Contributor arunsub

make the network icon in the panel to blink when receiving or sending packets.

Notice how every time you position gnome-terminal in the center of the screen or where ever you like and the next time you open it, you see it at the top left corner of your screen.

It is just repetitive to keep positioning the window during each use.

When watching DVD's or videos in Ubuntu. Its impossible to rewind video just a few moments.

Say you missed something in the video, or are wanting to re-read some subtitles. Currently users are unable to back track just a few seconds when when watching a video. When a user hits the "left-arrow" for examble, they are warped (rewinded) almost 1-2 minutes into the previous video content. Using the mouse to adjust the timeline is nearly impossible on longer videos.

Forward skip, and forward-seek (fast-forward) works, but there is no backward seek support.

I am proposing that the default media players in Ubuntu have the ability backward-seek, and to skip backward in small intervals when pressing the left-arrow key (the same as happens in Windows and Mac). In addition it would be nice if the user had the ability to adjust the sensativity of the fast-forward/rewind options in some sort of config file.

Greetings, I would like that more support to tuner cards of TV was included, example the card TV BOX USB with chipset: Trident 5600, I believe that this more is oriented to kernel of linux, but hope that the people of ubuntu can help with this.

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Saludos,

Me gustaría que se incluyera más soporte a tarjetas capturadoras de TV, ejemplo la tarjeta TV BOX USB con chipset: Trident 5600.
creo que esto es más orientado al kernel de linux, pero espero que la gente de ubuntu pueda ayudar con esto.

Hello,
in gdm or kdm I think make numlock on by default is a very good thing


thanks

Very often the firewall blocks some of my network communcation and it takes me hours to realise that. Some kind of popup or notification would help the user.

Each time I change my partitions, I have to do 'it' again. Yes, you know what I mean. Change /etc/fstab to point to the new partitions. Or suppose I insert a USB harddisk with more than one partition. I either have to mount those partitions myself, or edit, yes again, /etc/fstab. But then I reboot without the external drive attached.... "Kernel panic, filesystem not found". That happens automatically when you have a ext2/ext3 filesystem in /etc/fstab that doesn't exist.

Now, you might say "You don't often change your partitions, do you?" Yes, that's true. But think of a newbie. Installs Ubuntu, likes Ubuntu, says "Hey this Linux thing is wicked, lets try uhm... say Mandriva". Good, he installs Mandriva, but what happens? The partitions are messed up, Ubuntu won't boot anymore. In a very bad case, the previous Ubuntu /-partition had the same name as the /-partiton of the other Linux install, resulting in something very messy.

Now, this all can be avoided very easy. Like any problem, solving this problem requires eleminating the root of the problem. Yes. /etc/fstab. But how do we have to eleminate it? Simply removing it isn't an option, since that would result in a kernel panic. So, you say, "Well it's simply impossible to eleminate /etc/fstab". Think again. Mac OS X is a good example of a Unix system that doesn't require /etc/fstab. Even better: /etc/fstab contains a single line: "# This file is present for backwards compatibility. It may be removed all together from future versions." This can become reality for Ubuntu too. How, do you say? Very simple actually. Somewhere in the early boot process, mount -a gets called. As we all know, this will mount everything in /etc/fstab. So remove that. Next we need something to replace it. A daemon that cooperates with hal, udev, ... to check for new devices. Or even merge hal and udev with this daemon. The daemon -- lets call it "mountd" -- will check for any new filesystems. It checks if it can mount it, if it can, it will do so, at a predefined location, such as /media/devname where devname is something like hda1, sdb3, ... This directory will be created if it doesn't exist. It also has to check if a filesystem hasn't been just unmounted by the user, so it won't remount it again. This can be done by patching umount to log the devices it has unmounted.
But how about special mount-points? How about homedirectories? Well, that's solvable, too. In the root of each partition which has to get mounted on a special location, a text file called ".mountpoint" will be created which contains the path where to mount that partition, e.g. /home. Mountd will check for such a file once a partition is mounted, next it will unmount that partition, and remount it on the proper location.

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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."

At the moment it's possible to manage traditional wired and WiFi connections using Network Manager. To connect via a modem, a 3G/GPRS card, over bluetooth to a cell phone or via USB to another device requires that the user installs extra packages, and does a fair amount of configuration that isn't found in Network Manager.

A single unified tool should be provided which allows the user to connect to a network (or internet) via any supported method. It would also be useful to provide an extension to this tool to manage firewall rules and network connection sharing.

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