Contributor Fahd

Arabic users face allot of problems in rendering any arabic texts, especially in Firefox or in terminal. Firefox fonts for arabic are limited and bad, and in terminal there is no support for Arabic. Many Encoding problems when adding arabic subtitles to a movie.

When I first got Ubuntu my laptop was constantly overheating. I almost gave up on linux, but in the last minute found out to do "echo powersave > /sys/devices/system/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor"
...in order to select the "powersave" governor. For a while I had to go through the hassle of doing this *every time* I booted Ubuntu, until I found the "Ubuntu Tweak" application, which enables you to add an option to the Preferences/Power management dialog to select a CPU governor (powersave/conservative/ondemand/etc.)

Could this option not be included by default?! It would also give people another easy option to make their batteries last when they need to!

Even though, I like the current busy cursor, I thought that would be much original if, instead of the MAC_Loading Animation to busy cursor, would be the ubuntu logo rotating around its origin.
Also this might be done for Kubuntu and Xubuntu, too, with their own logos.

Please excuse my English!

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Thank you for the awsome job you are doing with this distro!

Installing a software by double clicking on a .deb is now really simple thanks to gdebi. But a a software installed by this method will not be able to auto update. So I propose that a .deb will be able to propose to the user to add a repository in order to stay up to date.

I hope that this problem is resolved

Using an external sound card plugged via firewire is really painfull today.
Some people give up Ubuntu for this only reason.
A better out of the box support would be great.

It would be useful and fantastic to apply effects to the sound for whole the system. So the Volume Control application would have a tab with a pool of effects (echo, chorus...), in the similar way the Sound Blaster Audigy's mixer has. I don't know if this feature is hardware dependant or it could be emulated by software.

I am really interested in a special effect: Volume Normalizer. So if one is working with headphones, one can trust no application will sound to much harder suddenly.

It should be done. In Windows after installing Sound Manager I got systray icon that configures AC97. There is equalizer too. I dont know is it hardware or just some FFT in driver, but it works purely like hardware one, in all applications, on all devices including CD and MIDI and does not consume processor at all

- merge the headphone and speaker volume control into a single unit, or at least create an option that locks the two together.

- when users are adjusting the volume, they generally do it with respect to what they are currently listenning. however, in the next 20-30 seconds, when they start listenning something else or just that whatever they are listenning has changed its characteristics, the output volume suddenly can really go up. So maybe an option could be to adjust the volume such that the current volume output level is going to be the max. (with some noise allowed) volume output regardless of whatever is played.

Wine is a fine way to have a decent use of some multimedia programs, but professionals have higher standards and demand better workflow. Programs like Photoshop, Coreldraw, Lightroom and others schould have their Linux version sometime in the future..

Change sound software to allow the microphone to work with skype and the sound recorder. This has been a persistent problem with both my Intel and Amd architecture.

After 2 years of waiting, Creative eventually released a 64 bit version that required a compile hell, and crashed ubuntu on startup. There is no 32 bit support.

This soundcard is present in many high-end Dell workstations, and as such the Ubuntu/Dell partnership should be able to provide leverage to speed this situation up.

it would be good to have a option to keep the aspect ratio of the playing movie when changing the size of the window.

by now (feisty for me) there is the option to resize to 1:2 1:1 2:1 and to set the aspect ratio but none which says "keep aspect ratio".
This should work for any aspect ratio the movie file comes with, just keep it.

Rhythmbox needs better radio support that can automatically update the radio stations.

A good examples of this is with streamtuner
http://www.nongnu.org/streamtuner/

And I think that it would be a good Idea putting a couple of pro Linux podcasts on the default install too.

Thanks

Use the video capabilities of mobile phones for video conversation with "VOIP" or IM clients (kopete, amsn, openwengo, ekiga, skype, ...).

You would then have a mobile webcam if you use the bluetooth channel :)

It's related to a broader issue: enhance the interoperability between mobile devices and linux.

I want an easy GUI for adding desktop widgets like wheather, cpu, notice, pictures, flowers, decorations, animals, chat, mail-alert, diary etc. to my desktop. :D

cd/dvd roms come with a technology called "lightSCribe"... I would love to see this integrated into the operating system somehow.
There is a .deb file for it on the main lightscribe.com site but its for i386 not 64-bit...
There is a sdk available on their site so integrating this may be even easier..
Would be really nice to actually use this feature..

Thanks

Seriously, xsane terrifies me. I'm completely lost each time I use it. It reeks of that poorly designed early-90's hacker-app feel. There's Scanner Utility in Add/Remove, but it doesn't let me scan all of my scanner. Can we please have something similar to the scanning programs of Windows?

It would be nice if the volume and mute buttons on our multimedia keyboard would work even when the screensaver is locked. Or at least make an option for this.

When listening to music around the house, usually the screensaver comes on within a few minutes. Its password protected because we have a five-year-old. If we get a phone call and its up too loud that means we have to input a password just to turn down the volume so we can hear the phonecall.

This would also probably be a good idea for an office environment if someone leaves their desk unattended and their colleagues need to turn their system volume down for some reason.

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.