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I think it would be usefull (and not complicated for programming) add an "Hide" button near the maximize unmaximize and close button in the top-right corner of Rhytmbox.
Or, instead of this make the close button not quit the program but only close the window letting the program run as it happens with Amarok.

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Status of Pidgin should be changed automatically to offline when disconnected from internet or before hibernate

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1) The list of searches (in "Search Results") is cleared after changes are applied. It should not be cleared until the program exits. You may want to include erasing the list after applying changes as an option, but the default action should be to not clear the list.

2) The search button should be replaced with a text input field with the same function. It makes the UI a bit easier to work with. The search box should remember the last searched term until changes are applied (or the program exits). The search box idea itself is from other ideas, but the point of this one is that it should remember the last searched term until changes are applied. In other words, this part is not a complete duplicate.

3) Sections should NOT be grouped into stuff like:
Something
Something (multiverse)
Something (universe)
Something (restricted)

All of the Somethings should be in a single group. Put in an option to see subgroups if the user wants to see where the package is coming from (official, multiverse, universe, or restricted).

4) Sections should be follow the packages placement in the "Applications" pull-down menu. This will make it easier on the user to see where the program goes instead of hunting for it (for instance, where would something like Limewire or Songbird go - music or internet?).

5) Create a restore point before each change or upgrade. This should help the few unlucky admins that let their boxes get away from them. Yes, we all know they should be smarter than that, and that they should learn their OS before attempting to roll it out, and its their own fault, and they are stupid morons, and they shouldn't be admins if they don't understand things. We all know that. But sometimes life isn't really that simple, and people are forced to admin boxes whether or not they are ready for it (my boss had me image and admin a few winblows boxes - yes, I know I should be using Linux in the office, and no, that decision is not up to me, and yes, if it was I would be using a completely Linux office - even though there was a CS major with plenty of time already on staff). Let me be the first person to say that no, I am not completely read up on how to admin things, but I'm not going to tell me boss to give it to somebody else and look like I'm passing the buck. And he didn't want this done when I was ready, he wanted it done fast, and I need the money for school. Anyway, the point is that by creating restore points prior to any program changes (you could even have it ask or put in an option to not make restore points), it makes it really easy for me as a reluctant admin, to roll back any changes I end up not wanting to do. I personally think that Synaptic should copy any config files for a package and the version of the package. Then if after an update, I need to restore the previous package version, Synaptic will re-download the old package, uninstall the new version, and install the old package with my customized config file.

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I think that somewhere (either in a right cick menu on the desktop or in Nautilus preferences) there should be an option to hide all desktop icons. This seems like it would be an easy extra little button, particularly if it were to be added to Nautilus' preferences. The functionality is available in gconf via Apps > Nautilus >Preferences > show_desktop.

This would be in addition to ideas such as this: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5316/

While updating, actually one can not use internet because update manager uses all of bandwidth. So my idea is to provide an option (in GUI) to reduce bandwidth witch is currently using by Update Manager.

currently it is only able to send files via bluetooth in default installation, but it is not able to receive files and bluetooth file sharing should be possible by default

Features for the Weather applet Application Icon
-- option for multiple weather reports, an icon for current weather, daytime weather and nighttime weather.
-- Offline, blank current weather after expiration time, but keep future weather forecasts.
-- Weather Forecast Details Tab, update to use weather icons and less text.
-- Option to Display weather alerts. using a balloon to notify the user of a new bad weather alerts, watches and warnings. (high winds, flood, tornado/cyclone, hurricane/typhoon).

I think that when you install Ubuntu a window will apear telling you which are availible so you can get them off the CD/DVD directly. This will stop you running across the building looking for the disk when you need it.

When one starts Synaptics manager it takes a long time to be available for use (I am using 1.7GHz Dualcore/1GB RAM!!!).

After that we have to click on "Search" and then type what we want. But most of the time when starting Synaptic the first thing you want is to search for something.

So I suggest that "Search" should not depend on a click to show it's input text bar but rather it could show a large bar at the top with focus as it fires up, so we may start typing as soon as we see the program running.

After one search is complete it should focus the search box back so we search again without our tired mouse.

