Contributor AndrewC

I would like to be able to open files that are in the trash.

Sometimes I want to save something from the trash but the name is not sufficient information, I often need to see what is in the file.

Compiz Fusion is a great application, and most effects look awesome. However, it runs to 5% its capacity without compizconfig-settings-manager installed (unless you know how to configure it manually, thought that can be a pain in the ass). Thats why I think ccsm should be installed by default on Ubuntu for easier using of "other" plugins by new users.

EDIT: If you want simple-ccsm to be installed by default promote this idea, since they are pretty similar.
EDIT2: No, this will not make Ubuntu slower. Compiz Fusion is already installed by default since Gutsy, all I want is the configuration tool for Compiz (a very little app) to be installed.

First of all: What is the difference between Preferences and Administration? For example: why do I see 'Encryption and Keyrings' in Preferences and 'Keyring Manager' in Administration? What is the difference between 'Default Printer' and 'Printing'? Why do I have to disable the Tracker under Sessions and not under Search and Indexing? And why are these menu's so large? I have 24 items in Preferences (they don't even fit on my screen!) and 18 items in Administration. To put all this stuff in a popup menu is bad interface design imho. Besides, the number of option should be much smaller. A few suggestions:

- Merge 'Screensaver', 'Screen Resolution' and 'Screens and Graphics'.
- Merge 'Network', 'Network Proxy' and 'Network Tools'.
- Merge 'Update Manager, Synaptic Package Manager, Software Sources'.
- Merge 'Encryption and Keyrings', 'Authorizations', 'Keyring Manager'.


Below are all settings I can visit via the System menu. This is just way too much.


-- Preferences --
Universal Access
About Me
Appearance
Bluetooth
Default Printer
Encryption and Keyrings
Keyboard
Keyboard Shortcuts
Main Menu
Mouse
Network Proxy
PalmOS Devices (I don't have one)
Power Management

[....]

I think it is very important particularly for users who use their computer only for daily office/business/school routines. Mostly these users aren't computer savvy and any changes they may invoke accidentaly in their desktop or favorite application will surely piss them off. I personally experienced such scenario when I eagerly installed Kubuntu and Ubuntu in my friends' computers only to find out they were calling me very often because something has changed in their computers and they couldn't remember what they did.

It's good to have the cursor out of the way when putting in text sometimes, it's a good option to have so users don't have to frustratedly shove their mouse out of the way really quick.

I'm sure the human brain is quite capable of picking up on where the invisible cursor is when they move the mouse again, but I'm sure it's not necessary to completely disappear the cursor for text entry.

Instead, it could be made mostly transparent but still opaque enough to know where it is. Perhaps when the mouse is moved again, some effect could be used to make it's location more obvious, like a halo or brief flash.

This may provide a minor improvement in accessibility for some users without drastically effecting the great many users.

People used GNU/Linux around 10 years ago, or even more, may recall MWM, a window manager comes from lesstif-bin package, boots in less than 2 seconds, and it's incredibly memory saving, even if it may look obsolete for some people.

The problem is it's extremelly hard to choose MWM from GDM, unless you create the file /usr/share/sessions/mwm.desktop with:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=MWM
Comment=MWM
Exec=/usr/bin/mwm
Terminal=False
TryExec=/usr/bin/mwm
Type=Application
[Window Manager]
SessionManaged=true

the sad thing is it's extremelly hard to contact lesstif-bin packager for submitting this file, which surelly will make people used to use this window manager becoming so happy with! =) - people enjoys simple window managers surelly will love it!

Btw, i'm writing this idea running on WMW window manager...

Apparently, because firefox is trademarked, we cannot remove customisations added by Mozilla (such as the default ebay search engine link, which is only there because they pay mozilla, but only promotes ebay's rubbishy Paypal, and demotes competition).

By changing its name, we can get around that (similar to iceweasal and Debian).

It will still be exactly the same firefox, only difference is the name, and flexibility in what code we can change in it.

Duplicates happen, and there are already quite a few examples of duplicates that have each accrued a fair number of votes (ie the original has 50 votes and the dupe 100).

This creates confusion for the user, should I vote for both ideas, the original, or the duplicate as it has more votes? This would obviously require some supervision, but a "propose merge" form for two very similar / identical ideas would help ensure that competition doesn't kill good ideas.

The merge process would also have to check to ensure that votes from the same person for each idea are not double counted, but I don't think this would be that hard to implement.

Example from idea 4292 :

One is suggesting to add MBR recovery option in Installation CD.http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1242/
One is suggesting that installer should never overwrite MBR.http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1957/
One is suggesting to have general application which can recover MBR.http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3985/

All these ideas should be merged and a single solution which seems to be good enough should be implemented.

Bring the same thame for both desktops, if we use app from both desktops we ant it too look simmilar

xscreensaver can be used in every desktop environment, it's easyer to enhance or hack with scripts, it has more screensavers, and it has 15 years of tradition.

