Contributor Mondane

Now see the reason I moved from Ubuntu to Linux Mint (based off Ubuntu) was because so many things were already installed that weren't on Ubuntu, while having a small file size.

Off that point, one of the things that nags me the most when installing Ubuntu is that there is no flash player pre-installed on the OS, and is one of the main things that makes Ubuntu "not out of the box".

So my suggestion is that when you open Firefox for the first time, it should already be able to use flash; preferably version 9 and up.

Right know as I heard in Ubuntu 8.10 when you hit shutdown button on your computer, the system will shut down after 60 seconds.
It would be nice if it would ignore those timeout and shut down immediately after hitting the button twice.

Sun's Nimbus desktop theme Nimbus is IMHO by far the most advanced, most professional and best looking Gnome desktop theme available under a open source licence.

It is designed by professionals, with usability and the "first impression" in mind. It is unique in its appearance but also familiar to Windows and Mac users.

It is beautiful, productive and and can be used even in a brownish / orange desktop environment.

Please vote for Nimbus as a theme that at least can be selected from the "Appearance" menu and comes with the next Ubuntu.

Thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=900225

Screenshot:
http://vale.homelinux.net/wordpress/2007/09/29/nimbus-beauty-for-your-ubuntu-de sktop/

Packages on Launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/~pcastellazzi/+archive

canonical must delete ideas that are under -20 or less, becouse that means that ubuntu comunity dont like that idea so people are wasting time reading them!!

I've got the impression ubuntu is sometimes slower than the m$-windows on my pc.

Ever since the release of 8.04 I've felt like I've been doing nothing but playing a hide and go seek game with my computer to find the correct settings I need to have my computer set to to have specific programs play audio. I realized that if you open Flash before opening Audacity, Audacity will report sound errors, and if you start Audacity before Flash, Flash doesnt make any sound. It's not just Audacity and Flash that do this. It's every program on my system. Pidgin completely stopped making those annoying noises it usually makes and I have to force reload alsa everytime I want to change programs. Come on already, pick a sound system, and stick with it.

In a enormous football stadium does space exist for the logo of Ubuntu?
If Canonical thinks seriously then Ubuntu,perhaps it acquires many more friends afterwards 2010.

All we can help the promotion of the idea of Ubuntu creating a video which will connect football's moments with the significance of Ubuntu.

I believe that is occasion to make known in the world the operation system that all we love,but also Linux more generally.

A very interesting development for the Windows platform are the so-called Portable Applications.

These applications don't have to be installed using a “classic” Windows installer and their functioning does not depend on proper settings in the Windows Registry.
If fact they can be copied to an arbitrary location on (writable) storage media like a fixed or removable hard disk drive or an USB key and they will just work.

Portable Applications are not based on a new technology. In early MS-DOS days all applications were “portable”. A few reasons making this “old” technology so interesting are listed below:

1.If for some reason a user has to reinstall the OS then reinstalling the OS is just the start of a long and tedious process. All non-portable applications need to be reinstalled as well. This is, to say the least, very annoying.
For portable applications there is no need to do a reinstall. In worst case a user just needs to copy a backup of the portable applications back to the hard drive. And in case the user stored his portable applications in a different partition then there is even no need for this.

2.Portable applications can be stored on an arbitrary location on the hard disk or on removable media like an USB drive.
So even if the partition on which the OS resides gets short on disk space, the user can still add portable applications.
This is much more elegant than forcing the user to reorganize and reinstall his PC platform such that it can accommodate more applications.

3.Portable applications do not mix up or get integrated into the operating system.
In my opinion this is, at least for most software applications, a superior concept.

Currently the Ubuntu platform does not support the concept of portable applications.
When it comes to installing applications in general (portable or non-portable) then in my opinion Windows is superior over Ubuntu, or better said Linux in general.


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Just a default pre-installed place on the desktop for organize desklets.

How about instead of a program turning grey , an image is stretched over their surface with an integrated dialog ?
Perhaps some elephant skin ?

Missing file support for mdf,odb in openoffice/ubuntu is not what I expected.previously we had openoffice database,which supported smaller database making and supported file formats like odb,mdf,mddb Microsoft access file formats, now I am bewildered how to use those files that are made in Access 2003/2007.even office 2007 file formats are not supported well until open office 3 ,like xlsx,docx,pptx,oodbx.Microsoft hasn’t removed Access from there suite of Office then why did open office remove it. I installed Ubuntu on friends pc and was amazed to see missing access file support ,he wanted to use those access files and make new database.there are some database software available for online ubuntu users but what about offline users. Tellico and kexi are great for kde users but I hate to miss database application in ubuntu please include in future.else include Kexi in default ubuntu installation

Patches for new hardware come out all the time and the Linux kernel is regularly updated.

