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Better OOo GUI  
Written by Primož Papič the 27 Oct 08 at 22:30. Related project: OpenOffice.org Word Processor. Not an idea
OOo has some really cool features like navigator (F5)
and some others (even I don't know all of them...).
It would be really nice if GUI would be made better so this features would be easy to find and use.
I saw some "remastering" of OOo (like Oxygen Office) so I guess it's not that hard to do this if your a programmer (I'm not).
It would be nice that OOo would be more user friendly
(and if possible a bit more easy on the system resources...)

What do you think? Comments please.
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Comment by Dragonbite:
IBM is providing Symphony in beta for Ubuntu. Symphony is based on OpenOffice.org but the interface is much, much better!

Screenshots available here:
Word Processor: http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/product_ss_wpe

Presentation : http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/product_ss_pe

Spreadsheet : http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/product_ss_sse
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I think that Symphony or something similar is the way to go.
Maybe you could make it a default Office suite, or it could be used to make a very own Ubuntu version of OOo.

[....]
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #14900
Written by Primož Papič the 27 Oct 08 at 22:30.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #14900 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

See the 4 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 7 Apr 12 at 18:06) >>

Close nautilus window when resource is no longer available  
Written by amrhassan the 23 Oct 08 at 22:26. Related project: Nautilus. Implemented
Whenever i eject a dvd, a thumbdrive or disconnect a bluetooth phone or delete a directory that was opened in nautiuls, that nautilus window reverts to the $HOME directory.

Why?

That window should be destroyed instead. nothing is so special about my home directory to make me wanna go there whenever i finish using a removable device or delete a folder.
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Selected solution (#2): Ejecting or umounting disks should trigger a corresponding close window event
Written by Living-FOSS-iL the 19 May 09 at 07:45.
Nautilus is already aware of disks that are unmounted or ejected. Why not extended its range of actions to closing the window of the unavailable disk.
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Selected solution (#3): Close "tab" instead.
Written by Ssdg the 19 May 09 at 15:46.
If you use tabs to browse your media, if the window closes, you loose all tabs. so juste close one tab and if it's the last one close the window.

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Selected solution (#4): Solution #3: Visually or sonically signify disk removal
Written by mitkaese the 22 May 09 at 00:58.
I'm not sure auto-closing windows on the user is the best idea. I can imagine times when when the user needs to know what was just removed, e.g. to compare with those on another drive.

It seems a much more robust solution to visually/sonically signify that the drive is no longer mounted, perhaps by graying out the window or adding an "[Ejected]" to the title bar.

Additionally, the Ubuntu's system notification could let the user know the drive has been removed and *ask* if the correspondent windows should be closed.
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Selected solution (#5): Corollary to #4
Written by Clorox the 23 May 09 at 01:25.
#4 is a great idea, but if the user is asked whether the window should be closed, then there should be a "do not ask again" option.
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Selected solution (#6): Use the new notification system to report
Written by LiraNuna the 23 May 09 at 06:56.
Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) have a new marvelous notification system. Use it to report that the media is now safe to remove.
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Selected solution (#7): Change the location of the window/tab
Written by Kver the 25 May 09 at 00:40.
Instead of closing the tab, move the current location to either the /media folder, or the parent folder of the mount point.

See the 16 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 8 Oct 11 at 18:17) >>

totem: in fullscreen only show controls when i reach for edge of screen  
Written by amrhassan the 3 Jul 08 at 08:06. Related project: Totem Movie Player. Not an idea
don't show the controls in fullscreen whenever i touch the mouse, only show them when i reach for the edge of the screen (top or bottom)
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #10647
Written by amrhassan the 3 Jul 08 at 08:06.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #10647 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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Disable automatically putting the monitor to sleep while playing a movie in tote  
Written by amrhassan the 23 Jun 08 at 01:21. Related project: Totem Movie Player. Implemented
it's exactly like http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5873/ only i'm talking about putting the monitor to sleep..
182
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Selected solution (#1): Auto-generated solution of idea #10190
Written by amrhassan the 23 Jun 08 at 01:21.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #10190 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

See the 8 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 26 Jul 11 at 19:03) >>

Eye of GNOME: a double click on a picture should activate full screen  
Written by helios91940 the 15 May 08 at 22:48. Global category: Multimedia. Implemented
According to a Gnome developer this option will be available in the new version of Eye Of Gnome thanks to a plugin.
88
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Selected solution (#1): Auto-generated solution of idea #8646
Written by helios91940 the 15 May 08 at 22:48.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #8646 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

See the 5 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 22 Jul 11 at 15:21) >>

Smaller controls for GTK/GNOME  
Written by amrhassan the 13 Dec 08 at 08:55. Global category: Look and Feel. New
The thing that's bothering me the most about how gnome/gtk looks like is the HUGE controls taking up a lot of space in my screen.

I think for gnome/gtk's look to be more efficient and professional it should take it down a notch, smaller buttons, dropdown boxes and input boxes (entry). Believe me, it would look a lot more attractive.
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Solution #1: Smaller gtk controls
Written by amrhassan the 13 Dec 08 at 08:55.
provide smaller more efficient controls for gnome.

