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When a image is drag, it should be transprent
Here is a demo image
http://ed10vi86.googlepages.com/Image_drag.png

it's very confortable for move images from firefox to desktop or an aplication

When having installed several games trough synaptic I realised that a lot of them create multiple entries in the menu. Like one for the server one for the client and another one for config or editor.
In general this bloats the menu alot. I think games that have multiple entries should create their own subfolder OR we sort the games in subcategories ( i think it was like that in some inteprid alpha).

Strange for example also is the "ProMode" launcher for nexuiz.

Ubuntu has a control center, bad it's very basic, ubuntu should has a good control center, like mandriva, for the new users,note the number of return users to windows because they do not do things right, that is, they don't know where to find the options, and with a good control center they will can do all the configuration things easily.

There are a number of possible improvements that could be made to speed up the installation of new applications, for example:

1) Allow packages to be downloaded in parallel to prevent slow repositories from slowing the overall download process. See wish list bug: 313685

2) Allow installation of packages in parallel with downloading (where possible). See wish list bug: 313680

A great feature that I believe should be implemented in order to save some time and headaches to new (and old) Ubuntu users, is a "mount anyway" button on the popup you can see when the event described below happens.

Event: That error shows up when you connect a pen drive or disk drive which wasn't properly disconnected from a Windows computer.

The current solution is only to use force the mount using console.

This "mount anyway" button should be something warning the user some data could be lost, but it should use the force option, even if it means asking for sudo password (if not needed, better).

(I'm sorry I don't have an image to attach, but I don't have any Windows system near me right now...)

add a icon to eye of gnome for open the image with gimp

i make this image for example:
http://i39.tinypic.com/4pwjs7.png

When editing in f-spot ctrl + z (there is no Edit>Undo either) should undo changes on current version. Having to go back to original after after a bad change after having done a few things can be quite frustrating, especially since Ctrl Z is pretty standard throughout the system.

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.

After i saw my brother's mac applications start up in split seconds, i thought why can't my ubuntu do that?

That's when i noticed that the compiz animation for opening windows actually increases the time for a program to start.

I tried reducing the duration of that certain animation from 200 to only 50 and now it feels like my system is much faster and responsive just because i saved that half a second here and there.

My point is the default animation durations for compiz should be shorter to give the impression of a more responsive operating system. But that doesn't mean it should be disabled, because compiz animations never fail to impress people.

The animations for closing windows can be left longer to act as eyecandy because it affects the overall responsiveness less.

LiveUSB is my favourite new feature in Ubuntu 8.10... it's absolutely great to take Ubuntu always with you and use it in any computer.

The point is that it can be even more useful if persistence file (space to install upgrades, new software, games or to save files as docs, pics, films...) takes profit of full pendrive space.

Nowadays 8Gb, 16Gb or even 64Gb USB drives are very affordable, but seems that in practice persistence file just use 4Gb (at least that's my experience with the USB startup application).

The default instant messenger Pidgin should have the option to use GnuPG (OpenPGP standard) to encrypt messages.

Pidgin supports OTR, but OpenPGP can be used for offline messages, too. And beside that: there are many clients out there, which only support OpenPGP encryption but not OTR.

We need more encryption. We tempt users to use Pidgin (because "it was there"). So we should provide all possible ways, to ease these encryption stuff up for everyone. It's difficult for most of the users, and additional compatibility problems are not helpful.

It would be convenient if you could paste files into a tab without opening it, just like you can paste into folders anywhere else in nautilus.

I would like a way to specify the dimensions and coordinates of the gnome dialogs and windows. For instance, the save dialog is pretty small, and I usually have to resize it almost every single time I save a file! It would be nice for gnome to remember how I resize certain dialogs, or even how I resize certain dialogs for certain applications.

On Mac OS X if there is a kernel panic, the GUI is ignored and white over black text is strewn across the screen describing what has happened and what caused it. Then the system freezes. On Ubuntu... it freezes, and you have no clue on the planet as to why. That, is bad. This would be oh so simple to do. Please, do it! This would definitely help everyone who has a kernel panic. Another possibility would be to kill all the user-apps that are running, then show a dialog box displaying what has happened. The dialog box would have one button: restart. This way they could read it, then move on just like they would have to anyways.

When changing resolution (when you move monitor / play games) my icons/applets on the panel constantly move around. I feel I am always organising them.

My solution to this would be:

Every icon/applet/thing in the panel should have:
1) a binding: left/center/right
2) a priority/order: a positive integer (natural number).

The binding would control the overall placement. All icons with the left binding will be on the left of the panel, a binding of right would be on the right of he panel and finally a binding of center would mean the icon is in the center of the panel.

The priority would control the ordering within a section of the panel. Thus if an icon is binding=left and priority=5, then all icons with a binding=left and a priority less than 5 shall be placed to the left of the icon and higher priorities after the icon. Obviously all icons where binding=left should be placed on the left of the panel and similar fro center and right.

Here is a diagram of icons, the numbers indicate the priority, and the binding should be obvious. I have used the | character to indicate the split between left, center and right as many spaces are no preserved in this system.

0 1 2 3 | 0 1 2 3 | 0 1 2 3 4

There is no need to the numbering to be incremental by 1. For example if you always want the logout icon at the far right, then it can have a binding=right and a priority=1000 e.g

0 1 2 3 | 0 1 2 3 | 0 1 2 3 1000

This should then work for any resolution (assuming the icons fit i.e. the panel is large enough for all icons), changing resolutions and other things should trigger the redrawing of the panel and the gap between the left, right and center will change, but this is expected. There is less physical room on a smaller resolution than a higher one.

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It might be a good idea to provide a Udev rule editor interface. Almost all external devices come with a usb interface. For a novice it might be a problem to check with commands like lsusb , dmesg and follow with tail-f /var/log/messages etc. Instead we can have a UI that will let the user define the kind of device being plugged and prompt him for applications that need to be launched on plugging. This can be on the lines of nautilus scripts

Right now, results for a search made in wiki.ubuntu.com are displayed alphabetically! For example, performing a title search for Kubuntu gives you this:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=Kubuntu&tit lesearch=Titles
And searching for Kubuntu in the texts of pages gives you this:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=Kubuntu&ful lsearch=Text
Notice that neither gave you the Kubuntu page on the first page of results! ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kubuntu )
Results should be displayed by relevance, not alphabetically.

When accessing a hard disk/flash memory etc where there is a lot of IO activity, there should be more affect to the responsiveness of my mouse (touch pad in this case) or keyboard. Currently when I copy / move photos from my flash card (via my card reader on my laptop) to my hard disk, my mouse pointer becomes vary jumpy and unresponsive and it is almost impossible to reliably click on anything. This should not happen. An effort should be made to reduce and ultimately remove this unresponsiveness.

In Jaunty, I'd like to see AMD's upcoming open source drivers with 3D acceleration for ATI R600 (HD 2000/3000 and FireGL 2007) and R700 (HD 4000).

"Since earlier this year we have been waiting for AMD to release documentation and/or code on the ATI R600 series concerning 3D acceleration so that the open-source Linux drivers can begin to support the newer ATI graphics processors. It has taken longer than expected for AMD to complete and release this information, but it's now available. AMD has released the fundamental Linux code needed to begin fostering the development of an open-source R600 3D driver. Furthermore, this code also concerns the latest R700 series of graphics processors! The microcode for the newest GPUs has also been released."
- Phoronix

I think that the System > Preferences > Sessions dialog should have a password lock on it, similar to the network dialog.

It would greatly increase security, after all. Any nasty softwares first port of call is to register itself in the startup list.