Contributor AndrewC

When I go to 'Wine configuration - Desktop integration', there is no simple way to use my current theming of Ubuntu.
I have only options of 'install theme' (it's a windows file? where I can get it?!) or manually set each item color, and each time when I change Ubuntu theming, I must again and again set each item in Wine manually.

I suggest to integrate Ubuntu theming in Wine. It looks not so hard.

I'm hard of hearing, and closed caption support should either be added to totem or a dvd player that has closed caption support should become the default dvd player in ubuntu.

Right now, I've heard that vlc media player 0.9 will provide support for closed captioning. No other player that I can find supports CC or will support it in ubuntu.

Closed captioning is not the same as subtitles. Some dvds will have CC, but no subtitles for it.

Windows Media Center supports captioning, and so should the ubuntu media players.

Sincerely,
Susanna777

Everything goes through library which prevents the user to listen to some files without adding them to it.

Exaile (and Amarok?) have a file browser tab ! Why not rhythmbox ?

Editing the gnome panel menus should not require opening a special menu editor. I should be able to right-click an item and get a "remove from menu" option. Additionally, right-clicking a sub-menu should have an option to remove it from its parent menu, and one add another item under it. So right-clicking the "Games" drawer label would allow me to add another item under "Games" or remove the "Games" menu entirely.

Additionally, I should be able to rearrange items in the menu by drag-and-drop techniques.

Suspend and hibernate still seems to be a big issue based on forum posts. Really focus on fixing it, even with proprietary drivers.

Mozilla-firefox-adblock (https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/1865) should be replaced by Adblock Plus (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865)in Ubuntu's repositories because the Adblock isn't developed anymore (since 2004).

There is that annoying Nvidia ad every time I boot X. That comes with the restricted drivers. It would be better without the Nvidia logo.


EDIT:
It can be manually disabled with

Option "NoLogo" "True"

in xorg.conf, but the logo should be disabled by default.

This is concerning the graphical and the text based installer.

It`s a bad habit introduces by microsoft. Do not ask questions in the middle of the installation after you did already started to copy things.

(1) The user starts the installation.
(2) He is asked if he wants to install.
(3) Make as many hardware tests as you need.
(4) Now ask all needed questions.
(5) Install Ubuntu in one run. Tell the user he can no go away for perhaps X minutes.

Otherwise it`s annoying. Input answer, wait a bit, input answer, wait again over and over again. You can improve this!

The Hardy Heron wallpaper is vector graphics based. That means the color palette only takes up a tiny fraction of the image data. We can have 10 different color versions without sacrificing *any* discernible space on the CD!

The reason why Ubuntu (unlike other OS) does not have more wallpapers out-of-the-box is limited CD-space. The vector wallpaper format *solves* that technical problem!

The Hardy wallpaper designer could make several color variations of the default wallpaper: One mostly green version, one mostly blue version, one mostly black, one mostly pink, etc. And those could all be available right after install, both the version with and without the bird.

Technically, the extra wallpapers could be autogenerated by a tiny copy-and-change-palette script that runs during OS installation.

This issue is something I face regularly and thats why I'm posting it here.

I want a right click option on the updates in Update Manager which allows me to lock the version of a software and not update it. I know this functionality exists somewhere in Synaptic Package Manager, but still it would be convenient.

Example:
I have nvidia card on desktop and there was an intel video driver update recently, so it came up in Update Manager. I didn't want to install it obviously, so I unchecked it. But still every time I boot up, it shows new updates are available, and I see only that intel driver. If I get a 'do not update option' it would be handy.

Thanks

Imagine a folder on your desktop, when you drop a file in it, the file is transmitted to your friend anywhere on the internet. Transfer is asynchronous so if the person is away, then it's postponed until the next time they are online.

The folders are called "Tubes"

Tubes can also be more sophisticated to allow multiple people to be on the receiving end.

The idea is already implemented on Windows
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubes_%28software%29
I like the name Tubes and hope it is not trademarked. Actually, I thought of the idea and name before them from pneumatic tubes which I think are a brilliant invention!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tubes

Several wiki articles allude to the fact that there is/was an art.ubuntu.com, and that you can submit art to it. o:

a quick google search tells me it was attacked and is planned for relaunch soon. That was said in November. :/

Could we please get this back up?!

The Add/Remove application manager will hang the GUI based on either how poor your connection or CPU is. It makes the feature of live searching almost worthless. It should instead be asynchronous and run the search or filter in the background at a lower CPU priority.

A lot of packages are not accessible via add/remove. This is ok, but maybe there should be a button like "extend search to synaptic" with an explanation what this means. Hitting the button would then open synaptic with the exact same search terms.

A lot of people only use add/remove and get stuck when not finding what they want although it's there (ready to be installed via synaptic). This could be improved with a simple button and a message in case no result is displayed ("you might want to extend your search in synaptic", clickable).

