Contributor Dolanor

I think it is very confusing that during installation, the screen suddenly becomes black. It would be much better if there would be at least a simple image, so that the screen does not look like the computer just crashed.

It is quite unprofessional to see a text style boot every file system check. Include this step in the graphical ubuntu bar progression and add an one line information to notice the user why the boot is longer.

Pause could be handy while moving bigger files.

see this idea http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2726/
probably it was in english it would have got positive
votes.

It often happens to me that i want to copy/paste with selection and middle mousebutton, but by accident mark something else in between. For this cases it would be GREAT if there is some means (e.g. keeping middle mouse button pressed) to access a history of the formerly marked contents.
E.g. I mark (dont know if "selected" is more correct in english, sorry) a url in a text document, want to paste it via middle mouse button into the firefox adress- bar but 1) there is something written in the adressbar already or 2) i accidentaly double- click. Now, I press the middle mouse button for longer (or click on a applet or press a hotkey or whatsoever) and chose the url that i actually wanted to paste.

When I open a font selection dialog, more than half of the available fonts have names like "AlAribiya", "AlMateen", "AR PL UMing TW MBE" etc. Most of these fonts appear to be exactly the same when typing with Western characters.

I'm fine with having these fonts installed (Arabic web pages look pretty neat, even though I can't read them).

Still, I'm never going to actually use them. I don't write Hindi or Malayam. There are so many language-specific fonts in font picker that I really have to hunt for Bitstream Sans or Tahoma. This is stupid.

How about some logic that looks at the currently active language in GNOME, and hides fonts that cater specifically to other languages?

A checkbox labeled "show language-specific fonts" in the font picker, deselected by default, would work.

Hello All,

I am working in a multi national IT company having over 10 millions employees and top 7 Global top 10 firms as the clients incluing GE,IBM etc.

I got the chance to understand what should an OS contain to being accepted by any corporate enterprice ?

Ubuntu is having many essential features like securety, regular updates release,support availibility,office suit, mail like evolution, native languages etc. and also offers advantages like less need to antivirus,lower configuration of HW support etc. but I am not sure weather Ubuntu offers certain most important features like..

1) Integrated or Supported VPN client- In any company most employees works from home so connecting to office network especially in US and Europe it is most important thing.

2) Connectivity SoftWare like Citrix clint or Tuxedo- In any organization many CRM,ERP tools like clarify,SAP etc.. are used and to access their thick clients from local machines we need Software like Citrix and Tuxedo so incorporating these will them will be great advantage.

I think rest is included in Ubuntu. Please provide your feed back if am skipping something to promote Ubuntu the real alternative to MicroSoft Os.

Thanks

A "Replace all in current selection"- option would be nice.

It is unnerving to touch buttons when the screensaver runs while a movie is playing.

It drives me insane trying to diagnose if my sound card Microphone input is working correctly.

it would be great if I could have some kind of visual feed back like the old "VU" meters we used to have on old fashioned tape decks.

Getting skype to work or dealing with any "sound in" / "mic in" issues on Ubuntu has been a nightmare to trouble shoot. this would make it a bit easier.

This can be implemented by doing a renice on any CPU-hogging processes that don't catch SIGXCPU.
This would be easy to implement, would improve responsiveness, and wouldn't break anything.
Similar functionality has been available on W*****s for some time with the ForumWare program "ProcessTamer".
This suggestion is an intentional duplicate, but with a less technical title.

The Avant-Window-Manager is now on the repositories, but it's extras applets are not. AWN is not too much useful without them.

to use them we must download the sources and compile.

The shift-switcher plugin shows large ugly icons for minimized windows. It would help Ubuntu feel more polished if these were higher resolution. I've seen something like shift switcher on a Mac before and the icons looked really nice, so I suppose that it would be possible when the icon theme includes large icons. Many icon sets have high resolutions, but shift-switcher doesn't take advantage of them.

Here is a screenshot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9547627@N06/2331385005/

UPDATE: some people feel that it would be better to just always show a window. Either way would be an improvement.

When the screensaver starts, this mostly means the user isn't using his computer for a while. It should then start executing tasks which have a high demand of resources but a low urgency (to the user) and require no interaction. For example:

1. Finish downloading that large torrent
2. Check for and install (security) updates for installed applications
3. Get new mail
4. Put the - still running - media player into full screen mode (like AmarokFS for Amarok)
5. Run a backup

This of course should be totally configurable (which applications, wait time after starting screen saver, which one first, etcetera)

For the 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" release we had a 'countdown'.
* http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/countdown

Users could link to an image/script that would countdown for every day that pass. Like "Ubuntu 7.10 - 93 days left".

And users could post it on their blogs, forums, websites, etc and it would generate a buzz and hype around the upcoming Ubuntu release and get people excited.

It was great. I propose we do the countdown again, now this time for the 8.04 "Hardy Heron" release.

Replace the awfull NWF by GTK. (like NeoOffice with Cocoa) NWF is often unstable and inconsitent. A clean GTK version will also run on multiple plattforms like OSX or Win32! In addition it might be more portable for mobile devices like OpenMoko based ones.

Enough with the OSX style swirls. From now on lets have a striking image FOR EVERY RELEASE. The current 8.04 wallpaper is just so much more stylish and rememberable than generic swirls.

My suggestion would be to make each wallpaper tie in with the animal name. Like there were some pretty cool Gibson graphics being used on tshirts and the like but why couldn't they have been used as part of the wallpaper? They would have been just as striking as the new Heron one.

I think there is perhaps a side benefit to using the animal name as every graphical designer gets 8 months heads up on the next name and hence the next theme of the graphic, so there should be no reason why come release time you wont have a bunch of cool graphics to choose from.

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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A Multi-Platform Open-Souce Virtual Machine that can interract directly with my hardware and thus allow the Virtual OS installations to fully operate my machine.

If coupled with the Wubi installer, this would allow users in Windows who are using Ubuntu for the first time inside a VM to take advantage of Compiz Fusion and thus be enticed into a full Ubuntu installation.

If this were coupled with a lightweight OS like DSL it would make the Ultimate Bootloader, as you could keep your big OS's in a VM.

8GB RAM chips and Terabyte drives are around the corner folks.

I guess this probably goes outside of the scope of Ubuntu, but if it the idea catches someones attention and they manage to make it happen, that much the better.

I think it would be a good idea to have an application like add/remove that allows user install software with the simplicity of this programs and have the advanced options and features of Synaptic, so you dont get any message like ''For advanced options use Synaptic Package Manager''. I would be less confusing for a new user (assuming that the user has low knowledge about computers)