Contributor Ralf.Nieuwenhuijsen

Gnome used to have a "Run Application" menu item just like in Windows, KDE, and others. But it was removed in Gnome 2.12. Now users have to know the ALT+F2 shortcut or search for the "Run" applet.
Alt+f2 run dialog is hardcoded into gnome-panel. There is no way to create a menu item for it. There are many independent implementations of it: grun, gmrun, gnome-run-dialog, gnome-panel-tool. It proves that people still need it.

Also lots of people ask for it:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/167129
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=68031
http://darkness.codefu.org/wordpress/post/152
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=76150
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=506489
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91454
http://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/32956
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/66659-run-command-gno me-desktop.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=593846
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=88695
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=512290

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We need to change the default screensaver. The problem with the current screensaver is that the first time you meet it is when the screen suddenly turns black during the installation. That is very confusing for most users, as the first thought always is that the installation has crashed.

I suggest a screensaver that helps brand Ubuntu, like for example the "Floating Ubuntu" screensaver. It could also be a textbased screensaver that could run on older machines witch doesn't support 3D.

when browsing the repositories using synaptic, the libraries, doxumentations, localization packages, etc. are adding a lot of visual clutter, and makes browsing the catalog much more difficult.

please add an option to hide libraries/ localizations, etc. and show only applications.

add/remove programs does not have all the application in the repositories listed, therefore it is not a solution.

instead of gdebi pakage installer ..
.deb files should use some glade files inside or and file to have an interface, and as soon as the deb file is clicked the backend of gdebi should run and and the interface in the front and the interface should be given only minimal information about the installation and stress should be given on features.. this not only will make installation appealing and user friendly but also gives user more clear picture of the software while looking through its features.

Hi guys!
packagekit gets more and more attraction, i don't think that i have to explain it here, someone who knows this page knows also packagekit and its possibilities i.e. share package discribtions & news, openoffice.org can use it for the installation from additional packages/art; automatic printer driver download from lsb-site and so on...

more here:
http://packagekit.org/
and a really hot presentation from fosdem08:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/public/introduction-to-packagekit.pdf

I think that GNOME is more slower than K Desktop Environment

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

There is version 2.4.6 available.

Yet Ubuntu has 2.4.5 in the repositories.

Any thoughts on updating?

I don't know if this is possible/worth it,but at least here in Romania,Yahoo Messenger is being used by absolutely everyone.It's a big pain in the *** to use Pidgin.Sure,it can send (and recieve!)files now,but webcam,photo share and other features are missing.GYachI looks promising,but it's interface scares the user out.

Can't Canonical make a partnership with Yahoo to at least get part of the code,in order to make a compatible Yahoo messenger client for Linux/Unix?

I don't really care if the final product(if it will exist) will be GPL'ed or not,I just want to use it(as I use Skype,but unfortunately that's not so popular,only 3 contacts in my list)

Sorry for my preety crappy english

Support for audio cards such as Nvidia CK804

I'm spoiled by Mac OS X, where it is possible to change the language for any (Carbon/Cocoa-based) application independently, while not affecting the system language. Can we have something like this for applications built on KDE/QT4/Gnome in Ubuntu? The idea behind it is quite simple: many translations -- though I can only vouch for my native tongue, German -- are bad or beyond bad. And then I'd rather use such applications without translation. But I don't want to change the language of the system per se.

I know that you can skip this test in hardy but I still think the test is done way to often.

EXT3 is a good file system so I see no need to check the file system so often.

Users (for example Windows users) may think that Ubuntu has a bad file system you can't trust.

An option would be that the first time the file systems need checking tell the user WHY the system is checed and ask how important she think it is (like Never, Seldom, Often)

There is nothing stopping us as users from deleting core system packages such as grub accidentally. I could tell any ubuntu user to do it, and they may wreck their system.

We should make APT smarter.
* There should be at least 1 kernel for instance, and it should be in the boot manager.
* If grub is the active bootmanager, make sure they know their system wont boot on deletion.
* You delete Xorg-X11, and you'll be hanging in prompt.

We need to make it more foolproof, and have a infrastructure in place to warn users if they are making a potentially fatal mistake.

Every second comment here is "well, it should be in apt". Well, if we want people to use apt for everything and be actively using it, we need to make it safer. I cant uninstall windows from their add/remove programs for instance now can I? Yet, one wrong click in adept will totally kill kubuntu.

