http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com guidelines and check if your idea has been posted already! ]]> en-us Wed, 15-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC Wed, 15-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/7120/
So when you read about the software, you can click on the link to get to the official homepage, for more information.

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]]> Wed, 15-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/7120/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/1474/
Every time the guest account logs out, its purged so next user who login is a clean fresh account.

Mac OS X has this;
* http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html#system

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]]> Wed, 15-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/1474/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9190/
You should be able to pick a color of your own likening so that you can choose blue, green, yellow, white, orange, black, gray, purple, teal, pink or whatever you like.

Check this awesome artwork that I made!
* http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/317/coloredthemeyz9.png
* http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/7682/colortheme2ls1.png
* Steel
* Rainbow


From idea #9139 (merged):

Currently the theming is all over the place and changing one place does not affect any other. Although that kind of tweakability is great, most users just want different default colors. (pink, blue, brown, black)

What we should be having:
A: wallpaper - changes every release
B: color-theme - human (easily configurable by user!)
C: splash-canvas - human (we need to create this)
D: gtk-engine - clearlooks with B as default colors
E: kde-engine - oxygen with B as default colors
F: icon-theme - tango with color-filter using B

From these we could generate:
- grub-config using A, B
- bootsplash using A, B, C
- gdm-theme using A, B, C, D, F
- kdm-theme using A, B, C, E, F
- gnome-splash using B, C, F
- kde-splash using B, C, F

This way the most important customization people want, COLORS, will affect everything and keep it all one-look-one-feel. From boot to desktop.

Secondly, the art guys can create new engines, splash-canvas and wallpapers. All the specific appearance settings should be hidden under some 'advanced' button. By default, people change their 'engine', 'icon-theme' or 'colors' .. and this should affect everything from boot-to-finish.

Off course we need some magic unlock-button that turns your settings into system defaults.


I think it's also important to use the color scheme.

If this becomes a feature, any user could have a pink/red/black/blue Ubuntu just by changing the color pallete at the preferences window.

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]]> Wed, 15-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9190/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/4981/ So that I later could "Paste" the file into another directory.

Make so that when you select "Cut" on a file, the icon becomes dimmed.
Because right now, there are no visual indication, so you don't know it worked.
In Windows there is a visual notification by the icon becoming dimmed.
In Ubuntu there is no visual notification, the icon does not become dimmed. This is confusing.

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]]> Wed, 15-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/4981/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/6106/
Then I found out, that it could access all MY private data files in MY home directory.

Please fix it so that other users cannot read the home directories of other people. This is a breech of privacy.

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]]> Wed, 15-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/6106/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9770/
X Server 1.4.1 was delayed by 212 days. X is used by pretty much every distribution, and not only Linux also other operating systems, so it is a very important package. We need the bugs fixed, such as EDID. We need new features such as input hotness, XKB 2, Xi 2 and MPX, etc.

Zenwalk Linux have a Xorg developer, we should have at least one too.

GNOME is also one of the most important packages in Ubuntu, and we should have a developer for it too, so we can make Ubuntu more powerful, functional and friendly.

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No attachments. ]]> Wed, 15-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9770/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/4555/ * 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.

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So I propose to show volume labels (partition names) in the installer, to make it easier for users who install Ubuntu to know which partition they are installing on.

Screenshots:
* Before
* After

This will make it clearer and easier to install Ubuntu without any mistakes being done which might result in that a new user accidentally looses valuable data.

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Such as;
* Joysticks
* Gamepad
* Steering wheel
* Light guns
* Dance pads
* Glove
* Wiimote

And support functionality such as;
* Force feedback
* Accelerometer
* Gyroscope

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When I click the Reload button in update-manager, the "Downloading package information" progress dialog takes a few seconds to start, with the main window's widgets disabled. In this case, I switch to another application, and the download progress steals the window focus. If I switch again to another window, the "building dependency tree" progress dialog steals focus again.

** This idea is pretty similar to idea 5237 but still different. This one ask for a update-manager which does not steal focus while the other ask for the possibility to automatically install updates without showing any window.

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]]> Wed, 15-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/5239/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/4970/
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Sometimes you don't know if a cable works or not, or the cable is damaged, or it accidentally gets pulled out.

There should be some visual indication that the network cable has been unplugged.

Please see illustration of concept:
* http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14520679/Network.png

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]]> Wed, 15-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8564/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/7277/
This would make running Windows applications under Wine feel more integrated as they would look, feel and behave more like other applications in Ubuntu.

I don't necessarily propose this to be by default, but to be an option available in "Wine configuration" -> "Desktop integration" -> "Theme".

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]]> Wed, 15-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/7277/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8867/ This makes GCC useless; its not even possible to compile a simple "Hello world" program.

Either have GCC not installed by default or have the 'build-essential' metapackage installed by default so that GCC works.

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GNOME System Monitor lists processes, and the processes can sometimes have cryptic filenames which the user does not understand what the process is for. So I suggest to create an 'Description' column to explain the process.

The user sees "gdm", "atd", "cron", "trackerd", "nm-applet", "sh", and get confused because he don't know what it is.

He look in the Description column and sees that "gdm" is "GNOME Display Manager", "sh" is "shell", and "nm-applet" is "network-management applet", etc.

Because when a user checks the running processes and sees "gvfsd" he have no idea what it is, with this Description column, he can easily see that it is the "GNOME virtual file system daemon".

* http://www.mistywindow.com/blog-images/software/windows/task-manager.png
* http://attachments.techguy.org/attachments/131192d1209566643/windows-task-manager.png

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]]> Wed, 15-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/11205/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8492/
Look screenshot.
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14500471/update-manager.png

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]]> Wed, 15-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8492/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/7571/
We should get full support for ACPI 2.0 and also try to get full support for ACPI 3.0b.

ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) is an open industry standard that defines common interfaces for hardware recognition, motherboard and device configuration and power management.

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]]> Wed, 15-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/7571/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8047/ Please fix these. Some of them are many years old...

* Linux Kernel CHRP Denial of Service Security Issue
* Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel Various Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel SMP "/proc" Race Condition Denial of Service
* Linux Kernel perfmon Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
* Linux Kernel IP ID Value Increment Weakness
* Linux Kernel Socket Data Buffering Denial of Service
* Linux Kernel URB and IPv6 Flowlabel Handling Denial of Service
* Linux Kernel "syscall()" Argument Handling Denial of Service
* Linux Kernel "is_hugepage_only_range()" Denial of Service
* Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel Page Fault Handler Privilege Escalation
* Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel Binary Format Loaders Privilege Escalation
* Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel IGMP and "__scm_send()" Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel Local DoS and Memory Content Disclosure Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel smb Filesystem Implementation Multiple Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel ELF Binary Loader Setuid File Handling Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel ide-cd SG_IO Functionality Permission Bypass Vulnerability
* Linux Kernel NFS and ptmx Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel File Offset Pointer Handling Memory Disclosure Vulnerability
* Linux Kernel Sbus PROM Driver Multiple Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel IEEE 1394 Driver Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel Framebuffer Driver Direct Userspace Access Vulnerability

See Secunia for more information:
* http://secunia.com/product/2719/?task=advisories

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So you have the important traffic prioritized, and have non-important traffic like apt-get and torrents de-prioritized.

This way I can do stuff like listen to online radio without skips, or play an online game without lag, or administer a server remotely with SSH without type-lag, have a VoIP conversation without skips, or chat on IRC or Pidgin without delays, all the same time while I am fetching updates, and downloading movies on BitTorerent.

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]]> Wed, 15-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/6820/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/5894/
Good stuff.

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