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I really like gEdit, it's a simple app and abides by all gnome standards. Any changes in preferences are reflected in the editor.

I do wish however that ith ad more features. The first of which is code folding.

Plain and simple.

This is an attempt at a unification of:

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7081/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7390/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7649/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7725/

I can't think, nor have I heard, of any showstopper reason for why BitTorrent shouldn't be used as the primary download method of Ubuntu respository packages. Although the specifics of the implementation of this idea will be different for ISOs and repositories, I feel they should be unified in the brainstorm because the goal is to allow the rapid, efficient, reliable, and available download of Ubuntu software.

Implementation Benefits

1) Speed. All Ubuntu downloads (ISO downloads, dist upgrades, regular system updates, and new application installs) will as a whole be faster. Generally torrent download speeds benefit from higher numbers of downloaders that seed, which Ubuntu users have demonstrated they are prone to do. BitTorrent is better able to absorb (and eventually use as an asset) large numbers of users attempting to download data at the same time, such as with the recent mad rush of Hardy downloaders/upgraders.

2) Efficiency. The BitTorrent protocol has proven to be one of the most efficient methods of distributing data amongst a large number of clients. It will harness the collective upstream of tens of thousands of Ubuntu users, from DSL and cable connections to the fastest of corporate connections.

3) Reliability. Checksums guarantee the integrity of BitTorrent downloads, so data corruption is much less likely to occur. Only the pieces that fail checksum are redownloaded, contributing to points 1 and 2.


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Use Tracker in Synaptic to search for packages.

One thing that boggles my mind is why the Synaptic search is so unbearably slow. At the same time, the desktop searcher Tracker delivers results as quickly as you would expect.

Synaptic has a finite, and rather small amount of records to search through, that changes rather infrequently (again, in search engine context). It seems like the perfect candidate for using Tracker instead.

With Tracker in Synaptic a search for any string would probably take about 0.05 seconds. That is down from approx 5-6 seconds that it currently typically takes.

So again, use Tracker in Synaptic to seriously speed up the package searches!

Who can see anything in icon view?

The Grub-Search-Linuxclient is the heartpiece of the free Searchengine Wikia. Please Support and integrate the Crawler and Wikia-Search in Ubuntu as a Standard. Help Wikia to grow up and to be the best Free and Open Searchengine for the free and Open Linux-People in a free and democracy Internet! Thanks

[1]http://www.grub.org
[2]http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Search_Wikia

Now when you click on save button in Open Office it doesn't becomes "unclickable" (for lack of the better word).
This should be repaired, because I think that other distros have that, and Windows have that.
That was one of main reason that I went from word to open office.
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Why is this good idea to do:
Because when you quit, you don't to double check if you saved the last version of document. Because this is clearly show by the button save, because you can't click on it again.

In icon view, things sometimes get a little bit cluttered and confusing in nautilus. I thought it would be helpful to (optionally) visually separate files and folders to make navigation easier.

Example image: http://www.gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-pre1/62271-1.png

Source: Gnome-look.org
Author: mockup

Link: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=62271&forumpage=0

Nautilus does its job as a light file manager. However, as Gnome's default file manager, I think it could use a lot more love than what it is given. This could include:

- Tabbed browsing! Most browsers today support tabbed browsing, but still few file managers. This doesn't really make sense now does it?
- Better remote connection/sftp handling. The current one is AWFUL. Slow, sluggish, buggy. Take example on Konqueror!
- SVN integration has been waved at. I find it a cool idea, even if only as a plugin.
- Speaking of plugins... those also need some love. How many plugins are there for Nautilus? Most users don't even know Nautilus can be enhanced.
- File tooltips - once again, take example on Konqueror / Windows explorer.

Edit: A few more ideas around Brainstorm:
- Separation of files and folders
- Slider bar for zoom
- A better icon management
- The ability to explode folders

Those are just a handful of ideas. My main concern is Nautilus is being underdeveloped, and the solid alternative is only non-Gnome (Konqueror).


If you liked this idea, check out my other ideas.

every year google conducts summer camp for students to see there potential and rewards best.ubuntu should participate in such events and should be social aware,spread,mentor.put link to participation's etc.

