Contributor LostOverThere

This is insecure. The default GRUB setup gives a "recovery mode" which gives automatic root access without asking for a password.

There should be a username/password request here.

The Ubuntu powered HP Mini-Note 1000 looks gorgeous:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/29/hps-new-mini-1000-and-mie-linux-make-netbook s-fun-again/
http://gizmodo.com/5070119/hp-mini-1000-is-a-sleek-svelte-102+inch-netbook-with -a-custom-os

Please make the theme and launcher available for desktop users.

Ubuntu needs better artwork. Everybody know Fedora and Opensuse look better than ubuntu.
I'm not trying to say that the look is more important than the OS or the current theme is ugly but lets be honest the look is the first impression.

I appreciate the current efforts from ubuntu, but with this level of art I don't think "Ubuntu will surpass Apple in two years" as what Mark Shuttleworth said. I know there are a lot of buzz around deviantart this days, and I hope it makes some changes in intrepid, but with my full respect for the community contribution with the OS; ubuntu should have an artwork team which can be creative and handle this work correctly.

With xinerama, It is very helpful that when we maximize a window, it is maximized on the screen it is, but I think it can also be useful to have an option to maximize a window on both screens. For the moment, we have to manually resize the window, it is not easy.

We could have that option in the contextual menu of the window decorator, with the other options (keep on top...).

If one screen has a higher resolution than the other, we could take the lower resolution as the maximized window height.

Now it looks like a expert mode but it needs to be simple.
Also some effects on Apple OSX looks smoother I think, this and other things in CompizFusion can use some improvement.

Ok, this isn't really all about the "Human" theme, I like it, it looks better than windows XP's Luna, still can't really hold a candle to OS X's interface (it looks great, just saying.) But this really isn't about the human theme, 8.10's black and orange looks great, and so does 8.04's.

But the thing that's annoying me is, well...the applications come from all over the place. And the programs don't always look the best. Like the synaptic, it has the all-so-beautiful "Windows 98." the applications come from all over the place.

Just stuff like that, making it a bit more slick. As Mark Shuttleworth said he wanted to do. I mean, Ubuntu has great animation effects, just gotta add to it some in the appearance of the windows. So Ubuntu will look great AND be productive

I'm not trying to morph Ubuntu into Mac OS X or Windows or anything, but I think it would help out some.

As the title says theme support for transparent images for panel. right know is you use a image thats has parts of images transparent is just shows the defalt ubuntu panel in the part that's transparent

While there had been done great progress to do Ubuntu more accessible to non-expert users, there are still a great number of tasks that can only be carried out using the terminal and the sudo command. This command syntax is really powerful, but frequently discourages new users that know nothing about command prompts.

We can see this in the problems raised in the forums, as in 90% the solution to the problem means writing something on the terminal.

The terminal is of course completely necessary, but if Ubuntu is going to be a truly system for human users, it shouldn't be necessary to use it so often.

In order to fix this, a possible way of working would be studying the tasks that are done with the terminal and providing alternative ways of doing it through the control panel, without opening the terminal.

When trying to apply .gnomecc colourschemes on the default themes available from Ubuntu, most of them are less than 50% compatible with the gnome-color-chooser tool.

an example of a theme 100% compatible with gnome-color-chooser:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=89103&vote=good&tan=13268242

i confess i really wanted to see more themes 100% compatible with gnome-color-chooser! =)

Ubuntu has a great implementation for getting a Dualboot-system if one doesn´t want to completely switch over from Windows to Ubuntu.
The installation is easy enough for former Windows users.

But its much more difficult when it comes to silly ideas like "I want to have another Linux-OS on my Computer".
If you don´t have the standart layout (whatever the reason is for that) you run into deep troubles when you are not so experienced.
The other Linux OS, Ubuntu included will overwrite the Grub of the already existing Linux OS when you don´t care about "where do I put the bootloader?".
Or the Grub of the existing Linux-OS will not recognise a new installation if you put the bootloader of the additional Linux somewhere else (not into MBR)

So my idea and question is:
would it be possible to implement some feature into the install and partitioning routine which detects other Linux-Grub installations and asks the user: "there is another Linux. Do you want to keep it?" and two buttons: "yes, please add yourself to the boot-menu" and "no, please delete the old system"

With clicking the "yes"-button Ubuntu should add its bootloading-stuff to the existing GRUB so that after the reboot the user could chose like it is in Ubuntu-Windows Dualboot systems. I mean such an automated mechanism like it is existing for existing windows-installations.

With clicking the "no" Button Ubuntu could proceed like before: overwriting the GRUB and boot-files in the MBR.