Please note: THIS SHOULD BE ADDED AS AN OPTION! By default it should be enabled, except make it easily disabled so everyone wins

I believe one of the biggest hurdles for new users is not being familiar with how/where ubuntu installs things. I propose that a map be created describing the location and contents of default installation directories. For example, it could be a map of the file structure, where newbies could go to find out just what the heck is stored in the ./whatever directory, and how it interacts with other parts of the system. I'm thinking a huge tree diagram that would simply represent the contents and relationships of ubuntu files and directories, from the kernel on down through /home. It will make it a lot more appealing to customize and/or start fidgeting if you know EXACTLY what you are dealing with and how it might affect your system. I know something like this exists somewhere, it just needs to be available to the end-users in one place, in pictorial form.

In Gutsy and Hardy, Wine automatically runs .exe files, which can be a risk if a virus it is. There should at least be a notification pop-up window (which would give the option of disabling itself for next time) telling you about this risk.

So, this is gonna have terrible reactions, but here's the deal:

Konqueror is a fine browser, but firefox is better, at least the version 3 is much better. Dunno why Kubuntu doesn't include it yet it includes OOo instead of Koffice?

Brasero is perhaps the best GTK cd burning app out there, yet it blows in comparison to K3B, in the sense that at least K3b works...

Amarok...

What I think is that ubuntu is locked into GTK apps, while Kubuntu is locked into QT apps, couldn't we just let distros pick the best, friendlier program? I actually think konqueror should be included in ubuntu if only for being the most decent way to have a graphical interface for (s)ftp,ssh , etc. There are a lot of examples in which apps from one distro top another and viceversa... adept sort of works, but I really think synaptic is better at that stuff, etc...

I am not saying "replace brasero with k3b", I am saying that the team that decides what default apps to include should not get limited by GTK or QT, but by which one is better, their choices are perhaps going to vary with mine.

Compiz currently has issues with the screen resolution selector and other apps, that could frustrate newbies.
I think, since the default config should be the noob-friendly one, compiz should be off on default until the weird behaviour is resolved (at least on those graphics cards, that make it behave weird).

i think this matter is much more easily understood by title,
but i write paragraphs of explaination but i wont get votes
so its useless.

This has happened to me many times, and just today it came to bite a friend of mine who was earnestly giving a try to Ubuntu...and renounced after losing his graphical interface except for bulletx. The problem is simple: sometimes kernel updates are released hours or even days before the restricted drivers packages are updated too (read: recompiled and packaged for new kernel). As a result, obviously, when the system is restarted the graphical driver does not function anymore.
And I am sure that it can happen also with other drivers.

The solution? One of two; either:

the kernel packages are completely held back until ANY AND ALL restricted drivers packages are updated (which is already done in Hardy, to be honest, considering that so far I have done three or four kernel updates and alwyas I saw in contemporary a new, repckaged nvidia-glx-new), or:

the update-manager program should check if any restricted drivers are installed, check if they are up-to-date with the kernel update, and in case they are not, blacklist the kernel updates until such a time when updating is secure.

I think this feature is quite a must; most users in the future are not even going to check what they are going to update at all; and it is sure to turn many people off Ubuntu if they suddenly find their boxes without graphical, or network (potentially even worse considering we have bulletproof X!) support.

Hello everybody,
Thanks first to the Ubuntu team for all their work.

Being used to other Debian based distros (Sidux,Knoppix...) I do not understand why Kubuntu guys have pulled off from Konqueror some very useful tools.

It seems that "try to look like windows" is more important than giving users more functionalities.

The standard Konqueror elsewere show many icons on the main Konqueror tool bar. If you want more, you can add them.

I particularly use the icons to change the way folders appear. One icon shows folders ; the other icon displays lines with details ; the last icon shows photographs.

The particular Konqueror custom build for Kubuntu has lost these icons. AND THEY CANNOT BE REINSTALLED whithout a rebuild from source !

Please let us have the FULL KONQUEROR as has been released by the KDE team, and I will switch back to Kubuntu.

Good evening.
Thanks for all the work done.
Lexo

Let brainstorm support that some general ideas can be composed of several more particular subideas. I have seen here that some ideas are duplicates of more general ideas but adds some particular info about how it should be solved. By marking the idea duplicate of the more general one this added info is sometimes lost.

So I would suggest more tree-like structure of ideas while also maintaining the categories..