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Android is an open source (100% apache 2.0/GPL now) linux-based mobile phone platform developed by Google. It uses a java-like bytestream language to be CPU-independent, secure, fast (applications need to run well on 300mhz phone CPU's and RAM-friendly. Unlike the iphone platform, developers still maintain a high level of flexibility. Even slow computers would be able to run Android apps well.

We should allow gnome to open android programs as if they are native applications. Since android uses a native linux backend anyway, getting GPS and other such devices to work seamlessly with android apps should be easy.

This would be especially good portable ubuntu devices, because they often benefit from the same apps as mobile phones. And, we would gain a vast array of secure web enabled applications that are easy to use, innovative, and pretty, with the added benefit of being cross platform compatible with the latest mobile phone apps. Integration would probably not require consuming ram when you aren't using any android apps. But this would be a big win for us.

Some Android applications laptop users may benefit off:
Cooking Capsules
Picsay
Splash Play
Cab4me

By integrating GPS into Ubuntu laptops, the vast array of Android location-aware applications would instantly give us an upper hand in usability. The code is already pretty much done, we just need to integrate it! So lets do it for 9.04.

Work with Google to receive an advanced Linux version of Google Chrome so you can package it and put it in the repositories at the same time of the release.

Everyone by now has seen the world famous mockups of what Ubuntu apparently should look like. The problem is that what is shown in those mockups is not yet possible with the current way gnome works.

I worry with everyone clambering for this mythical theme and with time running out before 8.10 ships, what will end up happening is Ubuntu will ship with the same old problematic brown and orange theme that is so hated by a lot of people.

There is a solution though...

The Dust theme
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/DustTheme

The Dust theme has gotten a lot of praises on Digg and is easily as sexy as anything I've personally seen for Linux (and I'm not usually a fan of dark themes), bust most promising of all... is actually possible with the current technology we have at our disposal.

It's time to be bold! Stop defaulting to the same brown and orange and make a big bold change. Embrace Dust.

Yes you will get a few idiots who will say it's too like Vista just because it's black, but ignore them people. The wider tech community will praise Ubuntu for finally ditching its dorky themes and becoming sophisticated and sexy. New users will be eager to try out this Ubuntu thing they have heard so much about.

http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs31/i/2008/191/5/2/Elementary_GTK_by_DanRabbit.jpg

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Human theme is good. I've seen the proposals like this:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/Intrepid_Ibex_GTK_proposal
and they are pretty nice. But Orange/Brown is a warm combination of colors. Ubuntu should use them, but there is a limit. The actual Ubuntu theme is TOO orange, there's needed to be a balance, having Icons like theese:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/Intrepid_Ibex_Icons_-_Art_Tea m

With a theme like the first one is too much.

I suggest something a little neutral like Elementary:
http://ddb.fiestapig.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/apr5-2.png

Brainstorm Idea:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/10709/

Warm colors are not calming, and a working station should be. So a color like Orange has to be used carefully.

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As the title says create a tab in the add/remove applications for newly added. I check Add Remove for cool programs but there are too many too sift through to find the new ones.

After adding new repositories and clicking reload,Synaptic downloads lists from servers.And after that When I search for an application in synaptic it takes to much time to find me the package.Actually its looking into the list that was downloaded.

I think indexing the package name and description after reloading the package list can improve synaptic performance.

Here is Gmail main page and msttcorefonts in use:
http://i38.tinypic.com/i72bfs.png

And here same page but now with ttf-liberation:
http://i35.tinypic.com/1zdtaw1.png

Ttf-liberation just looks better and it is under GPL. Why should we use non-free msttcorefonts if there is free and better looking alternate available?

currently, f-spot shows all the pictures in a continuous stream, with no separation according to the select date / folder/ whatever.
please add a separator between the categories, otherwise not enough information is provided to allow for that distinction.

for example:
[] - a picture
instead of :

[] [] [] [] [] [] []
go figure what belongs to where,

party pictures
[] [] [] [] [] [] []
funeral pictures
[] [] [] [] [] [] []

What do you think about this new firefox default look?
More simplicity than it already has.
(This is not a mockup)
http://img209.imageshack.us/my.php?image=firefoxdc7.png

Enough people use it.

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Make having a password optional, and logging in automatic if there is only one user account.

To install programs, or do anything requiring root access, prompt user: "You are about to access sensitive files. Any changes made may break your system. Continue?" Or something along those lines.

If the user WANTS a password, he can easily create one through System Settings or whatever, and will subsequently be asked for his password at GDM/KDM/whatever and for any root access.

If someone installs Ubuntu and just wants to surf the net and listen to music, why require all this password stuff? It makes logging in a pain in the butt, and these non-tweakers are not going to take the time to poke around in settings to set up the auto-login; they're just going to get annoyed.

