Written by zoubidoo the 4 Jan 11 at 13:29.

The kernel changelog should be machine-readable. Knowing what hardware you have, update-manager/apt could check whether the kernel update is relevant and only install if necessary.

Of course some updates affect all hardware, so of course the update is relevant in this case.

But a kernel update because of a fix to isdn drivers is of no relevance to most users. Since we know our platform's hardware it should be possible to determine relevance.

The kernel changelog should be machine-readable. Knowing what hardware you have, update-manager/apt could check whether the kernel update is relevant and only install if necessary. Of course some updates affect all hardware, so of course the update is relevant in this case. But a kernel update because of a fix to isdn drivers is of no relevance to most users. Since we know our platform's hardware it should be possible to determine relevance.

Written by yniranjanp the 3 Aug 11 at 07:53.

Add a language tab to date and time tab and allow the user to choose the language he/she wants to display the time and date.

Add a language tab to date and time tab and allow the user to choose the language he/she wants to display the time and date.

Written by MsG the 5 Aug 11 at 11:47.

Make some kind of regional settings at installation, or to setup later on which uses regional notations and stuf, like 24-hour system, thousand seperator, month day notation order and stuff, so you can have English as a language, but still use your regional notations.

This should be system wide, so I need to be able to use 100,50 in LibreOffice as the English 100.5

Same for 5-6-2010 which means 5 June here. And in English notation it means 6 may.

Make some kind of regional settings at installation, or to setup later on which uses regional notations and stuf, like 24-hour system, thousand seperator, month day notation order and stuff, so you can have English as a language, but still use your regional notations. This should be system wide, so I need to be able to use 100,50 in LibreOffice as the English 100.5 Same for 5-6-2010 which means 5 June here. And in English notation it means 6 may.

Written by dramspringfeald the 10 Aug 11 at 21:58.

Military system also runs on the 24 hour clock however most users are not use to that kind of setting.

so just right click the clock > Preferences > click 24 hour format.

Military system also runs on the 24 hour clock however most users are not use to that kind of setting. so just right click the clock > Preferences > click 24 hour format.

Written by ester4 the 15 Aug 11 at 14:04.

Create a "date & time settings dialog" that lets users format the display of the time & date (et. al., decimal points) to their choosing. Then manifest this chosen format system-wide.

Regardless of the region or language set on the system, using the proposed "date & time settings dialog," if a user selects 24-hour-time and Day/Month/Year and 100.50 format, then these formats should institute EVERYWHERE: for the date & time in the top panel (e.g., so the date would show "6 June" and not "June 6,"), the date & time at the ubuntu login screen, the date & time of e-mails within Thunderbird, on the headers/footers when printing stuff from the internet with Firefox, within LibreOffice, etc.

Wherever the time or date is displayed in ubuntu, the display format should correspond to what is set by the user within the "date & time settings dialog."

I live in the United States and use English language. All my ubuntu settings default to 12-hour time and Month/Day/Year, yet I ALWAYS use 24-hour time and Day/Month/Year everywhere else in my life. I should be able to set Ubuntu to display date & time how it is displayed everywhere else in my home and work environment.

Create a "date & time settings dialog" that lets users format the display of the time & date (et. al., decimal points) to their choosing. Then manifest this chosen format system-wide. Regardless of the region or language set on the system, using the proposed "date & time settings dialog," if a user selects 24-hour-time and Day/Month/Year and 100.50 format, then these formats should institute EVERYWHERE: for the date & time in the top panel (e.g., so the date would show "6 June" and not "June 6,"), the date & time at the ubuntu login screen, the date & time of e-mails within Thunderbird, on the headers/footers when printing stuff from the internet with Firefox, within LibreOffice, etc. Wherever the time or date is displayed in ubuntu, the display format should correspond to what is set by the user within the "date & time settings dialog." I live in the United States and use English language. All my ubuntu settings default to 12-hour time and Month/Day/Year, yet I ALWAYS use 24-hour time and Day/Month/Year everywhere else in my life. I should be able to set Ubuntu to display date & time how it is displayed everywhere else in my home and work environment.

