http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com guidelines and check if your idea has been posted already! ]]> en-us Sun, 07-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC Sun, 07-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/10486/ All displayed text must be selectable & copyable.

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Links to the project:
https://launchpad.net/gui-ufw
http://gufw.tuxfamily.org/index.html



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It would be nice if a package of it was present in the repositories. It would be greater if it was automatically installed with the Qt4 libraries and KDE4.

Links:
* Home Page: http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2008/05/13/introducing-qgtkstyle/

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It should be noted that when the user changes the resolution to a smaller size (under 600px high) the resolution dialog is too big to fit on screen, and the user cannot click or see the "Accept", "Close" or any other buttons/information.

Providing a scrollbar would fix this.

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No attachments. ]]> Sun, 07-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9030/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9042/
So I propose to show volume labels (partition names) in the installer, to make it easier for users who install Ubuntu to know which partition they are installing on.

Screenshots:
* Before
* After

This will make it clearer and easier to install Ubuntu without any mistakes being done which might result in that a new user accidentally looses valuable data.

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please delete.

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]]> Sun, 07-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8042/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8420/ At the moment if you wan't to have samba shares to be mounted on boot you have to manualy modify the fstab.
This can be a frustrating and dangerous job.
What is needed is a simple tool with a GUI that allows a user to select the share or shares they want mounted click OK and fstab will be updated correctly and the share mounted.

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No attachments. ]]> Sun, 07-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8420/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8710/ Ubuntu must be eyecandy, pretty, beautiful, glossy. Sometimes human theme is not so, if we try other ones. For example, glossy theme works well.
My idea is beautiful by default.

n.b. Give attenction that this idea is in "marketing".

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Sometimes you don't know if a cable works or not, or the cable is damaged, or it accidentally gets pulled out.

There should be some visual indication that the network cable has been unplugged.

Please see illustration of concept:
* http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14520679/Network.png

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]]> Sun, 07-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8564/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8537/
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/OneSecondX

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]]> Sun, 07-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8537/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8885/
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No attachments. ]]> Sun, 07-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8885/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8881/
Instead of marking bugs as "not an idea" I propose that the brainstorm developers export all the "non ideas" which are marked as bugs to be exported as a CSV file and FTP'd over to the Ubuntu bug tracker. Once there, the bug tracking database should import the data and be listed as a bug.

Since brainstorm and all other ubuntu logins will be universal soon, this will integrate nicely.

I just think its a lost cause to mark stuff as not an idea, and then do nothing with it. All that data just going to waste, and then telling the user to post it to the bug database. It just isn't efficient, and it is causing bugs to go unreported. One of the biggest problems with Ubuntu (and the Linux community in general) is that bug reporting is not taken seriously when reported by an end user. Most of the time it is because the end user reports it to the wrong place. This is why Brainstorm should allow this feedback from end users to flow freely to the bug tracker. Because brainstorm is a much friendlier feedback loop for end users than bug databases are.

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No attachments. ]]> Sun, 07-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8881/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8867/ This makes GCC useless; its not even possible to compile a simple "Hello world" program.

Either have GCC not installed by default or have the 'build-essential' metapackage installed by default so that GCC works.

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No attachments. ]]> Sun, 07-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8867/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8282/
As such, I propose that this site use a real CAPTCHA such as reCAPTCHA. reCAPTCHA has the following advantages:

1) Audio for the blind. This is in the spirit of open source (accessibility)

2) Refresh option for when it cannot be read

3) Solved words will help translate books from paper to the computer so we can all have free digital libraries

4) It will be easy to implement (don't have to come up with your own solution)

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IDEA: it would be interesting put the next option in the "power preference": don't suspend the PC if i am downloading.

(sorry for my english)



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There are loads of Ideas e.g. on gnome-look.org about improving the panel and especially the menu. It looks like a lot of people don't like the situation right now.

It would be nice to have some discussion, how gnome-panel could be improved.

Please notice, this is not about changing the panel into a dock, but about extending its funktionallity and look and feel while keeping what we already have, and works well.

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No attachments. ]]> Sun, 07-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8112/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8234/
It would be better if ubuntu didn't allow multiple instances of the update manager and other apps where there is absolutely no need to have more than one window open. The same goes for add/remove and others...

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No attachments. ]]> Sun, 07-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8234/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8244/
Result - hours of work were lost :(

So my sugestion os to automatically save stuff that is written into Gedit, like it's already done on OpenOffice.



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No attachments. ]]> Sun, 07-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8244/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8258/
One of the major things that attracts people to Windows is the support Microsoft give developers - yes they charge extortionate amounts of money - but being able to do everything well, and simply, attracts developers, and helps them perpetuate bug #1.

Sun have made Java ubiquitous by making development a breeze with Java. Packaging is the single most irriating thing of developing for Linux. Particularly as there's lots of different package formats.

An easy package design system would be a firm, solid piece of the jigsaw in making Ubuntu the platform to develop for in the 21st century.

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