Installation process should give people the choice to select some standard programms.
Someone using Thunderbird as mail client doesn't need Evolution...
It is not about installing all kinds of programms during the installation process, but about selecting the most common programms easily.

The other thing is that a lot of people don't know that ubuntu can play DVD videos, because they just don't know about libdvdcss2, “ubuntu restricted extras” and how to install them.

Example: my parents cannot install libdvdcss2 without my help. This should change!

I find it important to an OS to have a drawing software who is simple.
By example, the kids could have fun with this software. Gimp is difficult for them.
And there is some effects that the users could be use, without use gimp.
It allow to the non-user of gimp to manipulate some images simply.

Hi,

'Inkscape' (http://www.inkscape.org/) is an opensource vector drawing application.
While there is 'Gimp' for Image Manipulation, there is 'OpenOffice Draw' for the vector part (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics).

I personally consider 'Inkscape' to be the more professional software and would appreciate to be installed by default in addition or as alternative to 'OpenOffice Draw'.

Thanks,
Flo

Unlike Epiphnay, Firefox is not a real GNOME application, even with the enhanced native look which has been introduced by Firefox 3.0.

Epiphany is a very simple browser, more conforming to the spirit of GNOME, which lacks a lot of the features of Firefox. However, I think most people will probably not need Firefox' extra features and plugins. Those who do need Firefox could easily download it when Epiphany becomes the default webbrowser included out-of-the-box in Ubuntu. Ubuntu should aim for consistency, and Epiphany certainly is a better candidate than Firefox if consistency is the goal.

Epiphany currently uses the Gecko-engine for rendering, but will probably feature WebKit - http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/WebKit - soon. WebKit would probably do a better job than Gecko.

Because somehow Ubuntu brainstorm says the Blueprint URL I gave isn't valid, I give it here in the text: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/epiphany-default-browser

We need to change the default screensaver. The problem with the current screensaver is that the first time you meet it is when the screen suddenly turns black during the installation. That is very confusing for most users, as the first thought always is that the installation has crashed.

I suggest a screensaver that helps brand Ubuntu, like for example the "Floating Ubuntu" screensaver. It could also be a textbased screensaver that could run on older machines witch doesn't support 3D.

Sometimes it's unconfortable when you're searching some files (for example when compiling and installing a program) and when you are "inside" the folder in the file manager, you want to compile. You need the terminal.

So, you need to reach the folder and reach that folder typing all the way to do it, and it's very tedious when the program name is too long.

I suggest that in the menu (File menu) it would appear an item called "Open Terminal in this folder" or simply "Open terminal".

One of the things included in Hardy was ufw (Uncomplicated firewall wall), but everything has to be done via CLI. There is a very nice GUI frontend being developed for it and it would be nice if it is bundled as a default package.

Links to the project:
https://launchpad.net/gui-ufw
http://gufw.tuxfamily.org/index.html

Hello there,
Yes, an E-mail Real-Time Antivirus in Ubuntu would be good for. . Windows users!

Because, emails come from and go to Windows users so, even although Ubuntu users cannot be infected by windows virus, other users can be infected, indeed.

As well, the Antivirus could be used to scan Windows partitions in our PCs (and -even- to scan for possible linux virus!?).

Currently, real-time email antivirus are pretty hard to make it working or simply do not work in most if not all AV for linux.

Regards,
Victor

A very interesting development for the Windows platform are the so-called Portable Applications.

These applications don't have to be installed using a “classic” Windows installer and their functioning does not depend on proper settings in the Windows Registry.
If fact they can be copied to an arbitrary location on (writable) storage media like a fixed or removable hard disk drive or an USB key and they will just work.

Portable Applications are not based on a new technology. In early MS-DOS days all applications were “portable”. A few reasons making this “old” technology so interesting are listed below:

1.If for some reason a user has to reinstall the OS then reinstalling the OS is just the start of a long and tedious process. All non-portable applications need to be reinstalled as well. This is, to say the least, very annoying.
For portable applications there is no need to do a reinstall. In worst case a user just needs to copy a backup of the portable applications back to the hard drive. And in case the user stored his portable applications in a different partition then there is even no need for this.

2.Portable applications can be stored on an arbitrary location on the hard disk or on removable media like an USB drive.
So even if the partition on which the OS resides gets short on disk space, the user can still add portable applications.
This is much more elegant than forcing the user to reorganize and reinstall his PC platform such that it can accommodate more applications.

3.Portable applications do not mix up or get integrated into the operating system.
In my opinion this is, at least for most software applications, a superior concept.

Currently the Ubuntu platform does not support the concept of portable applications.
When it comes to installing applications in general (portable or non-portable) then in my opinion Windows is superior over Ubuntu, or better said Linux in general.


[....]

It might appear as politically incorrect or totally insane, but I really think that there should be an easy way to totally uninstall Ubuntu from a dual boot system and leave the hard disk at precisely its original state (boot loader, partitions and all).

I think this feature would befit beginners when they want to:

1. migrate from one flavor of Ubuntu to another (eg. from 64 to 32 bit)
2. migrate from Ubuntu to another linux distro
3. start all over a with a fresh install because something in the installation process (e.g. a hardware compatibility) or the installed Ubuntu went terribly wrong (been there myself)
4. just get rid of the bloody thing and forgetabouddit

Not all users can afford (or know how to add) a second dedicated HDD for experimenting with Ubuntu. Also think of notebook users.

Do we want beginners to think that Ubuntu wants to dominate their PC and that it won't let go without ruining their system?