Contributor _sebastian_

When you play 'corrupted' videos in vlc, it just skips the frames it can't read. Totem on the other hand stops entirely and throws an errormessage at you. This is annoying. I'd like to see this kind of immunity in totem...

I have two batteries for my laptop. The original one with very low capacity and a new one with good capacity.
When I swap the batteries, Ubuntu doesn't notice the difference and predicts the wrong "time remaining", because it thinks the old battery is still in there.

There sould be seperate predictions for different batteries.
(by capacity, serial number or producer)

there are some ideas like http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4901/ that are, as you can see here, already implemented - to make http links work automatically in Brainstorm.

But it would be also useful to have the keywords "Idea #XXXXX" interpreted as a link:
Then I could write just "Idea #10660" or "idea 10660"
and it would automatically appear as "Idea #10660"
without the <a href="...">foo</a> tags.

Same could be done with "bug #XXXX"
I like cross - linking.

http://launchpad.net and http://bugs.kde.org does this fine.

Currently, Evolution can only be minimized to taskbar. But it would be sufficiently better if it could be minimized into a tray icon which could be used as a notifier and more.

Pidgin Version 2.4.3 has been released 2008-07-01, the repositories still host 2.4.1. The current version fixes a serious problem that prevents ICQ from connecting since 2008-06-30.

I bet a lot of users are off-line right now, it is urgent to fix this as soon as possible.

at System > Preferences > Power Management

on tabs "On AC Power" and "On Battery Power"

add on option to "Run Application" when laptop lid is closed (and when it's opened).

For example, I'd like to send a STOP signal to Firefox when the laptop lid is closed, to reduce power use, then send a CONT signal when the lid is opened, all while keeping SSH and chat sessions alive and active.

We need to change the default screensaver. The problem with the current screensaver is that the first time you meet it is when the screen suddenly turns black during the installation. That is very confusing for most users, as the first thought always is that the installation has crashed.

I suggest a screensaver that helps brand Ubuntu, like for example the "Floating Ubuntu" screensaver. It could also be a textbased screensaver that could run on older machines witch doesn't support 3D.

In my opinion this is a security problem. I can think of two scenarios:
* You are able/allowed to connet to a secured network and trust all other participants on that network. Now, by mistake, the encryption is disabled by the AP administrator. You still send confidential data over the network without knowing that everybody can evesdropping.
* Maybe this problem is also usable for an active attack: Is it possible to provide an access point with the same ssid / (MAC?) in a way, that it 'shadows' the proper access point? (sending with more power, sending on a different channel?)

Once a connection was established to a encrypted network, there should at least a warning if that encryption no longer exists (changed?).

Early, when first computers arrive, it be equipped with monochrome text display, green or gray symbols on black background. The big advantages is it was eye-friendly (because no extra light energy put to the eye) and no matter of refresh rate (again saving your eyes).
Nowadays, when GUI is most-displayed environment, at Microsoft's hand (or no?) the white background brings to standard de-facto. The reason was "the documents in MSWord looks same as on paper, WYSIWYG or so). But no one worry about people's eyes.
Super-bright displays also burn out our eyes.
The solution is turn back to black background, and using white only when preview docs before printing.
Many years I try to set this color sheme on both Windows and then Ubuntu. But always were elements which out-of-control of colors, when programmers use 'black' color instead of 'current scheme symbol's color.
Another example out-of-control items is baloon tooltips in Ubuntu, address & search lines in Firefox, and many more.
A great advantage is 'invert' function of Compiz. It fixes all! But photos looks terrible...
I suggest that developers of Ubuntu must include at least one TESTED dark scheme in distro.
Thanks a lot!

(I added) Important note: 'dark' theme is not gray, but almost black. Absolutely need that *every* letter of text must be more bright than it's background. Including input boxes on web pages, balloon messages, comments displayed when mouse stay on picture.

Sometimes I'm working in a directory, moving files around or whatnot, and I want to open a file in that directory from some application. For instance, I might want to import a text file into a spreadsheet. Or alternatively I want to save a new file to that location.

What typically happens is that I have to navigate from my home dir to whatever dir I am already looking at in nautilus. It would be very convenient if all the current directory locations for all the open nautilus windows would come up in the directory shortcuts.

This would work well for directories that you are working in temporarily - you don't really want to add them to your permanent shortcuts, but otherwise you might have to do the directory navigation thing several times.

Have a tutorial obviously available from the command line that hits the highlights of things that you might want to do, especially as a new user. This is for the situation where a new user, familiar only with the GUI, ends up on the command line perhaps because something went wrong. I'd like to see something that users would stumble into, maybe something that comes up if you enter a few invalid commands. You shouldn't have to 'just know' some command to get this option.

