http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com guidelines and check if your idea has been posted already! ]]> en-us Fri, 25-Jul-2008 00:00:00 UTC Fri, 25-Jul-2008 00:00:00 UTC QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/11499/ 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.

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This is idea was spawned from the book "wikinomics" it talks about Web 2.0 and collaboration, and it speaks a lot about Linux and how its grown. One of the examples they gave was that these new companies are allowing the end user to create the content or product. With that in mind...

There have been plenty of ideas including the statement " If you want people to leave Microsoft for linux, you have to change (insert idea here). The only problem is that the idea was written by someone use Ubuntu "Hardy", so does he really know what my computer illiterate mother needs in an OS to switch to Ubuntu. Why not just ask my Mother, would she would like to see her OS do. Get suggestions and ideas from her and many others on what to implement or improve, I know she would have to use Ubuntu to give ideas on what should be improved but if she were to say. It needs to connect to the internet seamlessly, then we could evaluate that part of Ubuntu.

So what I'm proposing here is to ask the people who actually use Windows and Mac what they would like to see in their OS. If you want more market share why not talk directly to the people your targeting. A set of questions or interview, or maybe some other way of communicating Brainstorm is all about developing ideas so help me develop, don't vote down just because of one thing. help improve it.

After everything send them a copy of the next Ubuntu release Intrepid Ibex or possibly even Hardy just depends on timing.

Lets not take an educated guess at what people want, lets straight up ask them.

regards Cheese

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Need a word processor? Use this app...
Need to browse the internet? Use this app...
Need to burn a CD? Use this app...
Want to listen to the radio? Use this app...
Need to organize your music collection? Use this app...

At the bare minimum, tell me about applications that are listed here: http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/804features/

The welcome screen should also tell me about the package manager, and how I can find and install new programs - at the bare minimum.

As it is now, new users to Ubuntu are left with a blank desktop and they have to find out how to do things themselves. A welcome screen will get them up and running faster and easier.


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It is very simple, you can code a blog in just 6 lines of source code.
It is a great fun and educational way to teach programming to kids.

This should be in the repository, and perhaps included in Edubuntu.
Perhaps this will inspire the guy who makes the next Google?

* http://hacketyhack.net/
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackety_Hack

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What's a Jackal? See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackal


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

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* ANts P2P
* Entropy
* Freenet
* I2P
* I2Phex
* iMule
* Marabunta
* MUTE
* OFFSystem
* Rodi
* Syndie
* Turtle F2F
* Mixminion
* Vidalia
* Newspost

Anonymity helps free speech and the avoidance of censorship and government oppression. It is vital for democracy and a free world.

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Some examples are:

Windows: WriteWayPro, yWriter, PowerWriter
Mac: Scrivener, Jer's Novel Writing Software (I have not used either one, but I've heard they are good.)

Writer's Cafe is more for planning a novel; it does not include a built in word processor.

Also, I have tried organizers like Basket Note Pads and KnowIt but they do not have nearly as many features as the programs listed above though.

Most of the organizers did not have a print feature, a ruler at the top for tabbing, word count, find & replace, spell check etc. all the things normal word processors would have.

However, normal word processors do not have the ability to store novels in a chapter and scene format as a organizer could.

The programs I listed above would be great examples as to what I'm looking for. I have searched for this type of app, but have not found a satisfactory alternative. This is the only thing that makes Windows appealing, and I think more novelists would switch to Ubuntu if this was available.

Sincerely,
Susanna777

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More problems come when you go to try to figure out how it should be split.
I propose #ubuntu and #ubuntu-x64 for a start, and all of you probably have better ideas. Put 'em here. Also, I'd like to know if others observe this to be as much of a problem as I do.

Ubuntu has the largest support community on earth, and as it continues to grow, it's going to need to adapt its community structure to that growth. The longer we wait, the more people in need of help we scare off.

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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 25-Jul-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/11497/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/11477/ Some or many users have stopped voting on ideas just because they think more about there brainstorm rank than contribution back to brainstorm.ok,everyone cares about RANK but isnt that only thing that matter,see iam posting this idea without fear about rank dwindle or rejection to my idea.every contributor should vote only if they like there is nothing like Neutral vote system,when a user thinks of great idea he wants it to be implemented atleast in next version or second 2 next version,but not after decade,patience is killing.actually its ok,to them but not healthy for other ideas/users.
Simple yes/no vote,see i voted on 6 thousand ideas,if you dont have time,i can understand but when you have time then just vote dont care too much about Rank.if you care about then you should bring new/best ideas to remain on Top.
Liberty should not be abused.