I was going to buy an Ubuntu PC from Dell until I found out that the PCs are all so low end. I say we should get the same specs as any Windows User. Yes that includes GPUs too.

Read first, then vote.

We should investigate http://www.microsoft.com/canada/getthefacts/default.mspx to see how we can improve our software. The customer is always right!

And some things on there we can apply directly to ubuntu such as "Configuring Web Proxy Servers with both Ubuntu and Windows server". Stuff like this is a direct claim against ubuntu, and seeing as Microsoft feels its worthy point, obviously, we should seriously consider it. I know that Ubuntu server for instance can be a pain compared to Win2K3 server.

We shouldn't throw it away as fud until we have fully looked through it, and confirmed the validity of all the claims. I'll be honest, after looking through a lot of it, I don't feel it is all lies..

Simply, a control panel that include all application present in System menu.

Every time I install Ubuntu, the first thing I have to modify is the font rendering. I use the "sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config" command for that.

The Ubuntu system would be more enhanced if it had more sofisticated fonts with a nice contrast.

Every operational system has an unique "look and feel" thing... Ubuntu must acquire its.

(Excuse me, I write English not very well).

Ubuntu (or other distro) should have a GUI defragmentation/optimization tool for FAT/NTFS, in order to improve file access performances.

So, it seems that the NTFS-3g driver fragments files (such as the Microsoft driver).

Add a new icon, to Human icon theme, to switch gnome throbber in Nautilus for another with ubuntu logo, an so improve desktop integration.

Something like this:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=67103

There is also an Ubuntuformums entry with another sugestion.

As clearly as that,multimedia codecs should be included
in default installation only installed when user agrees
to Restricted drivers copyrights(most of users still
dont know about what are multimedia copyrights from
windows environment),i mean drivers for playing
MP3,most popular audio and video formats.most of users
agree to install codecs if they dont let them install
Ubuntu JEOS.
if this is not achievable,Make a Deb packages for most
popular codecs(as in xp) for playing these files and
make it available on ubuntu website.its frustrating
to find that i need to download every time i install and
one codecs version doesnt work with all Ubuntu versions
like different codecs for different Ubuntu versions
fawn,gutsy etc.

I know this is probably going to be unpopular as hell, but what business does Ubuntu devs have putting betas of Firefox in Ubutu ISOs like Firefox 3 is the default in Hardy? I know Firefox 3 is faster and probably better than Firefox 2, but there are two huge reasons for keeping it out of Hardy until it's released. First Firefox 3 is still in beta phase, and no matter how well things are looking for the Linux versions things are not finished yet. Some things could and probably will change before it's release (now looking at late May/early June, past the Hardy ship date). Should we be giving users software that so clearly isn't finished yet as the default browser? Especially when so much of the addons are not updated to work with Firefox 3 yet?

Second is the fact that people should always have to opt into using beta software as an intentional act on their part. I realize Hardy is still in alpha phase so people using it are opting in, but they're opting into the OS, not the web browser.

These are just two big reasons why Firefox 2 should stay the default browser for Hardy and why no beta software should ever be the default for Ubuntu. Make betas available in Synaptic, but let the users make the choice to use it or not use it. And yes, I'm typing this is Firefox 3.0b5pre, but I made the decision to use it, just like everyone else should have that choice when they install/upgrade Ubuntu.

We have dual-core, and quad-core processors now, how much are we taking advantage of this additional power. Also we could provide better development tools to take advantage of multi-core processors.

OSS should lead the way in parallel processing, not just playing catch-up. We still don't even take advantage of the fact that most modern processors are now 32/64 hybrid. OS X can run 32/64/PPC(Rosetta) architecture all on the same box. Yes it is difficult, but a discussion should be started on what kind of work could be done in this area.


http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20080318corp.htm?iid=pr1_releas epri_20080318r (Cred: jespdj)

1. There are deeply invasive performance/scalability/latency fixes for CFS regressions (vs. 2.6.24) in the 2.6.25 tree. These fixes are too invasive to be ported to the 2.6.24 kernel without significant risk.

2. Many of the driver updates/new drivers in the kernel-ubuntu package are merged into upstream as of 2.6.25. (This is always true, but the smaller the delta against upstream the better on release day).

3. Fedora 9 is based on 2.6.25 which means that key RH kernel developers are aggressively working to get the feature and performance/scalability regressions vs. 2.6.18 & 22 fixed.

4. The kgdb patch will probably be merged at the start of the 2.6.26 cycle which means the delta vs. 2.6.25 kernel should be pretty manageable. This would be really valuable from an LTS ongoing perspective.

5. The RT patch will be better maintained (and smaller) against 2.6.25. (see #3)

6. Better virtualization and SELinux support (see #3).

Given the life-cycle of an LTS release (especially this one which will finally have a meaningful chance to enter the data center) these considerations are especially important.

Obviously 2.6.25 would have to be in addition to 2.6.24 for the Hardy 8.04 LTS release time-frame, but it does allow the aforementioned benefits to be propagated forward.