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Wildcards in Hosts file

Written by Guest2010 the 16 May 10 at 13:57. Global category: System. New

Many of us are blocking websites via the Hosts file, because it is easy, fast and does not use much CPU power unlike websiteblocking proxies.

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See the 11 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 28 Mar 13 at 15:36) >>

Nautilus should have a progress bar for those files you're downloading

Written by ironfisher the 23 Mar 10 at 15:52. Related project: Nautilus. New

Nautilus should have a progress bar for those files you're downloading so it let you know if the folder where you are has some files being downloaded and they might be corrupted.

Of course, this can be extended to the files being transferred (copy/move).

For example: You are downloading some file with transmission. Let's say "movie.mkv" on the folder "Downloads". If you go to that folder Nautilus should tell you that the file might be corrupted. So if you open it, totem will fail.

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Solution #5: Use D-Bus/create a daemon for all file transfers

Written by matyy the 25 Mar 10 at 10:50.

Well I am not really clear about the technical side of it all, so someone else has to "refine" it. My idea is that it should be a consistent solution for all kind of file transfers - accessible for a lot of download programs and file browsers. A solution just for transmission and nautilus wouldn't be much more than a dirty hack.

When you have a daemon that controls all file transfers it can manage the download status and send notifications when downloads are done. This could also solve idea 24057 ( http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/24057/ ).

The best would be if you could configure everything at one place than - tell it where progress bars are shown, when it should send notifications and so on.

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Solution #6: Make it themeable

Written by forteller the 28 Mar 10 at 17:14.

This is a fantastic idea, but some people might not like the way it looks in this mockup. Some would like to have a progress bar underneath the file, some would like a bar on top of the icon, some might rather want the percentage shown on top of the icon, or in a small badge in the top right corner of the icon, etc.. It should be easy for theme creators to change the look and feel of this.

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See the 14 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 26 Feb 13 at 06:01) >>

title-bar / caption are waste of space

Written by yzarc the 15 Nov 09 at 12:39. Related project: Gnome. New

since they appeared, long time ago, they hold more or less the same features.

Let's see two examples:
Google-chrome, they improved it with the tab-bar and everyone loved it.
UNR, they get rid of it and put the caption and controllers in an applet (windows-picker) saving lots of space.

The gnome title-bar is poor in features and ugly too. It's allways in the way of who tried to make gnome look fancy. Think, do you really look at the caption, or you just use it to close or move the windows? If I wanna know which window is the firefox one, the last place I look is the caption.

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Solution #1: Improve windows-picker solution.

Written by yzarc the 15 Nov 09 at 12:39.

give it more features:
1- show min/restore commands.
2- permit to the app to add gadgets like progress bar, tab-bar, multimedia commands.
3- make it fit with the gtk theme and touching the windows to give the illusion it's part of the window.
4- add launchers.
5- window "menu mode", the window is no maximized but stay attached to the panel, like the calendar.
6- group / ungroup windows.
7- tile windows command.
8- show desktop applet.
9- places applet.

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Solution #2: permit app to use its space

Written by yzarc the 15 Nov 09 at 12:47.

make it more flexible permitting apps to use it as they need.
tab-bar for browsers, art and commands for media players,avatar, status, last msg of a IM windows, etc. no just title and min/max buttons.

look at this example from "clever windows" mockup, the title bar belong to the app, is useful and beautiful, holds interesting informations, is no more just an useless strip.

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Solution #3: Make window managers more sensitive.

Written by Lachu the 15 Nov 09 at 15:45.

Already window managers have designed to not disappoint users. It will force designers to add caption bar, caption buttons, etc. We should fix window border size to 2/4 pixels to each edge. Also, we need to make whole space not contained in active window interactive - by clicking on other window, we don't bring it on first front, but menu with possible actions should appear.
Use cases:
1) Alex would to move window. He only click on destination position and select move there. Alex can also click on window border or white space at screen, go to mode submenu and select move.
2) We had window maximized. It takes whole screen plus borders. Alex can click on border and select window list > gedit(for example). She can also select desktop from window list or click minimize window.

It will brinks better way to integrate with user(more natural, flexible, faster). Additional features is we don't waste space and there always possibility to use mouse(today we must use keyboard in some cases or move window on whole screen).

We should display windows title, when cursor leaves active window or alt key is pressed.

