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Speed Up Ubuntu-Gnome boot time   forum
Written by Arioch the 28 Feb 08 at 15:26. Category: System. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
I guess everybody has experienced the rather long boot up times in Ubuntu (particularly with laptops). I know they are already working on it, but the change from feisty to gutsy was a pain in the ass in terms of boot up speed.
A default WinXP installation beats Ubuntu's boot up time by far!! That shouldn't be allowed fellas!!

I therefore propose to the development team (both Ubuntu and by extension Gnome)to work on the improvement of boot up times in Ubuntu systems.

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A beatiful goal for our OS  
Written by joe_dana the 16 Aug 08 at 18:52. Category: Hardware support. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
HI!.
First of all: apologize for my english.
I'm an user of Ubuntu since 6.10 and i'm very proud of have more than a year with ubuntu.
But i want to propose one interesting goal which could make the diference between UBUNTU and the resting OS.
My proposal is:
Let's try to build new versions of ubuntu making our OS consume less memory each new version is released.
Microsoft and MAC have a horrible mistake: each new version of their SO requires a lot of memory..let's make ubuntu get the opossite way (as much as posible)...with each new version get a lower profile of minium requirements.

I know that programmers and all the staff will call me idiot. But i really think that this should be one of the first goal to take on mind for the new version of ubuntu.

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Better integration with anti virus software like avast,clamav  
Written by dragoninsane the 22 Mar 08 at 14:36. Category: Security. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
it should be improved,i think avast should be supported
in repo,made aware to general public.Avast is most
popular av for linux,win.but Clamav is also good i dont
know which will be people's choice.clamav is good
but doesnt have best support also it doesnt have gui.
Include context menu for files/folders for virus scan.
scan with Clamav/avast wud be gr8.also clamav should be
available in repo.

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move the trash icon away from the edge of the screen by default  
Written by barbedsaber the 18 Apr 08 at 06:55. Category: Accessibility. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
every time I used to try and drag something to the trash, I would accidentally drag it to another workspace. It was driving me insane. I eventually decided to move my trash icon away from the right of the screen, so now it is on the other side of my workspace switcher. If a new user is skeptical, it might take one annoying thing to close their mind to change, so I propose we have what I did (which only took a few seconds) as the default setup.

what do YOU think?

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GDM Select in advance the next OS after reboot  
Written by freex the 12 Apr 08 at 11:19. Category: System. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
When you reboot your computer, open a popup (after you click "reboot") to select in advance the next OS (ubuntu, winXP, ...).

This is good only if you didn't set a boot/disk password ;-)

I remember that I used this option with my old mandrake/KDE distribution

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gnome-panel fuzzy clock   forum
Written by octopus.tentacles the 1 Apr 08 at 23:46. Category: System. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
KDE has had this feature for the longest time but Gnome has yet to have one!

There has been talks amongst a few users since 2006 at ubuntuforums about making one, but it seems none of us have any real programming skills to implement it.

So what I'm asking, and begging for, is someone to implement the vague awesomeness of fuzzy time into the clock on the gnome-panel.

Thanks!

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