How about this? Is it a great idea or... just stupid? :-))

Thanks and greetings

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Problem:
A user who wants to convert entire partitions to one file system to another currently needs to move any data that they wish to save to another partition, and manually replace the partition with the desired one.
This effectively makes changing a file system in one pass require an extra amount of storage space equal to the size of the files that the user wishes to save.
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Example:
Bob is a new Linux user. He has been dual booting Linux and Windows XP for the past three months and has decided that after giving Ubuntu a try, he feels it suits his needs more than Windows does. But there is a problem. Bob has a 50 Gigabyte external hard-drive that has a single NTFS partition filled with 45 gigabytes of music.
Bob feels that because Ubuntu suits his purposes better than Windows, it would be in his best interest to have his music be on an EXT3 file system, instead of an NTFS. But there is a problem. Bob only has a few gigabytes free on his hard drives, and doesn't have the money to buy a new hard drive.
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Solution:
If you take a look at the G-Parted partition manager, You'll notice that there are a few limitations to which file systems we can manipulate to our heart's content. But that doesn't mean that that's how things will stay.
Consider a stand alone application, or perhaps additional functionality added to existing partition managers, that instead of having to
1) Copy files and folders from the unwanted partition to the wanted one to free up space
2) Shrink the unwanted partition, and grow the wanted one
3) repeat
we could just simply say "convert this file system to X file system"
even if the way that it ends up happening is just an automated process of the above, I think that an application like this would save countless hours.
But I dont see why it would need to be as hackish as that. We know the specs of EXT3, RiserFS, and so on, there must be a way that we can mutate a file system from one type, to a comparable / compatible replacement without having to manually copy and paste files.

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Delphi was a de facto for windows, once in time..
I think Linux needs such an easy tool... or easier...
Eclipse, netbeans and so on exists for Linux, but i think they are difficult and newbie programmers or mid-programmer cannot develop programs..

Have you ever developed a database application with eclipse from scratch ? it is so difficult..

The biggest point behind Windows's success i think,
1- easiness... according to dos and mac,
2- Easy program developing/writing...

So, to have a good/simple ide for Linux/Ubuntu would be very nice...

Recently, Gnome started to have some oblique text - like when we transfer files from one disk to another, which at least i think it's hugelly annoying - is there some way to fix it?

One interesting initiative is doing what Apple used to do at 90's, having Ubuntu in a bus on the road, stopping in each city worldwidelly, which would be having a bus with some Ubuntu-OEM hardware and merchandise on sale, and being open for people bringing there their own computers to install Ubuntu (just like in an install party), some computers inside online for curious people trying Ubuntu, etc. - this should be very interesting for Ubuntu and Linux divulgation.

actually mid files cant be played in totem nor any other music players, i have to use timidity to do that, i know what you must be thinking: "you have timidity, what are you asking for", the problem is that timidity is console, and a graphical interface to do this is neede, so we need codecs for this, maybe gstreamer need to add this codec to its pack.

I started with using gnash as my flash player. Then disabled it, and before downloading a new plugin, i visited some sites that uses flash objects. The pages were rendered in half, but I expected Firefox to show me the popup bar on top to install the missed plugin. But nothing happened.

Possible there is a problem with the Plugin management.

Since long time, due on the cache issues on file saving for performance reasons, i used to loose files easily, specially with external usb disk transfer problems.

After having so many problems, i finally learned the 'sync' command is useful for being assured the saved data and files transfered are really saved.

What i personally did is having on the panel an icon with 'gksudo sync', which i used to click all the time.

And it seems to be not a specific personal problem - i posted it on some forums, and people used to thank me about this, as example of how useful it is, specially for users are newbies, or recently migrating to Linux.

I would like to know oppinions about this, about people also used to have this problem, etc.

Recently i got amazed on finally being able to use colour schemes on Gnome, just like used to be possible on Irix and KDE.

The final goal would be if somehow Gnome-Colour-Chooser could be implemented inside Appearance Preferences

Some examples of how the .gnomecc Gnome colour schemes could be applied:
http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Ultra+pack+-+220+color+schemes?conte nt=84941
http://www.gnome-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=166&PHPSESSID=41e130d59d6c6afd 0edbeac969292ccd

In the firefox theme out of the box, there is a lot of whitespace on each of the toolbars, as in the area above and below the text. The theme takes up too much viewing area. However, this is not the only problem, when you try to theme it (with most of the themes) the whitespace is still there. I have only found a couple of themes that get rid of it (compact classic is one for people looking for one).

Hello Friends!
Ubuntu has come a long way and can now be called the undisputed king of HOME LINUX. Lets go a step further and make ubuntu more desirable and irresistible.
Ubuntu can be made customer specific or to be more precise 'It should be customized as per the requirements of the user'.
Like some of us feel that instead of movie player, we can have VLC player as a default player. Some feel WINE should be pre-installed and while some feel Ubuntu should not have open office and ekiga by default and so on.....

I suggest that the company promoting Ubuntu should have a plan wherein users can demand for their customized ubuntu and demand for the features they want as default.
This will make Ubuntu more user specific and may increase its popularity.
For providing this, the company must charge the users a price. This will increase their revenue too.