Contributor Wikzo

Maybe pidgin could translate the words we receive to our language, and maybe translate the words we send to another language, just by setting filters.
A plug in can do that i think (using on line services of course)
The filters should allow to be set for each contact on the list of contacts.
:D

I know many of you have heard this before but it bears repeating; that updating or synaptic downloads should have a pause/resume. this would help with multiple computers sharing a line or when using a cell-modem

Firefox has spell-checking. Word processors have spell-checking and auto-correct. Pidgin has spell-checking and an auto-correct plugin. Thunderbird has spell-checking but no auto-correct. Some text editors have spell-checking, others don't.

But each of these programs uses its own engine and its own dictionary, duplicating the same overlapping functionality in many different programs, wasting developer effort, and resulting in incomplete dictionaries/functionalities. Why?? The Linux/Unix philosophy is supposed to have a bunch of small, well-written programs that do one thing and do it well, which are then used as components inside other apps.

We should have a single spell-checking and auto-correct (and predictive text and grammar check and grammar autocorrect?) engine, and it should be available for ANY text input field in ANY program (including single-line forms, search bars, quick find, etc.), with a single centralized dictionary that gets updated on a regular basis, and a single centralized user dictionary for each user. Then I can define new spellings or corrections (or remove ones I don't like) and have that change automatically be used for all apps.

Also, it would be best if users had a trivial way to optionally upload their custom-defined words back to the central servers, so that they can be added to the next release and benefit everyone.

After a year on Linux, I was kinda pissed today when I made my fonts look twice as nice despite having already enabled hinting and smoothing from Gnome's Appearance > Fonts GUI.

It turns out you need to copy or symlink files from /etc/fonts/conf.avail/ to /etc/fonts/conf.d/
(EDIT: This is done for you on *fresh* installs of Ubuntu Hardy or above)

The changes I needed to apply are in the script I just made:

cd /etc/fonts/conf.d/
sudo rm 10-antialias.conf 10-hinting-medium.conf 10-no-sub-pixel.conf 70-no-bitmaps.conf

sudo ln -sf ../conf.avail/10-autohint.conf .
sudo ln -sf ../conf.avail/10-hinting-medium.conf .
sudo ln -sf ../conf.avail/10-no-sub-pixel.conf .
sudo ln -sf ../conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf .

(followed by restarting X)

I believe this should be at least checked if not done for you. At very least, you should be warned in some way that the full effects of hinting and smoothing are not being applied.

Would be interesting if a portal from Canonical, or close enough to the Ubuntu communities, could have an indie game portal, focused on Ubuntu and the packaging process, where we can easily submit the games we coded there.

There are some interesting indie games working similarly in the web, but nothing truly focusing open-source indie games, or even Linux distros like Ubuntu.

When Firefox recovers from a crash or restart, it should remember what windows were on which workspaces and recover them to there correct position.

This should work for both compiz and metacity.

In the same way you're putting Firefox 3.0 Beta 5, you should integrate Open Office 3.0 Beta instead of the current version. I've tested it. It's stable and has many cool extra features.

Consider a new user of Ubuntu who wants to communicate with his friends on Windows Live Messenger. He might try visiting the Windows Live Messenger website to download a client, not realizing that a.) Microsoft's client won't work on Ubuntu and b.) Ubuntu comes with Pidgin, an IM client which can connect to Windows Live Messenger.

It would be helpful if, when the user visited the Windows Live Messenger site, an information bar appeared at the top of the page informing the user that Ubuntu includes an IM client, with a button to click to get more information. The informational window could even have the ability to start Pidgin and set it up to connect to the user's Windows Live Messenger account.

What I am proposing is a Firefox plugin which would be equipped with a list of URLs meeting one of the following criteria:
a.) The URL links to the download site for an application which is available in the Ubuntu repositories
b.) The URL links to the download site for an application which does not run on Ubuntu but there exists an equivalent application in the Ubuntu repositories (i.e. Windows Live Messenger, iTunes)
c.) The URL links to instructions for accessing a service which could be assisted by the plugin (i.e. configuring Evolution to connect to a Gmail account)

The plugin would monitor the sites a user visits and pop up an information bar when the user visits a URL on the list. Clicking the information bar would provide the user information on installing or configuring the relevant application, and possibly give the user the option to let the plugin start or configure the application as required.

it's a bit annoying, when having a 8x5 display, having available just one 8x5 resolution (1280x800) among other 4x3 or 5x4 resolutions.

The idea, in this case, would be removing all of those 4x3 (like 640x480, 800x600) and 5x4 (1280x1024), and inserting others like 640x400, 800x500, etc.

There's a lot of packages who includes fonts for Ubuntu.
Imagine a Font Book who include theses features:

- list installed fonts
- add/remove fonts
- activate/disabled fonts (useful when you have hundreds of fonts)
- Install by browsing fonts like in Synaptics, with previews.
- Print sample pages
- Sorting fonts per family, or make customs groups.