The notification area original goal is to notify the user. Sadly, a lot of applications abuse it and use it as a simple icon dock (like under Windows).

This is a violation of the HIG ( http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/desktop-notification-area.html ), makes the notification area clutered and a lot less useful.

For people with no prior Windows experience, it also seems to be completely counter-intuitive and non understandable (why are some application there and some other in the panel).

I suggest to consider each abuse of the notification area a bug and that, by default, application use the notification area according to the HIG. (Gaim for example, can use the notification area only if you have a new message, which is the way the HIG recommands to use this feature).

I'm sure i am not against my idea! ;)

It would be useful to have filters so that you can see files only of a certain type e.g. only PDF files in a certain folder. I know you can order files by type but if the folder is big it will take some time to go through all the types.

rhythmbox, totem, pigdin are some of the some default applications for Ubuntu.
We should find a way to allow every body to use it's own preferred applications

The "Preferred applications" and "Removable Drives and media selector" should be merged in a "Preferred Applications and behaviors".
Some new categories should be add like :
-Instant messaging
-burn cd (preferred app for Places-> CD/DVD Creator)
-Search files (preferred app for Places-> shearch for files)


There are a lot of idea on default application :
- idea #1675: Better Preferred Applications dialog
- idea #1276: Create a global preference for media formats
- idea #1150: Gnome applet with favorite applications
- idea #1686: Make VLC & Banshee default Media Players
- idea #374: Quod Libet as the default Music organizer

A centralize configurations for "Preferred Applications and behaviors" will be a good solutions for all this ideas

I get messages telling me my battery capacity when it's low. Good to know, but why not include this information in the charging applet somehow?

Perhaps, but not necessarily, alongside tips to increase battery life.

Priority: High
Realisation:Easy
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I don't know of any open source PDF reader plug-in for any browser. So I installed adobe acrobat, which I think it's not open source or is it?
There are good open source PDF readers like Okular or XPDF, so
I think it wouldn't be so hard to make plug-in at least for Firefox if not for all other browsers..

while burning,it would be nice if brasero kept track of moved files that were included for burning instead of showing error
message and giving an incomplete disc

It would be nice to have the system log color coordinated so if your looking for a problem its easier to find.

There are all sort of features, enabled by default, that violate the users privacy:

recent files histories,
browser histories and cache not being cleaned at shutdown,
password saving features,
tracker and indexing services that even index file contents,
etc, etc,...

The problem with these is that they are scattered all over the system, so you can never tell when you have found them all. Some are even impossible to turn of with my skills.

It would make much more sense if the attitude would be to have features that violate privacy disabled by default, and enabled by request. This would be a much better attitude towards the user, giving them clarity into their privacy. It would make me feel much better if i had the feeling that developers would only have features like that turned on when im very concious of the decisions i make. Right now, i find it impossible to try and create a safe environment to work in, because it's all scattered. In my opinion, most of those features are quite unuseful anyways. Who was really waiting in great expectation for recent documents to come to linux???

There are also privacy enchancing features which could maybe be on by default if they have no drawbacks, like encrypted swap etc.

In any case, there should be very clear documentation on what the privacy status is of an operating system, with for example an extensive list of all the features that possibly violate privacy.

Clarity is asked for. How many people know what it means to have a journalling file system in therms of privacy. Does that mean that shred will not erase all sensitive data? , etc, etc...

There should be an option in the Nautilus file manager to handle saved web pages and accompanying folders as one file.

For instance, if I save a web page called foo.html in Firefox, there will be a folder named foo_files in the same directory too. That can confuse users or be a source of errors. When the user wants to move or copy that web page on the file system, he must copy/move the aforementioned folder too, or some objects will be missing from the web page, i. e. pictures.

Nautilus should make sure the folder is copied/moved when the page is moved. Even better, it should keep the folder hidden, showing only the web page file icon.

Of course, this should be added as an option, so that the experienced users can customize this behavior.

http://ebupof.deviantart.com/art/Ubuntu-website-84984292

Some of the members at our swedish forum sugested to post it here. I just did what they told me to do. :)

This is my version of the Ubuntu.com website.