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Suspend and hibernate still seems to be a big issue based on forum posts. Really focus on fixing it, even with proprietary drivers.

Laptops are stolen, you cannot do much about that, but you can improve its chances of being recovered with the advanced security/monitor system, a "lojack"-type system built on open source tools.

1. Most laptops are stolen by the person you know/seen. Most new laptops come with a camera, you can take advantage of the camera to take snapshots of the thief and upload it to some server.
2. take advantage of google geo location feature to see where the laptop is... need a guest account to convince the thief to connect the computer to the internet.
3. security feature should be off when you're using the computer (authorized login). And on when it is in the screen saver mode.

hope this idea picks up..

It has been generalized in the past that the desktop is merging with the Internet and its services (in some form or another) and that TV will merge with the Internet until the two are indistinguishable. This may be a little ways into the future, but it is coming.

I'm a web developer and although I am not a big social-website user, I still believe a highly beneficial product for Ubuntu would be integration with social websites such as Last.FM, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace, etc.

For two reasons:
1) This sort of integration has not been seen by Apple or Microsoft and would be a great migration point for users
2) This sort of integration is coming to the desktop in the near future, so it's good to start thinking of it now, rather than later.

I'm not just talking of F-Spot supporting MySpace or Rhythmbox supporting Last.FM, I'm speaking of real integration with Nautilus to the point where you can right-click a photo (or multiple) and click "Upload to Facebook". Then, if you're not logged on, it prompts you for your password, and continues on. However, this functionality would be available to all forms of media and website (audio, video, pictorial, etc.). What would be needed, however, is drivers for each website. If we built a framework that would enable open-source drivers to be built for each website, then ultimate usability and flexibility would be achieved.

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.

When a user currently boots into the 'recovery mode' from GRUB, they are presented with a command-line interface with complete root privileges and no introduction. This is just not user-friendly by any definition.

With the introduction of bullet-proof X in 8.04, it should be possible to launch some sort of gui no matter what, so how about creating a guided recovery app (in the style of 'ubiquity-only') that goes something like this:

Welcome to the Ubuntu Recovery Helper.
-If you booted into this mode because booting Ubuntu normally doesn't work, press continue.
-If you have booted into this mode by accident, you can reboot your computer and choose the option to load Ubuntu normally.
-If you are an advanced user and would like to go straight to the command-line, press Advanced.
[REBOOT] [ADVANCED] [CONTINUE]

If they press continue:
-If you know approximately what is wrong with your PC, select it below and press Continue.
-If you don't know what is wrong, press I Don't Know.
[]Graphics Card or Monitor
[]Hard Disk
[]Sound
[]etc.
[BACK] [I DON'T KNOW] [CONTINUE]

Selecting Graphics Card or Monitor would launch the X.org configuration utility, with the additional option to 'Autodetect any display hardware changes' (runs "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xorg-server" or whatever the exact code is). Selecting I Don't Know would launch the same prompt that the hardware database thingie uses, and when an error is reported would go to the appropriate item from the list above.

I'm not going to go through the entire thing, but I'm sure you get the idea. At the moment, Windows recovery mode is just an admin desktop, and Ubuntu is command-line. We're currently behind, but implementing something like this would put us years ahead. It would also make a great 'important feature' for 8.10 (like compiz-fusion was for 7.10).

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I think that the default wallpaper must be similar to this -> http://joshwilcox.deviantart.com/art/Wheat-24446467

Because has an 'ubuntu style' and its beautiful.

Many people use eBay's offline auction listing tool 'Turbo Lister'. This is only available under windows, and doesn't work under Wine. Please include the open source, java based lister JAOLT in the repositories.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jaolt/

make it look like IE

Currently, each time when my Ubuntu install is messed up, I have to reformat my partition and reinstall Ubuntu. Next I have to set up everything again. That's very annoying. Other OS'es (Windows, Mac OS X, yes even SUSE, ...) have a "Repair existing system" option. This allows to reinstall the OS without having to reformat. All it would have to do is to manually check and repair dpkg/apt-get, next it has to reinstall every package present on the cd. Very easy, not too hard to implement, many users that would be very happy. Why not do it?

Make Plushies heron, gibbon, fawn, drake, etc and sell them at ubuntu store.

Hello,

New users will find themselves in the situation of trying to change or set up something that is not provided "out of the box" by ubuntu like setting up hardware or looking for the software that does exactly what a certain software in their previous operating system could do ;-).

The first thing to do? Google it. Loads of results, outdated information... In the end you mix up different procedures and don't get your problem resolved.

