Contributor Wiplash4

First of all: What is the difference between Preferences and Administration? For example: why do I see 'Encryption and Keyrings' in Preferences and 'Keyring Manager' in Administration? What is the difference between 'Default Printer' and 'Printing'? Why do I have to disable the Tracker under Sessions and not under Search and Indexing? And why are these menu's so large? I have 24 items in Preferences (they don't even fit on my screen!) and 18 items in Administration. To put all this stuff in a popup menu is bad interface design imho. Besides, the number of option should be much smaller. A few suggestions:

- Merge 'Screensaver', 'Screen Resolution' and 'Screens and Graphics'.
- Merge 'Network', 'Network Proxy' and 'Network Tools'.
- Merge 'Update Manager, Synaptic Package Manager, Software Sources'.
- Merge 'Encryption and Keyrings', 'Authorizations', 'Keyring Manager'.


Below are all settings I can visit via the System menu. This is just way too much.


-- Preferences --
Universal Access
About Me
Appearance
Bluetooth
Default Printer
Encryption and Keyrings
Keyboard
Keyboard Shortcuts
Main Menu
Mouse
Network Proxy
PalmOS Devices (I don't have one)
Power Management

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Please connect Stycky notes, calendar and Thynderbird the way that it stores all there data on the server (yahoo, googlemail, hotmail, etc.). That means no storage in the computer.

Make Firefox to open a new message on the server itself if thunderbird is not installed.

Admin (and the admin only) writes all Profiles for VPNC and tell for whom it is accesable.
The user can activate one directly in firefox.

There is not Yahoo messenger and Gtalk in linux. So I can not use linux in our browsing center.

It would be better if they both available for linux. I heard some projects are going.

But, we need them as soon as possible.

Make more options for screenlets and get rid of the oanel.

Better way to set monitor resolution and refresh rate. Majority of the new monitors are LCD type. User should be able to specify the native resolution and refresh rate during install.

Then Ubuntu/X must do WHATEVER it takes to stick to that resolution and refresh rate.

In case of multi-monitor setups, must be able to specify the configuration at time of installation.

Also, the login GUI must use same resolution as X. Why different resolutions?

Rant:
I have nVidia NVS440 card with Viewsonic VP2290b monitor. Video card must be set to 1920x1200 @13Hz or @41Hz refresh rate for each of it's four outputs. Desktop must be arranged in 2x2 matrix. Then monitor displays 3840x2400 @13Hz or @41Hz.

This worked very well in Ubuntu 6.06. Installed Ubuntu 7.04 and ended up with something like 800x480, even with nVidia binary drivers. Tweaked xorg.conf for weeks to get this to work. BulletProofX kept messing with my hand crafted xorg.conf file; which did work with 6.06. Eventually gave up and started using Windaz again :-( Will try again when frustration level has come down.

***Idea***

Provide a unified submission front-end for Brainstorm and Launchpad.

This unified submission front-end would allow all ideas, package requests, and bug reports to be submitted using one form. Then, the form handling system could determine the appropriate disposition:

- Bugs and package requests would be directed to Launchpad
- Other Ideas would be directed to Brainstorm

For obvious reasons, a related idea would be to merge/join the login credentials for Launchpad and Brainstorm.

***Situation Analysis***

Currently, many Brainstorm "ideas" are actually bug reports or package requests. The appropriate means for handling bug reports and package requests is Launchpad. Submitting these to Brainstorm is problematic for two reasons:

1) The bug reports and package requests do not get seen by the developers, who use Launchpad to collect, triage, and act upon them.
2) Actual ideas submitted to Brainstorm do not receive the attention they otherwise would, since the submissions are diluted with bug reports and package requests.

Other Brainstorm ideas address this issue; for example:

- Brainstorm: Make clear that "Add [...] to repos" belongs to launchpad.
( http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/10822/ )
- Make people aware Brainstorm isn't for bug reporting
( http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4735/ )

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Firefox still can not print odd and even pages seperatly. Please enable those kind of options to every application.
And please leave all page setup for one printer to the Preferences->...->Printer options (view brainstorm item #5564)

I think keyboard and mouse become obsolete. Ubuntu should be prepared for pc with only touch-screen monitors and camera-monitors.

1. Voice-Input: For letters, Words and Text it is convinient to input by speech rather than input by keyboard. So Texteditor, OpenOffice, Websites, etc. should make it possible to enter text by speech.

2. Soon Apple will sell Monitors with Cameras within the screen (http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1& u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220060007222%22.PGNR.&OS=DN /20060007222&RS=DN/20060007222)
The Monitor will sent Cam-Information to Ubuntu and Ubuntu can use it for Instant Messengers, Snapshots, Videorecording, etc. .
But there is also the posibilty to emulate a touchscreen by the camera (without touch-sensitive surface): Ubuntu or any programm could calculate distance and postion of an object (finger, pen, etc.) on the surface. Users schould be able to enable or disable this feature in the Monitor-Manager.

