Contributor Veejay

OpenJDK doesn't work as good as Sun Java JRE. OpenJDK is simply not ready from prime time and therefore installing ubuntu-restricted-extras should give you Sun Java.

Hello Friends.

I am witting this post after a frustrating experience in recently in Ubuntu....

I wanted to download few heavy videos (like 250 MB) from Google video. for this i needed a download manager.

I could not use:

1. Firefox own Download Manager as i needed to pause and resume downloads, sometime even after closing Firefox or restarting Ubuntu.

2. DownThemAll for same reasons as above...

I downloaded Gwget from Ubuntu repos and installed flashgot extension in Firefox.

Now when i sent download link to Gwget via flashget, Gwget didn't process the link and showed error "Can't write file" while even the firefox download manager and DownThemAll, both were able to download the .mp4 file.

Story doesn't end here....

I started looking for other download manager.

Aria Download Manager : There were no buttons when i opened the program. I don't know why. But the same problem was there with Aria in Ubuntu Feisty as well.


wxDownloadFast : not available in Ubuntu repo.....Gutsy package not available, neither on getdeb.net, nor on its official website....feisty and edgy package are unstable when installed in Gutsy....though it was the only one which could start the download....

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This guy is making very funny videos about Vista. Especially this one : http://www.dailymotion.com/popular/MrVista/video/x46p2h_episode-1_shortfilms

We could ask him to do one or adapt one for Ubuntu.


http://mrvista.net/

Now there is a great a digital entertainment content (songs, photos, movies, videos, etc.), and managing it from a desktop computer is like working afterhours. It would be great to have a computer at the living room, like a console, but for much a better price and much more posibilities. This version of Ubuntu should offer the following capabilities:

-Able to run with low hardware requirements (a great way to recycle an old computer, take it to the living room!)

-Minimum boot up time (when someone wants to hear song, he wants to hear it now!)

-Control without keyboard & mouse (the ideal way would be a remote control and the possibility of using a Wiimote!)

This version of Ubuntu should be able to play StartUp disks, this is, you enter a disk with applications and they would run automatically with no installation time. This would be a great way to build content and this format could be quite popular.

The first application would be, obviously, games. For instance, you enter the CD-rom and in no time you can be playing with your Wiimote (PlayStation pads would also be nice) to a Mame emulation or a new developped game.

However, there are many other applications: for instance, language courses (with multimedia elements), fitness programs (fully customizable), cooking recipes (you enter the ingredients and it shows the available recipes, etc.).

Well, to be brief, the idea would be to create an Ubuntu version for the living room: quick boot up & easy control.




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Compiz-Check(http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=8167) is a script that checks your system and sees why you cant run compiz. So, with this script, Ubuntu will say: "Desktop effects couldnt been enabled because X" instead of just "D.E. couldnt been enabled."

A separate partition for /home has been proposed for a long time in the forums. It implies some risks, though, so based on disk size Ubiquity should estimate the amount of space that should be left for / or whether a separate partition should be made at all. Then...

-The first time an user installs Ubuntu, he is given the option to set a separate /home. This option is selected by default, with a size for each partition based on a sane guess:

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7958/firstinstallaro2.png

-Of course, he can just choose not to set a separate /home. This option will be selected by default if the results of the system test suggest that's the best thing to do.

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/6498/firstinstallbfs6.png

-Manual install is also possible. Selecting it greys out everything related to separate /home, since it's implied that the user doesn't want to be guided.

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7976/firstinstallcvc2.png

-If the user set a separate /home, the next time he installs Ubuntu a new option appears and is selected by default, prompting to use the existing /home partition. All other options are still available, though.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9034/secondinstalliq1.png

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Some programs have audio but rely on the master volume control to limit that programs audio level. This can be limiting as a user might be playing a video that is silent but have a voice communication which is too loud.

I want the ability to control volume at the application level. This will give me more control over the audio output of programs.

I want more control over the /dev/video* system.