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Solution #5: Extendable Borders

Written by speedkreature the 1 Dec 09 at 18:48.

Using solution #2, extend transparent (or not) borders around the windows when the user moves the pointer (whether mouse, tablet or finger) to the edge of the window because it may be that the menu texts take up the entire top of the window leaving no place to click and drag the window.
The transparent borders would allow the user to resize and move the window as desired.
Hovering some number of milliseconds (or holding the click and not moving) over the extended border would allow for resize, the default action being move.
If the window is fullscreen, it will need to be taken out of full screen mode first. If it still takes the full available monitor space, the desktop environment needs to be resolution aware and shrink the window enough to allow for the border to appear.

GUI's are moving toward multi-touch and I think we need to prepare our desktops for this switch.
This method is a little more intuitive as it only appears when the user is approaching the window boarders (as you do when you intend to move or resize a window).

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Solution #7: Show titlebar only in few conditions.

Written by Lachu the 1 Jan 10 at 17:22.

Titlebar should presents, when mouse cursor is outside titlebar. It should be displayed above the window and be transparent. Also titlebar should been displayed, when mouse are above borders of window for some amount of time.

Once window is maximized, we can display close button on panel(GNOME3 would integrate panels and window managers).

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Solution #10: Change Window Design to Something Unique

Written by Jryskamp the 14 Apr 10 at 16:28.

To attain more screen real estate, if the window borders were change, it could drastically improve this aspect. As most applications (such as word processing, picture editing, and others) need more space vertically, if the title bar was turned 90 degrees and placed on the side of the window while keeping the toolbars on top. Then, to maintain the width of the window, make the title bar auto-hide. Most everyone doesn't use the title bar when they are working on writing, or editing so this would be a great help to most everyone.

And most people know what application they are using at the time so the information produced by the title bar is useless. Having it hidden saves space; however, when it is needed, it can quickly be produced. The window switcher at the bottom will still display the names of the applications switching using them wouldn't be affected.

This will also help change up the impression that Ubuntu is trying to mirror OSX with the change from right to left of window controls.

It's just a thought from a common user who has no computer coding skill whatsoever but I thought it was kinda cool if it made life easier for some people... Let me know what people think or if there are any questions.

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Solution #11: Remove title bar, move window title to top panel

Written by mikko.rantalainen the 19 Oct 10 at 11:46.

Something a bit similar to http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/359 adjusted to be usable with big screens:

(1) Render active window title in the top panel (over the panel's real contents such as "Applications", "Places", "System" etc) and fade out the window title (towards transparent) to make panel actions available again when mouse cursor come close. Keep window menu with the window (this is, of course, up to the application--suggest that "File" menu should be replaced with application name as seen in OS X, this would make even more sense if top of the window is usually the menu for the window).

(2) Remove title bar from window itself. Come up with better methods to move windows (and preferably, get the window manager to manage the windows automatically). I'd prefer Super + left mouse button for moving window, Super + right mouse button for resize. Dragging window towars the top of the screen should maximize it, dragging window towards the bottom of the screen should minimize it etc. A method that does not require keyboard could be invented, too. The real point here is that using ONLY the title bar for moving the window is missing a HUGE amount of pixels that could be used for moving a window. The same is even more true for resizing windows with current window managers. One possibility could be some kind of "Arrange windows" mode where clicking and dragging any windows does not send clicks or drags to the applications itself. Kind of "Show all desktops" view where clicking a window will interact with the window, not the application.

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(3) Possibly, reserve top right corner for application switcher, by default. If currently active application icon were always displayed at the top right corner and it's title were rendered next to it, clicking the top right corner would drop down a list of all application/windows. Done right, this could even make taskbar needless.

As a result, the window manager would only render window border (a couple of pixels or possibly less) and window shadow and other extra stuff. There shouldn't be a reason why window top border should be any special from any other border the window has.

Something a bit similar to http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/359 adjusted to be usable with big screens:

(1) Render active window title in the top panel (over the panel's real contents such as "Applications", "Places", "System" etc) and fade out the window title (towards transparent) to make panel actions available again when mouse cursor come close. Keep window menu with the window (this is, of course, up to the application--suggest that "File" menu should be replaced with application name as seen in OS X, this would make even more sense if top of the window is usually the menu for the window).