Maybe would be good to have a "How do I...?" help button, lets say, under the same menu where "About Gnome" is, which will bring a "What do you want to do?" dialog. There the user could enter his question, for example "Set up canon scanner" or "edit video for portable device" and this would bring a knowledge base and/or forum thread search with related how-tos.

This would really simplify and centralize the way we find and share information relatied to advanced tasks.

What do you think?

In this config menu we could have time to keep files before deletion, whether or not the trash has a limited size, or whether or not items to the trash are deleted immediately (what I most want).

I commonly want to delete a movie or recorded tv show after I watch it. The downside is that since the media is on another hard drive, trash actually copies the file to my .trash folder on my main system drive and then the file sits there until I tell it to empty.

Give me a trash bin configuration menu. When I want to delete a file, I shouldn't have to open a terminal to type "rm " something.

Only few wireless card can configure as monitor mode for analize traffic. This can help for incentivate the security in the access points or get the wep key of our neighbor

This is one for the folks at Canonical, I guess:

The number one cited reason for your average non-techie or only slightly-techie user not coming across to Ubuntu, or any non-Windows distro, is that the backlog of games that they have invested in over the years won't play on it.

(well actually, the main reason is that most have never heard of it, but amongst those who have, this is the reason)

But it's not about the latest and greatest, mention Elite, Dungeon Master or even some old spectrum game to a grown man and you might just glimpse a tear of nostalgia in his eye.

Would it not be in everyone's interests for the companies who have a vested interest in linux (Canonical, Novell, etc) to get together and buy a few licences for some retro games that everyone else has forgotten about and then open source them?

This can then maybe lure in folks who can't play these games on windows...

Hi

The only reason I am still on Windows is that there is no native music player like foobar for linux especially Gnome UI. I know there is Amarok for KDE but I myself a huge fan of Gnome. Anyway I need this music player to be just like foobar without having to run it under wine. I know there is something called lamip which is basically foobar, however, it would be very nice if it could be in apt because it is very tedious right now to get it up and running.

If you know of any other plays which will let me navigate through a music cue file and that will play FLAC/AAC and support 24 bit depth of the output then please let me know about it. I want to hear about it. If something like this is allready in ubuntu I would love to hear your opinion.

Thank you

La idea, es atraer a mas usuarios, con un servidor repositorio de juegos, o al menos la unificacion de de una pagina que recopile todos los juegos que se pueden jugar en linux, nativos en linux o multiplataforma, exceptuando a los de windows que corren en wine,etc.

Esto sumado a una breve descripcion del juego, y los requerimientos minomos del sistema que los puede correr.

Instead of binary selection (Yes/No) let the users mark suggested improvements as:

1. important and urgent,
2. important but not urgent,
3. not important and not urgent.

[I suppose that we don't need 'not important but urgent' ;-)]

As it stands, getting compiz to work on a new Gutsy install is hit and miss. The entire process is highly dependent on video card drivers and compiz is enabled by default.

It's easy for anyone who likes complicated interfaces to hit an "advanced interface" option and go to a desktop with multiple start bars at top and bottom and menus and desktop pagers.

It is not symmetrically easy for a basic computer user to find out how to make their interface more simple.

Thus, the initial interface for most installs should begin with a 10 foot, wii like, gOS style, matchbox like one window at a time, one task at a time interface that all users will find intuitive.

My favorite interface would blend some current genres to give them a taste of all.

Whatever app or screen they are on should fill the screen at all times, unless they specifically request to use it split screen with another app.

Any Modal box that pops up requiring them to do something to continue should be centered in a translucent grey haze covering what they were doing so they know they must address that issue first.

A big fat bar should go across the top of the screen, with the icon of their current application or window on the far left (clicking it provides the start menu, and options like "See Desktop (minimize)", and "Complicated Interface"). Then, along the top as you head right, large colorful icons of other, minimized active applications, then smaller grey icons of common applications not in use yet in a nice dock. Then a clock widget (and let them add others, like bluetooth) and finally a big bold X which gives a menu (Close current Window (default if they just hit and let go), Change User, Shut down, etc).

Wii and the EE prove there is a hunger for the simple and easy to use, even among people who can use the complicated.


The icon for the application they are currently using

There should be an application that is just an incredibly long list of things you can do with Ubuntu, that guides you through doing just that.

If you want to make a copy of a CD, just find "Copy a CD to another CD" on the list, click "next" and follow the wizard.

If you want to write and send an e-mail, just find "Write and send an e-mail" on the list, click "next" and follow the wizard.

If you want to compile the lastest Linux-kernel, just find "Download, configure, compile and install the latest Linux kernel" on the list, click "next" and follow the wizard.

I know many users would really need this. Not because they would use it every day, but because it would be so incredibly handy for doing those actions they just don't know how to do or how to get started with.