Written by MsG the 28 Jul 11 at 23:53.

The option "connect automatically" should be checked by default. This is in line with "For human beings". The one weird guy who doesn't want to connect to their wifi connection when available is handy enough to uncheck it, while the noob users aren't handy enough to check it.

Why would people enable their wifi on their laptop but not want to connect to their known networks? I can't find any usecase for that scenario, so please enable that check by default.

The option "connect automatically" should be checked by default. This is in line with "For human beings". The one weird guy who doesn't want to connect to their wifi connection when available is handy enough to uncheck it, while the noob users aren't handy enough to check it. Why would people enable their wifi on their laptop but not want to connect to their known networks? I can't find any usecase for that scenario, so please enable that check by default.

Written by soyporti the 29 Oct 08 at 15:40.

Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #14953 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

<i>Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #14953 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution.</i><br /> Thanks!

Written by Bubble the 17 May 11 at 13:02.

Paypal, Google Checkout, Bank transfer, Call2Pay (for monthly payments)

Paypal, Google Checkout, Bank transfer, Call2Pay (for monthly payments)

Written by hirumono the 12 Jan 11 at 11:47.

Older versions of Ubuntu used fstab to mount volumes at boot, but now a more dynamic approach has been chosen to access non-system disks or partitions. So, while going back to fstab entries would be inadequate, a simple 'mount at login' flag on the volume properties tab could help the user choosing to auto-mount volumes intended for frequent access, Wine drives, or containing data which must be readily available.

Older versions of Ubuntu used fstab to mount volumes at boot, but now a more dynamic approach has been chosen to access non-system disks or partitions. So, while going back to fstab entries would be inadequate, a simple 'mount at login' flag on the volume properties tab could help the user choosing to auto-mount volumes intended for frequent access, Wine drives, or containing data which must be readily available.

Written by mystro256 the 31 Jan 11 at 20:37.

I know there's a program out there that does it but I can't seem to remember what it's called.

Editing fstab with gedit/generic editor can be intimidating to some users because of the harm they can do to their operating system. I can see users either adding partitions/drives after installing Ubuntu or forgetting to mount a drive during the installation (I've done that before!)

A GTK/GUI program that can add a drive to fstab like the installation screen of Ubuntu (in the set drives manually screen) would work well: automatically set mount options but allow for manual setup if desired by the user.

I know there's a program out there that does it but I can't seem to remember what it's called. Editing fstab with gedit/generic editor can be intimidating to some users because of the harm they can do to their operating system. I can see users either adding partitions/drives after installing Ubuntu or forgetting to mount a drive during the installation (I've done that before!) A GTK/GUI program that can add a drive to fstab like the installation screen of Ubuntu (in the set drives manually screen) would work well: automatically set mount options but allow for manual setup if desired by the user.

Written by saimanoj the 10 Feb 11 at 13:01.

Ubuntu should mount(automatically in background) the volume required which is tried to access the file or a folder by software

Ubuntu should mount(automatically in background) the volume required which is tried to access the file or a folder by software

Written by hawthornso23 the 16 Jan 11 at 09:25.

With the size of modern disks the space taken up by a copy of DOS is miniscule. So lets simply include a copy of FreeDOS and provide a FreeDOS boot option in grub by default. Rather similar to the existing memtest option, this would allow you to boot into a preinstalled copy of FreeDOS specifically in order to faciltate BIOS updates, so you wouldn't have to muck around making special copies of bootable media. The FreeDOS files could be mounted as /FreeDOS in normal ubuntu operation to make it easy to copy stuff across.

To update your BIOS in this setup

1. sudo cp E6510A06.EXE /FreeDOS
2. reboot and select FreeDOS in GRUB
3. Update ( E6510A06.EXE in our example ).

We can't change the policies of manufacturers or do anything about the anticompetitive threats that are causing them to withdraw linux BIOS update options. But we can make updating your BIOS using a windows/DOS BIOS flash utility a painless procedure.

