Contributor albertcardona

While both Evolution and Thunderbird are great applications, Thunderbird should become the default email client available on Ubuntu.

There's a very old application called Xmove which does not work well at all. What would be very helpful, is to be able to SSH into a box, (ssh -Y) and run a gui application directed to the local X server (via ssh -Y), but have the X application **detachable**!! The 'screen' command is limited to shell-based programs, but this would be for gui applications that draw to the remote X server via 'ssh -Y'.

So, if the ssh tunnel disconnected, or if I wanted to detach and pick it up again later, I could simply detach it as simply as one detaches a bash shell using 'screen', but for a gui application. The way ssh works now, if I lose that SSH connection, the gui-application dies with the SSH session.

Of course, VNC and NX (nomachine) provide this, but they're **whole desktop** solutions. If one works often with remote-gui applications (as I do) forcing the WHOLE DESKTOP to the client really kills my real desktop, and I cannot easily run both local and remote applications without some creative sizing of the remote-desktop.

The versatility of 'ssh -Y' allows for single-application mapping over remote connections, but there's no way to safely detach it, and allow it to continue to run and then re-attach to it at a later time.

Perhaps this is more of an ssh request than an Ubuntu-specific request (though it is discussed in some Ubuntu forums). Regardless, it's one I've been trying to do for some time.

Cheers!

If you navigate to a folder

eg. /media/pics

Then do a search it doesn't search for items in the folder and sub-directories below, but it is just using tracker's indexed files.

Which is ridiculous if not stupid. Even Windows XP search is not this useless.

Is there a way to separate these two functions (tracker & nautilus) , if I navigate to a folder and then do a search all I want is results with in the folder.

With this Tracker search you can't expect us to index our root folder.

Also if you search for a general term like you .jpg you will get a zillion results. While with the old search it was specific to a folder.

I don't know if many of the developers have worked in a non IT work environment.
Because in these environments the Project folder and filenames are often used to differentiate files, not the contents as most companies use templates.

It would also be silly to expect one to index the data from all the company's projects, as the number of files is so vast.

The old Nautilus (6.10) used to do this beautifully.

I have a Realistic Gigawear from Radio Shack that I love (I know, that's surprising ;)... ): it's comfortable, inexpensive, and allows changing the sound level right on the cord.

But when I use it with Ubuntu: Well, yes, it works when using Skype. And yes, the volume control on the cord adjusts the volume indicator on the desktop. But the actual sound level coming out of the headset speakers is stuck at maximum, regardless of the indicated sound level.

And if I use the headset with any program other than Skype, then Ubuntu doesn't recognize that it's even there.

I'm sure I could fix this somehow if I were a programmer, but...

It would be nice if the standard dictionary included with Ubuntu could be spruced up a bit. Here are some ideas:

* Keep a copy of the dictionary database on the computer, so that you can access it offline. As of right now, I can't look up a word if I'm out on the lawn typing. It could be updated when the computer has an internet connection. (Manually/Automatically?)
* Show results as you type. For example, if I typed "tre" in, I would get everything from 'treacherous' to 'trey' displayed in a list from which I could select the word I wanted. This would update as I continued typing.
* Have automatic hyperlinking from all the words in the definitions. If I look up "oxygen", and I don't know what a 'silicate' is, I should be able to double-click on that word and be taken to its definition (back and forward buttons would be useful here)
* Show the thesaurus by default.
* Have a more standard dictionary database. I'm not sure about licensing, but if we could access reference.com 's database, that would be great. Also, let the user select the databases they want to use.
* Tie in all other dictionaries (OpenOffice, Firefox) to one central database for spellchecking. Spellcheck should be a global feature, with every program using one database which would be editable through a GUI or the program you are using.
* Make an overall prettier GUI, but clean and simple. All I want is a search bar, a definition area, and maybe a menu or two where I can customize the above ideas.

DVD support is still not so easy to get, due to
content scrambling. Scripts like automatix provide
this relatively easily, but it could not hurt to have
a straightforward path to get DVD playback support.
Stick in a DVD, and it plays. DVD players could also become
simpler. I use xine or mplayer but it would be nice to have
the simplicity of the DVD player in OS X.

Better way to set monitor resolution and refresh rate. Majority of the new monitors are LCD type. User should be able to specify the native resolution and refresh rate during install.

Then Ubuntu/X must do WHATEVER it takes to stick to that resolution and refresh rate.

In case of multi-monitor setups, must be able to specify the configuration at time of installation.

Also, the login GUI must use same resolution as X. Why different resolutions?

