Contributor _sebastian_

Currently, pictures are organized like this:
Pictures/2008/07/01
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.

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Network shares are becoming increasingly common for home users, and many laptop users routinely connect and disconnect to networks with shares.

Ubuntu should have an option to automatically mount designated shares when they are detected, and unmount them when they disappear. At present the system requires a sudo mount -a to go and check the /etc/fstab and mount any strays.

Users have already posted a script that does this in the forums.

Do the following

-Goto Clock Preferences
-Click Time Settings
-Click Time Zone

After doing that, you can select your region, but there is no mention of what GMT time each timezone is at. I would certainly like to have this feature, and do not want to have to look it up online everytime I want to calculate my time zone difference, or figure out what time zone someone or I am in(In GMT time).

Scenario:

User A lives in New York, USA.

User B lives in Germany(or some far away place).

User A has no connection to the internet at the moment, and wants to call his friend, User B. User A does not want to call at 1:00 in the morning, so he wants to quickly calculate the difference in time, using GMT-X:XX (ex. GMT-5:00). Used to being able to do this easily in Windows, he goes to the clock and then the timezone settings, only to find out it, silly enough, it isn't there. He then has to boot into Windows (bad) just to check the difference in time.

Brainstorm has a problem: good ideas are lost among a huge amount of messy noise, including thousands of duplicates. I have just proposed duplicates for 5 of the 10 first "Most popular today", and I am pretty sure I missed some of them. One can check with "Random ideas" as well, it's not only a problem with recent ideas. Among the ~12000 official ideas in Brainstorm, how many are duplicates?

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).

I had this idea a while ago. When updates are installed or the system is upgraded there are sometimes unwanted side-effects where the user's customised settings and config files no longer work in the newer system. The user is asked if they want to replace customised files or not at upgrade time, but this doesn't allow any testing.

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

When I upload photos I often have one small and one large version of the photo. To see which one was the small one I always need to go back in nautilus to see what the size of the files was.

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.

There is a growing number of spammers on brainstorm. I propose that for the first dozen ideas or comments that a user makes, that he is required to answer a captcha/re-captcha.

This will help prevent the use of bots to spam comments on thousands of ideas, whilst inconveniencing real users the least. We must reduce the possibility that people may use scripts to spam brainstorm with thousands of spam messages, before it happens! Nothing works better then an active defense.

The title bar in Brainstorm is not very descriptive, so please fix the "title" HTML tag.

E.g. for

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/latest_ideas/

it should include the words "Latest Ideas". (Currently it is just "Ubuntu brainstorm".)

Like <title>Latest Ideas - Ubuntu brainstorm</title>

So as you're scrolling through you can look up and remember what list it is.

Likewise for:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ideas_being_worked_upon/

etc.

This is a no brainer. Really.

I've been thinking... there is a lot of trouble with mp3, avi, wma, and all those multimedia formats. (I know legal issues) So, why not making EASIER and a smoother transition to free formats like Ogg. Ogg is actually BETTER than mp3.

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.

I often have to copy folders somewhere and many times need to see how big certain folders are. Can they fit on my usb-stick? Which folder had the large size foto's in it? Which folder causes the heave use of storage? and more questions can easily be answered by this..

This should obviously be an optional collum when having detailed view in Nautilus as well.

I now always have to right click and select properties which is quite annoying if you need to check many folders..

Progress bars are a nice idea, but they become pretty meaningless when they fill up, empty, fill up again, and so on since different tasks are running. Similarly, it is difficult to use a single progress bar to cover many tasks.

A nice progress bar implementation was used on the Amiga (and probably elsewhere) where there are two progress bars, one at the top for the current task and one underneath for the total task.

It would be nice to see a GTK/QT widget made which implements thi behaviour with a simple API and GNOME and KDE encouraging its use in applications where long-running, complex things are being done (like installing, for example).

open office content colour shouldn't follow colour theme.

I believe it's more natural for the officers application the white background since all them come from procedure made on real paper (in the most of the case it's white). But the office apps use the textbox colour for background and also for the letters, and it can give a bad aspect to default documents.

When I paste a file (e.g file.pdf) into a folder containing a file with the same name nautilus pops up this:

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A file named "file.pdf" already exists. Do you want to replace it?

The file already exists in "temp2". Replacing it will overwrite its contents.

Options are only "skip" and "replace"

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not very useful: there should be an option "rename" which renames the pasted file to file_1.pdf or file_DATE.pdf or something like that.


also: it does not say the sizes of the files and the date modified which makes it hard to say which file is newer.

Bye, cya

Allow signing for Personal Package Archives (PPA). APT does not use SSL, so there is no security. Someone could send your a modified package. I want to know if the package is really from this person I trust.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas

Originally, i was really against the idea of a dark theme, and maybe i'd still prefer it if Ubuntu would lighten up a little. I understand the organic theme completely, but please...this is an operating system. Anyways, all the dark themes i had seen really turned me off and even the best ones seemed to be loved by some and hated by others. If we're going to have a dark theme, lets have one that we can all agree on. When i saw the Intrepid alpha screenshot, like many others, i gagged a little.

How people interact with their computer is really essential to their satisfaction. This is why aside from features, the software's stability (minimizing annoying bugs), speed (clean code and making everything as efficient and responsive as possible), and interface (look and feel) are the three most important things that should be our focus and be kept at a high priority.
We should really work to increase usability: http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability

I have looked through all the artwork submissions for Intrepid, and of all of them, this is the one dark theme that i would actually like to use: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/Wall-light

I first saw it on this Digg submission: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Intrepid_Ibex_Mockup_Designs

Of course, i'm sure everyone will have input to make it even better. This isn't a final design, but vote for the concept so far!

P.S. Please Digg :) Thanks http://digg.com/linux_unix/Vote_for_a_beautiful_usable_Ubuntu

Although Ubuntu, Kubunutu, and Xubuntu all say what they are on their respective websites, there is no official explanation of the differences and comparison with screenshots. I just helped out another user who was confused about the difference and i remember being confused myself when i first tried out Ubuntu. Having a page like this could help out new users very much.

Ok so all of the other systems out there are now supporting Animated Desktops. Time for linux to support it. Icon animation as well as Images on the Desktop animated behind the Icons.

If I want to change a system sound, or a mail notification sound in Evolution I have to use a WAV file. While this is no great problem it would be nice if I could also use ogg files as many of the sounds on gnome-look.org are provided in ogg format. In order to use them I have to convert them to WAV with audacity.

To create a moving desktop background in Ubuntu (Like in Vista).

Often music files have incorrect or incomplete information about the artist or album which they are from.

This information(known as ID3) is listed in the file properties, but Ubuntu (or rather Nautilus) does not let us edit it. A separate software like Cowbell Music Organizer is required.

I think if the properties could be changed directly without any additional software, it would be much easier and enjoyable to organize music files.