(2) Remove title bar from window itself. Come up with better methods to move windows (and preferably, get the window manager to manage the windows automatically). I'd prefer Super + left mouse button for moving window, Super + right mouse button for resize. Dragging window towars the top of the screen should maximize it, dragging window towards the bottom of the screen should minimize it etc. A method that does not require keyboard could be invented, too. The real point here is that using ONLY the title bar for moving the window is missing a HUGE amount of pixels that could be used for moving a window. The same is even more true for resizing windows with current window managers. One possibility could be some kind of "Arrange windows" mode where clicking and dragging any windows does not send clicks or drags to the applications itself. Kind of "Show all desktops" view where clicking a window will interact with the window, not the application.

As a result, the window manager would only render window border (a couple of pixels or possibly less) and window shadow and other extra stuff. There shouldn't be a reason why window top border should be any special from any other border the window has.

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Solution #12: Replace the Titlebar with Tab-like window-buttons (like in web browsers)

Written by nickr the 30 Jan 11 at 14:20.

All the Titlebar does is display close-minimize-maximize buttons and the window's title/name. Window-buttons (the rectangular windows that appear across the panel/taskbar when a file or program is opened) already display the window's name. If they were to gain a close-minimize-maximize button in the corner (similar to a web browser's TAB-button) they would negate any need for a Title bar. Perhaps the current length of the window-buttons could be made slightly longer to accommodate the extra buttons (not a problem on widescreen displays). All the Titlebar does presently is take up valuable vertical space. It will also improve Ubuntu usability because it is more intuitive to move to the open window-button on the panel/taskbar to close it or manipulate it than to move to the Titlebar.

To make everyone happy, developers could simply allow a settings change to add this functionality to the Ubuntu Appearance for users who want this functionality. Those who don't want it don't have to engage the setting.

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Solution #13: Replace the title bar with one bulge that follows the mouse pointer

Written by rockachu2 the 2 Apr 11 at 19:22.

The user could click and drag to move, drag to the top of the screen to maximize, and double click to close
The user could drag to the window bar to minimize.
This would open up a lot of space.

When activating a window, a user would see the title in a separate 'bulge' , which would shrink after some time.

Applications should also be able to 'draw' over the top border and use the sides as they wish, since there is no need for restriction there anymore.

See the 5 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 22 Jan 13 at 03:03) >>

Remove the music preview with mouse hover

Written by stanislavs1 the 20 Mar 10 at 22:03. Related project: Nautilus. Implemented

The feature sounds nice when you read about it. In reality, it gets really annoying after a while. I realize you can disable it if you don't want it, but if little features like this will be added over time, Ubuntu will become too bloated.

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Selected solution (#7): Single-click and hold for preview

Written by mydoghasworms the 19 Apr 10 at 14:19.

Instead of previewing an audio file when you hover over it, allow the user to click and hold for e.g. 1 second on the file icon to start the preview. At this point the little overlay should appear and the audio start playing.

Then, when you let go of the mouse button, the preview stops playing.

This behaviour should be configurable between the old and new behaviour in gconf, so users who still want the old preview behaviour can still have it.

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Selected solution (#8): Click to play/pause audio preview

Written by davide the 25 May 10 at 21:15.

Audio preview in Nautilus is a tremendous nice feature, improve it with single click play/pause.
On mouse rollover display the "play" icon, after click event show "pause" icon, play sound until it finishes or until the user fires another click on audio icon. This way you can listen all the sound while moving your mouse.
Status icons proposal:

http://sitoz.org/public/brainstorm-audio-preview.png

See the 9 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 19 Dec 12 at 19:00) >>

In Ubuntu it takes too long to go through menus for common applications

Written by brandonsheppard the 20 Jan 10 at 23:47. Related project: Gnome. Implemented

Windows has a section in the startbar for pinned applications, and OSx has a dock.
Ubuntu needs a faster way to launch commonly used applications, as many people tend to launch the same applications as they log on, and don't want to have them automatically launch. Panel Launchers take up too much space especially for those who use only one panel.

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Selected solution (#5): Make the run dialog faster to use

Written by cristian.vrabie the 30 Jan 10 at 13:57.

