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Hi!!!

You really should have a Spanish version of this... it could make more people participate, so they would be more open to submit new ideas in their own language ... it may feel more comfortable for us, who dont speak english, so good

Canonical should hire a legion of tens of thousands of Chinese programmers.
It will be very cheap, and Chinese people are very intelligent and hard workers. Always top A grade students, perfect score on all tests.

In China people work 20 hours a day for only like $2 dollar a day.
We can employ them for only 6-9 hours a day with a great salary of $5-10 dollar per day.

It will be a great deal for them, because they can work less and earn more.

It will be great for us, because we can hire tens of thousand Chinese programmers, a whole legion of them and increase the development rate by a factor of a thousand.

Incandescent light bulbs are obsolete and soon to be banned in many countries. We should change the light bulb in the ubuntu brainstorm logo to an energy-saving Compact Fluorescent light bulb. :)

Stability in one of the reasons why Linux can be better than other operating systems.
Lately, Ubuntu is becoming more unstable.
I think is great to have brand-new packages but being more patient everything would be more stable.
I don't mean as "stable" as, for instance, Debian stable but just a little bit.

Thanks

When a user currently boots into the 'recovery mode' from GRUB, they are presented with a command-line interface with complete root privileges and no introduction. This is just not user-friendly by any definition.

With the introduction of bullet-proof X in 8.04, it should be possible to launch some sort of gui no matter what, so how about creating a guided recovery app (in the style of 'ubiquity-only') that goes something like this:

Welcome to the Ubuntu Recovery Helper.
-If you booted into this mode because booting Ubuntu normally doesn't work, press continue.
-If you have booted into this mode by accident, you can reboot your computer and choose the option to load Ubuntu normally.
-If you are an advanced user and would like to go straight to the command-line, press Advanced.
[REBOOT] [ADVANCED] [CONTINUE]

If they press continue:
-If you know approximately what is wrong with your PC, select it below and press Continue.
-If you don't know what is wrong, press I Don't Know.
[]Graphics Card or Monitor
[]Hard Disk
[]Sound
[]etc.
[BACK] [I DON'T KNOW] [CONTINUE]

Selecting Graphics Card or Monitor would launch the X.org configuration utility, with the additional option to 'Autodetect any display hardware changes' (runs "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xorg-server" or whatever the exact code is). Selecting I Don't Know would launch the same prompt that the hardware database thingie uses, and when an error is reported would go to the appropriate item from the list above.

I'm not going to go through the entire thing, but I'm sure you get the idea. At the moment, Windows recovery mode is just an admin desktop, and Ubuntu is command-line. We're currently behind, but implementing something like this would put us years ahead. It would also make a great 'important feature' for 8.10 (like compiz-fusion was for 7.10).

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At the heard of ubuntu there is the linux kernel and I think its obvious why you should care about it. The kernel defines what hardware is supported, is a big influence in security, performance and stability of the operation system.

I wondered when I heard Canonical head 6 changes in 2.6.25 in comparison to an average of slightly over 6 changes *per hour* 24/7 the 2.6.25 kernel had.

Source:
At 23:00
http://youtube.com/watch?v=L2SED6sewRw

[edit]
Actually Greg got it wrong. Cononical got 6 changes in 2.6.26, not 6 changes in the last 5 years.

because it would mean useless.cant cast vote on those

I think really useful thing would be ability to auto login to desktop but with locked screen. In this way user don't have to wait for programs to start after entering password meanwhile keeping security relatively high.

I know it's not really the issue of CANNONICAL or ubuntu, but still.
I'm using kubuntu, but i save all of my files in doc, because
odt isn't supported everywhere, i listen music in wma format
(don't really know why not rather in mp3) because no mp3 palyer or anything like that supports ogg format. I have to write my seminar work in times new roman, because my faculty demands that all the documents to be written in this font.
The idea of free software is lost when the society demands that you use non-free formats...
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Edited: 13.5.2008:
I forgot to add idea hoe to promote that...
Well as you see I contemplated for a long time and this is what I came up:
As said in the comments sign on going or start a new on-line petition.
Lobby (with whole open source community) at your government to switch from proprietary software to open / free software.
I remember that i once read that Linux is national OS in Chine and some other countries.
Demand that your university adds TNR similar open font as their "demanded font".
And all of us that are citizens of European Union should lobby that EU demands from "mp3" producers to produce mp3 players with free formats support. Also we could even demand that computers shouldn't be sold with preinstalled OS
(usually Windows), so that user can choose to buy or self install OS that they prefer.
(I think the EU could do all of this, because it already made Microsoft to exclude media player from windows and also the whole office suite...)
Hope this gives some idea what you can do to promote free formats

Every 2 weeks you should write a blog entry about which ideas caught the eye of developers, which ones shouldn't be submitted anymore because its currently in work, which ones surprised developers as being as popular as they were, any trends you are spotting. Just generally give some feedback on the suggestions here. Otherwise you are in risk of people thinking this is a one way process with people never getting any feedback on what the developers make of their ideas.

The Gimp project has a site where people can propose new ideas for the next GIMP GUI, and after every 25 submissions the developers post a blog explaining what they made of the ideas. Even if its just a short list of what trends they spotted over the last few weeks it's always interesting to read and gives you a sense that your suggestions are actually being considered.

I think Brainstorm needs something similar.

It would be useful to have feedback from Ubuntu developers on the feasibility/status of the top ten 'most popular ideas ever'. Without this Ubuntu Brainstorm feels like you are putting your ideas into a blackhole.

Hardy has been released with Firefox 3, but many popular extensions are not yet compatible with Firefox 3. As the wide availability of extensions is a major selling point for Firefox, this is a significant regression from Gutsy. Providing Firefox 3 compatible versions of popular extensions would make the transition to Hardy much more pleasant.

For some reason [1] below does not mention the problem of toolbar addon buttons going missing in Firefox 3. In any case a work around for this is to instruct the user to manually add the button by right-clicking the toolbar and selecting Customize.

[1] http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Updating_extensions_for_Firefox_3
[2] http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Building_an_Extension

If I now click on a username, I only see his/her ideas( profile). It would be better if I saw also the number of votes down/up and a link to which ideas were voted up and down and which ideas he came up with and that he has voted for got implemented/are being worked on. Also if you're on the up- or downvoted page in the profile you should be able to see if someone also commented. Besides, I think comments should also be possible to be rated.
You should, on the main profile page also be able to see what ideas somone suggested to be merged, how many merges were approved/denied.
Also there should be an option to rate a user, to comment on the user's overall performance, to comment on specific things the user has done.

Apologies if this is similar to an idea already out there, but to first read 17 pages of ideas is really asked a bit too much.

Hi

The only reason I am still on Windows is that there is no native music player like foobar for linux especially Gnome UI. I know there is Amarok for KDE but I myself a huge fan of Gnome. Anyway I need this music player to be just like foobar without having to run it under wine. I know there is something called lamip which is basically foobar, however, it would be very nice if it could be in apt because it is very tedious right now to get it up and running.

If you know of any other plays which will let me navigate through a music cue file and that will play FLAC/AAC and support 24 bit depth of the output then please let me know about it. I want to hear about it. If something like this is allready in ubuntu I would love to hear your opinion.

Thank you