Contributor Peetke

A GUI for doing hard drive maintenance would be a good addition for Ubuntu. It would be able to be scheduled to run at night or on next boot and comprise of at least these 2 methods.

1, Trigger the hard drives, (not solid state) to read every sector of the drive/drives allowing SMART and other built in hard drive technology to remove partially damaged sectors before it is to late. This is roughly how Steve Gibsons SpinRite software works see www.GRC.com for details. This process will need to monitor hard drive temperatures whilst this is happening to avoid causing any potential problems to the drive.
2, Trigger fsck to repair the file system.

3, I'm sure there most be other stuff that could be run, clearing caches etc...

Please leave CTRL+ and CTRL- as zoom text only; and add a new key binding for zooming image + text.

Zoom is great for making web sites more readable in Firefox, and the new site specific zoom tracking is particularly cool. However, the image zoom is not alway required (or desired). Sure the idea is cool, but the image scaling algorithm in Firefox is lousy, and the common problem (in my experience) is text which doesn't show up the proper size.

A nice to have would be to improve the image scaling algorithm (high quality), and caching the scaled images per site.


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When you plug in something like a USB dongle, it should be mounted synchronously (-o sync) instead of in buffered mode.

For me, this is far preferable to the minute performance gain gotten by mounting the device in buffered mode. You're very unlikely to be using such devices for anything except data storage/retreival, in which case mounting synchronously is a major benefit. Expecting new users (or those used to Windows XP's behaviour) to know you have to right-click, 'unmount', before removing the drive is not a good idea, as well as just being unnecessary if the device is mounted synchronously. It's also irritating for people like me who know you need to do it, but either occasionally forget or don't want to bother.

Mount the thing synchronously by default. This is what Windows XP does, and it allows you to just remove the drive after any file transfers have finished. Yes, problems will occur if you remove it durung a file transfer, but that's gonna happen in ANY mount mode. It's far more obvious to the user that this will cause a problem than removal of the drive before unmounting. Also stop displaying that 'unsafe device removal' message for devices mounted synchronously.

I suggest that canonical manufacture it's own Ubuntu PC hardware to suit the ubuntu OS.

We need to take a look at the simple example of LED screens. You push a letter(eg"A") and the LED's light up to form that letter. The modern LCD displays work on the same principle. So in fact all you need to do in essence is save/preload a group of images/pages/applications using an input device such as a keyboard, which is then saved onto a storage device, and displayed on an output device, i:e monitor.

All hardware/software is then tested by canonical and made available.

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There is that annoying Nvidia ad every time I boot X. That comes with the restricted drivers. It would be better without the Nvidia logo.


EDIT:
It can be manually disabled with

Option "NoLogo" "True"

in xorg.conf, but the logo should be disabled by default.

Now you just see your idea going under zero and never learn why that piece of genius is not worshipped by others :)

Hide vote count while idea is still new to eliminate the vote count influence.

Don't allow to vote for own ideas

I got this idea more as a joke but kind of grown on me and I think
it's so strange it could actually work...
First of all, what I mean with "lifestyle" magazines.
Lifestyle magazines are everything from Playboy through Cosmopolitan to The Economist.
So idea is that Cannonical pairs with one or more of this magazines and creates a "special" Ubuntu theme based on these magazine. So let's say there would be Ubuntu Playboy theme with desktop picture of playboy bunnies, an rss feed preinstaled for news from their site and so on... The same for Cosmopolitan or the Economist... It doesn't really matters which it is. The point is that the CD with this "special" edition would be sold with this magazine. So Ubuntu would get a lot of new users...
So why not anything else rather lifestyle magazines. Well this magazines are sold globally and are usually printed in local language. Well Economist isn't but I put it there to prove my point.
And don't forget National Geographic I can already see a good "special" edition of Ubuntu for it.
I think that almost in all cases Kubuntu would better because all of this editions would be built on eye candy plus KDE looks more like Windows than Gnome.
Please write why you don't or do like this idea which magazines (with global coverage) would you recomend.
Which would use Gnome / KDE / Xfc desktop...

I'm totally aware that this is a bit weird idea, but its one way how to get those that never even herd of anything else then Windows

Usually what keeps me from updating is just the bandwidth. I don't like to update if I'm not going to be nearby to address any issues that arise, and I don't like to have all my bandwidth (which isn't so great) taken up by a 200MB set of updates.

I would like to see the ability to throttle how much bandwidth the update process takes. Also, having the ability to do this in Synaptic would make it much nicer for when you wish to download some of the bigger games.

Apparently, because firefox is trademarked, we cannot remove customisations added by Mozilla (such as the default ebay search engine link, which is only there because they pay mozilla, but only promotes ebay's rubbishy Paypal, and demotes competition).

By changing its name, we can get around that (similar to iceweasal and Debian).

It will still be exactly the same firefox, only difference is the name, and flexibility in what code we can change in it.

Run web browsers (such as Mozilla Firefox, Epiphany, etc) in a secure sandbox.

So that it has no access to the rest of the operating system or file system, except the cache folder.
So it cannot gain write access to files and registry keys outside of a user profile's folder.

This will prevent exploits and security vulnerabilities in the web browser (or its plugins and extensions) from being exploited to install malware on the computer.

Make a version of ubuntu that is _very_ secure (by pax, selinux or grsec, swap encryption, random memory, etc.)