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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

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So, what happens if on first boot the user is given an option to select which one is about to use.

1.- Standard Top-Bottom panel with Applications/Places/System menu.
Screenshot:
http://tintafantasma.net/imagenes/ubuntu804.jpg

2.- Single-Bottom Panel with gnome main menu and gnome control center.

Screenshot:

http://abock.org/blog-images/openSUSE-10.3.png

This is a concept that would help user to learn Ubuntu easily, using what user is familiar with.



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Let me explain it in detail:

I have to 2 laptops, let me say employee A has one and employee B another. Now it would be realy fantastic if employee A could move his document (let me call it "foo.bar") to the other employees laptop, of course to the background, don't steal the focus, this would be annoying.

This would be very helpful, if you work on a project with different sessions, usermanagement and so on.


Have a nice day
Sparky


- Multiple Mousepointers
- One Desktop, some X Servers
- Sharing the users X Servers (not like VNC which started an nother one)

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SUGGESTION
We need to K.I.S.S. This is a marketing term which means "Keep it simple, stupid!" When people design screens they need to be careful with positioning, and keep things uncluttered. They need to make their program "simple and a joy to use". The reason for this is they have spent many hours and days writing their program and it would be sad indeed if nobody used it. So don't just think of the technicalities, think of a new Linux user trying to get your program to work.

DOCUMENTATION
Don't write your own documentation. You can't successfully assume how a beginner will use it. Give your program to A NOVICE, show them how it works to save them time, and then ask them to write notes for a beginner on how it works. Then you can expand the notes for your documentation. Technical people should NEVER write documentation.

SUPPLEMENT
I used to be an editor of a magazine and know that, if you want to get people to read your magazine, you have to make it a joy to read. Plenty of white space, clear and concise.

CAVEAT
This idea is only valid if the programmer wants to see Linux become the accepted standard in the computer world.

Ampers




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Please detect duplicate addresses in launchpad accounts & send only one disk to one address.

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I find it terribly useful when you have a deep structured directory hierarchy, especially when you want to move a file several levels up.

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[Edit 06/03/2008]
In my opinion, the user SHOULDN'T boot the Ubuntu Live Distro. It would be an unuseful waste of time.
Instead, it should be possible to select a new option among those ones of the startup menu of the CD.

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]]> Fri, 25-Jul-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/1242/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/11174/ The only similar utility I have found in Ubuntu repos is sysinfo but it's a minimal gui and not very usefull.
I think that a gui that shows every aspect of system hardware (like the info printed by hwinfo) is a mandatory tool for every linux distro.

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In my personal systems I usually have a partition named "Multimedia" where I store audio, video and pictures. I want some users to have write access to it, so what do I do ?

I created a group named "multimedia" so everyone in this group should be able to write to that directory/partition.

1. I update my fstab (giving acl to reiserfs,xfs, etc.)
2. Remount the partitions with #mount -a -o remount
3. Set the permissions: #setfacl -m g:multimedia:rwx /multimedia
and then I use graphical tool to add users to that group.

It would be nice to make the process (3) using the properties dialog of the folder /multimedia or something similar through nautilus.

EDIT-----------

eiciel is not a solution because it will not let you make a mounted partition acl-enabled without having to manually edit your fstab and remount.

Besides it, eiciel does not integrate transparently in the properties context menu(ie, form Nautilus), which would make it more user friendly.

If you already have ACL's set up , eiciel is a good option.

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Human theme is good. I've seen the proposals like this:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/Intrepid_Ibex_GTK_proposal
and they are pretty nice. But Orange/Brown is a warm combination of colors. Ubuntu should use them, but there is a limit. The actual Ubuntu theme is TOO orange, there's needed to be a balance, having Icons like theese:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/Intrepid_Ibex_Icons_-_Art_Team

With a theme like the first one is too much.

I suggest something a little neutral like Elementary:
http://ddb.fiestapig.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/apr5-2.png

Brainstorm Idea:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/10709/

Warm colors are not calming, and a working station should be. So a color like Orange has to be used carefully.

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