Contributor HDave

Put a size limit on Trash, so it gets emptied automatically after it gets above 1GB (or whatever). You could also empty it on a time schedule, or automatically delete files over a certain age.

F-spot is getting half decent. It's actually one of my favourite apps oddly enough but it has lots of room to improve.

I propose an easy way to share photo's/albums over a local area network for example. This could be done using something like bonjour similar to how frostwire and itunes can share music libraries over the network.

The reason I suggest this is that my brother and I often go places together and one of us will carry a video camera while the other one is snapping photos, instead of both of us having to set up and tag the same photos twice it would be nice for one of us to do it and then both open F-spot on our laptops and easily share, I have tons of photo's of him he would be interested in if only he could browse them.

When you have 6 people in your family all using Ubuntu at different locations this is a small feature that is very desirable.

Ubuntu detect a system crash and autotype:

alt+print+R+E+I+S+U+B

For a correct reboot!

Ubuntu needs to change from a Brown and Orange theme and go with more GREEN. For a couple of reasons.

Environmental message: This is an extension of Idea #12066 proposed for marketing Ubuntu as a green or environmental option. Ubuntu can provide modern OS and software solutions on older hardware than Vista or Mac. I use 7.10 on a six year old desktop, and 8.04 on a nearly 10 year old laptop. A green colored theme will enhance the message that using Ubuntu and Linux software can help save on your hardware upgrades and protect the environment in the process.

Wider audience: I'm not alone in being turned off by the Ubuntu brown and orange and gravitated to Kubuntu (blue) or Xubuntu (blue/gray) because that's what I enjoy more. Vibrant Green similar to the KDE Blues would be great (PCLinuxOS 2007 with KDE did a notable job with balancing blacks and blues).

Here's a way to sample pictures by colors.
http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=8dba4c;

Certainly a user can transform Ubuntu into whatever color theme they want, but a default of rich greens would be helpful in communicating the environmental benefits plus approachability.

No point having a duplicate scanner if it doesn't look up mispelt words too. Having a way to spellcheck stuff being submitted:
- Reduces duplicates
- Makes it easier to find an existing idea you like to vote on
- Seperates us from apes (well, some of us anyway, I still have some way to go).

And it doesn't need to be an uber flashy implementation.

As we get into easter though, I suspect we will see an influx of drunk-typed ideas which at least may be interpreted as something which becomes semi useful (provided you are creative). However, this would require a spellcheck to at least translate the garbage into words.

Fantastic article on consistent user interfaces. This really should be a blueprint on how to design the next release.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/12/top-10-usability-highs-of-the-mac-os

I think if you have compiz-fusion installed then the 3D chess games should be installed by default. I have compiz-fusion on both my desktop and notebook computers but the in the chess game when I choose 3D chess I have to install couple more python packages. I know it's not a hard thing to do but for new users it wold be nice as a default when they have the compiz-fusion working on their system.

Right now, when you hit a PDF link, the only options are to save it or to visualize it in a new window of Document Viewer.

I think it would be better to have the option to view it directly into firefox, as Acrobat does (at least in XP).

In my opinion is more useful and helps fast web browsing.

and i dont mean sticky notes.
tomboy rocks somehow, but i dont see why this kind of app should require 20mb of ram.
and i would like to see folders or tree in the notes popup. tomboy shows too few notes in that popup.
i think a rewrite would be best.

Remove deb dependencies of Mono from GNOME and do not install as default.
Do not promote Mono based application like the wonderful tomboy
Use Zim instead that is better, based on rock solid bullet proof Perl and GTK Perl that are defaults very free cross platforms libs:

http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=199098&use_mirror=garr& filename=ioZim0.25-Linux_InfodomesticObjects0.9.29.2&80037577

We don't need any Mono/MS.NET education.
We have already GTK,QT,Perl,Python (too much),POSIX Shell, Ruby,C ,C++,Java (have you never heard it? now it's open source).

Gaming in linux is hard(sometimes) not because there are no games to play, it`s because you have to do hard googling to find them. But if there were a site about ubuntu gaming, every user could find it`s game, there would categorized, you would have a sever list etc.

There are 4 type of games for linux:
- open source native linux games
- closed source native linux games
- games that run with cedega under linux
- games that run with wine under linux

Wine has an app db, cedega has one too, but closed source native, and open source native games have none.... you have to find them, and anyway, why search in four different directions, when you can have one, just one unified game database, that would rule them all.

ohhh btw. I forgot a 5th category:
- console emulated games

This would be like restricted driver manager(maybe even an extension of it) but it would be for FREE/OSS *unstable* drivers.

There are a lots of hardware, take webcams for example, that mostly don`t have stable free or non-free drivers, BUT they have unstable ones, made by *hackers*. So if you buy a latop with a hardware like the ones I described above, the unstable driver manager would tell you this:

"You have this *piece of hardware* in your system, that doesn`t have any stable driver available for ubuntu. However, there is an unstable driver that MIGHT work, but be very carefull, it is UNSTABLE, it is very dangerous, and can destroy your system, and/or cause World War 3 to happen, use it at your own risk. If you survived this attempt please send feedback to hacker_who_made_this_driver@email.me.".

