http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com guidelines and check if your idea has been posted already! ]]> en-us Mon, 13-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC Mon, 13-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/40/
Some problematic hardware can be used with more or less work if helping information is available together with the hardware compatabillity data.

The hardware database can be found at http://hwdb.ubuntu.com/

From idea #47: The data should then be available in a format that is simple for users to browse on-line when considering new hardware.

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I know its a matter of a second click, and seems pretty trivial but I use the popularity tab a lot (every time I use Add/Remove applications) and if this is easy to change it would make me happy, so do it for me if anything!

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Every time the guest account logs out, its purged so next user who login is a clean fresh account.

Mac OS X has this;
* http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html#system

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As braaivleis points out, it doesn't have to actually pop up the balloon; it can be like the updates icon that appears, but only shows a balloon when you click on it.

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No attachments. ]]> Mon, 13-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/10477/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/11576/ The drive symbol on the desktop is a red SD card and not a HDD icon.

When I use the file open dialogue from within ...say gimp or OOo the card is listed but has a HDD symbol.

It would be nice to have the same SD card icon in the file-open dialogues in every GTK application.

Same applies to other flash card formats

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I would like to see a Remote Desktop/VNC solution with uses little bandwidth and works the same/in similar way in all ubuntu derivates

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Pictures/2008/07/05


Everyone organizes their large photo collections by full date because
1) this is how the pictures are taken (in events that typicaly fall on one date)
2) this is how typically other photo management programs group them (see Vista Photo Gallery, Picasa, etc.)
3) you need to be able to get at the folders from outside of the application. This is critical for backup/recovery, passing to friends, etc.
4) Having the folder marked as day only makes it not practical to add a description to the folder name

What I'm talking about is that on import, f-spot should by default create folders such
Pictures/2008-07-01
Pictures/2008-07-05
This is the best starting point, since 90% of the time, each album is separated by day. The date should be pulled in from exif data. I actually organize my albums by year, then date + description. For example,
Pictures/2008/2008-07-01 Birthday Party
Pictures/2008/2008-07-05 Camping
This should be configurable as everyone has their own preferences. Yes, even this format should be supported
Pictures/2008/07/01
Pictures/2008/07/05
but it should not be the default.

You should be able to edit the folder name from within F-Spot as well as from the file manager. F-Spot should be able to recognize the change and not loose any categorization for the affected photos.

Vista's Windows Photo Gallery does all this very well.

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No attachments. ]]> Mon, 13-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/11514/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/10938/ I think that could be like the Intel/AMD/NVIDIA/ATI/Winlogo sticker that comes with the laptop,
wear resistantt to rubbing and more profesional.
Maybe this stickers are more expensive, but wy put 4-6 sticker with 1 CD/DVD, i need only 1 all the time (maybe 2) and not for all the versions of the CD i request. Maybe a option in the shipping form if you want or no the stickers, because the second time I request a CD/DVD I don need more stickers because I already have it in my laptop.


Castellano:
que los stickers que vienen con el CD/DVD sean mas resistentes, porque el que pegue en mi laptop cerca del touch pad esta borrado. Yo creo que podrían ser como los de Intel/AMD/NVIDIA/ATI/Win que vienen con los laptos, más resistentes al roce y más profecionales.
quizás estos stickers son mas caros, pero para que mandar 4-6 stickers con cada CD/DVD, si yo necesito 1 todo el tiempo (a lo mas 2). Quizas una alternativa en el formulario de envío de CD's si quiero o no el sticker, porque la segunda vez que pida un cd no voy a necesitar el sticker, porque ya lo voy a tener pegado en mi laptop.


here is a good one made up here by a print shop employee (Thanks to jsereno): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=174194


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More problems come when you go to try to figure out how it should be split.
I propose #ubuntu and #ubuntu-x64 for a start, and all of you probably have better ideas. Put 'em here. Also, I'd like to know if others observe this to be as much of a problem as I do.

