Contributor Xan

Sometimes you have files in your trash that you cannot empty. (rights problem)

If a file ends in the user trash, this user must be able to empty it.

For example, If you copy files from a DVD, or a external HD, sometimes the file appear with a lock icon, you can delete it, but you can't empty the trash.



(sorry for my english)

Warn users if they try to use a weak password. In the style of google account creation.

I originally thought that this would be good for the users login password. However, possibly this could be implemented for all passwords system wide.

I created a new Guest account, then I stripped it of all user privileges.

Then I found out, that it could access all MY private data files in MY home directory.

Please fix it so that other users cannot read the home directories of other people. This is a breech of privacy.

I think that hiding files in ubuntu should be easiler and better. I'm suggesting a default folder in a users directory and places called 'Vault'.

The 'Vault' folder will be encryted, and the contents hidden and non-indexable by trackers.

For a user to add a file or folder to the 'Vault they simply right click the file or folder and select send to Vault or drag to Vault in their places menu. To retrieve a file the user would click on the place name and input their password.

The user should be stopped from using their login password as their Vault password.

From a coding / devoplement point of view and sure that the source code of true crypt could be useful for getting this feature into ubuntu.

EDIT: My idea isn't to use this instead of full drive encryption. Instead it's to make a great hidden files area that happends to offer a some encryption options. Somewhere to put the pictures from your stag do, or your home movie collection without installing a state of the art crypto program and learning how to use it.

EDIT EDIT: I've noticed a similar idea posted on Brainstorm which is implemented a lot better. Please vote for that one instead.

idea #5706: Integrated Folder/File Password Protection

For the paranoid amongst us, and those living in countries where they risk being arrested for speaking their mind, it would be wonderful to have straightforward, wizard-type setup of signing and encryption for email and other services.

Currently this process is not easy, and it is difficult to find good advice on secure ways of generating, sharing and using private and public keys. Advice could be given with a simple (+/- advanced ) series of dialogue boxes, allowing set up of evolution/thunderbird/other encryption, key generation and publication, perhaps in combination with Seahorse.

In particular, it is annoying when Evolution sends plain text passwords after account set up BEFORE you have a chance to tell it to use SSL.

(Other brainstorm ideas recommend Tor installation and Pidgin encryption - this idea applies mainly to email, but could include these, too, and things like SSH connections.)

At the moment the live CD allows you to manage the creation of partitions yourself before you install, or choose "everything in one partition". The alternate CD also has similar features, but also has the option of using LVM (Logical Volume Manager) to make post-install partition management easier, and MD (Multi-Disk) to do software RAID based installs.

These (LVM & MD) should be incorporated into the live installer (Ubiquity) and further there should be an easy option for having a separate root (/) and home (/home) partition on installation.

There are a few significant benefits to this, not least of which is the ability to easily reinstall the OS (or install a different derivative or even different distro) without losing the valuable data in /home.

Other benefits include resilience (from MD), easy partition resizing (from LVM), and better space management, making it so that a full /home partition does not affect the system as a whole (as / would not be full).

Ubuntu should develop it's own open source game development libraries. This could push for a unified way to develop games on Linux platforms. Fast ANSI C libs that don't act as an engine, but rather as a easy way to gain access to the systems hardware from languages like python,c++,java... Why should Windows attract all the game developers. If a standardized library is developed for Linux it would certainly make anyone Question the need to use Directx.

I think it would be really useful an application like this to manage the whole system don't you think? An all-in-one application to install software and configure your system. Things would be a little more simple for new users. For those who doesn't know this app, its the default configuration tool for OpenSuSE.

Having Tomcat 6 packaged for a distribution targeted at the enterprise would make it a whole lot more appealing.

If "dive into python" is included in help then why not throw
some more free programming books in?There are plenty of good ones.

Currently the Eclipse packages in Ubuntu lack heavily behind other distributions like lets say Fedora.
The packages in ubuntu are outdated and so are the eclipse language plugins like CDT or Pydev.

Properly supporting this top notch IDE should give new linux developers an easier start.

When you play a video game, you have the choice before starting :

- beginner
- confirmed
- expert

Some softs have a lot of functionnalities : all are not useful to everyone.
I think they should propose several GUI corresponding to different levels of difficulty.

For instance OOo should have a basic GUI for beginners that could look like Abiword or Google Docs.

We could imagine that at firt start, OOo asks if the user consider himself like a beginner or if he has some experience with that kind of software.
Then OOo would choose the good GUI.
Besides, an option in menu bar would allow to change the GUI.

Abiword http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/_media/abiword_90.jpg
Google Docs http://www.centernetworks.com/images/sites/googledocssc.png

Actually that is the feature that I'm missing more in Ubuntu. To be able to preview the content of the documents is very usefull for those who use OpenOffice.org.