Contributor Warbo

The word "Nuubuntu" is a joke, the rest is serious. The strength of Ubuntu and most other Linuxes is that they are highly configurable, flexible, powerful etc. Because of that it's often found too complex and geeky by the unwashed masses - those that need it just to do simple things and are not interested in tweaking, hacking, command line, scripts etc etc etc.
I am talking about a distro that does just 5 or 6 things but does it well. Browsing, chatting, emailing, managing and viewing pictures and personal videos, listening to the music and maybe a couple of other things.
Gnome (Ubuntu) is almost ready for this but there are still some underlying wizardy en technology artifacts that can and must be hidden from normal people. For instance hide the root "/" folder completely and have only "My Files" (alias for "user/home") visible. There are other things that can be done...

Usual way - to copy 2 strings with new application source to the "System-Administration-Sources list".

For ex.:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/packagekit/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/packagekit/ubuntu intrepid main

The idea is to create plugin for firefox or script, that can allow do it with one click.
Or 2 strings can be combined to 1 - for easier selection with double click...

One of Linux's strongest, and weakest points, is its reliance on a package management system. For internet-connected computers, downloading packages from online repositories is relatively easy, and a excellent form of software management.

HOWEVER, offline Linux computers unfortunately suffer greatly from the package management system. It simply takes too much effort to manually and separately download a package and all of its necessary dependencies, transfer them to the offline computer, and then install the packages in the correct order. While APTonCD has been very successful in making this process easier, it still does not make offline package installation as easy as it should be.

I am proposing that Synaptic be given the option to create and install so-called "Package Metafiles". A Metafile would simply be a zip or tarball which contains selected packages and all of their dependencies. A user would select the packages to include from Synaptic's package list, and then click the "Create Package Metafile" option. Synaptic would download the selected packages and all of their dependencies, and then bundle them together. The user would then transfer the "Package Metfile" to the offline computer, where Synaptic would have an "Install Metafile" option to unpack and install all the packages from the "Package Metafile".

This "Package Metafile" feature would be extremely easy to implement, as it would be integrated directly into Synaptic itself. Ubuntu would become more viable as an offline os, which would greatly benefit offices, schools and laptop users. I believe it would definitely help push Ubuntu to the next level as a more attractive and easier-to-use OS for general use.

install only icons pixmaps wich are in use are the butons are 24 pix only install the 24 pixs icons when this set to 48 ask user to install extra icons

Well rhythmbox its really great and i love the integration with jamendo... but the appearance is very "SIMPLE", so what i mean is..

"Rythmbox should be able to change between skins!, like Winamp, Mplayer or VLC !!"

Every task, for anything in Ubuntu, must be solved using a wizard as default. Its include the system failures, boot problems... etc.

I don think the terminal command line is out of date, but it must be a hidden possibility for experienced users or professionals.

There are A LOT of things in Ubuntu that has to be solved using the command console.

Its not for normal HUMAN users.

It'd be great to be able to login as "Bill" on Workspace 1, and "Jane" on Workspace 2.

The user-switcher applet should just apply to the current workspace, and it would ideally be much quicker to switch, without having to load up a new GDM screen -- just pop up a password box.

why? because its just so much nicer and easier to use. It looks like soo much fun from the welcome screen and you have soo much options! One nice feature is it will import your files from the moment you connect your camera.

I think this will be a g8 + for Ubuntu!

My solution is:
If you look around on the internet there are thousands of sites that have flash games, examples are miniclip.com and king.com. Some of these flash games are addicting and some are fun, some sites also allow you to download games to keep on your pc. Now here's where the solution is, because you can download games we should have these sites themselves adding to the 'Games' channel in Add/Remove.

This is good because:
1) Flash is supported in Ubuntu

2) No massive hardware requirements are required

3) there will just be tones and tones of games, Just think of it, one site like miniclip.com could satify everyones gaming need and tastes and hard drives :)

4) and lastly if Big developers see what these sites are doing and the response it getting they may think of starting to make games on Ubuntu through openGL.

Thanks for your time, tell me what you think

There were many ideas about tty (terminals).
I think that Ubuntu should make a better use of it.
One tty would still be a normal "console" but other up to tty6 should be differently used.
Few ideas:
One tty for overview of process like an cli version of system monitor.
On tty could be used for details about installation process;
OK this is also possible with details in synaptic; but in Kubuntu if you don't install synaptic there is no way to see this.
One could be used for advance error resolving when GUI doesn't help anymore.
This I ideas that I came up with, but probably you have other ideas how to use tty's.

