Contributor Eldmannen

Mozilla have released Firefox 3 Candidate Release 1. I suggest that this version of firefox starts shipping with Ubuntu.

There is a wide community of online artists capable of creating brilliant, unique artwork.

heading: Get your artwork on 10 million desktops

Ubuntu, the world's most popular Linux distribution, needs a new theme. The winner will appear in the default desktop of Ubuntu 8.10.

We're looking for original wallpapers, that match Ubuntu's color palette. You entry should also include a suggested combination of application, icon, and window themes. These can be existing themes, or your own original works - you only need to submit a wallpaper to win.

Work must be CC licensed, and be openable in either Inkscape or Gimp (rest of criteria continues)

Submit your works to DeviantArt and include the words [Ubuntu810].


Good luck!

Cheese should have a preferences dialog, and should not just assume a particular audio/video device.For instance currently i cannot record my audio with my web cam because the audio source is wrong. I can however go into "Sound Recorder" and select the proper input to record audio.

The idea would be to integrate a data detector that analyzes patterns in messages, chat , and when the users hoovers over it, a contextual menu appears proposing add-hoc actions.

This article describes the implementation of this feature in Leopard in more details. Please take 2 seconds to skim through it before voting.

macbiblioblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/apple-data-detectors-are-so-useful.html

Themes can make a desktop look really great.

We should have theme competitions where people can send in their contributions for review and get a winner.

Individual artists like people from DeviantArt, etc can contribute, or professional design studios can contribute and get some nice coverage.

The winning theme can get shipped with the next release of Ubuntu. (Not necessarily as the default theme, but as an alternative)

Rules: the theme must be "free".

Artists will get the chance to compete and test their skills and show off their abilities.
We will get some awesome looking themes.

A prize could also perhaps be awarded to the winner to incite motivation.

Synaptic is a great program and has so many choices. However, tons of the programs within the repositories do not add an icon to the main menu. Granted, I know that some packages, like libraries and codecs don't actually have an executable and that's ok. I don't need an icon for those. But the executable programs should ALWAYS add an icon to the main menu. If it doesn't, you have to right click on the package in synaptic, select properties, search the installed files and try to figure out where your program was installed. This is ridiculous and needs to be changed.

I propose a standard requirement for all repository programs that need to be executed have their installer create an icon in the menu for it. The same logic seems to happen within add/remove, but not in synaptic. This seems like a large inconsistency to me.

Mark said that "pretty is a feature".
Ubuntu must be eyecandy, pretty, beautiful, glossy. Sometimes human theme is not so, if we try other ones. For example, glossy theme works well.
My idea is beautiful by default.

n.b. Give attenction that this idea is in "marketing".

Canonical should put more effort into promoting Software Freedom Day on the leadup into it, to get as many people involved as possible. There doesn't seem to be any mention of it on their site, despite them being a sponsor

Had it not been for my last idea, I would have not even known about it. Here in melbourne Australia, it seems more like an advertising event, then a socialising event, and now that I know, I may even consider organising a pub crawl. Many other people may be interested in doing the same thing, and the earlier these events are posted, the better.

Apple promotes their events a few months up to the event to get people interested. Software freedom day is a world wide celebration, and is only 4 months away, maybe we should start asap, to get as many teams out there hosting events as possible. Every uni, and every state should be hosting something

Now is says that the currently loaded plugins do not provide means to burn such disks.

You can have window shadows with Compiz.
But not everyone can run Compiz.

Add window shadows so it works without Compiz.
Enlightenment (window manager) has this.
Other operating systems have shadows without hardware-accelerated desktop too.

It should be good if it can be possible to have some shadow behind the desktop icon with a choosable color and choosable alpha channel.
The reason for this feature is to have better visibility with some wallpaper that have region that seems to hide icons.
With this feature the icons should always be in good contrast and fast reachable.

I tried to make an example but I'm not good with graphics program so if someone could make an example , it will be nice.

Add 64-bit support to Wine.

Wine currently only supports 32-bit applications.

Add DirectX 10.1 support for Wine.

This will make Linux a more attractive platform for gamers who currently use Windows but who wish to move to Linux.

I think that frostwire similar to limewire is one of the best p2p file sharing free tools. Now with OPenjdk support o Ubuntu it must be esay to include it.

Features:

Completely Free & Open Source

BitTorrent Support

Turbo-Charged Download Speeds

Absolutely NO Spyware or Adware

Connects to more sources

Creative Commons license support

Max. speed network connections

Junk Result Filters

Community Chat Rooms

iTunes Integration

Firewall-to-firewall transfers

Proxy Support

I think that execute query is one of the best Database modeling and managemet free tools. Now with OPenjdk support o Ubuntu it must be esay to include.

http://executequery.org/index.jsp

Execute Query is an operating system independent database utility written entirely in Java.

Using the power provided by Java Database Connectivity (JDBC), Execute Query provides the means by which to manipulate almost any database from simple queries to table creation and import/export of an entire schema's data. See Features for a list of some of the available tools.

Ubuntu is supposed to be free software, yes sometimes we absolutely need wireless drivers, .rar extractors, or Adobe flash plugins. However, these packages should not be dependencies of the ubuntu-desktop meta- package.
Try installing the program VRMS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrms ) and you will see that ubuntu-desktop depends on some non-free art, and linux-restricted modules.

Add SSI (single-system image) clustering. This is distributed computing. Great for server farms, grid computing, clusters, enterprises, etc.

SSI clustering will have applications in scientific computing.

It could be used to enable secure anonymous system clustering over the Internet.

Add boot support for GPT partitions. This support includes the boot sector and loader that enable common i386 machines with a generic BIOS to boot from GPT-partitioned drives.

GPT is GUID Partition Table, the disk partitioning format commonly used by EFI-compliant firmware.

Most general-purpose processors provide support for memory pages of large sizes, called superpages. Superpages enable each entry in the translation lookaside buffer (TLB) to map a large physical memory region into a virtual address space. This dramatically increases TLB coverage, reduces TLB misses, and promises performance improvements for many applications.

It offers substantial performance benefits, often exceeding 30%; these benefits are sustained even under stressful workload scenarios.

ECMP routing allows for multiple routes to be handled by the kernel, including default routes. It potentially offers substantial increases in bandwidth by load-balancing traffic over multiple paths.