One great way to launch applications is the run dialog (opens with Alt+F2).
In KDE this is very easy to use. You type a few letters. If your desired application is the only or the first application in the list you can hit enter which will launch it. If there are more applications in the list you can further filter or you can tab to you application. For common applications this is usually very fast to do - alt+f2, 3 letters then enter.
In GNOME we also have the run dialog. The problem is that you have to perform more operations. For example you have to type your filter then press tab several times (5 to be move exact) to focus the application list then move with the arrows to select it.
A very quick way to improve this and which I think it will be very helpful is to auto-focus the application list once you hit tab. Also, if you hit enter, and you don't manually select an application after you filter the first application in the list should be launched.

See the 7 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 17 Dec 12 at 19:25) >>

we should merge applications and menus

Written by slsolaris the 15 Aug 09 at 16:17. Global category: System. Not an idea

I do not like to see things twice

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Solution #1: drop system preferences menu from ubuntu main menu bar

Written by slsolaris the 15 Aug 09 at 16:17.

we already have this under user switch applet, so why do we have to have this twice, I think is better to have it under user switch applet because the other way menu grows when we install new things, then it is better to have our system preferences in a single windows than to have it in a menu, it is easier to use and find what we need, they are in groups which simplify the search and we have a filter.

See the 3 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 8 Dec 12 at 09:16) >>

Improve the height of the panel

Written by ubby the 5 Dec 09 at 10:51. Global category: Look and Feel. Not an idea

As you can see in the picture below Ubuntu's panel height is 25 px:
http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/2940/panelk.png
The height of the Apple OSX panel is 21 px and let the desktop look smoother.
My idea is to make the Ubuntu panel in the next Ubuntu release 22 px.
Maybe the font also need to be changed to make it look better.

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Solution #3: The Major limiting factors - Font size & DPI

Written by DrG the 10 Dec 09 at 07:18.

(Karmic) -
The minimum width of the panel is determined at runtime , considering application font.
So overcome this with

1.A separate font property for panel
2. This should automatically resize on resizing panel
3. Add supports to applets to have a reduced size

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( Temporary workaround based on above observation)

1.Open System > Preferences > Appearance ( or right click on desktop and select 'Change Desktop Background ) select 'Fonts' Tab
2.Change the 'Application font' size to '9' ( setting the font size to 8 can reduce the panel size to 19 )
3.Right click on an existing panel and click 'new panel '
4.Right click on the new panel and set 'Orientation ' to 'Top' and change size to 21 ( Don't check 'Show hide buttons '
5.Now the panel size changes to 21 . Add applets to it

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Disadvantages :
1.An existing panel with applets may fail to resize ( so add applets only after resizing ) or panel with the 'Hide' buttons ( Ubuntu had to fix this )
2.The fonts of other application also changed - a side effect. - workaround – Ubuntu had to implement a separate font property for the panel ( eg : inside the panel's property dialogue ) or had to adjust the font size according to panel height automatically .

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See the 13 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 5 Nov 12 at 16:50) >>

Improve Gnome Panel Moving in Gnome 2.26

Written by guywithcable the 3 May 09 at 09:21. Related project: Gnome. Not an idea

Gnome panels are unintuitive to move in Jaunty. You now have to hold the alt key before you start dragging. I can't find any notice about this new policy anywhere I've looked so far.

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See the 1 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 28 Oct 12 at 13:48) >>

Ubuntu Book Store/Center

Written by magallucas the 11 Feb 10 at 18:04. Global category: Multimedia. New

My idea is to create a software, similar to the Ubuntu Software Center and the future Music Store, which distributes books and other ebooks gender. The interface would allow the User to buy an ebook (and profit would rise to the supplier) or choose among other models for free.

In fact, the Book Center / Store function as an aggregator: meet in an interface catalogs sites wishing to provide their ebooks for users. Canonical could already partnering large but also may be a feature to allow you to choose portfolios of independent sites (blogs of handouts, etc.).

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Solution #1: Create software Ubuntu Book Center / Store

Written by magallucas the 11 Feb 10 at 18:04.

