Contributor StefanHamminga

I think when new users open their browsers there should be Ubuntu specific shortcuts in Firefox and set the default page of Firefox to ubuntu resources.

I am new to Ubuntu and if I was not willing to spend hours looking around I would not of realized how customizable Ubuntu is. If I was given links to sites like getdeb.net, gnomefiles.org, and links to various themes sites, my life would of been a lot better and I would of more quickly seen the power of Ubuntu!

Pleasant looking application and work environment contributes a lot to the experience of using an OS (that's the main appeal for OsX, IMHO).

Ubuntu is for humans, humans likes pretty things.
Anecdotal evidence is the popularity of sites such as gnome-look, deviantart, and interfacelift, as well as the time and energy invested in configuring the visual side of the operation system (see the popularity of "post your desktop" threads).

Treat aesthetics and usability as features:

1. HIG violation as high priority bugs.
2. Missing Icons, cluttered interface, poor looks - medium priority bugs.
3. Theme, Icons, wallpaper, bootloader, application layout and consistency, and the rest of the visual interaction between the users and the machine should be high quality, scrutinized, voted, and submitted by both professionals and the community.
4. if possible, integrate a skin browser with gnome appearance manager

It's all well and good to include the newest browser in Ubuntu Hardy, even when it's beta. Firefox 3 is aesthetic, fast, safe, and featureful, and undeniably a huge improvement over Firefox 2. However, I experience 5-10 crashes *per day* when visiting common sites like Gmail and Google Reader in Firefox. I'm sorry to have to say this, but for a "stability-centered" release I find this unacceptable and I doubt I'm the only one experiencing these crashes... can Ubuntu find some temporary solution to improve Firefox's stability for the time until Mozilla fixes FF3's stability problems?

EDIT: Other user comments have made it clear to me that this is actually not a widespread problem and might be Flash-related. Thanks for the feedback, guys.

Freenas (http://www.freenas.org) is a BSD solution that enables you to transform a PC as a file storing system.
It enables to create virtual network shares than can be mounted on any system, graphically and easily define permissions.

The idea is to import it into Ubuntu and humanify it even more, making it a snap to set up such a NAS.

It is especially very useful for collaboration within small projects and organizations(easier than FTP), and would also be nice to integrate later on to a potential Ubuntu Home Server edition

Edit: This is NOT about creating a variant. Sorry for the misleading title. If an admin could modify it to: bring Ubuntu Server on a feature parity with FreeNAS or something more clever.

The Windows Media Player has the feature of time compression and time dilation.

With the time compression feature a mp3, wma, or another music file is played faster/quicker.
A music file which normally would take about 3 minutes to play, is than going to play for just 2 or 1 minute.

The time dilation features is the opposite: is plays a music file slower. A music file which normally would take about 3 minutes to play, is than going to play for just 4 minutes or so.

These are nice features for users. I like the features of time compression a lot. Already known songs are just more interesting to hear.

It would be nice if Totem or Amarok or another player is able to do that. Even better: intergrate the feature in a commonly used sound-component, so that every player is capable of time compression or time dilation feature.

Database-oriented filesystems is the future of file storage & management. These are filesystems, that use tags instead of (or in addition to) hierarchical directory structure.

This is more flexible and rather more natural way of storage and managing documents in the digital environment.
It moves away from obsolete imitation of paperwork and opens great powers of digital environment, that was still covered by society thinking inertia.
It it does not treat digital documents as material objects. It does not accent on document's place, but accents on the document itself, giving user the ways of control documents without unnecessary intermediaries.

Example of flexibility: you have some multimedia file, for example video, that contains music track. In classical fs you need to choose between your music & video folders, or make links. In datsbase fs you just tag it with both, add titles... in result, dualistic nature of that file is no more a problem, but fully reflected in filesystem.
...or if you want quickly browse photos & videos, along with texts, made between 1st July and 2nd August, related to your vacation, but in Rome, not Paris, and about night parties?
And every file with its metadata is portable!

Some you-know-which commercial OSs working in this direction with their "WinFS" & "Spotlight"...

We have a chance to win the race!
dbfs is now in development...

*And it already has a KDE interface!*

So it would be great if Ubuntu support it & help with development!

Further info & "kdbfs" interface is here:
http://tech.inhelsinki.nl/dbfs/

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Use case: A person, let's call him Ethan, has Fedora, Ubuntu Hardy, and Ubuntu Intrepid installed on a new Dell laptop.
He confuses his swap partitions. He keep losing his hibernated sessions which he sometimes entrusts with unsaved data, and he doesn't really understand why.

Data specific to one operating system should not be stored in a swap partition when said operating system is not active. A swap partition may be best for use as swap space, but when a system is hibernated, that information needs to be stored in a file within the root partition of the operating system instance that is hibernating.

Only one swap partition should be needed on a multi-boot system.

Make it possible to share files with FTP instead of NFS or SMB. So user of any operating system (Linux, MacOS, Windows) can use this files.

This is an attempt at a unification of:

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7081/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7390/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7649/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7725/

I can't think, nor have I heard, of any showstopper reason for why BitTorrent shouldn't be used as the primary download method of Ubuntu respository packages. Although the specifics of the implementation of this idea will be different for ISOs and repositories, I feel they should be unified in the brainstorm because the goal is to allow the rapid, efficient, reliable, and available download of Ubuntu software.