Rant:
I have nVidia NVS440 card with Viewsonic VP2290b monitor. Video card must be set to 1920x1200 @13Hz or @41Hz refresh rate for each of it's four outputs. Desktop must be arranged in 2x2 matrix. Then monitor displays 3840x2400 @13Hz or @41Hz.

This worked very well in Ubuntu 6.06. Installed Ubuntu 7.04 and ended up with something like 800x480, even with nVidia binary drivers. Tweaked xorg.conf for weeks to get this to work. BulletProofX kept messing with my hand crafted xorg.conf file; which did work with 6.06. Eventually gave up and started using Windaz again :-( Will try again when frustration level has come down.

Metacity has many, many features but it does not have cool bling.
Things like preventing windows popping up when you are doing something else like putting in you password.
It does not loose windows like Compiz woobly shake of death.
It has better edge detection.
It does not blank windows like Compiz does sometimes.
It does not loose the color of an active window like Compiz.
And there should be constancy with keybinding and behavior.
It would be useful if somebody documented all the tweeks that Metacity has so it could be copied.

An Alarm to user remember about some important events.

Evolution have an alarm, but it is a big and fat program and many people don't like use it just to have a alarm.

I found these Alarm programs:
http://gnomefiles.org/app.php/Alarm+Clock
http://alarm-clock.54.pl/

Maybe other more simple Alarm can be included.

It would be great if Ubuntu (or other distributions as well) provide an easy to use remote desktop solution. While it's quite easy to connect to a remote X-Server (x over ssh or nx), it's rather hard to get also support for sound (from the remote desktop), printing (using your local printers on the remote desktop) and other things like "tray-icons" / "notification area" (have the Notification-Icons of remote applications in the local "notification area").

Update:
"x2go" looks pretty interesting: http://x2go.berlios.de/index-en.html
It uses the NX libs and they also provide a client for Windows. But I have not tested it (yet).

There is a wide community of online artists capable of creating brilliant, unique artwork.

heading: Get your artwork on 10 million desktops

Ubuntu, the world's most popular Linux distribution, needs a new theme. The winner will appear in the default desktop of Ubuntu 8.10.

We're looking for original wallpapers, that match Ubuntu's color palette. You entry should also include a suggested combination of application, icon, and window themes. These can be existing themes, or your own original works - you only need to submit a wallpaper to win.

Work must be CC licensed, and be openable in either Inkscape or Gimp (rest of criteria continues)

Submit your works to DeviantArt and include the words [Ubuntu810].


Good luck!

Better and easier support/installation of touchscreen drivers for Table PCs.

Code could possibly be shared/taken from other projects such as moblin, Ubuntu Mobile etc

I've got two monitors, and right now if I use the wallpaper settings in gnome it stretches the wallpaper across the two monitors. It does this even for the default ubuntu wallpaper. This can look really bad depending on the image. In order to get around this I had to get two wallpaper images and join them into one large one with the GIMP and set that as my wallpaper.

There should be a way in gnome to set a different wallpaper for each monitor.

==== Merged with ideas of a similar scope: Different wallpapers on different workspace ===

Many workspaces option in Linux allows you to separate your work, why not allow users to have different wallpapers on each workspace. This allows for easier identification of which workspace you are on.
When used with compiz-fusion you can rapidly switch between your workspaces and the different wallapaper will allow you to quickly recognise what desktop you are on.

Currently this is natively available in KDE but not in Gnome. In Gnome you can't even let Compiz take over the wallpaper control because Nautilus doesn't allow for transparent backgrounds.

Other solutions like Wallpapoz are slow and when switching between desktops it takes too long to switch WP.

Currently I can encrypt an ubuntu system during install, but if I did not I have to reinstall to get encryption. I would like a simple way to tell ubuntu to encrypt the system or a part of it, such as:

Swap
Home
Root
All

When i change some hardware pieces i need to configure them manually, ubuntu should recognize there has been a hardware change and configure it.

Enable Nautilus to use tabs.

Nautilus is Ubuntu's default file management software. There is no reason why you should need to open countless Nautilus windows to manage your files. It is time to bring tabs from your web browser to your file browser.

Change start page of Brainstorm to show latest ideas or something, else people will probably push for the already high-graded ideas and won't care of other newer ideas.

Maybe a page with random ideas?

And remove the grades if not specifically requested, since it will affect peoples voting.

Provide this warning with possibility to solve the problem.

When someone wants to unmount a volume and the mount point is used, he gets a message telling him that the volume can't be unmounted because an application uses it. The user has no idea which application is actually using it and can't remove the device.

I propose that the popup tells him which application(s) is(are) using the device and propose to terminate them (that list should be kept up to date when the app. dies).

Suspend and hibernate still seems to be a big issue based on forum posts. Really focus on fixing it, even with proprietary drivers.