3. Even now there are Monitors available with USB-Input. In future pc (home or business) will use many Touchscreen-Monitors instead of one. Prepare Ubuntu to manager multiple monitors.

4. Without mouse a cursor become unnecassery. The mouse cursor should only be shown in case a mouse is attached!

Nautilus does its job as a light file manager. However, as Gnome's default file manager, I think it could use a lot more love than what it is given. This could include:

- Tabbed browsing! Most browsers today support tabbed browsing, but still few file managers. This doesn't really make sense now does it?
- Better remote connection/sftp handling. The current one is AWFUL. Slow, sluggish, buggy. Take example on Konqueror!
- SVN integration has been waved at. I find it a cool idea, even if only as a plugin.
- Speaking of plugins... those also need some love. How many plugins are there for Nautilus? Most users don't even know Nautilus can be enhanced.
- File tooltips - once again, take example on Konqueror / Windows explorer.

Edit: A few more ideas around Brainstorm:
- Separation of files and folders
- Slider bar for zoom
- A better icon management
- The ability to explode folders

Those are just a handful of ideas. My main concern is Nautilus is being underdeveloped, and the solid alternative is only non-Gnome (Konqueror).


If you liked this idea, check out my other ideas.

I would like a tool that help me to change my ubuntu installation (32 bits) to a ubuntu installation (64 bits), after i installed ubuntu 32 bits.

I think, that probably is not possible to update the system files, but it is possible to update (because in the fact, 32 and 64 are show as same) my preferences, my files (music, video...).

In resum, I would like a tool that help me to change my ubuntu 32 bits to ubuntu 64 bits with the less data lose.

As a user I want to be able to listen to audio or watch videos with the least amount of setup. I would like to have a single interface (Codec Manager) that lists all of the most common audio and video formats and shows me if I am missing the necessary codec for playback.

Use Case: Enable MP3 playback.
Precondition: MP3s are not currently playable.
1. User logs into the system.
2. User opens the Codec Manager.
3. System displays a list of common audio/video formats.
4. User selects MP3s.
5. System displays some info about MP3s.
6. System displays a list of available codecs.
7. User selects a codec and clicks Apply.
8. System downloads and installs the selected codec.
9. System informs the user when completed.

Other possible features:
- Display a list of audio/video types that are missing codecs.
- An auto-setup function, that grabs the recommended codec for all formats.

Audio and Video formats that should be supported:

Audio:
- MP3
- OGG
- AAC
- FLAC
- Real Audio

Video:
- MP4

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CC and BCC (BCC-Members can read and see everyone, but only the user who added the BCC-Member can see him and his Video/Voice/Text/Files)
I am aware that some Protocols do not support that function, but I hope they will!

Make a new application or improve Beagle, Tracker or Deskbar.

It do acronym lookups, math calculation, fact lookup, data generation, unit conversion, etc.

So that when I ask it something, it answers me.
RAM? = Random access memory
91*74-26 = 6708
Capital of Sweden? = Stockholm
22 inch in centimeter = 55.88 centimeter
chemical formula for water? = H2O
#0000ff = shows the color blue
01101000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 = hello
68 65 6C 6C 6F = hello
Hello in Italian? = ciao
Time in Tokyo? = 19:46
Weather in Paris? = 7°C, sunny.
rot13 hello = uryyb

So right from the Deskbar (or something) on the desktop, I can ask something, and it will answer me.

Pidgin with Webcam support and Skype and Ekiga. I am well aware this is going to be difficult

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.

Please insert following functions
· Download Videos (youtube), music by drag&drop.
2. If I click an emailaddress, open a tab with my emailserver and automatically open a new message with the email ID
3. Add a button, so that I can email the browsers website address automatically by opening a new message on my emailserver an include the address,,,

Now the website is stored as a html file and a folder containig auxiliary files as pictures, etc.. Please find a way to store all this data into one file. It is unnerving to take care of this folder.

I have a very unusual idea: Seperate the controls from the main content of an application. That would allow the user to shift the controls to another monitor. I often have to hold a presentation: I want the controls on my computer while the projector projects the main content to the wall. The audience dows not need to see the controls.

Make a little Check-Box in the Monitor-Manager to enable this option and specify, that each application should be written to support this feature.

Maybe this sounds odd.

Panels can be hidden. But when it is hidden, their is still the hide-button left. Why not make it a little more attractive: Combine it with the cairo-clock. If the user wants to hide the panel, he pushes the hide-button and the panel converts into a clock. If the user then clicks the clock, the panel reappears. And please do not forget to make the hide-button a little more attractive (Transperency, icons instead of words, etc.).