and display a menu only in case device is plugged in. Assume keyboard and mouse not be standart!
2. Unify all menus: It is stupid that I configure the Keyboard in 2 menus, grafix card in 4 menus (Screen resolution, nvidia settings, etc.), volume and sound in 2 menus.
3. Do not show items which are not there! I o not have blutooth in my desktop, but in my laptop.
4. Do not show items which are not installed: My desktop has no modem, but Laptop has one!
5. Detect all buttons! My keyboard has extra keys as well as my former mouse.

When i go into "System Settings" there is an icon called "About Me", in there i can fill out information about me.

I don't think anybody actually fills that information out.
People don't like giving out personal information just for the heck of it.

A short survey showing the proportion of users who actually fill that field would give interesting results (probably nobody has filled it out).
Could be very cheap to implement, just a check on some 20 random users which have been using Kubuntu for at least 6 months each.

The only useful button there is the "Change Password" button. But a single button doesn't justify a whole screen.

Also the "Paths" icon should be named more accurately "My Paths".

And the "About me" icon should be called "My Settings".
Because it's not about personal information, it's about the setup.


And due to the above that icon should yield only one screen showing "My Paths" information and a "Change Password" button.

Changing month/year now is very inconvenient - need to point out this little arrows, then push and push to choose one.
Make them like in ExtJS web toolkit:
http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/form/adv-vtypes.html or something similar