When Firefox 3 is released, make sure it is available to Ubuntu on the same day, so the updates from the Ubuntu repository can be counted for the *Guinness world record* in most downloads in 24 hours.
And most importantly, talk to Mozilla about relaying your Firefox 3 repository download data to them.
More info here: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord

Let's help open source achieve another great victory!

I noticed that when I want to add extra fonts in nautilus I have to type fonts://// or something in address bar. how many addresses of this type exist in nautilus? Why we can not find them at first glance?
My idea is to add these places to somewhere in appropriate place of gui of nautilus.

For example, I noticed that Warsow (shooter online game) is in version 0.32 in the repositories, and the up to date version is 0.42. It would not be a very big problem if the program would still be usefull, but in this case, as the game is online, needs to conect to a server and this directly depends on the version that is installed. So, this package in the repositories is useless because nobody will be able to play as they arent players in the servers for this version.

Everybody does not realize that the version is old, so there is people that is going to think that the game isnt playable and this affects very negatively to the users experience.

And I guess that warsow is not the only package with this problem.
If something in the repositories is useless, there must be a change: update it or remove it, both options are better than having the wrong idea of why something doesnt work. It is better to think that the problem can be fixed easily.
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I want to clarify something: I am not talking about the packages that are still useful even if they are not updated. Of course, they should be updated, but the main problem I am pointing out are the packages that are useless if they are not updated because I think that these are more urgent than the others. It seems logical for me, as the other packages still work and have a practical function while these are completely useless.
As sidney said in one of his comments, maybe this packages that I am talking about could be reduced to the ones that depend on internet, but not necessarily and they dont have to be games necessarily either.
So, I would bet that there are lots o packages that have no reason to exist if they are not updated and and we need a deep revision, update and cleaning.

I hope to have clarified the idea completely now.
Leave a comment if the vote is negative, please, so I can improve something.
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There are some very good ideas in some comments (for example, Auzy's, ru7hl3ss's or mp3phish's), so read them and take them into account too, please.

on the cover of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition there are some useful notes like how to install Ubuntu(briefly) and Ubuntu Community and system requirements and I thought it might be helpful if these notes could be translated to the language of each country (in addition of original English note) which the CD/DVD is shipping to

That is for people who start pidgin automatically on boot time and always have to close the buddy list when the system boots.

As I understand, using closed codecs literally means breaking the law even while playing legal media in some countries. So, the current situation with Ubuntu is full of hypocrisy. Ubuntu's CD doesn't include illegal software, but every user would likely download and install it right after the installation is through. Fluendo codecs are an alternative, but a weak one.
Another point, is that the user is forced to use OpenOffice just because other products can't work with MS formats well. This is also inconvenient, since there are some lightweight solutions that can work with OASIS ODF and thus allow user to do all the basic tasks. And, after all, Office 2003 formats aren't supported even by OpenOffice at the moment.
Finally, the archive formats - rar, ace, arj, which also could be converted to zip or tar.gz2 or whatever.
So here is my suggestion on how to promote open technologies.
At the moment, there are already some web services to convert documents (or even music) from one format to another. For example, http://koolwire.com
So, what I am talking about, is a web-service, that would allow to convert audio files to OGG Vorbis and FLAC, video to OGG Theora, Microsoft Office files to OASIS ODF (and PDF, in case the conversion cannot be done well for some files). And it would be very nice, if the service would be integrated into the user's environment. So the software necessary for conversion would be installed only on those servers, which can be located in countries where patent issues are not a problem.
Probably, this initiative requires some really mighty servers, but I guess that this can be done on behalf of the Open Source community on the whole, not just Ubuntu/Canonical, so the funds necessary would be raised and the service will be free of charge. After all it's a real opprotunity to promote free standarts.

put a 'empty trash'-option in right-click-menu of a mounted volume

In nautilus there is such a option in the "File"-menu, but it doesn't communicate very well WHICH trash-can it will empty - the systems trash can, or the trash can of the mounted volume (in case you have selected it in nautilus)?

When not using nautilus, the only other option for emptying the trash is to umount and click yes when it asks you whether you want to empty trash.

Already ubuntu user can connect to internet via network-manager applet, but it lacks some features:
1. There is no visual notification that indicates whether system is connected to internet or not.
2. You can not choose between dial-up connections via nm applet.