Firefox 3 has the ability to add search engines to the Search bar for a wide variety of sites. These widgets let you search the specific site without first going there. Launchpad needs one of these widgets. Otherwise you have to first go to Launchpad, then perform your search.

Also, Firefox 3 allows you to select text and search in the currently selected site which would improve the ability to find things on Launchpad immensely. Imagine coming across something on Brainstorm that you're pretty sure has a bug filed already but it wasn't included in the idea yet. You could highlight the appropriate text, make sure LP was the selected search widget, then right click and search Launchpad for it. The search would open in a new tab, allowing you to still have the Brainstorm tab open. That's what a LP search widget would provide, and if it were referenced in the LP HTML code (which shouldn't be that hard to do once the widget were made) then to discover it all someone would have to do is check their list of search engines while on Launchpad and it's availability would be shown for easy installation.

KDE apps are UGLY in Ubuntu. So ugly that most people don't want to mix them, let alone make KDE-apps default in Ubuntu. How about making a nice pixel-perfect theme for Qt-apps? Let's make the choice of a toolkit just be a choice of the developer, not of the end-user.

There should also be an icon-theme replacing as many icons as possible with Tango-ified icons.

This should go both ways. It should be possible to have the Ubuntu or Kubuntu theme in Kubuntu, and the Kubuntu or Ubuntu theme in Ubuntu. Right now you're limiting yourself to half of the repositories, no matter whether you use Ubuntu or Kubuntu, if you want a consistent desktop.

Medibuntu is now available for all Ubuntu 'family' except "Hardy Heron". Should be also available there.

When you lock your computer under gnome/ubuntu, there's a "leave message" button, where people can leave messages.

I really like this feature, so I was thinking that now where more and more laptops get shipped with build-in webcams, it could be fun and useful with the possibility for attaching a picture taken with your webcam together with the message.

Also a small field to enter your name would be great.

And maybe a limit for how many messages that can be leaved. Maybe customizable (I don't know if a similar feature already exists)

There has been some confusion, but to clarify this brainstorm:

There is an official deviantart "theme" competition which requests new wallpapers and allows new themes to be inside the submission. However, there are two issues:
1) the contest requires the construction of a wallpaper
2) themes and mockups are ungraded and unacknowledged.

This brainstorm argues two amendments:
1)Mockups-only submissions with previous ubuntu wallpapers should be allowed. Wallpapers should not be required. Mockups shouldn't have to be GTK themes.
2)Even if only wallpapers get prizes, there should be a best-mockup recognition award to the best non-wallpaper aspect of submissions. (arguably, themes are harder to judge than wallpapers.)

This would allowed skilled UI designers who are unskilled artists to compete to win consideration by the ubuntu team. I'd like to see mockups of theme ideas that are abstract and un-artistic, like https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/round_edge , be able to be in the running for this competition. We want to improve the ubuntu look and feel, not just reskin it.

Sorry for the confusion. Here's the original brainstorm text:

Recently, a brainstorm idea was created for a DeviantArt theme mock-up competition for Ubuntu 8.10. It was accepted, but canonical changed the competition's scope from themes to just wallpapers only.

There's a great deal of interest by the general ubuntu art community to create a new theme for ubuntu, as seen by the Hardy incoming "alternate looks" page, yet this competition was changed from its original scope to a far less interesting scope.



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Microsoft has awards, Apple has design awards, now its our turn. We should hold a design Award night every year to motivate developers, encourage new linux start-ups, and promote innovation. It would also act to showcase some of the best we have to offer.

Suggested awards would be as follows:
- Best new Productivity Application (encourages business program development)
- Most innovative program (encourages the development of new types of programs)
- Best Social Application (encouraging social type applications)
- Most innovative free game (new types of games)
- Most promising new startup (encourages the formation of new companies).
- Most valuable developer (not sure about this one)
- Most improved program
- Best free program overall

The awards would certainly encourage development greatly (especially slightly before applications to join start).They must offer decent prizes, that are motivating (money would be best for the new startup, and get them going). Apple doesn't give away many prizes for theirs (mainly just computers and such), but it drives every programmer every year.

Our issue now is that OSX has companies like Freeverse, who are driving most of OSX's innovation, yet, we are having difficulty attracting similar companies. Awards such as these may encourage new linux startups that provide good linux programs, which possibly generate revenue for them without demanding it.

This would certainly help generate a river of new Applications, and boost innovation. It would also help bring the ubuntu community closer together.

And, it would encourage developers to sit down, and polish their interfaces for their applications a bit more. Seeing that Ubuntu happily gives away free CD's, and must have some full time staff, I think it should be affordable. And Dell would certainly donate some hardware I'm sure for the event (it acts as free advertising and would highlight their linux laptops). And it would cost nothing for companies like VMware to give away some software.

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