Ubuntu has the largest support community on earth, and as it continues to grow, it's going to need to adapt its community structure to that growth. The longer we wait, the more people in need of help we scare off.

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No attachments. ]]> Mon, 13-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/11497/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/10183/ PS(photoshop) is setting web standards great piece of work but gimp too can compete with it.some needed changes:
*****single window.
****compatibility with photoshop filters .8bf filters,more support
****better documentation
**better icons and UI redesign(although i just saw feature planned for gimp next version 2.6) still deserves attention of developers.
**better support for pre defined key in photoshop also can be used in gimp
key combinations(keyboard shortcuts like ctrl+alt etc)
i am huge fan of photo editing software and web design somehow...usability in some software breaks barriers of commercial and free software.



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Its about giving information, making easier things.
Example:

- When user tries to reproduce mp3 file:
offer 2 options, 1) convert to Ogg format and talk about advantages of this format, 2) download proprietary codecs

- Every media player should ask this to the user on first run and convert it too if needed.

This could be a solution with all the trouble with proprietary media files.

FEEL FREE TO SUGGEST ANY OTHER WAY TO GET TO THE SAME OBJECTIVE, USE FREE FORMATS.


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Examples :
- Add software 2.0 and not software 1.9
- Support acpi
- Speed Up boot time
- Better wi-fi support
- ...

In fact, these ideas are good ideas and everyone will vote for. But little ideas but good ideas are hidden because can't obtain same scores.

We can vote "for" or "against" an idea. We could clic on a "too logical" button and if "too logical" have a important score we hide this ideas. A visitor could watch all ideas, but by defaut done and "too logical" should be hides.

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Some people would say that it does not matter because bad or duplicated ideas are lost among tons of other uninteresting ideas, and that's a useless effort to track them and remove them from the server. They remind me people who sweep the dust under the carpet, where nobody can see it, because they are too lazy to remove it properly. I agree that the Brainstorm tool is not completely convenient to do that, but you don't need a powerful vacuum cleaner to remove the dust. The problem is that it is still possible to keep Brainstorm clean, but it will be much more difficult to do so with 100000 ideas.

Only few of us seem to report duplicates, and that may be the problem. I have proposed duplicates for ideas with > 40 positive votes, which means that at least 40 people voted without checking if the idea has been already proposed. We are more than enough to tag all duplicates among the 12000 ideas, but we are not rewarded as "duplicate hunters". Why not adding a counter for the number of sucessfully reported duplicates in the dashboard, as well as a ranking, similar to the idea vote ranking? The point is just to add up a funny feature that can create a positive feedback --taking care of other's duplicates will automatically make people more aware of their own duplicates.

(apart from that, some of my duplicate proposals have probably vanished while the duplicate was obvious to me. In the opposite, quite a few non-related ideas have been tagged as duplicates. I sometimes have the feeling that Brainstorm admins don't want to spend any extra time dealing with duplicate matters, and make many mistakes in sorting among duplicate proposals. In my opinion, even if they don't really care, we should, because ideas proposed here can be of benefit to the whole free software community, and not only to Ubuntu).

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For example, say that a user has changed the /etc/network/interfaces file to get their connection running, and has edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf to get a tablet working. After updates to the packages which contain/control these files are made the user can be asked if their setup is still working (through the update manager originally, then as occasional popups until all questions are answered). If not then a list of potential solutions can be given (using the new config file, comparing the changes between old and new, etc. maybe even downgrading to the old package version).

I made a rather crude mockup of what I mean here http://bp0.blogger.com/_6BhjMzysLTs/RhcwYV86WOI/AAAAAAAAAAk/Pits9qYzRVY/s1600-h/UpgradeIssuesMockup.png

Some tests could be done automatically, but some cleverness would have to be employed to make sure non-networked computers aren't being thought of as broken, etc.

PS: The blueprint isn't entirely for this, but I commented in the full specification

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If we have the file/image-size in the upload window I can see it immediately. This makes using it again a little bit more intuitive.

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