Ubuntu needs to go green. Powertop, Lesswatts and other tools have finally hit the Linux scene to pave the way for better power management. It needs to be said, "if you want your battery to last longest, or have your energy bill be the lowest, you better use Ubuntu Linux."

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Power management still isn't very effective in Linux and it still puts a lot of laptop users off Linux. While Linux has come on a long way thanks to the work of Intel with PowerTOP informing developers when their software breaks the idol state unnecessarily so they are doing their part as well as the kernel developers now we still have a long way to go to compete with Windows and I'm looking at ways for Ubuntu to do this.

One of the benefits of Linux is that is very easy to customise and a lot of its users love to tinker. Ubuntu should therefore use this to its advantage by allowing its power users to easily have access to the latest developments in Linux power efficiency. This would also be useful to Ubuntu as power users could submit results on what settings are most economical for specific hardware. This would give Ubuntu the chance to market itself on its power efficacy over other operating systems by it silently implementing these settings on the detected hardware setup for new users.

To give users these advantages Ubuntu should help more on Intels Lesswatts projects as these are Linux's best bet on beating windows power management. The problem is the solution to effective power management needs to simple enough that it works for a new user that wont even know its active but also very easy for power users to modify and test their own setups from one central tool.

http://www.lesswatts.org/

currently whenever i click on an item in Places (right or left), it opens it. sometimes i just want to unmount a drive or eject a disc.. i shouldn't have to add an applet to do that..

Nautilus's side pane has a Places like the Main Menu applet's Places menu, some icons in one are missing from the other.

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.

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)

some of us - like me - would find that very convenient..

keyboard arrows (right and left) should act as "next" and "previous" buttons on the toolbar.. scrolling a whole page with "up" and "down" keys is too annoying..

it's exactly like http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5873/ only i'm talking about putting the monitor to sleep..

First of all the "Take Screenshot" program is great and I'm still astonished that a similar program hasn't been integrated into Windows.

I would how ever like to see some more functions for it.

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.