Keep in mind, there are a lot of hardware(mostly laptops) that don`t have stable drivers for linux. And there are a lot of people, who buy hardware that have these proplems(mostly they can`t even check if it`s compatible or not) who would try and/or use (k/x)ubuntu but don`t know/ or don`t even care how to google for Device ID all day, read forum posts and compile drivers.

Why don't we have an image repository for specific hardware systems ?

Background: This summer, I've been doing some system installations for a variety of friends and family. When my 80 year old father was visiting, he decided to purchase a Lenovo 3000 N200 and let me wipe Vista, then install Ubuntu. He's really impressed with the system.
It took me a weekend to get the the sound, network and video configured correctly. Then I used clonezilla to back it up, just in case there is a problem (/home is a separate partition, so I can re-install the image without deleting his data).

PITCH:So, now I have this 2 + G image of Ubuntu 8.04 that is suitable for any Lenovo 3000 N200. Wouldn't it be cool to have a repository of basic images for specific hardware systems? Wouldn't it be so much easier to be able to download the image and install a pre-configured Ubuntu ? I have questions about who would host the images, how would they be vetted to be clean from any maliciousness, etc.
Hardware vendors would probably be neutral: increased sales versus unsupported software.

Still, the idea just seems so promising that I'm hopeful it could work.

Something really nice would be a fully integrated ubuntu-chat client similar to google talk/ICQ and such but this time designed for ubuntu. The client would have some plugin to be compatible with other protocols but will use its own protocol by default.

So why doing this when there are tons of other IM's?

That piece of software will have useful options to find other ubuntu-neophytes nearby your area and such. The idea behind it is to simplify communication between ubuntu users and communications in general, a ubuntu webmail server (if doesnt exists yet :p) could be linked to that IM client.

Windows has had msn by default and I am sure some lazy people who didnt want to search to much around really liked it. So why not doing the same kind of thing (not as invasive as msn though :p ) for ubuntu.

I am a pidgin user and I use 3 different protocols already (msn,ICQ and gtalk) but I think a default one for ubuntu would be greatly welcomed by neophytes.

Let brainstorm support that some general ideas can be composed of several more particular subideas. I have seen here that some ideas are duplicates of more general ideas but adds some particular info about how it should be solved. By marking the idea duplicate of the more general one this added info is sometimes lost.

So I would suggest more tree-like structure of ideas while also maintaining the categories..

On startup Ubuntu will sometimes say the disk "has been mounted x times without being checked, check forced". Then it will make me wait to use the computer. Why not do this at shutdown instead of startup? When the user starts up the computer, they're sending a message to Ubuntu saying "I want to use my computer now." Not later. When they shut down, they're telling Ubuntu "I don't want to use my computer now." Do it then.

It appears keyboard shortcuts don't work when the machine is locked.

I have set my machine to activate the screensaver after 10 minutes of inactivity so that my password has to be entered to reactivate.

It's a pain that I can't use my keyboard shortcuts, for example when listening to music, to skip, pause, raise or lower the volume when the screen lock is active.

I understand that it is perhaps not desriable for the keyboard to strill be active when the station is locked but maybe the user can make exceptions for certain shortcuts for example.

Here is Gmail main page and msttcorefonts in use:
http://i38.tinypic.com/i72bfs.png

And here same page but now with ttf-liberation:
http://i35.tinypic.com/1zdtaw1.png

Ttf-liberation just looks better and it is under GPL. Why should we use non-free msttcorefonts if there is free and better looking alternate available?

tv, newegg, google, etc.

I understand and appreciate that Ubuntu needs to always move ahead, bringing new features, and integrating new technology with each new release. That said, LTS releases are not the place to test out new features and systems. They instead should represent what has been previously built and tested thoroughly through real world use.

Look at Hardy. I've read too many posts about people having trouble with PulseAudio, and it should come as no surprise, since it is a new technology. Though I agree future releases of Ubuntu should integrate this new sound architecture, I strongly disagree that Hardy was the right place to introduce it. This is just one example.

LTS releases should essentially be re-releases of the previous Ubuntu release, with all improvements, bug and security fixes included. In particular, nothing should be included that could break or weaken the existing system. Perhaps this means using an older implementation of a program or system, patched if necessary. Gutsy should have been designated as 'LTS-alpha', and been the testing bed to prepare for Hardy.

When you put an LTS release into the world, it should come with the reassurance that this is a stable platform, one that can be depended upon for the long haul.

Ubuntu needs to change it's mindset about LTS. LTS releases should not be technological showcases of where Ubuntu is heading. Instead, they should be testaments to where Ubuntu has been and (hopefully) learnt from it's mistakes. They should be monuments not just to the promise of a 'desktop linux', but actually delivering on that promise, instead of looking to promise more than what you can actually (predictably and stably) deliver.

If you want to release a non-LTS release with all the new features at the same time as a LTS release, go ahead, be my guest. Let the users decide between stability with long term support, and the more 'cutting edge' release. Just don't say these two animals are the same thing.