Contributor aliencam

My suggestion:

- Hide the information about duplicates for all ideas

UNTIL

- When enough users have submitted "this idea is a duplicate of X", make it a duplicate of that idea and show this.

This way, all users will help to mark ideas as duplicate.

Easy and effective!

This could be extended to resorting ideas into new categories and mark them as "already implemented".

I think that Ubuntu should ship with more BLING. Everything should be with a desktop cube when it is installed. People should not have to enable it or disable it. Also, it should ship more teen-ager frendlly. It should come with some cool games to go along with it.

A program like microsoft encarta will be more than greeatful for ubuntu sow what do you say


Sorry for my bad english

It's easy to understand that the author of each idea is voting UP for it, but many users just pulled down the counter and didn't even write why...

7.10: gives 'out of range' on my 1024x768 lcd screen
8.04: my linksys wireless is very, very slow

It's good te make inovations, but do not forget the basics of a distro.

What's the big blunder on 8.10? No color? No usb? No mouse?

there should be a shortcut to my documents on your windows drive on the ubuntu desktop or in the home folder. This could all be done through options on the live cd.

if people have spent a lot of time using windows they will have a lot of stuff in their my documents folder. people are not going to want to copy this across (or they cant due to space limitations)
so lets give them easy access to their old data with symlinks (which can of course be instantly deleted if the user wishes).

i would go futher and say symlink to their old my music folder either as a replacement for Music in ubuntu or probably (as ubuntu developers would prefer) inside the music folder (ie ~/Music/Windows Music or something). the same for pictures and videos .... or anything else that windows has now. Then when they open rhythmbox, the new music and the old music are both there, same in fspot. seamless migration.

[ i would preferable choose symlinking ~/Music itself etc. automatically to the windows equivalent, so that people can switch between windows and linux and have their files follow them. New files put in music folder in linux are easily available in windows. but that is just me ]

Perhaps someone can come up with a better idea.

the ubuntuforums thread show that people want one home folder, although the way attempted in the thread is the wrong way
check out the blueprint (not made by me)

A separate partition for /home has been proposed for a long time in the forums. It implies some risks, though, so based on disk size Ubiquity should estimate the amount of space that should be left for / or whether a separate partition should be made at all. Then...

-The first time an user installs Ubuntu, he is given the option to set a separate /home. This option is selected by default, with a size for each partition based on a sane guess:

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7958/firstinstallaro2.png

-Of course, he can just choose not to set a separate /home. This option will be selected by default if the results of the system test suggest that's the best thing to do.

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/6498/firstinstallbfs6.png

-Manual install is also possible. Selecting it greys out everything related to separate /home, since it's implied that the user doesn't want to be guided.

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7976/firstinstallcvc2.png

-If the user set a separate /home, the next time he installs Ubuntu a new option appears and is selected by default, prompting to use the existing /home partition. All other options are still available, though.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9034/secondinstalliq1.png

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Pidgin is a good program to chat on all protocols, but a webcam plugin is still missing.
The developers aren't decided to code webcam support, but having this in Pidgin is very needed.

Or why not code this plugin for emesene? But you can only use the MSN protocol at the moment!

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).

Ubuntu's bootloader is a stark black and white screen, filled with confusing options. It gives newbies a moment of indecision, as they try to figure out if they are supposed to choose something, and wonder why there are three or four Ubuntus listed. Then the timer finishes counting down (starting from 10), and the newb begins to feel like he's getting in over his head as his PC boots into Ubuntu.

Too much information up front, stark text-only display, painfully long countdown timer. What would be the alternative? Well, when a Fedora PC is booted up, the first thing the user sees is a graphical splash screen, and "Booting into Fedora (kernel version) in 4 seconds ... " The user can press a key to interrupt and select from kernel versions or alternative operating systems, or just let it boot into Fedora.

Can't we create our own attractive bootloader? Or, failing that, copy-and-paste Fedora's?