Contributor XVIIarcano

I have been working on getting the wifi drivers active and working on a macbook. However, even do there are several websites who provide examples and howto documents on how to enable your wifi on a macbook it is a very very very hard struggle to get them working. Maybe the device driver group can look into the problem of getting wifi working on a macbook.

First you have a sexy machine and with Ubuntu running on it you have a sexy machine with a sexy and great operating system. Lets try to make the switch more easy for a lot of people.

Regards,
Johan Louwers.

I think that demoting an idea is rather worthless. I see comments every now and then where people say that they demoted the idea and in the same comment this people show that they did not even understand the idea.
It's bad enough for an idea not to be promoted anyway, what use is it to demote an idea?

The new feature, of Ubuntu 8.10, guest temporal account should name this guest user as "guest" in your locale language in user-changing top bar, instead of calling it "guest" (as in English).

For example, in Spanish, "guest" should be named "invitado".

It's a bit confusing, so I explain again. I would like to view in my language the name of the fake user of the "guest account".

Ubuntu 8.10 was by far the buggiest Ubuntu that I’ve tried so far. The final product was rushed to be released on 31st October so it could stay in accordance with 8.10 name and as a result we had a series of quite serious and very obvious bugs, such as problem with the headers and network managers. That is definitely not the way that Canonical should go, if Ubuntu is supposed to be a Linux for laymen, should their first contact with it be manually editing the network configuration file?

Release dates of Ubuntu versions should not be set in stone, it’s better that they be well-polished than on time. If developers need few more days or even weeks, let them have it, after all MaC OS X versions are often few months late, while new Windows can even be late a few years!

In order to accommodate for what I’ve suggested, naming scheme of Ubuntu versions needs to be changed. Instead of 9.04 and 9.10, let the next versions of Ubuntu for instance have names such as 9S and 9F, with the letters standing for Spring and Fall, respectively.

I stumbled upon "The 7 Deadly Linux Commands" list over at http://www.junauza.com/2008/11/7-deadly-linux-commands.html . And as far as I can see, most of the commands (with the possible exception of number 6) on there have no use. Certainly the hex version of 'rm -rf/'! So why not alias them out by default? Will keep newbies safe, and any andvanced user who does need to use one of those commands isn't going to have too much trouble re-enabling them.

Since ubuntu use only upstream things, does this project achieve its purpose? The only things that have been done were made by gnome/etc teams, not ubuntu. Moreover, latest suggestions amaze me with their stupidity: they need GUI for everything, despite the fact most of these things better doing through CLI, they want ubuntu works on all laptops/netbooks, etc.
Or make a premoderation. It's really needed now.

If I want to check if my computer is running on battery or mains I have to put my mouse over the battery icon in the notification area. There should be a clear difference in the icon when it's running on the mains and when it's running on the battery.

This is a great idea, isn't it!?
So, start paying attention to this bug that IS important, and not "medium-important", as some admin put!!

Also, this bug have a lot of duplicates

Seriously, I can't believe that this annoying bug won't be fixed. 18 days have passed since Ubuntu 8.10 was released, and nothing was done. Ok, you can configure everything in /etc/networks/interfaces, but where is the "user-friendly" on that?

Somebody gave importance "Medium". Medium? This is internet configuration! Configure a PPPoE connection and choice to connect automatically every boot: it won't!
Internet connection is important, you know!!

And nobody is going to fix that... maybe Ubuntu 9.04 also comes with this damn bug.
I can't believe that. If it was little bug with Ekiga, with Gimp, no problem, but with Internet and Network Configuration, THIS is a BIG problem!!!

:(

I know compiz has a magnifier where it will magnify a certain portion of the screen. This is how windows does it, but this only magnifies it so much. Instead I propose that we implement it the way OS X has done it. So when you down down control and use the wheel on the mouse or the up/down arrow keys you can then zoom in and out. That allows you to zoom in as much as you want so that no matter how bad your vision is, you'll be able to read and see what is on the screen.

I know it's only one vote up amongst many, so it doesn't really matter, but do we really need to give idea submitters the ability to vote up their own ideas?