See the 23 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 22 Mar 11 at 03:38) >>

There's no unified way of reporting progress in Ubuntu  
Written by amrhassan the 7 Mar 09 at 23:30. Global category: Look and Feel. New
Filesystem operations (copying, moving, deleting files and directories, etc...), importing music into a media player and so on should be displayed in a unified way all throughout the desktop environment.
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Solution #1: Work progress reporting into the new notify-osd
Written by amrhassan the 7 Mar 09 at 23:30.
Like in this mockup:


Progress reporting can be done in a notify-osd bubble and have it always-shown along with the other maximum of two notification bubbles. This progress bubble can have other operations concatenated to it while it's on, so we don't have to need more than one extra bubble for all the progress reporting.
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Solution #2: use the file-transfer's style
Written by yzarc the 8 Mar 09 at 23:16.
use the file-transfer's style. as it's already done by the nautilus on the file transfers, make possible to other programs to report its progress (and some controls) on this panel too.

in this case the icon should be replaced for a more generic one rather than the nautilus'. if possible a composed icon that indicates the global progress by a small pie or bar chart.

use notify-osd just to alert when one task is done.
I believe the look and feel of the nautilus progress panel will be improved to match the notify-osd level soon.

mockups below:

icon state
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on mouse over state
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windowed state. (after one mouse click)
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edited: I found fair to point the image from where I took the main part of my mockup - http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/May-B?content=45837
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Solution #7: A mix of #1 and #2
Written by Joshua Hesketh the 16 Apr 09 at 14:01.
Similar to how notifications disappear into the task bar, actions (or progresses) could disappear (/fly) into a process queue (rather than a message queue). This way a nice notify-osd message can come up when you commence copying a file (in a very un-obstructing way) and then it is still accessible through the detailed list. You could even have the action fly out to notify-osd upon completion.
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Solution #8: Don't stop transfers when window is closed
Written by Clorox the 23 Jun 09 at 03:45.
Sometimes large file transfers are necessary. While a transfer is taking place, I close out of the Nautilus window because I want to browse the internet while I wait. Oops, the file transfer stopped, and my files are broken!

This could be prevented by Solution #2 running as a daemon.

See the 23 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 28 Jul 10 at 15:18) >>

Nautilus a Command Line  
Written by schneegestoeber the 21 Nov 08 at 18:26. Related project: brainstorm.ubuntu.com. In development
Often I use the command line to handle files and directories and sometimes I use Nautilus. A combination of the two would be fantastic (at least for me).
Why not give Nautilus a little built-in terminal window (with a show/hide button) that follows the file browser as we navigate the directory tree and that reflects the commands we apply? And vice versa: If I type, e.g. ,

ls *.pdf

the GUI shows me all the pdf files (and the terminal does as well, of course). In principle this could be some combination of gnome terminal and Nautilus (and other graphicel tools).
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Selected solution (#1): Auto-generated solution of idea #15831
Written by schneegestoeber the 21 Nov 08 at 18:26.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #15831 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!
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Selected solution (#2): Build the same functionality into the graphical UI
Written by Endolith the 30 Jan 09 at 16:51.
Why not create a graphical way to do all the same things?

If you want to filter the display or select all files of a certain type by using wildcards, there should be a quick graphical way to do it.

Similarly, instead of using grep, why not just allow Nautilus to search the contents of files and provide a list of matches in the list view?

Instead of typing arcane, undiscoverable command line switches (-r), we should have advanced search abilities with checkboxes for each option ([] Recursive).

Command lines are for programming, not for user interaction. Interfaces should be intuitive and discoverable.
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Selected solution (#3): Nautilus Terminal (plugin)
Written by FLOZz the 8 Sep 10 at 01:29.
I am working on a plugin that provides an embedded terminal for nautilus.

Screenshot:
http://software.flogisoft.com/nautilus-terminal/img/screenshot_nautilus.png

Project page on Launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/nautilus-terminal

:)

See the 16 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 27 Jan 10 at 22:53) >>

Nautilus isn't optimal  
Written by petitprince the 9 Feb 09 at 13:04. Related project: Gnome. New
Nautilus and other open source file manager aren't optimal. So I propose a new optimal file manager.
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Solution #1: an optimal file manager
Written by petitprince the 9 Feb 09 at 13:04.
Please read my presentation about an optimal file management:
http://manguonmo.blogspot.com/2009/02/idea-of-new-file-manager-for-gnome-30.htm l

That's an idea for Gnome 3.0
Thanks

Update: I posted another presentation for somebody who couldn't read the first.
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Solution #2: Add virtual file system to save documents
Written by Lachu the 9 Feb 09 at 21:10.
GNOME is only file manager. It don't must be very optimal. Not. It must be optimal to do most popular tasks.

User can achieve many thinks by organize he's document. We can have This Task Documents folder for any program. All programs see different content inside. All documents are really stored in Documents(or all documents). We can go to oowriter documents by ~/Documents/oowrite-doc .

See the 10 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 11 May 09 at 16:17) >>

Notification area icons are not accissible from keyboard  
Written by amrhassan the 23 Feb 09 at 14:13. Related project: Gnome. New
Notification area icons that are responsible for showing and hiding applications like pidgin, deluge, gwibber, etc... are not accessible via the keyboard. I have to scroll over there with a pointing device to interact with that icon.
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Solution #1: A global shourtcut + a number to interact with an icon
Written by amrhassan the 23 Feb 09 at 14:13.
A global shortcut like Ctrl+Alt or Ctrl+Shift plus a number assigned to each icon. Whenever I click that shortcut (Ctrl+Alt) little numbers appear on each notification area icon, like in this mockup

and when I press that number on my keyboard the icon becomes selected, I can left click it with the space bar or right click it with the context menu key on my keyboard.
The little numbers in boxes stay as long as I'm pressing down Ctrl+Alt and they go away when I release those keys.
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Solution #2: A keyboard shortcut to focus the notification area
Written by blazemore the 24 Feb 09 at 23:47.
Hitting this keyboard shortcut (maybe Tab while on the desktop) will put "marching ants" (elastic band) around the first notification icon. You can then go through them with right- or left-arrow, "left-click" with Enter, and "right-click" with Space.

See the 3 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 25 Feb 09 at 01:41) >>

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