http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com guidelines and check if your idea has been posted already! ]]> en-us Mon, 13-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC Mon, 13-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/14205/
for example:

>compiz
---compiz-core
---compiz-plugin
---compiz-gnome
>evolution
---evolution-data-center
---evolution-webcal
---evolution-plugin
>firefox
---firefox-3.0
---firefox-3.0-gnome-support

etc, update manager should be more intelligent in general!

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Since no much significant features were implemented, it seems to be still dirty code on Gnome should be cleaned to optimize it for computers not so plenty of gigabytes of RAM.

Interesting to see how we can save more than 100mb of ram using LXDE instead of Gnome, even running all Gnome applications, like nautilus, gnome-terminal, gedit, etc.

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This is not a dupe of http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/6909/ that calls for disabling suspend and hibernate all out. I only want it disabled if it doesn't work on the machine in question.

Main reason being that I know of some people who keep accidentally trying to suspend and/or hibernate out of habit from when they used windows, where this did work [bleh]. I'm tired of hearing them complain about it.

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And often the keyboard shortcut assigned to killing applications won't come up either.

Both of these need to be more able to take over control of the desktop and dominate buggy applications.

Windows Task Manager has this ability, and will almost always come up no matter how many things have crashed.

Also, add links to shut down, reboot, or restart the windowing manager.

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Synaptic and Apt-Get have a great feature whereby the tool estimates the download size and expected drive usage upon installation, however it doesn't compare that value against the actual free drive space on the system. It is perfectly possible to attempt to download 100MB worth of updates that will consume 200MB of disk space after installation (total 300MB) when you only have 50MB of actual disk space free.

A simple query of the drive and a message dialog advising that the downloads and/or installation cannot be completed due to lack of space would save many a new user from tearing their hair out when Apt-Get kicks up a stink about being unable to perform any other task (such as removing apps to make space) because it has an unfinished installation that needs to be sorted out first.


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Bug #59547 : [Information on this bug will be retrieved soon]
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What is to prevent a third-party repository from pushing updates for *any* package on my system?

Example: Say I add the repo for Banshee media player. I expect (and trust) it will only push updates that involve Banshee, but what is to stop them from pushing a non-banshee related update? Maybe it's a bit paranoid of me, but I'd like to know which updates are coming from which repo. Then, at least if I see a third-party repo pushing an update for something like sudo, then I'll know something is fishy - but right now I have no way of knowing where the updates are coming from, and that bothers me.

Also, the update-mananger, could possibly group the update list by repository.

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b) offer to format the drive

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Fedora
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/FeatureList

OpenSuse
http://en.opensuse.org/Testing:Features_11.0

Mandriva
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Ideas/Technical_specs_2008

This way we will get some new features for free and will avoid reinventing the wheel on other problems. Also it can be an inspiration to come up with even better solutions.

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To ensure that the files don't disappear immediately after being trashed ruining the safety margin, there could also be an option for files deleted to be locked for a certain time period, to ensure that files don't get deleted instantly. (such as where you delete a 500MB file when there is only 500mb of space, and then 1 minute after immediately install something).

In fact, it actually adds a greater level of trash safety, because files in the trash will persist as long as they can, as opposed to now where if you don't empty the trash, there may be 300gb of files in there, and the only easy option is deleting all of them unnecessarily. However, files could still be manually deleted

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I hate two things:

1. Printers
2. Backup

My dislike for printers and configuration is already targeted in Intrepid Ibex in the joint venture Ubuntu/Linux Foundation with OpenPrinting.

I would LOVE to see increased efforts around my second point: Backup.

I want a backup routine that is as seamless as anything else in Ubuntu. Perhaps something like Apples time machine.

Is it possible to make doing backup easy and fun?

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In GDM 2.22.x and newer the only themeing possible is wallpaper, GTK theme and probably a branding image.

GDM shouldn't get rid of themeing, but should allow doing more. Being an "OpenGL runtime environment", GDM would allow crazy transitions and animations of user lists and other login elements.

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Optimizations could include, for example, disabling non-essential daemons and services.

xubuntu only has a lightweight window manager; but under the hood it seems to have all the overhead of full Ubuntu.

By comparison, Slackware boots and runs much faster than Ubuntu (or the KDE-based Kubuntu) on any given PC. With proper tuning, Ubuntu should be able to match this performance, while keeping its usability advantages.

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No attachments. ]]> Mon, 13-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/13316/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/14002/ Some users dislike ubuntu because they get Lost all the time.
They erase the panels, change the icons size, erase the side panel in nautilus, etc. and they don't even notice that!

Some users just want a computer that looks the same so they don't get lost.
There are always family members who think its catastrophic to erase a panel. :)

THIS IS FOR THEM.
I will lost points for them.
Please support.


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In systems with low ram memory running this would probably be worse than not running, but there are several computers in the market coming with 2gb or more of ram memory now (specially because of Vista, which is very memory hungry).

So, my proposal is that:
(a) preload gets moved into main
(b) preload gets installed by default
(c) some shellscript tests how much ram does a machine have and start preload or not according to it

Maybe we can also find a way to not test it everytime it boots, avoiding a unnecessary boot slowdown since the amount of memory *can* change over time but *usually* don't.

We could try something running thru crontab every N days to check if it had changed and ajust a flag in preload shellscript accordingly.

For more information, try this in a terminal:
apt-cache show preload

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(x) would be a user configurable time (could be set to 0 for users who do not prefer to have a dialog on restart) with the default time set to 3 seconds; (y) could be a function key or dialog button.

When the user opts for more options at reboot, they are presented with the grub list, allowing them to choose a different kernel, memtest, recovery modes or even a different operating system to reboot into. (this could be achieved presently by editing the default in /boot/grub/menu.lst to the user desired OS)

IF (upon more options) the user chooses to reboot into Ubuntu AND the user has set the computer to automatically log in at boot, THEN the user is presented with more options to choose from, ranging from safe graphics mode to different desktop environments (Gnome, KDE, etc).

If you feel this brainstorm needs -1, please let me know why. I appreciate it.



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