Contributor Mebus

Hi.
One of the major lacks in Dolphin (the file manager for KDE) is given by: there isn't the support for tabs.

Tabs are very important, all new softwares have them.
It's quite ugly to have to open many windows.

I know that in the SVN for KDE4 dolphin has tabs.
But the version installed for Hardy (with kde 3.5.9) doesn't have tabs.

Thanks for attention.
Bye

Provide a tool, that makes it easy to migrate and copy your emails from one IMAP server to another. A feature to store the E-Mails from a IMAP Server offline (backup) to load them back to the server would also be usefull.

There exist a bunch of scripts but none of these works perfectly.

Thank you folks.

Hard drives have continuously grown in capacity and offer ever more affordable mass storage solutions. It would be great if Ubuntu took advantage of the large storage capacity of hard drives to bring real benefits to the user.

Setting up versioned directories (or /home file systems) should be an easy thing to do for both users and administrators. If set up

(a) old versions of overwritten files in that directory should be recoverable
(b) the entire directory should be easily synchronised (e.g. between desktop and laptop).

It should be configurable that after a merge only one of the hosts (desktop or laptop) keeps the history, the other only the latest version (and all changes since the latest merge).

In normal usage, having versioning should be completely transparent, both in the GUI as in the command line. Commit should be automatic (well, every time you save a file), not a manual afterwards command (as when using bzr).

In versioned directories/file systems, applications should not keep tilde~ backups of the next-to-latest version or use other similar workarounds. In a sense, Trash is also a workaround of not having versioning. For versioned directories, Trash contains "links" to the latest version (in the versioning system) of deleted (trashed) files.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=543626
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=237403 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=434153 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=431039
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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 :)

Allow users to log into Ubuntu Forums and other Ubuntu sites (such as ubuntu brainstorm) using their OpenID.

In many cases, I can't configure my webcam or I have problems with the microphone. Now I can use my webcam but only with V4L2 and only 3 programas detect my webcam. It's a good idea can use my webcam in all programs as camorama.

As a user I want to be able to listen to audio or watch videos with the least amount of setup. I would like to have a single interface (Codec Manager) that lists all of the most common audio and video formats and shows me if I am missing the necessary codec for playback.

Use Case: Enable MP3 playback.
Precondition: MP3s are not currently playable.
1. User logs into the system.
2. User opens the Codec Manager.
3. System displays a list of common audio/video formats.
4. User selects MP3s.
5. System displays some info about MP3s.
6. System displays a list of available codecs.
7. User selects a codec and clicks Apply.
8. System downloads and installs the selected codec.
9. System informs the user when completed.

Other possible features:
- Display a list of audio/video types that are missing codecs.
- An auto-setup function, that grabs the recommended codec for all formats.

Audio and Video formats that should be supported:

Audio:
- MP3
- OGG
- AAC
- FLAC
- Real Audio

Video:
- MP4

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The search of mails in ubuntu is done by "from" and "subject". But if I don't remeber those, then i can't find the email.

The search should include the body of the e-mail and the attachment filename/mime-type.

If I use tracker to search, it shows results that contains the words in the body... it's ridiculous that evolution doesn't do that

Also, if tracker is integrated with evolution, #4366 should be posible (find as you type in evolution)

I couldn't believe it today that you can't edit/open a .theme, .desktop, or .config file.
Just create an empty file and name it with any word and one of the upper suffix; doubleclick on it and GNOME will tell you that it is "no directory". Funny.

I file that here because I don't think it's a bug, it's a lack of a feature: open these files with a nautilus servicemenu "Edit..."


If you like this idea, also look at my other ideas

A separate partition for /home has been proposed for a long time in the forums. It implies some risks, though, so based on disk size Ubiquity should estimate the amount of space that should be left for / or whether a separate partition should be made at all. Then...

-The first time an user installs Ubuntu, he is given the option to set a separate /home. This option is selected by default, with a size for each partition based on a sane guess:

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7958/firstinstallaro2.png

-Of course, he can just choose not to set a separate /home. This option will be selected by default if the results of the system test suggest that's the best thing to do.

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/6498/firstinstallbfs6.png

-Manual install is also possible. Selecting it greys out everything related to separate /home, since it's implied that the user doesn't want to be guided.

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7976/firstinstallcvc2.png

-If the user set a separate /home, the next time he installs Ubuntu a new option appears and is selected by default, prompting to use the existing /home partition. All other options are still available, though.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9034/secondinstalliq1.png

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Put Geogebra in the repositories

Description

GeoGebra is a free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for schools that joins geometry, algebra and calculus. It received several international awards including the European and German educational software awards.

http://www.geogebra.org

Make a template competition for OpenOffice.org

We should have a competition where our most skilled artists, the deviantART community and everybody can submit their templates for OpenOffice.org.

We could get some real professional-looking templates.

Then we have a voting or panel who picks out the best contributions for inclusion.

This will be fun, involve the community and get us some really great templates.

Many people have lenovo laptops because IBM does good quality, long lasting products.
Let's connect good software with this hardware better. Main problems with lenovo are:
Accelerometers for disk safety not working, hibernate/suspend not working.

I mainly see this with Eclipse, but it also happens with OpenOffice. What happens is this: I'm in workspace A looking at my email. I decide to start Eclipse in workspace B. The Eclipse splash screen appears and I flip back to workspace A again, because eclipse takes a while to start. After a while the eclipse main window comes up on top of my email program, in workspace A. Then I have to drag it over to workspace B, where I wanted it to appear. I would prefer that it come up in the workspade where I started it.

OpenOffice has a similar result, but GIMP will actually pull you over to workspace B when it comes up. That's kind of cool, but behavior is inconsistent between GIMP and OpenOffice or Eclipse.