Look and Feel category

After i saw my brother's mac applications start up in split seconds, i thought why can't my ubuntu do that?

That's when i noticed that the compiz animation for opening windows actually increases the time for a program to start.

I tried reducing the duration of that certain animation from 200 to only 50 and now it feels like my system is much faster and responsive just because i saved that half a second here and there.

My point is the default animation durations for compiz should be shorter to give the impression of a more responsive operating system. But that doesn't mean it should be disabled, because compiz animations never fail to impress people.

The animations for closing windows can be left longer to act as eyecandy because it affects the overall responsiveness less.

If you change the location of the image the system could be:

*updated with the new location to keep the wallpaper active next time
*the system could have a copy of the image file to keep it active.

I really loved the way in 8.10 they added the new Dark Room theme and it would be brilliant if there will be new themes for every Ubuntu release.

Just few tiny buttons at top of all Ubuntu.com pages
let users to choose language of the site !
for example:
1- English.
2- French.
3- ..... .
in form of buttons, to help users get completely, what is ubuntu !

and create subdomains for these languages
for example: fr.ubuntu.com
|--> would let the users view ubuntu in french.
also: de.ubuntu.com
|--> would let the users view ubuntu in duetch.

When you drag and drop a file somewhere in the Desktop, it should copy exactly to the place you dropped it, and not to the first available space up to the left..

The situation:

I have worked alot to set up my desktop. I have spent hours to find additional repos and packages to set my system as I like it. Now someone saw my system and he said that he wants the same.

The solution:
We should have an application which takes crucial informations like extra repos, installed packages and prepares an install script which will install on the other machine the same stuff.

The advantage:
Like this we could give ideas to the beginners how to customize their desktops, and they can share their ideas with each other.

With HP's new touchscreen desktops it would be great to start working on a touchscreen front end to Ubuntu. It would be a black or dark brown background if you plug in a camera it would pop up a camera icon then you could touch it and it would export your pictures showing them on the screen. similar to Microsoft surface. Then if you want a normal desktop click on an ubuntu menu and close the app if you have problems understanding the idea there is a link to a rough picture i made.

http://superfoor.deviantart.com/art/Ubuntu-Touch-Screen-Idea-107172364

I just had a random idea. What if the Ubuntu wallpaper could be changed by the time of day. I just downloaded this and I thought that that could be a random idea. like one for 3:00-9:59 10:00-8:59 and 9:00-2:59

Wallpapers that gave me the idea:

http://dylanmccall.googlepages.com/DayOfUbuntuSlideshow.tar.gz

Personally i like my desktop icons arranged and defaulted to the right side of my desktop ( like os x ), i think it would be nice if we could choose how to default desktop icon orientation, i.e. when i create a folder from a save/open dialogue it creates the folder in the top-left most corner. i would like it to be the top-right most corner. i know that is not for everyone that why the option would be nice.

Please comment.

The Ubuntu bootscreen could use some graphics, don't you think? It would be more user-friendly and it could attract more users to Ubuntu. It could be a SUSE-like bootscreen with a Ubuntu graphical theme or sth like that.

this is absolutely great, canonical is always talking about making ubuntu as great as possible, so they should support-work on this project and add by defaut every plug-in http://www.cimitan.com/murrine/rgba-support/list?page=1 in ubuntu and include some ubuntu-murrine themes in the next release.

this does not have anything to do with compiz, it just work as any plug-in, so you can enable it as any other plug-in for the application you want!

as you can see in this screen-shot i am activating a plug-in called: "Rgba Visual"
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/384589/Screenshot2.png

In my case i just got Metacity's composite manager enabled but you can activate compiz and get this:
http://gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-pre2/42755-2.jpg
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/384589/42755-3.jpg
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=42755

the main difference between this and others transparency creators is that murrine applies real transparency to windows but it is not applied to text, as you can see in the screen-shot, so we can read text clearly having a real and native transparency.
we can disable-enable native transparency whenever we want, great!

IRC #murrine
http://murrine.cimitan.com
http://cimitan.com

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I hate when a file has a looooooong name and nautilus displays it all... it wastes a lot of space in the window, the same for a wide or long image, the thumbnail can be annoyingly big.

This is a good example:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/-3LuyW0Vy7Sapf6U5RZn-w?authkey=oXsqA8rO8Vc &feat=directlink

I wish nautilus had smaller thumbnails like thunar, and i wish they did something about long file names.

This is a screenshot of the same folder but in the thunar file manager:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/74ZPlWZAVtjK2QyZ4Iz9ZQ?authkey=oXsqA8rO8Vc &feat=directlink

It could be very useful show what width x height has got one image without opening with image viewer. Only with selecting it on Nautilus.

I suggest showing image dimensions on the "foot" of Nautilus window near the file size.

For example:

"image01.jpg" selected (67,6 KiB) would be one of the following messages:
"image01.jpg" selected (67,6 KiB) JPEG Image (294x150 pixels)
"image01.jpg" selected (67,6 KiB) Image (294x150 pixels)
"image01.jpg" selected (67,6 KiB) (294x150 pixels)

http://www.deviantart.com In this web site we can find a lot of professional web page designers, that could/would like to help Ubuntu designers team.

These are the actual Cover Design:
http://shop.canonical.com/index.php?cPath=17&osCsid=6741f640226153dd76fb87e3d56 998c7
Ubuntu DVD/CD covers looks good but Kubuntu ones looks very ugly.
Beside DVD/CD covers, you can see in this web page that they use different styles for left side icons buttons, they should be uniform, i mean "Buy Support" is different than others, they could just use tango icons style, but they look horrible as it is now, i mean it looks like it was made in a hurry!

This is the best GNU/linux distribution, and opensuse.org has a better design. U_U

I'd like that Ubuntu keeps in memory the terminal size when I resize it for the next time, because when you re-open it is by default 80x24 and not what I set last time.

It is very annoying to always have to change it again and again.

Thanks :)

Create better folder icons.
But also some other icons need a make over if you compare them with the OS X or Oxygen (KDE 4) icons.

Better cooperation between Gnome and KDE developers because Gnome and KDE can learn from each other.

i think, when you hover on file with theme, nautilus shows some screenshots of theme, then you will see as theme looks

you can roll with images by wheel in mouse as switcher in compiz but, mini switcher

The thing that's bothering me the most about how gnome/gtk looks like is the HUGE controls taking up a lot of space in my screen.

I think for gnome/gtk's look to be more efficient and professional it should take it down a notch, smaller buttons, dropdown boxes and input boxes (entry). Believe me, it would look a lot more attractive.

We have http://gtk-qt.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ for a while now but it lacks some features and it cannot replicate the perfect qt look for gtk applications. It nowhere feels as good as qgtkstyle.

- Progress bars are not animated as in native qt applications.
- File dialogs are still gtk (qgtkstlye uses native gtk dialogs in qt applications)
- Tabs are easily overlapped by their contents (look at gimp)
- Ugly hacks (firefox crash hack - scrollbar)
- Sometimes system-wide icons settings are ignored in gtk apps

Even though a lot of these looks like bugs I'm pretty sure the author is limited by GTK's capabilities on this particular issue.

It would be better if we had a project from scratch that adopts the qgtkstyle's design choices.