I don't think the current kernel procedure for Ubuntu is working. Maybe creating a default stable kernel, then a testing kernel then a bleeding edge kernel would be more beneficial to all users and developers?

As an example, I own a Hauppuage TV tuner card, ubuntu kernel just misses out on the driver for this card. Installing the test kernel will hold the driver I wont until the kernel becomes 'Stable'?

I dont know it for ubuntu and linuxers but for sure as a windows users i find it very frustrating to find gdm
screen asking for password when there is single user like
me using the pc.i think the default should allow
automatically logging into desktop.

Create a "print screen" applet that you could place in one of the gnome panels which would bring up the "print screen" dialog

Documentation will also help new users,i know there is online help but offline users need better documentation,they cant find information in windows cloud.
Documenting will surely help,apart from simply telling
goto>>system preference>>and change setting.
users should be able to tweak the system for removing errors like "missing entries in fstab and add missing drives",there is new system for hard disk called UUID.its still new for many.but average joe doesnt even know about
sda and hda.so how can we expect him to understand editing Fstab.so this tweaking guide will help to test and remove certain faults.its hard to edit fstab and add entries like
missing fat32(due to uuid),ntfs,external harddisk,samba shares,even ipod.i get frustrated when system doesnt mount unclean usb drives.Explain about filesystem through a graph or chart in openoffice presentation.
also how to edit guides>>fstab,modprobe.d,load modules,even kernel(sophisticated).warn these commands require root user and can damage system.

Because I *must* be representative of the community's needs!

$MY_FAVORITE_APP opens $ALL_COMMON_FILES,
plus it washes your car,
changes your baby,
reduces all that tedious foreplay with your $SPOUSE,
eliminates your need to pay taxes,
and much more.

Besides, $CURRENT_APP sucks for no clearly defined reason other than I don't seem to like it.

You won't mind manually moving all your $ACCOUNT_SETUPS and $COLLECTION_LISTS, since it won't automatically migrate you...but that's okay, since you must not have anything better to do.

OpenSuse and Gentoo are doing it already.

http://www.$MY_FAVORITE_APP.com


p.s. If you vote this down, tell me why - because only evil drug-dealing terrorists would dislike this idea.

I don't particularly need or want to purchase commercial support for Ubuntu.

However, I do want to support Ubuntu and Canonical in any way that I can, so I tend to buy and collect stuff from https://shop.canonical.com/.

I would really like to order official Ubuntu install media, autographed by my favorite Ubuntu developers :-)

Yet another way to differentiate the rock star Ubuntu Community from the proprietary software world!

Hi for people who have licence copys of windows or older versions of linux eg corel linux. have a classic mode. yes we have emulators, but they are as pain & wine which breaks compatibily with each release. I love a enviroment were we could install the other os to the hd and it runs seemlestly in the background so lets say I have windows Nt installed in the proposed enviroment I can install my wordperfect 6.1 into it stick a icon on the desktop and launch it natively with in the classic mode. I can run nativly my mac os 9 apps on mac os 10.4 in its classic mode print work ect. its a shame I have to uses a windows machine to run some older apps namely word perfect. yes I can run it in virtual box easily, but first I have to start virtual box, then start the emulated os then start my application. why cant I just drag a short cut for my wordperfect to my ubuntu desktop and click on it and start it with out going thru hoops. trying to get word perfect to run under wine, well I have more chance of growing new teeth than that. Yes I know about oppen office, abiword. Now I do make a lot of card inserts for my wife on the injet printer. the text boxes I make on the page in wordperfect can be shadesd any two tone colour, a variety of backgrounds can be done, yet in oo I can only to 1 colour, I cant start with light pink at the top and have it melt into blue like I do on wordperfect. so yea I want to run my native windows version of word perfect or my corel linux wp on ubuntu.

This is admittedly arcane, but I use emacs as an editor for LaTeX input files with accented characters. There may be a simple solution to this, but using the inputenc package with the [latin1] option does not work reliably. Sometimes but not always I'll get garbage as output when I enter "é". Using "\'e" is reliable but tedious. The problem seems to have something to do with the way foreign language locales are defined. These were updated recently and what used to work no longer does.

Thanks for listening.

Gmail has syntax hilight with colours - on Pidgin we should have this also avaliable - it's a bit boring being limited with colours like #214984, #CE0000, #52A652 and #000000.