Graphics category

May be what I am asking is a bit weird, but I would want a switcher button which will switch the display to black & white and then back to color to reduce eye fatigue. WHY? and Why not? While working in a text editor or word processor or even internet / email we do not require color display always coz it wont matter. As we are working for more then 10-12 hours and use computer for maybe 6-8 hours constantly it will be a good idea. Now take for example : I start working on a draft of say 20 pages and it will take 2-3 hours to type and edit the document, if in black & white it will create less pressure on the eyes and when finally i need to see any colour, a switch will get the display in full color.

Dvd-slideshow features for the F-Spot.
http://dvd-slideshow.sourceforge.net

Explaining the idea.

The F-spot is an excellent program, but would be even better with extra functionality to create slideshow with pictures, creating a DVD. Programs are not broadcast in the command line, or for kde. The F-spot is in Ubuntu, and for that feature would not need a second program. This feature would not be difficult to implement. Everybody wants to be in your manager photos, create a DVD with your favorite photos playing their favorite music.

The main idea is not to have a second program to do this function. And yes to add to what is already contained in Ubuntu.

This design would be for ultra-low spec systems. Examples include theoretical touch-screen digital media players running a form of Ubuntu. This sub-ubuntu would have a different selection of apps because of the way the system works. The X Lite (i am uncertain if it would be X Lite or Gnome Lite) would have Gnome running. In order to preserve system resources, each app would have both a full mode and a lite mode. When the lite mode is activated, the window draws a minimal representation of its contents (one that is blurred, like a reduction in polygons within 3d games with objects that are at a distance). When in full mode they would draw themselves entirely. When the user clicked on a window, it would zoom to fill most of the screen. When they clicked outside of the window it would zoom back to show the whole desktop. While a window is zoomed it would draw in full mode. If the window is not zoomed it would draw in lite mode. Existing apps, could be run in theory... but they would use tons more resources by drawing in full mode the whole time. Existing apps could be transitioned into the new system relatively easy though. If this was done it would create a system which could rival that done by Apple for the iPod Touch. Also, Category
X Lite run on old hardware would enable the user to run a more modern setup, without the performance hit.

This Ubuntu Lite (obviously running X Lite) would have its own repo of software compatible with the X Lite standard.

In particular this would be for an Ubuntu Digital Media Player (that could be made by Canonical and made on a per-order basis). It would be great to have a DMP by Canonical running something like X Lite. X Lite would mean you have full desktop capacity with little to negligible resources. Please vote up on this, if you vote down... at least tell me why. Imagine a Digital Media Player that doesn't require Windows or Mac (or Wine)! This DMP if done correctly would be cause for many people to look into Ubuntu. the iPod certainly helped Apple (as advertisement).

If I had to choose the thing that acted the flakiest in all of Ubuntu (and linux in general) I would say it is plugging in an External Monitor. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Would we even mention the fact that the screen resolutions application needs a lot of work to improve the quality of the experience. This to me seems to be Ubuntu's dark little secret. Let us bring this into the light and extinguish it! On Mac if you plug in any external monitor/projector you will immediately be gratified with seeing your desktop extend onto the other screen. Also, the application which allows you to adjust the resolutions does it in an elegant way. On windows, there is probably going to be a way to do it. On Ubuntu, you plug it in and cross your fingers.... can we do better than this? Let us improve the hot plugging experience with monitors!

Edit (Suggested Improvements):
Make it show the correct number of screens plugged in.
(Somehow) Make it work (I last tried with a DVI port... no luck).
When a new screen is plugged in, let the user know graphically by causing the screen to fade into a color (like blue as on mac) then fade back to the screen over about 1 - 2 seconds.
Have a preference pane allowing the user to disable their background on external monitors, etc. and have possibility for preferences on a monitor by monitor basis.

Although the wacom driver is installed, the practice of configuring the driver is nearly impossible for new to moderate users.
With so many graphic professionals turning to linux for both stability and price, wouldn't it be easier to include an application that helps these people adjust stroke pressure and properly set up the eraser?

Change the default font size to 8, improving a better desktop visualization, like others OS.

Add the option to right-click an image, and rotate it (clockwise or couter-clockwise).

Hi
Both with Intrepid and the last version of Janty there isn't an official scanner program.
I think it's a bad thing to have a system without that kind of program.

