Contributor Manos

Right-mouse-click in nautilus should have an option to create a private secure encrypted folder (for example in your home dir or on your usb stick). All files and folders in this special folder should be automatically encrypted and still be usable like normal files (after providing a strong pass-phrase to unlock the folder).

In this way people/organizations/companies/governments who want to secure their usb sticks don't have to buy expensive usb sticks but can use average cheap usb sticks.

I think this is an important feature missing in ubuntu now that ubuntu i offered by dell as an alternative to windows.

Macosx and also windows Vista already have these features installed in their latest operating systems and it is important for users to control the access of their children to offensive adult websites which could be somewhat harmfull as well.

The reason for this is to unclutter Ubuntu Brainstorm.

Some ideas submitted are not applicable, or are already existing although the poster didn't know about them.

It should be possible mark an idea for deletion instead of just voting it down, but it should be well distinguished from voting down an idea. Perhaps users must click on the idea to be able to mark it for deletion.

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.

Prevent too loud sound. This can damage your ear. I want protection.
"It isn't possible" is no reason to vote it down. I do not believe that you want to damage your ear.

It would be great if users could attach money to Brainstorm ideas. Its all good and well to post hundreds of ideas, but as things go, ideas which are posted first may not be the best ideas, but will climb to the top fastest (and will stay there, because people will vote for them on most popular).

Lets make it possible for people to donate $5 or so to their own ideas. Sure nobody may implement it, or the patch may not be accepted but it opens things up a lot more. Nobody loses either.

For those who think that this will turn linux coders into people who only code for money are wrong. There have been many bounties in the past, and they have not wiped out the many developers (me inclusive) who code as a hobby. Even with the gnome bounties in place, I still continued coding my application at the time for instance.


Anyway, at the end of the day, its not hard to implement, and it will do nothing but speed up development for highly wanted features (and maybe even organisations like gnome could use the money on spreading word about linux, or improving their hardware support).

I started my computer life on single user systems where I was essentially always root. AppleDOS, DOS, Windows 3.x, OS/2 all allowed me to control my system without sudo or su.

I understand the risks, I understand why some users should not be root. I understand I cannot use ubuntu without this feature.

I think there should be computation of known security risks on my system.

All the other big operating systems seam to like to hide this kind of information.
If we inform the users of all the security holes on their system, they will be able to make knowledgeable decisions.

Right now about half the population uses IE.
Most of those IE users just don't realize how dangerous running it is.
Imagine if Windows listed all the security holes of their software like IE on the computer.
Then I'm sure Firefox would have about 70% of users.

If Ubuntu lets me know that my current version of FTP server allows remote execution of software, I can either get the newer version(might not be in package manager yet), look for configuration solution, temporary shutdown the service, etc..

The big reason why hackers(white hat, black, etc..) have a upper hand over the user is due to the information they are able to gather.
By letting the user know this same information, the hacker can only penetrate a computer based on the user not deciding to fix the holes.
Right now, it's based on what patches the user has applied.
That shouldn't be the only option for a user.

This information should be visual appealing and user friendly.
Giving the user suggestions on ways to fix the problem, before it becomes out of the user's hands.


If you don't know of the vulnerability, you can never fix it.

After the installation of ubuntu there should be a script witch will optimize the linux kernel for each individual computer so that we get high speed and responsiveness!
just like arch linux

I have successfully installed Ubuntu 7.10 in my second PC and I am very pleased with the operating system and the applications provided with it. I wish to promote it in our local community for those who cannot afford to have expensive products installed in their home PCs. However, my main concern is about Anti Virus and Anti Spyware software availability for Ubuntu users.
I will be delighted to hear of any Anti Virus software availability for Ubuntu.

While requesting features to the open source community which consist mainly of free workers, we may often forget to say how much we like Ubuntu and look like costumers requesting.

So you can say thank you to the thousands of developers and users who gave their time by voting for this article :)

I hate to say it but Dell's Ideastorm is better than Brainstorm. Ideastorm provides statistics, a far wider range of categories, more options to organize ideas and comments and is better at promoting cooperation and communication between users. Ideastorm also has html enabled so you can add pics and things....

So we can check ideas not yet rated, and to be able to tag ideas (anyones, not only ours)

The phrase "Ideas being worked upon" is both long and awkward.

I would suggest that it be changed to any of the following:

"In Progress"
"Ideas In Progress"
"Approved Ideas"
or even
"Ideas being worked on"

Fix the scrolling of Firefox

I'm the only user of my MacBook Pro. The login manager automatically selects my username, so I only need to type in my password. It would be nice to have this feature in GDM/KDM considering most systems are only accessed by one user. Also, it could remember that last user that logged in and make it default until another user tried to log in.

Clamfs is a caching file system that provides realtime anti-virus scanning (via ClamAV), can be used with any Linux file system, and helps improve file access times!

Main site: clamfs.sourceforge.net

Performance benchmark: clamfs.sourceforge.net/benchmark

Note: This is already in the repositories, it only needs to be configured.

Ever had to log into ubuntu while somebody is watching you type your password? It would be great to be able to type extra characters before and/or after the correct password string and still work. For instance, say the password is "orange" then typing "ABCorangeDEFH" or "uorange232j" would work just as well as typing simply "orange."

When the power button is pressed, it would be good if Ubuntu could first ask what to do, but then automatically power down after a delay if no response is given. The delay length could be configurable, and the automatic shutdown should probably be optional. I think a delay of 60s would be a good default delay length

This would guard against accidental (user accidentally bumped the power button) or malicious (someone walked by and pressed the power button to be mean) power button pushes by allowing the user to cancel, yet still allow the user to press the button and walk away.

OS X and Fedora both do this and it works very well.

This is based on the similar idea #1324, suggesting that Ubuntu shutdown when the power button is pressed rather than asking what to do.

When you login at a console level, you are informed about failed login attempts:
"There have been x failed login attempts since the last login
The last was ..."
a simple non intrusive popup should inform users when the next login (im picturing something like amarok song changes, that stays until a little x is clicked, but design isn't really important).

For bonus point do something similar when the screen is locked