Contributor HDave

Clean or purge directories under the Users Home directory to save disk space, remove old junk or bloat and to help protect user privacy. Disk cleanup application just like ccleaner for windows (except for clearing system log files.).

clear cache/temp directories:
-- Trash ('~/.Trash' moved to ~/.local/share/Trash)
-- Firefox cache ('~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/Cache')
-- Nautilus thumbnails cache (~/.thumbnails).
-- Metacity ('~/.metacity/sessions')
-- Java cache ('~/.java/deployment/cache').
-- Flash cache ('~/macromedia/Flash_Player' or '~/adobe/Flash_Player').
-- Evolution cache ('~/.evolution/cache')
-- OpenOffice ('~/.openoffice.org2/user/temp')
-- Recent Documents List ('~/.recently-used')
-- GQview thumbnails ('~/.gqview/thumbnails')
-- Bash History ('~/.bash_history')
-- Pidgin IM Logs ('~/.purple/logs/*/*')
-- OpenOffice ('~/.openoffice.org2/user/backup', '~/.openoffice.org2/user/temp')
-- VLC cache ('.vlc/cache')
-- Any left over temp files. those created by VIM ( file~ )
-- Xsession Errors('~/.xsession-errors')
-- Gimp ('~/.gimp-2.4/tmp')
-- Liferea ('~/.liferea_1.4/cache'; '~/.liferea_1.4/mozilla/liferea/Cache')
-- Prism ('~/*.default/Cache')
-- Xsessions Error Log ('~/.xsession-errors')


- Option to move documents from /home/username to /home/username/Documents

- Option to move images from /home/user to /home/username/Image.


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It is likely that the situation will occur that you vote an idea up or down, only to then take part in the discussion and change your mind about it. After all, there is bound to be someone with more expertise with a different view on the subject that you hadn't considered. Currently, you cannot see, remove or reverse your vote. I think you should be able to, on the basis that it would give a more accurate and up-to-date representation of user opinion.

The counter-argument to this would be that it could cause an element of uncertainty, but I do not feel that avoiding this should come at the expense of being able to change your mind.

It would be a huge step for linux if the use of MS office in wine would be easier. There are tricks now that can be used to make it work, but the average PC user will not be able to pull it off. If it is possible with commercial emulation software, why shouldn't it be made easier with Wine.

You can wine that we must all use Open Office. However, my very own brother refuses to use ubuntu solely because he can't use msoffice.

32-bit -server kernel or 64-bit -generic kernel ARE NOT A VIABLE OPTIONS.
This has been submitted many times, but people keep burrying it because of misinformation and plain ignorance.
Not having this thing makes Ubuntu worse for many.
Come on people, 4 GB RAM is becoming the standard.

32-bit -server kernel: unstable with nvidia/compiz, not configured for desktop, can open far fewer windows before start getting "black window" problem.

64-bit -generic kernel: on 4GB systems it actually results in having less usable memory than going with the standard -generic kernel which supports only 3GB.

Thanks for supporting this!

Ways to make terminal server (remote desktop) client better:

A) make it possible to switch out of fullscreen mode without disconnecting

B) add a maximize option to use up as much of the screen as possible (without going to full screen mode)

C) allow custom screen resolutions in the display setup tab

D) add scroll bars or some way of scrolling if the terminal client screen size is smaller that the size of the host desktop or make the client report its screen size so the host desktop can adjust itself

I've got two monitors, and right now if I use the wallpaper settings in gnome it stretches the wallpaper across the two monitors. It does this even for the default ubuntu wallpaper. This can look really bad depending on the image. In order to get around this I had to get two wallpaper images and join them into one large one with the GIMP and set that as my wallpaper.

There should be a way in gnome to set a different wallpaper for each monitor.

==== Merged with ideas of a similar scope: Different wallpapers on different workspace ===

Many workspaces option in Linux allows you to separate your work, why not allow users to have different wallpapers on each workspace. This allows for easier identification of which workspace you are on.
When used with compiz-fusion you can rapidly switch between your workspaces and the different wallapaper will allow you to quickly recognise what desktop you are on.

Currently this is natively available in KDE but not in Gnome. In Gnome you can't even let Compiz take over the wallpaper control because Nautilus doesn't allow for transparent backgrounds.

Other solutions like Wallpapoz are slow and when switching between desktops it takes too long to switch WP.

Since I don't think many people would be scared of an extra button to configure their selected screensaver, it would be really nice if it could be included (like it is in xscreensaver-settings).

Note this is not urgent but could be an objective to aim for in the future.

A system for automatically discovering, analysing, manipulation, and presentation of inter-relationships of concepts would be helpful in ordering much of the information generated by Brainstorming sessions.

Keywords that are in common "imply" a connection of some sort between separate documents.
But where "links or connections" are "stated or defined", there is no doubt about the connections.

These connections can be used to group data/issues/considerations/topics/factors into prominent groups, And show the overall independence or overlap between them.

The discussions comments may even be helpful to automatically detect what depends on what, and what might prevent what from happening.

