Many games feature the ability to play with other people. However, the first thing the game will check for is to see if it is currently up to date.

When Ubuntu enters version freeze, the games fall out of date, and it can be harder to play them online without finding a 3rd party update or compiling it yourself (Freeciv, Scorched3D, and Battle for Wesnoth to name a few).

This also creates issues when different distributions freeze at different times, so it can be hard to play with other Linux users.

The voting feature is being abused at the moment, as its a feature that everyone sees the first thing, and are click-happy. It would be better if we were allowed to vote only when we also comment.

I would appreciate if i could manage comments in my own ideas. Implementation should vary from complety remove comment or only hide some comments, eventualy ad +/- karma button to comment and so on...

This should be usefull to prevent flamebaits, trolls or other individuals to post off topic nonsenses or attack autor of the idea. This is not discussion forum, this is Brainstorm and comments (if any) should be at least related to subject :)

Right now there are too many brainstorms to be sifted through and made sense of, spreading the votes of any reasonable person too thin.

Brainstorm should select a group of moderators to filter out ideas that are not feasible, not ideas, bug reports, or poorly worded before they are able to be voted on by the general registered user populace.

It will make Brainstorm less cluttered and allow people to decide on a few well-crafted and feasible brainstorms instead of having to make sense of the mess of 10s of thousands of brainstorms that have no hope of ever coming to fruition ("Include all proprietary codecs by default," "Make Ubuntu better," "Fix this upstream Gnome problem").

Calculator need more functionality particularly for conversions (weight, currency, distance, graphing etc..) Possibly even integrate with commercial calculators (TI-xx, Casio).

Windows 7 Calculator is going to include several new functions
and the Mac OS X Calc already includes these features.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqZkkqgSJ4A

If Amarok will now work in windows and mac os x, why not to make a GTK version for those of us that use GNOME??

Ubuntu needs to go green. Powertop, Lesswatts and other tools have finally hit the Linux scene to pave the way for better power management. It needs to be said, "if you want your battery to last longest, or have your energy bill be the lowest, you better use Ubuntu Linux."

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Power management still isn't very effective in Linux and it still puts a lot of laptop users off Linux. While Linux has come on a long way thanks to the work of Intel with PowerTOP informing developers when their software breaks the idol state unnecessarily so they are doing their part as well as the kernel developers now we still have a long way to go to compete with Windows and I'm looking at ways for Ubuntu to do this.

One of the benefits of Linux is that is very easy to customise and a lot of its users love to tinker. Ubuntu should therefore use this to its advantage by allowing its power users to easily have access to the latest developments in Linux power efficiency. This would also be useful to Ubuntu as power users could submit results on what settings are most economical for specific hardware. This would give Ubuntu the chance to market itself on its power efficacy over other operating systems by it silently implementing these settings on the detected hardware setup for new users.

To give users these advantages Ubuntu should help more on Intels Lesswatts projects as these are Linux's best bet on beating windows power management. The problem is the solution to effective power management needs to simple enough that it works for a new user that wont even know its active but also very easy for power users to modify and test their own setups from one central tool.

http://www.lesswatts.org/

The title says it all , screenlets now run on non composite desktop also , so it can be integrated neatly in a default great looking desktop

Some comments become part of the idea itself, through the comments ideas can be improved significantly, other comments though are not as important to the idea or pure waste of time; so a system of rating similar to the one already in use by Ubuntu's forum could help people focus on whether vote for it or not; when the option of translation is implemented translators could avoid wasting time with unimportant comments.

* Although (and because) Ubuntu is developing quickly, there are still many problems which can only be solved without GUI by terminal/editor work.
* For many users, the available solutions in forums and wikis are still not helpful, because they are "afraid" of the command-line.
* In forums, the same (often simple) solutions are described over and over again to different users.
* Ubuntu software developers and experienced users are able to automatise solutions/workarounds/fixes in bash-skripts. There should be an easy way to share them with the community.