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.

Many new users are confused by device names such as /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb5, /dev/hda2, /dev/hdc4, etc.

So I propose to show volume labels (partition names) in the installer, to make it easier for users who install Ubuntu to know which partition they are installing on.

Screenshots:
* Before
* After

This will make it clearer and easier to install Ubuntu without any mistakes being done which might result in that a new user accidentally looses valuable data.

Have you seen how much eye candy, and how professional openSUSE looks? The system requirements are very low to (I don't really know how low, but i thing it is about 250mb or RAM and 3gb HDD). So why not add more eye candy in Ubuntu and make it look more professional? I am not saying to rise the system requirements, but for the people which have enough RAM and big enough HDD can get more eye candy.

And as well I have so far never needed to use the terminal in openSUSE (I have one cumputer with Ubuntu and one with openSUSE). It would be nice if the user no longer needed to use the terminal anymore!

Just for fun...here are some pictures of openSUSE and Ubuntu: (those are pictures are just examples)

Boot Screen
http://decoding.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/boot-screen.jpg
VS.
http://media.arstechnica.com/news.media/450/opensuse_boot.png

INSTALLATION
http://imthi.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/ubuntu-installtion-on-vmware-300x25 8.png
VS.
http://arstechnica.com/news.media/opensuse_installation.png


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When you install a new Windows program in Wine, Wine automatically creates a new group inside: Applications -> Wine -> "New program"

To me, it seems kind of silly to separate my Linux applications from my applications running on Wine. When I install M$ Word I would like to access it from: Applications -> Office -> Word
and not be reminded that Word is running using on Wine.

I know not everybody likes this model, witch is why I purpose an option in the Wine configuration. You would go to the options in Wine then select, "add applications to the Wine menu" or "Add applications to the application menu directly"

Bottomline - this is all about a better userexperience

//MadsRH

I think it is very confusing that during installation, the screen suddenly becomes black. It would be much better if there would be at least a simple image, so that the screen does not look like the computer just crashed.

Every day (literally) hundreds of translation suggestions and/or modifications are generated in Rosetta. Due to some current limitations in Rosetta, it is fairly hard for translation teams members to keep up with the flood of information or even know about contributions awaiting for review/approval. My intent is to describe a mechanism by which translation teams can better administrate the contributions sent by Rosetta users, provide useful feedback and take a first step toward a better relationship with upstream projects.

We all love Ubuntu, but most of us can not easily participate or just lack the time. So to give Canonical extra speed, I would love to invest 1 to 10 USD a month. With the power of millions of investing users, the money invested could give a push that we can not have today. What about adding 500 chinese or indian low cost developers to the mission? Ill pay. Especially if I could get some return on investment. And, switching users just got a new dimension - then it´s called sales - building up our collective product.
I don´t know if it has to be stocks in Cannonical. There are quite smart people out there that could find other ways I am sure.

There is a wide community of online artists capable of creating brilliant, unique artwork.

heading: Get your artwork on 10 million desktops

Ubuntu, the world's most popular Linux distribution, needs a new theme. The winner will appear in the default desktop of Ubuntu 8.10.

We're looking for original wallpapers, that match Ubuntu's color palette. You entry should also include a suggested combination of application, icon, and window themes. These can be existing themes, or your own original works - you only need to submit a wallpaper to win.

Work must be CC licensed, and be openable in either Inkscape or Gimp (rest of criteria continues)

Submit your works to DeviantArt and include the words [Ubuntu810].


Good luck!

There should be an equalizer in ryhthmbox music player so that everyone can set the sound-output for his personal needs.

Maybe create some default-settings like rock, metal, jazz, classic ...

Enough with the OSX style swirls. From now on lets have a striking image FOR EVERY RELEASE. The current 8.04 wallpaper is just so much more stylish and rememberable than generic swirls.

My suggestion would be to make each wallpaper tie in with the animal name. Like there were some pretty cool Gibson graphics being used on tshirts and the like but why couldn't they have been used as part of the wallpaper? They would have been just as striking as the new Heron one.

I think there is perhaps a side benefit to using the animal name as every graphical designer gets 8 months heads up on the next name and hence the next theme of the graphic, so there should be no reason why come release time you wont have a bunch of cool graphics to choose from.