Kooka is out of KDE Graphics (July 13, 2007) because it's not developed anymore and it's still with kde3.

I suggest to use skanlite.

Thanks.

Even older machines (I have old IBM laptop) are able to render the cube.

Replace the slider of the "Extra" visual effects with the cube.

Remove spaces in the color selection menu


Hi, I propose eliminating the space between the edge of the menu and the selected color, more aesthetically clean:

Now: http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/9104/antesal9.png

After: http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/1931/despuesir8.png


gnome philosophy

My proposition is to abandon THE (BIG Dinosaur) X11. Lets make a move to write new Graphical User Interface from Scratch. Let X11 stay tuned but only for compatibility. Put our efforts to write GUI better then Quartz (MacOSX) or Windows Graphical Subsystem.

Dont let us the whole history od X11 push us to the ground (oh, no no we cant do this..., there is so much programs written for X11... The X11 is so complicated, dont touch them...Linux withought X11 is not true linux... yes X11 are a little slow with big overhead but we are proud of them because this is X11... OK we cant play fast games and my interface with quite good graphic card and my interface behaves like mule but... always buts.)
The true is that in the same hardware its much slower then MacOSX or Windows.

Maybe the new architecture should use elements of GTK and QT(KDE), but should be written with desktop speed in mind, modular scalibility, standard SDK...

I run Ubuntu on my laptop. The screen is small and therefore all space on the screen is precious, especially when I surf the web.

One thing that bothers me about Firefox in Ubuntu is the bookmark toolbar. It is unnecessarily thick. It's much thinner in XP for example. It's only a bunch of little icons and some text, there's no need for it to be as big as it is.

You can easily cut a few pixels off to get more web space and better looks.

A way to customize how thick it is in Pixels would be great!

In kde3 there is kcpuload, that is not automatically load ad start up of Kubuntu.

It would be nice to have a plasma object that show the cpu load.

In the last version of Dolphis has been changed the feature to show the free space on hard disk and has been putted the fetuare to increase/decrease the icons image.

My suggest is to have an option in Dolphin where you can choose if you want to see "free space feature" or "set icons size feature"

The default option should be "free space feature" because we can set the icons size in many other specific windows.

Hi
This feature has been implemented in GNOME, but not in KDE.

It's useful to have an option in ksnaphost if we want also grab the mouse pointer.

Personally i have a bug with a mouse. ut i have to do a photo with digital camera, because when i try to use ksnapshot mouse is hided

Thanks

When taking screenshots of the Desktop, pressing Alt+ PrtSc should copy only the selected window.

At this point, it is only possible to get a screenshot of entire screen.

The Alt + PrtSc behavior is default of Windows.

When Apple choosed Mach kernel and unix-like OS infrastructure they make a decision to NOT use X server.
(Only for compatibility they add X11)

I have proposition:
Lets abandon Xserver. Write something completly new. Fast, newly designed, deeply connected with kernel.
Something which will be really faster than Windows GUI or Mac!
I want to feel immediate response on my screen actions. On my dual-boot notebooks everytime I felt the difference after switching from Apple to Ubuntu or to Windows XP. Even with the really good graphisc card. I remember from the past BeOS has this kind of responsivness.

I think its not simple, but sometimes destroy the old house and build completly new is better than constant repair.
Sometimes its the only way.

Why don't we have more eye candy installed in Ubuntu right off of the bat? I personally like Avant and Screenlets they spice up the work environment. Another tool that i think should be pre-installed in any release of Ubuntu that has compiz in it should be the compizconfig-settings-manager or ccsm.

My bad on that title by the way I was half asleep when I wrote that . . .

Since we already have the whole cube view thing set up, why not allow a little more flexibility for its use? I would like to see an option (probably under Cube Rotate and defaulted to middle click without drag or double middle click or something) to go into cube view and stay that way until the command is given again.

Once in this mode, middle clicking and dragging (or whatever would normally turn the cube) would spin the cube like the globe in Google Earth. That is, you could release the mouse while turning it so that you impart a spin. I would rather this work more like documents in Evince, however, in that it should slow down after a second or two.

Since in this mode you would not have to hold down anything to keep viewing the cube, you should be able to interact with programs as normal. This would allow cube view to serve more purpose than just switching desks- you could actually work in the mode. If this is possible, there should also be an option provided to be permanently in cube view.

Would look more serious and professional!