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2) Everyone is smiling

The Samsung omnia smartphones (which are only 600mhz) already do this, and apparently it works quite well. Face recognition could then later be used in other libraries.

And this would make profile pictures and such closer to "one-touch". It also helps polish linux to the point it doesn't demand user for feedback to operate, instead it is able to identify in these cases when the photo is bad, and delay the photo until it is good.

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It would be nicer if the subtitles got re-rendered in fullscreen mode in high quality.

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Imagemagick is a phenomenal CLI program for converting images into different formats, resizing, watermarks, etc.

For instance, a CLI command to convert PDF files into JPG, renaming the file from 'example.pdf' to 'example.jpg' is this easy:

for file in `ls *.pdf`; do convert $file 800x800 `echo $file | sed 's/\.pdf$/\.jpg/'`; done

Unfortunately, this is not suffice for computer users such as my family members. My mother, who is on dial-up and uses Windows XP has a nifty function to resize images via Outlook Express so that a 1MB photo is now only 100kB. It saves her lots of time and agony.

For work, my boss purchased some sort of Windows program for batch conversion. Needless to say he wasn't too happy when I came along and showed him Imagemagick.

I think a front-end, possibly in PyGTK would be wildly successful as a default-installed program.

The program would allow the selection of multiple images and image types to be converted into JPG, PDF, PNG, etc., with the ability to resize to a certain width or height, addition of a watermark in the corner of the photo, etc.

If this is not a possibility in the near future, as a first year Computer Science major, I would like to work on this if Ubuntu ever joins Google Summer of Code 2009.

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2. Don't stop what's playing upon CD/DVD insert
3. Integrate MusicBrainz when new albums are discovered
4. Add Amazon and Google album cover lookup
5. Remove and replace invalid album covers
6. Play with album cover as desktop wallpaper
7. Play video podcasts in visualizer automatically
- IF you can identify a podcast as a Video podcast
8. Receive RSS submissions from Firefox as iTunes does
9. Add the shoutcast directory feature that we lost when Streamcast was discontinued (hey, it's up for grabs!)

Oh and once these features are implemented, dump Sound Juicer.

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This should therefore not happen and the video should remain at its fullscreen size.

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However, the use of this formats in Ubuntu could be at the same time free and legal. For users that have a DVD player (and I think that most of them have at least one!) they have already purchased the right to decode the files in those formats. This could be the legal grounds for being able to play files in proprietary formats for free. If a user has an iPod, a PS3, a DVD player or whatever other player, why should they pay again for licenses they have already bought?

It's like the MAME ROMs, if you have the original ROM you are entitled to play the downloaded ROM in your computer, even this it is a different device, because this is legally considered as a "backup copy". For multimedia devices, the same could be applied, if you have already bought the codecs to play some formats, you should be able to use these codecs in your computer, as some kind of backup.

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If one likes different "types" of music such as "Classical" "Opera" "Jazz", "Blues", "Rock" and "Folk" - and wish to have a random choice of just one of our interests, based on our mood, it would be very useful to be able to base a playlist on, for example, the "Jazz" folders (and sub folders under Jazz. Perhaps an option to tick for sub-folders whilst we are doing this?

At present, it takes ages going through the list choosing all the Jazz files.

Ampers.

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1st example:
At work I only use rythmbox to listen to a webradio, so every time I open it I have to go to the "radio" button and double click on my radio stream. It should remember that I was listening to this radio and when I re-start it I should just have to click play to listen to my webradio

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The default user should be included in the group of /dev/raw1394 and the system should automatically detect the camera and load the raw1394 module



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With Mplayer and MPC you can adjust that by pressing the "+" or the "-" on your numpad. In Totem I have not seen anything like it. It would be nice if the same keys could be used.

It should also indicate the change in the GUI, to let the user know that something has changed. Mplayer displays the new A/V delay in the left corner of the video for a few seconds. MPC displays it in the status bar for a few seconds.

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Many users have been concerned of accidentally putting the volume too high blasting their earphones and eardrums to bits.

Whilst there is no generic way of letting users set the max decibles allowed on the port, users could set their own on the individual ports, or on the master volume. It would also let users leave the maximum volume for their amplifier SPDIF port unlocked, whilst setting your analog jack (which you would use for headphones) locked quite low, so that if they maintain different sound output devices, they all continue to perform well.

Everyone wins, and no extra hardware is required. This is the only way of generically fixing the problem with current technology unfortunately. This idea is based off Natureflow's idea, of Preventing too loud sound

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If it worked out of the box, there would be nothing to complain about....right?

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It should be immediate-rewarding, you press a key, and out comes a sound. Even a 2 year old should be able to use it.

It does not need to be powerful and able to do great music. The focus should be on fun and easy to use, so that it can teach kids that they too can make music, and spur creativity in them. Excite them about music. Its easy, and fun and they can be part of it, and it can spark a fire.

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No attachments. ]]> Tue, 07-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/13450/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/14158/ research team from CMU came up with a way to repair photos by patching missing/dodgy sections with similar ones from other photos.

I propose we build it into our photo tools so that users are able to automatically fix their pictures in a natural looking way automatically. Granted they may end up with a few foreign trees in the photo, or the shoes might not match at the end, but users would not be able to determine the real photo.

Neither OSX nor windows seems to do this yet, but it has many practical applications. More information is available here:
Scene Completion Using Millions of Photographs (Thanks Ubuwu for finding it)

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