Note that this is not a feature for new users but more for intermediate and advanced if we can speak about user "hierarchy". And this now specialized tty's should have an note that would say: "to return back to GUI pres ctrl-alt-F7"

Please comment whether is this even necessary or if you have any other ideas how to use tty's better.

I have a strange feeling that this is dupe but search nor possible duplicates doesn't find it.

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I have installed Intrepid Ibex and it's awesome. Yet there I found many things installed which I will never use like BlueTooth drivers and programs, NVidia drivers and configuration tools. On my case this will not be used since I don't have hardware for those, also a NVidia user will not need ATI or Intel drivers.

I don't know if there are other drivers there which I won't use since they don't fit on my hardware. My suggestion is that the LiveCD detect my hardware and only install the drivers I will use OR create a tool that once installed detect and delete the drivers I am not using.

More wasted drivers means wasted resources like ram and processing power, slower boot time and useless disk space.

A friend told me this is done on Gentoo, so there you got the sources to make this happen, but I am not sure.

There has been a disturbing trend of more and more ideas being posted in regards to including products into ubuntu, which are still in pre-alpha status. One recent example includes:
Replace Xorg with Wayland.

Many people are voting for it, yet Wayland is PRE-ALPHA and probably wont even run gnome yet (so how can people possibly say it can replace Xorg yet?). And there are many other ideas ranging from including grub2 as default, to making Google Chrome default (there is no native working linux version yet though, and it might really suck on linux when there is).

I propose that all ideas which are too early in development to make a decision, should be closed immediately, to increase the quality of brainstorm, and allow posters to repost them as soon as there IS enough information for developers to be able to pass judgement as to whether it is the right thing to do. Otherwise, smart people will vote -1 for the idea now (how can they vote +1 for an idea which isn't possible), and when it finally is possible, the votes will mean nothing, they will be at -9000.

Lets try to get brainstorm cleaned up !

It would be great for Ubuntu to come default with an optional installation to work similar to Windows XP or Vista. This would include a complete visual makeover. It should make the Icons, GTK, Metacity, Splash, GDM Theme, Panel Background, Desktop Background, Visible Desktop Icons, Nautilus Tree View, and the Toolbar to Icons only. It should also come with the newest version of Wine, so many Windows applications will be supported.
This will not only make Ubuntu more usable for the Windows familiar user, it will bring more Windows users to Linux instead of Mac.

Here is the information:
http://www.ditii.com/2008/10/29/windows-7-libraries-homegroup/

Link to picture:
http://img98.imageshack.us/my.php?image=081128librariesparxk9.jpg

It's 3:49 AM. I decide to try out Ibex. I burn the CD, and reboot. A short while later, my speakers are blasting. I get death threats from the neighbors for waking them up at such an absurd hour.

My idea is that after each release all should be closed and moved to an "Archive" section,leaving only the implemented/worked upon. Furthermore, the ideas should be sorted by moderators of each category, to find the ones that weren't marked as implemented, but actually are implemented. After that, all other ideas should be moved to that "Archive".

Why do I think that should be done?

First, the Brainstorm gets bigger and bigger, makes it pretty much chaotic.

Second, each release actually marks a completely new era. There are new issues, new problems, so there should be only new ideas. I can't believe that ideas that were submitted in the times of 7.10 will help with 9.04.

This idea was posted by someone else on KDE-look but idea was discredited with wrong reasons.
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Folder view is one of most useful widget in KDE4 I use it to quickly access my documents which are in folders (example: Documents/text; pictures;..) But when you click on folder it opens a Dolphin instead that it would open the folder in folder view.
This has been done in quick access so there shouldn't be that hard to do it for folder view also.

It should be possible for the submitter of an idea to withdraw it later. At least if the idea has negative votes.

After getting some negative comments, you might realize that your idea was not so good after all.

I think we should merge Rhythmbox and Totem. People shouldn't have to open up another window just to listen to music and video.

Use an icon that relates to WineHQ for .exe files.

Maybe something like their logo?:

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g163/oktyabr/blog/th_wine_hq_logo.png