How aggregator, the Book Center / Store bring together content portals with partnership with Canonical or registered by the User (if blogs with handouts, etc.).. The content may be organized into themes, number of pages, popularity, etc..
To help purchase / download, there is the Preview feature, which lets you view the first pages (or some) of the book, previously selected by the content provider.
The search feature should be efficient: that is, also allow searches within the book, in parts, etc..
Each book will grade designation and inclusion of comments by the users.
The download may be downloaded in various formats such as ODF, ePub, PDF, and others, to adapt both to the computer screen on the mobile devices such as Kindle, Android phones, iPhone / iPod Touch, nook, tablets Symbian / Maemo, etc.. There will be a history of shopping in the User Account. Thus, if the format or system has critical problems may not need to pay again for the same ebook that already bought.
Of course, as the portals that have content and want to distribute the Book Center / Store, there is a possibility. One idea would be to develop a structure (XML or YAML) that the holder of the portal will create. This structure contains information that will allow the software Book Center / Store receive content from other portals. So, just to make the portal file (XML or YAML, for example) at a site to download and open the users using the Book Center / Store and ready, the desired content is already in the software.

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Solution #2: Integrating ideas from Book Center / Store in software Calibre

Written by magallucas the 12 Feb 10 at 12:36.

The Calibre is a software organizer Ebooks multi-platform, with several very interesting features. Like the idea of Ubuntu Music Store, which aims to integrate the idea of software like Rhythmbox or Banshee, proposal Book Center / Store can be integrated with software Calibre (or similar).

To know the software Calibre: http://calibre-ebook.com/

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Solution #4: An option to add third party content provider

Written by fernandoc1 the 7 Mar 10 at 13:06.

There should be an easy and small API for USC (Ubuntu Software Center) that should allow developers and content providers to integrate in Software center.
With this they could easily offer updates and new features and products to their costumers and users.
It would act like a shop open inside the software center, that could offer free and non-free content.
Everything can be authenticated by Ubuntu One or another authentication service.

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Solution #5: Solution #1 + General stuff

Written by forbidden404 the 22 Aug 12 at 03:03.

What about a Ubuntu One Store, where you could find all kind of stuff, each one in your "area"?

Open the application, see what applications you want for your Ubuntu, then look for some music to buy, a movie to rent/buy, after that, find a eBook, which you could read in your smartphone/tablet, as the movie too! It would be great if you could play a movie or listen a music from streaming.

Yes, I know about Ubuntu One Music Store, but why not merge all of it, giving the option of use a feature or not? If you want to play a song you've bought through UOMS, then you would play the normal tax, you could do the same for videos.

I see people giving a lot of solutions, but when you have a lot of applications, this became confusing.

Would be great to have an unique application for doing all those stuff, music, video, games, applications, each of them with a different feature, in the same application!

UOMS would be integrated to it, add movie and series, a game center as steam, to get achievements and see a rank of players, would be great, applications for your ubuntu and all of this would make Ubuntu bigger.

Ubuntu OS, Ubuntu TV, Ubuntu for Android, maybe an OS for mobiles too, all of them running with a single application, which could handle them all

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See the 1 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 30 Sep 12 at 22:38) >>

more efficient/effective nautilus

Written by codexx the 1 Apr 09 at 05:42. Related project: Nautilus. Not an idea

when you open nautilus you are confronted with a user interface that could do with some improvement to make it more usable, flexible and modern, and more usable in managing large media libraries of photos, documents, music etc

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Solution #1: revise and update user interface with some new ideas

Written by codexx the 1 Apr 09 at 05:42.

Context sensitive changes:

(for Picture files)
- Icon or Compact view: Show image dimensions under the filename, next to size (optionally), or some other data (customisable in preferences)

- easily toggled Gallery view

(for any media/document file)

- quick preview function, triggered by key or mouse passover, that previews text documents or image/animated files (clean, no border preview, basically). toggle

- hovering mouse pointer next to some part of the filename shows a text field reticle/notation that allows one to quickly change tag information (if a tagging system is suitably in place for files...eg. edits "Document Properties -> Keywords").

Keybind:

- allow one to change the ENTER or Spacebar function of nautilus to rename (like in osx), or to make a tag-edit on one or more files (if available), or give it a context dependant function (mounted volume=Unmount, Picture=preview/Gallery view, music file=add to playlist, text file=preview, archives=delete->press again to confirm,other files=Move to )

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Bookmarks:

- Add a * (star) like in firefox for one-click bookmark

Rationale for these type of changes is to minimise user interaction with their mouse (through reducing button-clicks) or to minimise the user having to switch between holding the mouse and using the keyboard (terminal users would especially appreciate the problems with using nautilus here, or those trying to edit many files).