It's only a little niggle, so if more pressing concerns are bearing down on Brainstorm's development right now it can wait. But it would be nice for someone to fix the voting system, so that the voting buttons are inactivated when a submitter is looking at their own ideas. It will make things a little more impartial.

(They might already be inactivated but not greyed out, I don't know as I've never been dishonest enough to try them :D )

Correction: Title should read "Stop displaying 'Overall Quality of User's Ideas'. End the pecking order."

I think that showing each contributor's vote tally and imposing a ranking on that basis is counter-productive to a healthy brainstorming session. For sure, competition can inspire people but it also inspires attempts at gaming of the voting system and results in a proliferation of idea-piggybacking duplicates.

I'm not saying it should never have been this way, and no doubt it helped get things cooking when the forum started out. However we've reached critical mass already, with many more ideas per day than could possibly be implemented. Disputes and dissatisfaction over the allocation of duplicate votes can be reduced by removing the incentive, while also relieving some of the auditing burden for moderators.

If we need a metric, perhaps a better one would be "average number of votes per idea", i.e. quality over quantity. However that may simply encourage a wave of populist ideas. I propose that the contributor ranking be removed entirely. [By all means retain the lists of everyone's ideas and votes so that those who like to add up their net worth may still do so.] :)



PS: Absolutely no disrespect intended to Eldmannen or any of the other high achievers under the current points regime.

Ubuntu has once again disappointed its users with the same old theme that it always had. Most users are forced to go to gnome look and find a good theme to install for themselves.

Ubuntu has promised a new theme for both 8.04 and 8.10, but has failed to deliver. Yet there is no lack of resources for it to do this. There are many ubuntu users who can create themes, not to mention the non ubuntu users as well. But the obscurity of the theme selection process prevents much from happening.

Ubuntu needs to implement an infrastructure where people can submit themes, that can be then voted upon similar to brainstorm or gnome look. In order to make this a fair process, giving the users of ubuntu a chance to have their say, the top 20, say, are chosen as the "semi-finalists" after that, people who have more of a say, such as Marc Shuttleworth, can choose the best out of those. This way, ubuntu will have a theme that can actually compete against Mac OS X and soon Windows 7.

Also, by implementing a new, modern theme, ubuntu can regain the credibility it has lost by not carrying out its promises. There can be no more delay - we need a new theme by 9.04 Jaunty!

See this article - which motivated me to post this:
http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/11/12/how-ubuntu-lost-its-credibility-and-th e-road-to-regaining-it/

NOTE: I think ubuntu is a great distro, but theme reform is necessary. - Also, if you vote down, please comment.

Sometimes I get an AMAZING background that just does not have the colors I want sometimes. I expect it would be pretty easy to have something where someone can do a hue and saturation shift of the image when selecting it in the appearance options.

I could of course just modify the image in The GIMP, but... yeah.

[ignore this idea]

If you use the "Leave Message" button on a locked screen, the person will see a libnotify pop-up containing that text when they log back in. But it's not like an instant message or an e-mail with a username attached; it could be from anyone.

People leaving a message don't realize how it will appear when it's received, though, and won't think to sign it.

There should be a one-line field at the bottom for "From:" to encourage the person to type in a name. If they do, the pop-up will indicate who left the note, as well.

Here are some mock-ups.

...change settings and add OS's that it dosn't detect. Instead of complicated codes ect. why not include a graphical interface? Whatever a code can do, the graphical interface can do as well. Advanced users can use codes if they want. It would make it more easier for newbie's.

The idea:
Link http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com on more places!

I found out about this site on a non-official Swedish Ubuntu forum in the development section.. It ain't even linked in the official English Idea pool forum!

Make it more known to the people!

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's very annoying the Ubuntu boot hanging all the time when showing 'unable to enumerate usb device on port X'. The Ubuntu boot should allow us to have it completelly booted, and providing tools for checking up what were going on more easily, instead of forcing the shutting down, and damaging our hardware...

i create new thing (Work, Relax) but i can change it easilly because i must always click to applet and change it, please add configureable shortcuts (e.g. WIN+W = Work)