Integrate a Spell Checker into Brainstorm... That will highlight typing errors.

Also, along with this, have a warning to allow people to preview and make any corrections to the idea that they are about to submit before they submit it, as we are not allowed to edit our ideas.

this may help to give subjective decisions

While requesting features to the open source community which consist mainly of free workers, we may often forget to say how much we like Ubuntu and look like costumers requesting.

So you can say thank you to the thousands of developers and users who gave their time by voting for this article :)

It would be very cool to have journaled hfs+ read/write support this would make it easy to share a home partition between osx and ubunutu...

this link might help: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html

The possibility to restore deleted files with a right mouse click in the trash bin in Gnome

Ubuntu is built on the philosophy that every user should be part of the community. Many users help out in various ways, however very few start programming because of the traditional difficulties.

1) Many people just don't know where to begin. Create a developer resource website and a "Beginner Developer Package" as mentioned in idea #4354.
The website should mostly contain articles aimed at new developers. It can link to external resources (e.g. the KDE and GNOME developer websites) for more advanced information.

Both the website and the developer package should be maintained by the general Linux community. Although the project will not be distro specific, The Ubuntu community will benefit greatly by sponsoring the project.

2) Bring back Canonical Code Bounties to motivate new developers.
Integrate them with community bounties as mentioned in idea 1295.

3) Create a Ubuntu Design Rewards website. (Idea 2961.)
Most developers coding for OS X and Windows have never even heard of Ubuntu. Mac OS X in particular has a costant stream of neat new apps. We need to capture their attention and bring them to Linux by way of contests and prizes.

In particular, Canonical should focus on attracting high school and university students. Google has been sucessful in bringing students to open source by using prizes and monetary incentives (GSoC and GHOP). We need to be more welcoming and do the same.

I would like to see IdeaTorrent (Software behind Ubuntu Brainstorm) as a Joomla extension.

How much work would that be? Would it still be possible to use the same MVC-scheme that IdeaTorrent currently uses in Drupal? In order to avoid code duplication.

Currently, there is a map of Ubuntu users at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWorldWide (which isn't too great), and some teams have their own maps. For example, French-speaking Ubuntu users http://ubuntu-fr.org/carte/

I would like to see an interactive Google map showing which regions and cities have teams, and which teams are approved in a similar fashion as the USTeams map on http://ubuntu-us.org/

Clicking on a region would go to the team page even if it doesn't exist yet so that people can start that team.

A layer to show Ubuntu users might also be nice.

As I've moved more people over to linux I've noticed more and more of people running in to the "ok, I plugged it in... now what?" scenerio with devices. I think it would be useful to have an applet pop up in the tray for all hardware you plug in.
If you have sofware installed to use/configure the hardware the applet launches the installer/configuratior if you click on it's tray icon, otherwise the icon goes away after 30 seconds. If you don't have anything installed to use the hardware the applet opens a little help dialog in the corner of the screen (that fades after a few min) asking if you'd like to install software to use the hardware you plugged in. The icon for the applet should stay in the tray as long as you have hardware that you don't have software for. If you click on this icon it should bring up adept/synaptic/whatever with a list of the things you could install, sorted by raiting.

I have a couple of real world examples that might help illustrate: I took vista off this guy's laptop and put ubuntu on it. He want to scan and print, but he has to call me to get everything configured. I'm expecting to work with cups and xsane, but ubuntu has that hplib toolbox thing. With my proposal I'd just have to tell him to click on the "new hardware" icon (thing that looks like a whatever) and follow the dialog, instead of having to sort through the menus. Latter on he needs to pull video off a camera using firewire. I know he needs kino, but how is he supposed to know this? He *might* even have been able to navagate through the help if he had gotten a hint from a helpful little app like this one.

This would be completely useless to most linux users like me, but it would prove invaluable to most of the people I install Linux for. Furthermore, it would do more than even M$ does to make the OS easier to use.

Users with notebooks are often connected to different kind of networks. Wifi, fast ethernet, GPRS/Edge, UMTS/HSDPA etc. At the moment you have to connect to every network manually and lose some network sessions. It would be nice if Ubuntu could develop some software who can do this.

I have seen a kind of implementation before, by a swiss telephone carrier called Swisscom. He call the future seamless handover (Seamlessly switch between Wifi, GPRS and fast ethernet, without a lose of the connection). I think it could be implemented by creating a virtual network adapter and connect all physical network adapter through a virtual pipe.

In the future, I think it would also be nice if you implement it with mobile IP, a IPv6 future, in mind.