.....This is basically achieved by elevating the importance of user Flow in nautilus - managing documents and other media with maximum efficiency and ease of use, so that the most Common tasks are instantly accessible with minimum interactions .

Cleaning the User interface or increasing Flow of Nautilus:

- Enable the user to hide the toolbar and file menu easily and at once. They are virtually obsolete with context sensitive access to common functions (such as create folder) and they take up huge space (especially noticeable on netbooks)....i've scanned them all and see nothing of interest in 95% of occasions I have used.

- (optional in preferences) triangle widgets in between breadcrumb navigation (as dropdown menus)..with one at root of breadcrumb navigation

- Customisation of the TAB ordering... what i would love to do is make TAB simply switch between either the navigation sidebar or the breadcrumb navigation bar... only. What this does is adds another means of quickly accessing a navigation system while keeping your hands on the keyboard. Combined with the Places bookmarking this could be very useful. As it is I *never* use TAB and it's such a waste!

- A more interesting status bar. Either expand it to include editing fields or make it customisable so that it can display more information. With a button that when clicked fades away and changes into a counter which adds up the folder size and it's contents (including subfolders)

- An eject icon on the breadcrumb bar next to the mounted volume or usb device that is navigated to..and one next to the icons in Icon or Compact view. this way you can eject the device without needing to open and close the sidebar or leaving nautilus itself..you can do it when you see it.

Anyway here are some ideas that would simplify nautilus in a clean, efficient way. It would help bring media and content to the user and in a more pleasing manner with an emphasis on usability, which is one of the areas ubuntu is weaker in.

Context sensitive changes:

(for Picture files)
- Icon or Compact view: Show image dimensions under the filename, next to size (optionally), or some other data (customisable in preferences)

- easily toggled Gallery view

(for any media/document file)

- quick preview function, triggered by key or mouse passover, that previews text documents or image/animated files (clean, no border preview, basically). toggle

- hovering mouse pointer next to some part of the filename shows a text field reticle/notation that allows one to quickly change tag information (if a tagging system is suitably in place for files...eg. edits "Document Properties -> Keywords").

Keybind:

- allow one to change the ENTER or Spacebar function of nautilus to rename (like in osx), or to make a tag-edit on one or more files (if available), or give  it a context dependant function (mounted volume=Unmount, Picture=preview/Gallery view, music file=add to playlist, text file=preview, archives=delete->press again to confirm,other files=Move to <list of customised places>)

Bookmarks:

- Add a * (star) like in firefox for one-click bookmark

Rationale for these type of changes is to minimise user interaction with their mouse (through reducing button-clicks) or to minimise the user having to switch between holding the mouse and using the keyboard (terminal users would especially appreciate the problems with using nautilus here, or those trying to edit many files).

.....This is basically achieved by elevating the importance of user Flow  in nautilus - managing documents and other media with maximum efficiency and ease of use, so that the most Common tasks are instantly accessible with minimum interactions .

Cleaning the User interface or increasing Flow of Nautilus:

- Enable the user to hide the toolbar and file menu easily and at once. They are virtually obsolete with context sensitive access to common functions (such as create folder) and they take up huge space (especially noticeable on netbooks)....i've scanned them all and see nothing of interest in 95% of occasions I have used.

- (optional in preferences) triangle widgets in between breadcrumb navigation (as dropdown menus)..with one at root of breadcrumb navigation

- Customisation of the TAB ordering... what i would love to do is make TAB simply switch between either the navigation sidebar or the breadcrumb navigation bar... only. What this does is adds another means of quickly accessing a navigation system while keeping your hands on the keyboard. Combined with the Places bookmarking this could be very useful. As it is I *never* use TAB and it's such a waste!

- A more interesting status bar. Either expand it to include editing fields or make it customisable so that it can display more information. With a button that when clicked fades away and changes into a counter which adds up the folder size and it's contents (including subfolders)

- An eject icon on the breadcrumb bar next to the  mounted volume or usb device that is navigated to..and one next to the icons in Icon or Compact view. this way you can eject the device without needing to open and close the sidebar or leaving nautilus itself..you can do it when you see it.

Anyway here are some ideas that would simplify nautilus in a clean, efficient way. It would help bring media and content to the user and in a more pleasing manner with an emphasis on usability, which is one of the areas  ubuntu is weaker in.

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