Contributor 3wings

One irritating thing about Ubuntu (I guess Linux in general) is the small inconsistencies. Take the way you switch tabs. In some places (like Firefox), you use Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab to switch to the next/previous tab, which in my mind is quite logical. But then in other places (like Nautilu's properties dialog) you can't do that. Instead you have to use Ctrl+PgUp/PgDwn, which I think is quite confusing for new users. Also, in the aforementioned properties dialog this is very impractical because if you get to the tab "Open With" or "Notes", the Ctrl+PgUp/PgDwn key combo stops working! In yet other places (like gEdit) none of the above key combos work! There you have to use Alt+1/2/3/etc.!

That means that there are at least three different ways of changing tabs in the default applications of Ubuntu! In my view that is not acceptable! I don't mind there being different ways to switch tabs, as long as they all work in all apps. This is the case in Firefox, where you can use any of the key combos mentioned above to switch tabs. I would like at least the most known of these key combos (Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab) to work across all apps in Ubuntu. Please! :)

[PS: I'm not sure if this should be in Accessibility or Look and Feel. If it's placed in the wrong category, I hope an admin will move it for me. Thanks!]

update manager should have this features.
1)ability to disable/ignore particular dialog,like i dont
have printer and scanner and why would i want those
drivers eg:cups etc
2)ability to pause currently downloading updates and
resume after reboot,after an certain time.
3)smaller updates size and shrink that file that has information about updates,i have dialup connection and hardly get a full speed of 64kbps in my country or choose
profile for downloading updates.
4)update manager should also inform about other updates in
system such as non gnome specific,third party apps wine etc
5)intuitive or automatic updates which downloads important updates (security concerned threats,improving system stability,worms,rootkits)without asking.
lastly mark and install those dependencies without too many dialogs and show size of download before downloading.

Ever had to log into ubuntu while somebody is watching you type your password? It would be great to be able to type extra characters before and/or after the correct password string and still work. For instance, say the password is "orange" then typing "ABCorangeDEFH" or "uorange232j" would work just as well as typing simply "orange."

Report, via a non intrusive popup (libnotify style or something) when
a)Files have been edited when the system was shutdown.
b)Files in a users home directory have been edited more recently then the last time they logout

a simple message like
"files have been modified since the system was last successful shutdown/logout, click to see details"
would cover the fact that it will be triggered in the event of a crash. clicking for details could then trigger a more detailed analysis.

There are obviously security flaws with this, an attacker can spoof the file edit times, an attacker would be able to disable the reporting system, etc, but some security would be gained against simple attacks (like logging in at recovery mode, or using a live CD)

Redesign the login dialogs (login, GDM, KDM, ...) so that this will not happen to (me) anymore: while people are watching you log in, you make a mistake, you re-login and you accidentally type your password to the visible username field...!

There is a deceptive practice of tricking a user into visiting a site by using instant messaging.

One example would be that the user could get an IM thinking that their friend wants to them to see an image. The message would read "Check out this picture http://photobucket.com/image.jpg", but the link would actually lead to somewhere else. Almost always it will lead to something dangerous or otherwise unwanted like a virus executable or a vulgar website.

This could be very simply and automatically protected through pidgin. A plugin could validate that all links with text that looks like a URL, actually leads to the URL it looks like.

Something that reads "http://google.com" should always lead to "http://google.com" However it is possible that the text may not read as a URL, and it could read like "This Website" and lead to "http://google.com"

So I would like to see a system message, show in the same area that you would normally see "this person has gone away" show a notification that the link is misleadings and an explanation of the risks. This would only show up if the link's text looks like a URL, and the href does not match it.

I got this idea more as a joke but kind of grown on me and I think
it's so strange it could actually work...
First of all, what I mean with "lifestyle" magazines.
Lifestyle magazines are everything from Playboy through Cosmopolitan to The Economist.
So idea is that Cannonical pairs with one or more of this magazines and creates a "special" Ubuntu theme based on these magazine. So let's say there would be Ubuntu Playboy theme with desktop picture of playboy bunnies, an rss feed preinstaled for news from their site and so on... The same for Cosmopolitan or the Economist... It doesn't really matters which it is. The point is that the CD with this "special" edition would be sold with this magazine. So Ubuntu would get a lot of new users...
So why not anything else rather lifestyle magazines. Well this magazines are sold globally and are usually printed in local language. Well Economist isn't but I put it there to prove my point.
And don't forget National Geographic I can already see a good "special" edition of Ubuntu for it.
I think that almost in all cases Kubuntu would better because all of this editions would be built on eye candy plus KDE looks more like Windows than Gnome.
Please write why you don't or do like this idea which magazines (with global coverage) would you recomend.
Which would use Gnome / KDE / Xfc desktop...

I'm totally aware that this is a bit weird idea, but its one way how to get those that never even herd of anything else then Windows

When you press ctrl alt f1 ect you get a terminal indepenant of X and is wonderfull if you know what your doing, but say my mum accadentally presses ctrl alt f1. Not knowing really what she is doing or the cat lands on the keyboard and puts it into a terminal. She would think the computer is broken and be very confused on how to fix it I think we should put a discription as to what it is and how to get back to X

or linux
it can by by ticking choices and adding comment to them
for example:i tick HW problems /with usb plugged it wont boot/ and i dont have some software
or something like this

I propose there should be a period of maybe a week, halfway between Ubuntu releases, when the community is (especially) encouraged to vote.

Why? I'm sure most of the Ubuntu users have better things to do most of the time than to regularly check Brainstorm and vote for the new ideas.

This way, Brainstorm could:

1. collect votes from a wider audience (those who haven't heard of Brainstorm, those who don't visit the site frequently, those who are busy in general, etc)

2. when they are most needed (a reasonable amount of time before a new release, not right before or right after).

How? Newsletters, announcements on the IRC channels, sticky threads in the forums, voting campaigns, etc :)

[EDIT] To avoid misunderstandings: voting would only be Encouraged in this period. It would be open/enabled/accessible all the time, just like now.

Some people vote against ideas, not because they're bad, but because they're not related to Ubuntu (or operating systems in general), they're out of Canonical's control, or they're likely to be a low priority for Canonical in the foreseeable future.

There should be a brainstorm sister site, or a section of brainstorm, devoted to these types of ideas. Users who want to stare at non-Ubuntu-related ideas can go to the sister site. Users who want to focus on Ubuntu-only ideas don't.

Then people can vote on ideas based on whether the idea is good or bad, not how they think the idea relates to Ubuntu or Canonical or others. Results from the sister site can periodically be forwarded to relevant developers, or can be used by Canonical some day when it decides to expand operations.

Please connect Stycky notes, calendar and Thynderbird the way that it stores all there data on the server (yahoo, googlemail, hotmail, etc.). That means no storage in the computer.

Make Firefox to open a new message on the server itself if thunderbird is not installed.