Contributor Veichtlbauer

When I used Windows XP I used to edit videos with Ulead Video Studio 9. It was a simple to use package that was packed with a lot of nice features and effects.

Video Studio 9 combined power with simplicity. Something Ubuntu also does very well. But Ubuntu seriously needs to up it's game when it comes to video editing.

I know that it would be hard but why don't offer support several UNIX kernels in the Ubuntu OS?

It would be awesome to join Ubuntu comunity with BSD and project Nexenta (http://www.nexenta.org/os) guys.

Later, when GNU/Hurd is completed it would be great to include that kernel as an option to the users.

I'm not talking about making more versions of Ubuntu, I'm talking about allow users to have installed several kernels in their machines and choose what they want to use.

NOTE: if you downvote the idea, please tell me why. Thanks.

Some programs in the Ubuntu Repositories are only available for some processor architectures (i386, x86, x64, AMD64).

It looks like the launchpad PPA service, can compile ubuntu packages for various architectures, when the program code is uploaded to it.

See "Launchpad 'Personal Package Archive' Service For Developers" at
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/launchpad-ppa

Ideas ;

1) If this is not currently done at the PPA service, then it would certainly be a helpful facility.

2) Active promotion
The developers of projects could be "actively" invited to submit their code to the PPA web site for compilation especially for ubuntu.

This might be done by extracting a database of package names, contact details, and whether they have been contacted, and joined or not, and who managed the contact.

The system can automatically contact those that details are known for, while people could volunteer to do the footwork, if research and human approaches need to be made.

Additional future possibilities;
1) Once this system is set up, then it will not only cater for many present architectures, but it could also very quickly be able to cater for any future architecture.
2) Ubuntu could provide a similar service to other linux distros, or supply them with the code to do it themselves.
3) If the system becomes able to compile packages for various linux OSes, then it might help having a more universal system for bringing projects to more platforms at once.

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I came across this thread while looking around about another problem:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sound-juicer/+question/2046

The pertinent quote:
I tried to follow your directions. After I entered the command in
terminal mode and pressed enter it kept asking for my password. It
would not let me enter it though. I typed it several times but nothing
appeared on the screen.

Richard

http://willwill100.deviantart.com/art/Interpid-Ibex-Mockup-Part-3-93585184
http://willwill100.deviantart.com/art/Interpid-Ibex-Mockup-Part-1-93584571
http://danrabbit.deviantart.com/art/Willwill-s-Intrepid-GDM-94051500

vode +1 for these ideas, i know u like it

Similar to my idea #248. It got voted way down because of a miscommunication in the title.

So essentially, when a user starts to drag the icon of a disk, (except the primary / ), the recycle bin's icon changes into an eject icon. The disk is unmounted when the icon is over the eject button and the mouse click releases.

Sure, its like OS X, but
1> There is no lost functionality in doing this.
2> It is intuitive. I'm done with this USB drive. Lets remove it, just like we would remove a file when we are done with it.
3> OS X users are used to this method. I sure as heck am, and sometimes do it on Ubuntu without thinking.
4> For those that don't like it, its not the only way to eject a volume, so whats the problem?

Since a lot of people seem to think that not showing visual feedback for password authentication (in the terminal, for example) is a security feature, let's remove visual feedback from the GUI, too.

See Idea #11118: Display *** for password in the terminal for more details:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/11118/

a Musing;
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Are you getting tired of the "exactness" of computers?
How do they compare to you other work associates?

Too much relating to a PC and not enough development/maintenance of those human interaction skills!


Idea (main);
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Build up the basic human interaction skills, required to use a computer.
This can be implemented as an optional theme.


Many more ideas on this main idea;
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1) Maintain those "manners" skillbase.
The computer gets the weather from the weather website. Oh it's cold! - in two hours at the rate of 5 per hour (say) "a-tissue" (the screen may wobble).
Work is able to be resumed faster if the user says "bless you" or "Gazuntheit", or hits a shorctut key to that effect.
Some few hours latter "cough cough", same reaction again.

2) Similar situation to (1) if the PC had baked beans for breakfast and is making embarrassing noise.

3) You can type in the words, and spelling mistakes get detected (so it's actually OK), but the computer has problems typing the letters on screen correctly or the right way round. Even the fonts might change from time to time.

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Ubuntu is an very nice linux distro, but unfortunately not so many people know Ubuntu.