Although programs such as vloopback exist that allow you to take /dev/video output and pipe it back into /dev/video1, there is nothing currently available that allows you to take media such as movie files from your hard drive and pipe them into /dev/video0

This would have a many great benefits such as the ability to show distant relatives movies of family members via webcam, instead of having to send the movie file to them.

I've installed Ubuntu for a lot of people and one thing that everyone always requests is visible desktop icons to reach their Home folder and Trash. Currently, I believe, this can only be accomplished by launching a Configuration Editor via the command line (gconf-editor).

I would propose that Ubuntu's user friendliness could be greatly increased by showing these icons on the desktop by default (as is done by Kubuntu) or, at the very least, providing a simple method of toggling system folder icons (perhaps when the user right-clicks the desktop?)

On modern hardware the only reason swap is really needed is for suspending to disk so separate swap partition is complete waste.

It would be great to modify uswsusp (using kexec for example) to be able to use swap file on any regular partition to perform suspend2disk: 2.6 kernal already allow usage of dynamically allocated file on any partition as a swap file.

This improvement would also help to fix other suspend related issues and will make easier ubuntu-on-usb version.

Ubuntu should provide a standard interface to access administrative tasks, for example using the WBEM server from SBLIM project (which is designed to have a very small footprint) Ubuntu could provide a set of tools to manage users, disks, network, etc. using this interface. There is even a project building Python bindings so that user intefaces would be quite easy to build.

For example, microsoft uses the MMC (Microsoft Management Console) which used WBEM for most of it tools.

This way remote servers could be managed without the need for a special tool, something that would be highly interesting.

When i try to install ubuntu on my DD it always need to format my /boot.
Can you find a way to:
1-preserve /boot
2-detect other distro kernels and add them too grub list

It would be very useful to have an easy way to copy the current directory path from Nautilus to terminal or other program.
Also, pasting the directory path from other program should open it in current window.

Today, many new laptops are built with Robson Memories. This kind of memories only works on Windows Vista systems, we can´t allow this!

Activating this support, many laptops should be able to manage about 1 GB more of memory. Actually this is not possible.

More info about Robson here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Turbo_Memory (english)
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cach%C3%A9_Robson (spanish)

Hi,

this is something that I realy miss since I've choosen to not use Windows anymore, I don't have any chance to get sound over my headphones and many other users even miss this feature.

It should be possible to only plug a headphone into the LineIn port of a Laptop, get sound over it and disable the *normal* sound boxes.

Hi,

I think that there should be a SPAM program or a simple plugin to be included in Evolution and Thunderbird, which would include 2 buttons (besides the spamassassin or spampal methods): One button to add the e-mail addresses to the White list and another button to add the e-mail addresses to the Black list for SPAM.

So the email addresses included in the Whitelist won't go to the SPAM folder, and the other way around for the blacklisted email addresses.

In other words, thus the user rules over the automatic classification of emails made by the spamassasin or spampal methods.

This is very good way to quickly and securely moving the Junk mail to the right folder, while keeping the jam mail in the incoming mail.

Much like Spamfighter or Spamaware do.

I know this have been prolly said so many times, but the only reason i do not completely go to ubuntu is because of Games for Windows.

I want them to work in Ubuntu, i really do, the moment that happens, you will get a huge amount of people leaving Windows.

1. Default to blanking screen instead of screensaver will lower power consumption of computers and lengthening the life of monitors.
2. Have a way to uninstall screensaver.
3. Make screensavers an optional application on setup.

WLAN is still not stable. Sometimes a can login, the other day it just won't. I can connect the cable and disconnect and stuff like that. I just does not work reliable.

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/kubuntu-partition-manager

I would love to be able to re-size my existing partitions and store my data together, without having to YALC-up on a set of terminal commands. An easy GUI interface where you can click and drag the edge to re-size the partitions visually.

I don't see why such a visual partition manager can not also be incorporated into the Kubuntu install wizard.

I particularly loved the idea of having a separate /home/ partition with an "auto-detect /home/ partition" built into the install process.

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/314/

I know the terminal is powerful, but some of us non-gurus still need to plod ahead with GUI's

Thanks. :-)