So make password-less Ubuntu (for normal people) default, and leave password enabled (tweaker-centric) Ubuntu an option.

I think it would look more neat if comments were divided into pages. It would reduce loading time and you won't have to scroll down so far.

Five Reasons:

1. Because we can sort the ideas by the number of views. Doing so will give the ideas a better chance to compare to other, increasing the *fairness* (actually round robing the ideas by the number of views).

2. Because we can see how popular an idea is by the ratio K/V, where K = number of clicks, V = number of views.

3. Because if an idea has 2000 views, 1560 clicks and zero votes we could ask it's author to rewrite it because maybe nobody is understanding it (just look at the numbers!).

4. Because an idea with 150 views and 143 votes is better than an idea with 4000 views and 450 votes.

5. Because if an idea has a flag for each user who had already seen it we could show each user only the ideas he/she has not seen yet by default.

One could add more to this, but I think It's enough to expose the big picture.

Ubiquity can find old Ubuntu partitions for their old profile and data, but what I can't understand is why it can't follow the old settings (language, keyboard, time zone)? Maybe it should go like this:

1) Welcome
2) Partition
Find and load old Ubuntu partitions
3) Popup to use old settings if any, including profiles, lang., keyboard, timezone, etc.
--Uncheck stuff you want to change.
3+ or 4+) Go thru stuff you want to change, or all of it if there isn't a old Ubuntu install
Lastly) Done!

coLinux is kernel patches/windows programs that works linux kernel in windows natively. This brings windows high compatibility with standalone linux.
http://www.colinux.org/

You might hate Windows. But an increase of the OSS user is good, I think. Because it become runup time for standalone Ubuntu.

needed work:
-include coLinux kernel package in repository
-include coLinux windows host package (See 5.2 section of http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/BuildingColinux0.8.0 . install/upgrade should be grub-install like way, I think)
--include some library/tools package compiled with mingw cross compiler (needed to build coLinux windows host)
-include coLinux linux host package

related link:
Run Windows and Linux without virtualization
http://www.linux.com/feature/131753
andLinux (Ubuntu based distro using coLinux)
http://www.andlinux.org/
Co-Ubuntu
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=232185
coLinux with KNOPPIX (Japanese)
http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/colinux/
Ubuntu Japanese Remix with coLinux (Ubuntu Japanese LOCO)

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What does President Obama and Ubuntu have in common? Apart from their African roots, they both represent a grassroots movement for freedom and CHANGE. They both stand for a different approach towards humanity in which everyone helps each other while maintaining a profound opposition towards wars driven by greed.

Therefore, it would be interesting to contact the Democratic presidential candidate and ask him about his position on the Free/Open Source software and what course of action he would take to support it.

Whether we like it or not, the United States of America is one of the most powerful nations and its decisions in economy and trade laws affect us all --even if we don't live in the U.S.

Thus, it is important to urge the (likely) future president of the United States to commit himself to support the Free/Open-Source community by passing laws that support open standards and outlaw anti-competitive practices in the industry as well as promoting the adoption of Free/Open-Source software in taxpayer-funded schools and government institutions.

Although Canonical is a British-based company that cannot release an official statement on U.S. politics, we the users of Ubuntu can raise these questions during campaign rallies and on the Internet. The timing is most appropriate as the candidate is more receptive to people's concerns.

Barack Obama's philosophy is not very different from Ubuntu's and our community. I am sure that he will be more than willing to change things so Free/Open-Source software gets a wider adoption and development.

Translations are way too important for the Ubuntu project. I see that many people proposing ideas for translations are always giving it different categories (not agreeing at all even when the ideas are similar).

Not to mention the many people who have to choose "others" as the category for his/her idea related to translation actually).

There is a logic for this in my opinion:

1 - Improve usability, stability and speed for Firefox users in Ubuntu. Beta 5 has some big issues.

2 - This also would help the Mozilla dev team because there would be thousand of users using RC1 instead of Beta5.

3 - The "Beta" can confuse some users.


So, what do you think?

Create a Welcome Center for New Users of Ubuntu explaining the ethos of each of the website sections. Similar to a Grand Tour, this would include the ins and outs of finding the information new users need, such as a non-technical descriptions of the resources available.

Another section could cover switching from other products (i.e. Office to OpenOffice.org, Google Desktop Search to Beagle/Tracker, IE to Firefox). Speed keys and Keyboard shortcuts could be another category.

This would be a strong marketing tool for average computer users and rally some excitement about making the switch. As it developed, Ubuntu would, in effect, be creating a "Power User" community that was capable of helping others in their offices or families take the plunge.

I would love to contribute my time to this kind of promotion. Ubuntu has the ability to light a lot of fires and gain considerable market share through demonstrating a warm welcome for people that are interested.

Fostering a power user community that can support "newbie" questions would, in my opinion, greatly extend those efforts.