Contributor Vertelemming

Run web browsers (such as Mozilla Firefox, Epiphany, etc) in a secure sandbox.

So that it has no access to the rest of the operating system or file system, except the cache folder.
So it cannot gain write access to files and registry keys outside of a user profile's folder.

This will prevent exploits and security vulnerabilities in the web browser (or its plugins and extensions) from being exploited to install malware on the computer.

Incandescent light bulbs are obsolete and soon to be banned in many countries. We should change the light bulb in the ubuntu brainstorm logo to an energy-saving Compact Fluorescent light bulb. :)

Totem is a good player, but vlc is much better. Please put the best software as default in ubuntu, because the problems of new users , coming from windows, will decrease a lot with vlc, that recognise more codecs than totem.

One thing that's always bothered me, no matter which OS I've been on, is the way I can be typing in one window when another program tosses up a notification or error which immediately gets closed because I just pressed space or enter. I propose a mechanism be developed by which keyboard input is temporarily paused or halted if a window appears when more than X number of keys is being pressed per ten seconds.

I realise the difficulties inherent in this; a daemon or service would eat up unnecessary CPU cycles, it's impractical to patch every program in existence to follow this behaviour, and most other ways of doing this have one argument against them or another. However, if this were presented as an opt-in behaviour, I believe it would benefit a fair percentage of people for a relatively small amount of coder output.

This is a minor thing but can be puzzling to some. Unexperienced users can inadvertently drag and drop an image file on a Gnome panel, which will set it as background, and it may be hard for them to find where to disable it.

Since changing the background of panels is not a frequent operation, this binding should be disabled by default. (Setting up the background in properties tab is enough.)

Ubuntu could puplish specifications to all programmers of progs like word or text editor.
1. Ability to encrypt each file
2. Printing options
3. Button layout
4. installation destination
and so on.

I've been using Ubuntu for 2 years now and really like it. I've almost completely done away with Windows at home (have dual boot for running a game that I can't get to work well on Ubuntu). I'd really like to see a direct upgrade path from one LTS version to another LTS version without having to "do a fresh install" or use the logical forced upgrade system.

If this is already in the works, then WOO HOO!


Thanks,

Harpazo

An checkbutton in ubiquity(the ubuntu installer on the live cd) to install the restricted drivers by default.

Actually, a fresh Ubuntu installation loads a lot of system services during init process.

In my case, I run Ubuntu on a desktop system, so neither I need PCMCIA support nor I need bluetooth, and so on.

It would be nice to be able to choose needed services during installation process, so the user can avoid to use BUM or touch "/etc/rc?.d" files in a second moment to remove unneeded services.

Is it possible stop services (automatically by system) based on usage characteristics? I mean, I don't use pccard slot so pccardd(eamon) should not be starting as a service given the fact that I didn't use it for a long time.

Next step might be adaptive activation of services. Let's say I disabled bluetooth a while ago. But now I start using it. Before I change the configuration file, the bluetooth service can be added to list of services to be activated during boot.