At the next release of Ubuntu, 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex", we should do a big release party or something, so we get some media attention.
Secondly, make some TV ads(it's really not so expensive anymore!)to get attention of the people so they will get curious about Ubuntu and try it.

Also, you should ask game developers, software builders etc. to make software (specially videoeditingsoftware!) for ubuntu,so people don't need Windows anymore. Or include Crossover in Ubuntu, but i think that would cost to much.
And get more OEM partners like Dell, that sells ubuntu pc's (but not in Europe jet,unfortunately) Possible partners:
-Medion (My favorite!)
-HP
-Acer
-Lenovo
I apologize for my bad English, i am dutch!

gedit should hyperlink URLs so that they can be launched by clicking on them. This feature should either be an option and / or controlled by a hotkey (e.g. CTRL+click to launch).

As Mark Shuttleworth said: "Apple ... recognize very strongly that the web is the killer application of the PC today ... There is a real opportunity for us to deliver a great web experience, but we have to focus very strongly on getting this done."

Having a text editor that does not allow me to access the web via my documents is not providing a great experience.

I Like travelling. I also like Ubuntu. I like compact pcs like the EEePC and similars..

so i thought this...

why won't we create a sort of consolle using those systems (eeepc and similars, or even mobiles) to create a sort of travel log?

It could be easy and really nice:

- Find city maps
- Log with a text editor
- calculate travel finances and money change
- easily download and store our travel pictures
- use this "consolle" also to show movies and play music during our staying.


SOFTWARE NEEDS:
New Themes and adapted O.S. with features, programs, on-line services direct connection (tripadvisor, google maps...)

HARDWARE NEEDS:
A compact pc, nicely designed (kinda eeepc with ubuntu colors...)

Help me improving this idea.. it just came in my mind... and i think it could be very nice, also for Ubuntu spreading...

Think at "Brain Training" and "Nintendo DS"... or the city maps and movies for "PSP" ... with 200€ you can offer a pre-installed solution that gives you all you need for a perfect vacation assistant!!!

I would really pay for it!

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No secret: a lot of developers out there don't want to bother making .deb or .rpm files because they consider it a waste of time.

My latest Ubuntu convert actually gave up Ubuntu because he's a habitual downloader and not many websites provide .deb files for installation on an Ubuntu machine.

Actually, habitual downloading completely destroyed the ability of anybody to even have pleasure in using Windows on his computer before I got him to try Ubuntu. Apparently, if you have too many items in the All Programs menu on XP, your computer freezes for like 15-30 minutes. I said: I'll give you a month of follow-ups for free if I don't have to fix Windows. While it would be better if he didn't download every app on the face of the planet, that's what he wants to do, even if it's just every Linux app on the face of the planet.

I really doubt this guy is the only habitual downloader out there.

In any case, offering to make .deb files for everyone that may want to offer a .deb would not only catch more of the habitual-downloader market, but help build greater brand ubiquity for Ubuntu.

For applications downloadable from a website, in which Ubuntu provided this service, there could be an image stating "Debian file provided by Ubuntu" or something similar. So not only would Ubuntu be providing a service for developers and improving the state of 3rd-party software distribution for all debian systems, these services could possibly be traded for free marketing.

There is a website called fanbox which is similar to logging into a remote desktop. I would like to see this idea somehow brought into the ubuntu community so that someone who does not have access to a ubuntu computer can demonstrate how ubuntu works and feels from a windows computer via the internet. it would allow people who are interested in switching a chance to try it out and even converse with others in the community as well. It would be a great way to bringing people from the dark side to the brighter side of computing. To view what Fanbox looks like the address is: http://www.fanbox.com/socnet/

Our bootloader (stored in the MBR) is generally messed up when installing another OS after Linux. Another problem is that swapping internal HDD's around, normally prevents booting too (because the hardcoded drive addresses change), with the only fix generally being to use a repair CD which will undoubtedly rewipe the MBR and delete Grub again.

I propose that we offer a new bootloader install method: The permanently connected memory stick (via USB).

By dumping the boot-loader on a USB stick (they are cheap), it can be removed when another OS is being installed, and it will be safe from getting overwritten.

And Grub 2, allows the use of scripts, which we could use to automatically detect operating systems and boot them without risk of booting breaking. We could also drop harddisks into the computer with OS's on them and boot without configuring grub again, or use the memory stick to help boot other computers with an already broken MBR.