The current 'help' command is not a tutorial, and is not very friendly. When you type help from the command line, many of the commands scroll off the top of the screen. Nor are man pages a tutorial - help and man are both references for people who already can get around a bit on the command line.

For instance, if you plug in a USB device that is malfunctioning or not detected correctly, errors will be generated in the System Log, but nothing at all will happen in GNOME. Things like this should generate friendly graphical error balloons so that people at least recognize that something's gone wrong, instead of just thinking the device was not even recognized.

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.

During a system installation, if you preserve your home directory, the system should detect there is already existing users in there and offer to create those users automatically through the usual method that it normally does if the user doesn't exist in the system yet.

This would make moving/restoring a home directory from one system to another so useful then. Even better would be that you can import a /home directory from another system and then be offered to import the users that are in that home directory. This way if you're moving from one system to another, it would make it so easy. It would be very mac like if you ask me.

On my Inspiron 1520 laptop, when the Ubuntu splash screen is present and the OS is loading, I can use the fn-keys to adjust the screen's brightness. However once the login window appears, these keys no longer control brightness until I'm fully logged in to my system. Similarly, I can't adjust the system volume until I've logged in, which can be disruptive if I am in a library and need to log in, and I don't have any way of muting the volume short of logging into a failsafe (silent) terminal session to mute from command line.

I would love it if you could just use your laptop's fn keys to adjust brightness and volume from the login window.

I just remembered once I clicked it and I didn't happen to have a mouse around - although you could use your keys to re-enable it, my mom would have a cow if she did this.

Oh, and she uses Ubuntu quite awesomely actually :D

Maybe this is a Gnome thing, but it should ask if I really want to do this, or disable it's ability to disable unless a mouse is plugged, and once a mouse is unplugged re enable (another idea).

Since there may be several file systems mounted at the same time, the name of the volume is confusing.

Example:

I look at idea 2 and see that it is a dup of idea 1. I then have to go back to idea 1 to report 2 a dup to 1.

Instead it would be nice if you from idea 2 could say "this is a dup of 1"

Even better, make it possible from both ways and select the oldest idea as the "main" idea automatic.

As it is now it's really STRANGE.

Very similar to the way editing an idea's title suggests other ideas that might be similar, when you edit the tags for an idea, the field should (ajax like idea titles would be very nice here) suggest other tags that already exist that are similar. That way you don't have 50 ideas grouped by the tag 'Foo' and another grouped by the tag 'foo' when they are all clearly related and should be finding each other.

I don't know if tagging is case-sensitive (IMHO it shouldn't be), but the same issue occurs with tags that are not just capitalized differently, but are maybe spelled incorrectly (though that's harder to suggest for), or just slightly different.

Let me just add that I love the new tagging system. Kudos!

I often stumble across ideas which I like, but could be improved. Sometimes I might have suggestions as to how these ideas could be improved.

My idea is that, above the description, each idea should be shown as the centre of a true brainstorm. When someone views the idea, they would have the option to create a 'sub idea' or 'idea tweak' which would appear as clouds attached to the original idea. Users could promote or demote these 'tweaks' although the ‘tweaks’ would not appear along with regular ideas.

For example, if you thought that this idea was good but thought that it could be improved by perhaps adding the ability to give 'sub ideas' 'sub sub ideas', you would attach that to the centre of the brainstorm that would be shown above this description. Others could promote or demote this 'sub idea' and read more about it if they clicked on it.

An idea isn't 'tweaked' as such, merely the tweak is suggested. It would be ultimately up to the developer whether the tweaks would be included. The developer would of course be able to see which tweaks are more popular, just like they can see which ideas are more popular.

Tweaks (or 'sub ideas') don't at all change the idea; they are just possible ways in which the idea could be improved. So they should not affect a voter’s decision for voting for the main idea, as the tweaks may not affect the final result. They can always demote tweaks if they don't like them.

So, if you like an idea, you vote for the idea. If you don't like the suggested tweaks, you demote them. Or promote the ones you do like. The idea would not get split, as there could be several different tweaks. There could be two different tweaks which are both very popular, although I think that it would be very unlikely for these to be conflicting, so both could be included.

The aim of this is to improve the usefulness of the already very useful Ubuntu Brainstorm by turning it from just a list of ideas to a site where ideas are thought up, improved and tweaked before they go on to be properly developed.

Multiple tags are entered by separating them by spaces. There is no way to enter a tag that has more than one word.

If you enter a phrase in quotes, eg. "open source" the tagging system will add 2 tags, open and source.

Allowing users to enter a short phrase in quotes would be useful. Existing length constraints will prevent people from going crazy with this.