Contributor MagicFab

People who switched would not be made to feel guilty or dirty about using that key. They could be made and sold very cheaply and increase evangelism.

Also, that key should be supported by default:
idea #2490: Support the windows key
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2490/

...In the same area of the application which shows that information.

As Wikipedia, but with more control.

Application that half in English half translated will make ubuntu look like unprofessional for the new user.

Similar to the way that ndiswrapper interfaces with wireless cards by making a compatibility layer between linux and the windows drivers, work on a means to use the great mass of readily available windows drivers to interface with non-linux-compliant hardware.

And yeah, I know, obviously it wouldn't work the way things are now. But lots of stuff didn't work before, and some brilliant and diligent people went about making it work.

It would surely be easier than convincing every single manufacturer on the planet that they need to spend time and money developing drivers for an OS with currently such a small percentage of the global PC market.

The package gnome-vfs-obexftp is not installed by default. It provides support for Nautilus to browse bluetooth devices, such as bluetooth-enabled phones.

This functionality usually works perfectly after it is installed, so I don't see why it isn't by default. Otherwise, much of bluetooth's usefulness is gone.

The package is all of 164kb, so space is not an issue that I can think of.

See here for more info:
http://daniel1992.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/transferring-files-with-a-bluetooth- phone-and-ubuntu-710/

Can the default desktop PLEASE get a facelift? Fresher, happier colors would make my day. (Sure you can customize, but I convert a lot of people to using Ubuntu, and they all say the same thing when they first see it start up: "Its...brown? :("

Tightly integrate, mail client, blog writer, feed reader, and calender into one application that is not too memory intensive. Something like having thunderbird by default write blogs, and have a two way sync with services like google calendar. Or maybe evolution but that is a heavy application that requires a lot of memory and i don't use it for that reason.

Often new users to Ubuntu don't know whether to use Ubuntu (GNOME), Kubuntu (KDE) or Xubuntu (XFCE) (plus all the other versions such as Ubuntu Studio, Mythbuntu), and so have to install one or more of them until they find one they like.

It's also possible for people to install the "meta packages" ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop and so on to pull in the "other" desktop environments. This process can be a little hit and miss with extra packages left lying around from the "old" desktop environment.

It should be made easier to "migrate" from one environment to another (post installation) by allowing users to easily install a new meta-package (and the necessary dependencies) and remove the old one in one go.

Of course if the user has plenty of disk space they can easily install all three (or more), but once they make the decision on which DE to use, they will often want to remove all trace of the old ones. This small app should make that possible.

At the moment, if someone wants to backup his documents or prepare a migration from a computer to another there isn't much more than file-roller to create a backup.
Ideally, the user should be able to run a graphic software which would ask what the user wants to backup and where (tape/usb key/remote).
Then the same tool would be able to restore the backup.

It would be useful for both backups and migration from a computer to another.

Update : See duplicates ideas which contain even more great ideas about that idea.