With the size of modern disks the space taken up by a copy of DOS is miniscule. So lets simply include a copy of FreeDOS and provide a FreeDOS boot option in grub by default. Rather similar to the existing memtest option, this would allow you to boot into a preinstalled copy of FreeDOS specifically in order to faciltate BIOS updates, so you wouldn't have to muck around making special copies of bootable media. The FreeDOS files could be mounted as /FreeDOS in normal ubuntu operation to make it easy to copy stuff across. To update your BIOS in this setup 1. sudo cp E6510A06.EXE /FreeDOS 2. reboot and select FreeDOS in GRUB 3. Update ( E6510A06.EXE in our example ). We can't change the policies of manufacturers or do anything about the anticompetitive threats that are causing them to withdraw linux BIOS update options. But we can make updating your BIOS using a windows/DOS BIOS flash utility a painless procedure.

Written by daniel311 the 10 Feb 11 at 07:51.

So, as Snc wrote in the comments:

"The Startup Disk Creator should have a "upgrade bios" mode, making the USB a Free DOS booting device, with selected files on it (with selected i mean: zip, decompressed or folder, copied)"

So, as Snc wrote in the comments: "The Startup Disk Creator should have a "upgrade bios" mode, making the USB a Free DOS booting device, with selected files on it (with selected i mean: zip, decompressed or folder, copied)"

Written by inashdeen the 25 Nov 10 at 18:55.

Hence, I suggest that ubuntu used a captcha system, in additional to the default password system used, especially when regarding sensitive filesystem files. A capctha is a simple yet powerful physical firewall that differentiate between a human and non human users, on the other hand, could be given an option to use it or not to use it.

Hence, I suggest that ubuntu used a captcha system, in additional to the default password system used, especially when regarding sensitive filesystem files. A capctha is a simple yet powerful physical firewall that differentiate between a human and non human users, on the other hand, could be given an option to use it or not to use it.

Written by czr114 the 26 Nov 10 at 06:08.

Captchas are a joke. They're annoying, culturally-problematic, and practically useless for hardened purposes. Cybercriminals can subscribe to services using farmed-out human solvers for a few dollars per 1000 solutions. That renders them only partially useful in protecting low-value targets against poorly-coded software. If their goal is deploying bot clients, we can't count on criminal incompetence to save us, and with bank accounts at stake, they're not going to be overly cheap.

Preventing improper automated/invisible access to system files starts with a solid, robust, and secure framework for limiting access permissions by process and purpose. This is where technologies like AppArmor and tripwires come in.

If a user has been fooled by a trojan, and is dead set on sudoing malware, nothing is going to stop it from ravaging the system, short of completely disabling a user's ability to sudo things designed to modify key files for benevolent purposes.

Captchas are a joke. They're annoying, culturally-problematic, and practically useless for hardened purposes. Cybercriminals can subscribe to services using farmed-out human solvers for a few dollars per 1000 solutions. That renders them only partially useful in protecting low-value targets against poorly-coded software. If their goal is deploying bot clients, we can't count on criminal incompetence to save us, and with bank accounts at stake, they're not going to be overly cheap. Preventing improper automated/invisible access to system files starts with a solid, robust, and secure framework for limiting access permissions by process and purpose. This is where technologies like AppArmor and tripwires come in. If a user has been fooled by a trojan, and is dead set on sudoing malware, nothing is going to stop it from ravaging the system, short of completely disabling a user's ability to sudo things designed to modify key files for benevolent purposes.

Written by Lachu the 11 Dec 10 at 21:36.

Use Selinux and modify bash to change current domain, when running command. Only build-in command user could run programs without changing domain. Only programs in the same domain like standard shell could run sudo/su . Bash will change own domain automatically, if it starts in non-interactive mode.

Use Selinux and modify bash to change current domain, when running command. Only build-in command user could run programs without changing domain. Only programs in the same domain like standard shell could run sudo/su . Bash will change own domain automatically, if it starts in non-interactive mode.

Written by chunkyboy the 1 Dec 10 at 04:23.

Allow ALL panel buttons in Ubuntu 10.10 BOTH dragging methods.

Allow ALL panel buttons in Ubuntu 10.10 BOTH dragging methods.