It seems that the current 32 bit editions of Ubuntu can only take advantage of 3GB (sometimes a little more) of physical memory. Desktops and gaming rigs using 6 and 8 GB of RAM are ubiquitous now. More RAM support please!!
It seems that this is related to the Linux kernel. However, some apps are not yet ready for 64 bit support. The kernel should be more flexible for people still in the 32bit editions.

(My idea from a while ago, taken from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IdeaPool to get some feedback)

I think there is far too much redundancy in the desktop at the moment. For example, icons on the desktop, in the menus, in a file manager, on a panel, a window on the desktop, tabs within windows, taskbar entries, notification area icons and panel applets can all represent the same thing. This is a complete waste, and it makes things confusing as to where certain options should be placed. At the moment it seems GNOME is following a put-it-anywhere-it-might-be-wanted philosophy (which results in such awful UI as the Microsoft Windows Control Centre, traversible only by remembering where developers ended up sticking the options you're after rather than by using common sense to find them) rather than a simple, logically layed out system.

For instance many applications can be closed via a widget on their window, an enty in a menu inside the application, right clicking on a taskbar entry, right clicking in a notification area icon, etc. but there is more relevant functionality which isn't as dispersed, for example setting an IM status or changing track in a music player, which can be accessed by notification area icons or panel applets but not by taskbar entry or desktop or application menu icon.

It would make a lot of sense to bring some of this stuff together, for instance the "desktop widget" idea for little snippets of information is a good one, but why not have that information in the application icons*? If a taskbar entry is flashing, does a notification area icon also need to flash? What is the difference between a panel applet and notification area icon (aside from the fact that panel applets can be moved around)? What is the difference between the taskbar showing the windows on a desktop and a bar of tabs showing the pages in a browser (most noticable for fullscreen windows)? What is the difference between a launcher icon and a taskbar entry (nothing, according to the Avant Window Navigator, and some apps even write their own hacks to do this, ie. switching to an open window when an icon is launched). What is the difference between a viewing application showing a document and the icon for that document? Should icons be static, so users can rely on them always being exactly the same, or should they include dynamic content, such as Evolution's icon showing the number of unread messages, or Pidgin's showing current status and new message notifications? Should icons exist at all now that we have the computing power and software to display large numbers of whole documents at any size? Should applications exist as standalone things or should their functionality be built into the file managers?

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..set up a distributed cross-compilation system if you need to. If you don't trust that, build in redundancy and checksumming.

The fact of the matter is that, as illustrated here,
http://mssaleh.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/ubuntu-804-lts-vs-windows-xp-sp3-applic ation-performance-benchmark/
constantly catering to the lowest common denominator in processor instruction sets is getting our butts kicked on performance even by /windows/ in many cases.
I don't want to waste my hardware's capability on i386 code, and I don't want to gentoo users laughing at me.

I want to go to the ubuntu site, pick my general type of machine (preferably using pretty pictures) , and have two choices:

-- Just give me something that works
or
-- I want to make the best use of my hardware

The latter option should let me download a utility that would examine my CPU and create a file (or something to that effect) that could be returned to the ubuntu site and used to choose the right disk image (with the right repository set of course) for my machine.

product: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.80GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 1
bus info: cpu@0
version: 15.2.9
size: 18EHz
width: 32 bits

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In that other operating system, it was really convenient to be able to sort my "Downloads" folder by the date downloaded. This is not possible in Nautilus, and really bugs me. Now I have to go back to Firefox, look at the file name, and then go back to my "Downloads" folder to find the name of the file, rather than just having the newest download appear at the top of the window.

I'm pretty sure I saw this idea somewhere else, but I don't think it was here, so sorry if this is a duplicate.

A picture is worth a thousand words. Some ideas are hard to convey without a picture or screenshot.

Measures may have to be taken to avoid abuse.

Wouldn't it be nice to have the option of disabling your mouse cursor when it isn't being moved?
A good program for this is unclutter, which can be found in the repositories.
Often I have difficulties reading text on screen while typing (in firefox or openoffice for example) when my mouse cursor is in the way.
For example, I am typing this right now; if I wasn't using unclutter I would have to move my mouse out of the way in order to see what I was typing!
Or when I'm watching a flash movie fullscreen, I have to move the mouse then as well.

So I would love it if unclutter was built-in, and simply had to be enabled.