Would be interesting being able to use animated gif and mng files on Pidgin. It's a bit annoying people using those obsolete msn contacts being able to show us animated gifs with messages, and Pidgin users don't... And as well, i still have no idea if the googletalk/jabber protocol supports this feature

As well, would be interesting Pidgin users able to save these animations as .gif or .mng files, instead of static .png

Also as well, making us able to have our personal folders of animated gif files

I think there should be a way that you can easily put your Favorite Brainstorm ideas on your blog or in your forum signature , so more people come and vote for "the ideas" if they also like that.

perhaps you can make a RSS version of Bookmarked Ideas of each user.

While playing a movie I should have the ability to load different subtitles if I want. Currently subtitles load only on start-up and only if the file name corresponds to the movie's file name (which in most cases does not).

This feature should be accessible from a right-click menu in fullscreen mode too.

Gnome 2.24 is shipping with some very nice abstract wallpapers - and they all support transparency. Since the wallpaper background is transparent, the wallpaper simply overlays the background with the colors or gradient that you choose in the Appearance Preferences. This allows you to change the color or gradient to come up with a virtually endless amount of customizable backgrounds with only a single wallpaper. It would allow users to easily change the look and color, without changing the default Ubuntu wallpaper. Both SVG and PNG support transparency.

I could not find the SVG source of the final Hardy wallpaper, but I did find a pre-final SVG (converted to PNG) to use as an example.

http://picasaweb.google.com/NeWhoa/UbuntuWallpaperTest#5241728256127146242
http://picasaweb.google.com/NeWhoa/UbuntuWallpaperTest#5240883619919731634
http://picasaweb.google.com/NeWhoa/UbuntuWallpaperTest#5240884247169236178
http://picasaweb.google.com/NeWhoa/UbuntuWallpaperTest#5240592925259351618
http://picasaweb.google.com/NeWhoa/UbuntuWallpaperTest#5240884245798795122
http://picasaweb.google.com/NeWhoa/UbuntuWallpaperTest#5240592866199452866
http://picasaweb.google.com/NeWhoa/UbuntuWallpaperTest#5240591952653605122
http://picasaweb.google.com/NeWhoa/UbuntuWallpaperTest#5240591954999696626
http://picasaweb.google.com/NeWhoa/UbuntuWallpaperTest#5241728257574915362

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The default media player is called Totem Movie Player right? In the panel and the window heading it has this title, but in nautilus [when you right click for open-with] and the applications menu it is simply called 'Movie Player'.

It would be less confusing if the name was standardised across ubuntu

I think it would be useful if nautilus could show preview of gimp's xcf files in thumbnails like it does with jpeg and png files

I think it would be useful if nautilus could show preview of gimp's xcf files in thumbnails like it does with jpeg and png files

I really like to see an option in calculator to switch to tape mode, like in this picture made with gimp:

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/8210/calcnewnn6.png

Everyone by now has seen the world famous mockups of what Ubuntu apparently should look like. The problem is that what is shown in those mockups is not yet possible with the current way gnome works.

I worry with everyone clambering for this mythical theme and with time running out before 8.10 ships, what will end up happening is Ubuntu will ship with the same old problematic brown and orange theme that is so hated by a lot of people.

There is a solution though...

The Dust theme
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/DustTheme

The Dust theme has gotten a lot of praises on Digg and is easily as sexy as anything I've personally seen for Linux (and I'm not usually a fan of dark themes), bust most promising of all... is actually possible with the current technology we have at our disposal.

It's time to be bold! Stop defaulting to the same brown and orange and make a big bold change. Embrace Dust.

Yes you will get a few idiots who will say it's too like Vista just because it's black, but ignore them people. The wider tech community will praise Ubuntu for finally ditching its dorky themes and becoming sophisticated and sexy. New users will be eager to try out this Ubuntu thing they have heard so much about.

Originally, i was really against the idea of a dark theme, and maybe i'd still prefer it if Ubuntu would lighten up a little. I understand the organic theme completely, but please...this is an operating system. Anyways, all the dark themes i had seen really turned me off and even the best ones seemed to be loved by some and hated by others. If we're going to have a dark theme, lets have one that we can all agree on. When i saw the Intrepid alpha screenshot, like many others, i gagged a little.

How people interact with their computer is really essential to their satisfaction. This is why aside from features, the software's stability (minimizing annoying bugs), speed (clean code and making everything as efficient and responsive as possible), and interface (look and feel) are the three most important things that should be our focus and be kept at a high priority.
We should really work to increase usability: http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability

I have looked through all the artwork submissions for Intrepid, and of all of them, this is the one dark theme that i would actually like to use: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/Wall-light

I first saw it on this Digg submission: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Intrepid_Ibex_Mockup_Designs

Of course, i'm sure everyone will have input to make it even better. This isn't a final design, but vote for the concept so far!

P.S. Please Digg :) Thanks http://digg.com/linux_unix/Vote_for_a_beautiful_usable_Ubuntu