Altavista search engine used to have a great system back in the late 90s, but no more. Kartoo has a good system - "try a search for "ubuntu brainstorm duplicate".

http://www.kartoo.com

Cuil search engine has a categorizer function;

http://www.cuil.com/

See how it arranges topics with contours of probabilities of topic overlap.
See the issues that are common between topics, and hover over them to see which topics they are forming the link between.

Click on a linking issue to zoom in on the topics related to it. Altavista used to have an ability to select a "group" of issues and/or topics to very efficiently zoom in on exactly what you were looking for.

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Hi!

I'm a big fan of Images like .iso.
But it is not very easy to mount this Images.
I think there must be a Tool in Nautilus and Dolphin wich alows mounting Images with a double Click. (This feature exists int MacOS). Or with a right click on the file and then there must be a poit "Mount Image". I thick that would be a very use full Tool for every one.
A good example for this is CDemu.

I know there are some ohter good programs, but I think that would be the easyest way and very confortible.

Nanotron

I think one of the biggest showstoppers for Ubuntu is the lack of support for Exchange 2007. As much as I hate it, I'm forced to use it at work. Today I have to use Outlook 2003 in VirtualBox/XP to work around the problem.

There is an ongoing project to add MAPI support to Evolution which would remedy the problem but the development isn't going that fast and doesn't seem to be a priority.

Microsoft Exchange 2007 was released late 2006 but still we have no support in Evolution/Ubuntu.

http://www.go-evolution.org/MAPIProvider

Pidgin saves account passwords in plain text (check the contents of ~/.purple/accounts.xml )

Saving passwords in plain text is wrong! The Gnome keyring is a perfect replacement for this insecure method and should be used.

Hi,

hamachi is cool. But it is no open-source and I hope someone develops a GUI for OpenVPN that make it as easy to use as Hamachi.

Bye

Replace the awfull NWF by GTK. (like NeoOffice with Cocoa) NWF is often unstable and inconsitent. A clean GTK version will also run on multiple plattforms like OSX or Win32! In addition it might be more portable for mobile devices like OpenMoko based ones.

Hi All,

My suggestion is that we develop a simple version of ubuntu for easy use by Kids. Nothing complicated just easy graphics and cool and simple applications. Something a 5year old would use.

Many Thanks

Linux does not support sleep/suspend on MANY usb->sata/pata chipsets. There exists a patch to fix this: "scsi-idle for nslu2-linux" ***

Ubuntu should use/maintain the patch for those external cases where hdparm/sdparm/sg3_tools spindown commands do not work.


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http://handhelds.org/hypermail/oe/49/4973.html
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/FAQ/SpinDownUSBHarddisks
http://fredericiana.com/2005/12/16/nslu2-linux-usb-harddrive-spindown/

Password management is central to security. In my opinion the best password management system is the open source KeePass Password Safe (keepass.info).

The linux port is already in the repository. The name is KeePassX (keepassx.org). The features are lacking compared to the windows version, but it is still a very functional program.

Improving KeePassX and including it as installed on default would be a very nice addition to Ubuntu.

It would be nice if the standard dictionary included with Ubuntu could be spruced up a bit. Here are some ideas:

* Keep a copy of the dictionary database on the computer, so that you can access it offline. As of right now, I can't look up a word if I'm out on the lawn typing. It could be updated when the computer has an internet connection. (Manually/Automatically?)
* Show results as you type. For example, if I typed "tre" in, I would get everything from 'treacherous' to 'trey' displayed in a list from which I could select the word I wanted. This would update as I continued typing.
* Have automatic hyperlinking from all the words in the definitions. If I look up "oxygen", and I don't know what a 'silicate' is, I should be able to double-click on that word and be taken to its definition (back and forward buttons would be useful here)
* Show the thesaurus by default.
* Have a more standard dictionary database. I'm not sure about licensing, but if we could access reference.com 's database, that would be great. Also, let the user select the databases they want to use.
* Tie in all other dictionaries (OpenOffice, Firefox) to one central database for spellchecking. Spellcheck should be a global feature, with every program using one database which would be editable through a GUI or the program you are using.
* Make an overall prettier GUI, but clean and simple. All I want is a search bar, a definition area, and maybe a menu or two where I can customize the above ideas.

Nautilus could detect if a folder contains a majority of a certain type of files and adapt the type and number of columns to provide more useful details.

I think of pictures folders, where it could show exif informations about pictures like the resolution of the picture and its capture date (in addition to the modification date)

I also think of music folders, where it could show the bitrate,the length and the (ID3) tags of the music files.
I think this would be very useful.

In addition, the ability to add/remove columns should be available by the right click on the listview header.

Please see the comments for further ideas

From #6245 (merged):

Having an extra column in the list showing something like "23x456" would be ideal, because you could see the info for all the files in the folder at once.

Have the info in the status-bar would be better than what we've got currently (right-click->properties->image shows the info in Nautilus, but it's not very efficient)

So the user can schedule things to be done with the GUI.

One time tasks: At
Recurring tasks: Cron

And make them share the same GUI frontend.

For one time tasks, it'd be ideal if the user can optionally turn the machine off or sleep or log off after the task.

The current L2TP/IPsec support is difficult to configure. But it is becoming more popular among VPN networks.

It should be either integrated into NetworkManager, which currrently doesn't have a plugin for it, or provided with another GUI for configuration as a temporary solution.