Implementation Benefits

1) Speed. All Ubuntu downloads (ISO downloads, dist upgrades, regular system updates, and new application installs) will as a whole be faster. Generally torrent download speeds benefit from higher numbers of downloaders that seed, which Ubuntu users have demonstrated they are prone to do. BitTorrent is better able to absorb (and eventually use as an asset) large numbers of users attempting to download data at the same time, such as with the recent mad rush of Hardy downloaders/upgraders.

2) Efficiency. The BitTorrent protocol has proven to be one of the most efficient methods of distributing data amongst a large number of clients. It will harness the collective upstream of tens of thousands of Ubuntu users, from DSL and cable connections to the fastest of corporate connections.

3) Reliability. Checksums guarantee the integrity of BitTorrent downloads, so data corruption is much less likely to occur. Only the pieces that fail checksum are redownloaded, contributing to points 1 and 2.


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Just because Ubuntu is now released does not mean that bugs shouldn't be uploaded into the Update Manager as rigorously as they were during the month before April 24th! Hardy is still buggy, so I think that the entire 6 months between Hardy and Ibex should continue that trend of HARDINESS. It should fit its definition! Keep getting stronger and stronger.

I've got "ubuntu" and "hardy heron" on google-alerts, so I can read all the latest blog posts and news articles that are coming up lately. There's a lot of critisms. I recommend we address those criticisms thoroughly and completely in the next 6 months, and I mean, address them tirelessly and rigorously.

There needs to be a way in which we can monitor all the complaints, criticisms, etc. in one place so that they're in a database, easily accessible. Meaning, can we consolidate the critiques that show up in the blogosphere, ubuntuforums, brainstorm and launchpad? Maybe something similar to ubuntustats.com.

What do ya'll think?

When I install the language packs of my language, the Wikipedia search in Firefox still refers to the English Wikipedia.

But that is dumb.

If I speak german, I want to search the german Wikipedia.
If my language is set to Italian, I want to search the italian Wikipedia.
If I live in Finland, I want to search the Finnish (or Swedish) Wikipedia.
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when i started using ubuntu i always wondered if there were other versions except Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and xbuntu so i started looking around forums etc to find ubuntu's website missed 2 other versions which are:

ubuntu studio for Audio,graphics and video
mythbuntu media centre

so why not try to advertise those versions along with the others that way people who are in jobs needing cost effective programs for graphics etc know where to go.

How often you use memtest+ ? nor more than one or two time in whole year. So why not remove the link in grub and make a link in the system menu like "Check my memory at next boot "

With that the boot menu will be more clear.

I thinks 90% of non-geek user never use this tool.

I have read a lot of posts stating so many bugs in hardy and it will still be released. It is also slower to boot. THIS ISN'T HOW IT SHOULD BE!!!

Shouldn't LTS releases focus on bug fixing and stability and reliability, then speed, then other stuff?

We might have to delay hardy a couple of months if it is really this bad. I don't want a messed up computing system!

It is quite unprofessional to see a text style boot every file system check. Include this step in the graphical ubuntu bar progression and add an one line information to notice the user why the boot is longer.

A way to switch easily between gnash and macromedia flash in Firefox would be great. In this way you could use the gnash plugin until you hit some flash that doesn't work and only then resort to using the proprietary plugin. This should boost gnash usage and hopefully promote development as well.

Maybe this could be implemented as a Fx addon or something, I'm not too well versed with the technical details.

these ideas are not spamming brainstorm but these are
not even worth a look at them.Mark them as Inapplicable or
move them to closed category.
my suggestion is don't allow single word as idea Title.
like Direct x posted twice and don't allow ideas with no description.
idea #1489: Memory
idea #3796: UbuntuTube: Like You tube but with video tutorials for Ubuntu
idea #4736: Boycott Skype
idea #1642: direct x
idea #2704: direct x
idea #1222: eBay off line listing tool
idea #3911: Ubuntu team up with Apple
idea #2659: Do something that is Fun
idea #2676: Mark Shuttle worth
idea #2279: BUG: UBUNTU USERS ARE (often) DUMB by gvy
idea #1102: Vote only when you comment.
Some ideas (don't call them idea) are just Vague,intentionally done to waste time of others.

I hope that this problem is resolved

A good system equalizer for ubuntu with GUI.
1 Equalizer for the whole system.

I booted into Hardy's new recovery mode to see what it's like, but to my dismay I say the phrase "X server".

I think that any user-facing interface (ie. not technical documentation) should use familiar, generic phrases rather than application names or brands, and for this reason I would like to see an effort to create a lookup table for understandable phrases.

For example:

X, X server -> Display, graphics system
apt -> Package manager, program installer
un/mount -> un/load, access, close/open
etc.

This is because a term such as "mount" is technical, and doesn't mean anything to someone who doesn't already know it, whilst terms like X or apt are program names which are only meaningful to those who know them. Since those who know what mounting is know that accessing a drive involves mounting it, the term "accessing" should be obvious to mean mounting. For those who know what apt and X are they will know that their graphics system is X and their package manager is apt.

I am NOT advocating a name change for anything here, I am advocating the use of generic, descriptive terms in user interfaces instead of unneccessary technical terminology or program/brand names.