Contributor belovedmonster

I think that there should be at least an option for a downloads folder by default where files would be downloaded by any apps

It's the worst player in all linux-dom, and it's the one that always comes default for all file formats, even file formats it doesn't support.

Recent Documents is not necessary, since Users can link their important documents to the desktop. It is overkill!

Some people do not have a dvd-writer and somehow I guess they will become obsolete since USB-storage devices ae enhaced.

Add Paint.NET to the software repositories.

Paint.NET is an free, open-source graphics editing software. It is licensed under the terms of the MIT License (which is OSI and FSF approved).

http://code.google.com/p/paint-mono/

It is written in .NET and ported to Mono, so it runs on Linux.
It would make Ubuntu have another good graphics editing application available, and provide an alternative to GIMP.
This could bring more graphics artists over to Linux, and help ease the transition to Ubuntu of people who have used Paint.NET on Windows.

When you're represented with a yes / no / cancel buttons in KDE, it's presented as:

Yes, no, cancel.

In windows these buttons are displayed in the same order as KDE.

In gnome, the placement is no, cancel, yes.

Now this is *quite* confusing for those who're used to diffrent placement, not to mention the times they'll press the wrong buttons by old habit. I suggest to offer a choice to the users of which placement they'd rather have.

Im all impress of what is Ubuntu 8.04 looks like in a Youtube video i saw!

Who else thinks Ubuntu 8.04 is looking great?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o01m7uLaoHg

Based on idea 5321, by Eldmannen (about removing yahoo).

We should remove ebay from the default installed searches, because:
- It reduces competition with other auction sites.
- Recently there was a uproar about changes in ebay which make in some case make it unfair. I agree!
- Ebay VERY heavily pushes Paypal, which is acknowledged by many to be very dodgy. A lot of people know someone who has been screwed by ebay. And here in aus, I had to upgrade my account because they had a bug which prevented me accessing my money (which is very unprofessional). The freenet Project owner was also screwed by ebay (and it demonstrated they don't research at all claims made against customers), and another friend of mine was charged 2x the amount he was supposed to be receiving because someone used a stolen credit card against him (so seems they profit from illegal credit cards).
- If ebay was a bank, they would have a 24/7 riot outside their building by customers who were screwed.
- Ebay doesn't exactly listen to feedback. If are a typical large company, where you have no way of providing feedback (if you scream at them over the phone, maybe they will let you speak to a manager). But they clearly dont care much (no forums).

Its to our advantage to promote competition within the auction sites. More competition means lower costs for us, and better payment methods. We should try to encourage the development of a world wide auction site that is more consumer/seller friendly, that actually promotes active feedback and improvement.

There is nothing stopping a patch being applied to the firefox code to prevent ebay being a default search engine (and it shouldn't be hard to do).

Canonical should build laptops and desktop computers, and sell them online (like Dell does). What do you think?

Currently, every idea is biased. Their description only says the positives. The only way to see the negatives currently are comments, which requires going into the link (takes time). But there are so many duped comments, it makes things hard..

Instead, each idea should have a list of cons and positives associated with it, so that all the pro's and negs are grouped together, are more succinct, you don't need to go through 10 comments which all say the same thing (if they are listed as a +, you wont bother submitting a second +), and allows people to make a better decision, without reading 30 comments of "good idea +1", or "my idea is similar too, vote for it (idea 1)".

Brainstorm is too biased at the moment, and so people are voting for things which are just downright stupid, had they known the facts.

An example is setting EXT4 to default filesystem. Lots of people vote +1 because they don't realise that EXT4 is not even stable yet. Had they been able to access the pros and cons without needing to go inside the link (ie, use ajax to show them), they are more likely to make an informed decision, and less likely to vote for ideas, which will end up being marked as closed because it does not technically make sense.

Comments should be just for simple discussion. We need a better way to organise the cons and +'s

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!! It not just flash problem. Web sites with a lot of graphics are problem too. Firefox on UBUNTU use so much ram and CPU all time. ( I have 2.4 celeron D and 1 GB ram). Fix that please!!!

Some ideas need to be generic, but some are so jokingly generic or obvious, it doesn't help developers at all. One example is the oldskool idea "Better hardware support".

Well, Everything in the hardware category is a dupe of that. It got over 1000 votes, yet it does not help developers at all, is obvious, and it cannot be fulfilled. "Better webcam support" is a tad more specific, at least people can mention exactly which webcams they are having issues with. Better would be to say "support UVB webcams out of the box".

Any comments in "Better hardware support" will be so broad, it wont help target specific hardware

There must be a way to stop this sillyness. Ideas marked as requiring more info or obvious should notify the author, and close the idea. Otherwise we end up with unattainable ideas, that get us nowhere, and dent future development.Mods should have the last say so the system wont be abused.


Otherwise next idea I post should be "Make ubuntu more user friendly". Yeah, that will get me to most popular ever. But it shouldn't!

There is a need for a dead easy website creation program.


Nowadays everyone has to have his or her own website, but only few people are willing to learn to code to get one. On the forums, people ask for a program to build websites without the need for a brain.

There should be a template driven website builder with the possibility to easily add a blog page, photo gallery, downloads page, contact forms, automatically build menu.... without having to know a single line of html, css, JavaScript or php.

It should have the basic features to build a website and only these basic features. There are other (great) alternatives for more advanced web designers, but this could be useful for them too 'cause it's so easy and fast to add stuff to the website.

The way I see it, people would be able to make templates and upload them to the project's site. There could be competitions for the templates included in the program itself,... but I'm thinking to far now.

As far as I know, Windows doesn't have this either. So this could be a huge advantage for Ubuntu and Linux in general.
I don't like comparing, but for OSX there's the popular Rapidweaver ( http://www.realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/ ) that does want I just described.

For the record, I do know that this isn't really an Ubuntu issue. But still... it's an idea, right?

Thanks for reading!

Thumbnails for videos currently show only a single frame. A random frame does not give a good preview of an entire movie.

Solution:
The video thumbnailer should take four snapshots at 0%, 25%, 50%, 75% into the video. Each snapshot should be shrinked to half of normal thumbnail size and the four snapshots merged into a single combined thumbnail image, one in each quadrant (not animated). This will give a much better overview of the video.

This should be *optional* and not the default, since many users would prefer speed.

The idea would require very little programming effort to implement as it is just repeating the existing procedure.

EDIT: When you demote; please explain *why* you think it would be a bad thing that people could have this option if they wanted.

I know this is probably going to be unpopular as hell, but what business does Ubuntu devs have putting betas of Firefox in Ubutu ISOs like Firefox 3 is the default in Hardy? I know Firefox 3 is faster and probably better than Firefox 2, but there are two huge reasons for keeping it out of Hardy until it's released. First Firefox 3 is still in beta phase, and no matter how well things are looking for the Linux versions things are not finished yet. Some things could and probably will change before it's release (now looking at late May/early June, past the Hardy ship date). Should we be giving users software that so clearly isn't finished yet as the default browser? Especially when so much of the addons are not updated to work with Firefox 3 yet?

Second is the fact that people should always have to opt into using beta software as an intentional act on their part. I realize Hardy is still in alpha phase so people using it are opting in, but they're opting into the OS, not the web browser.

These are just two big reasons why Firefox 2 should stay the default browser for Hardy and why no beta software should ever be the default for Ubuntu. Make betas available in Synaptic, but let the users make the choice to use it or not use it. And yes, I'm typing this is Firefox 3.0b5pre, but I made the decision to use it, just like everyone else should have that choice when they install/upgrade Ubuntu.

As well as have a category on the side panel where you can see ideas that are about to die.

This will give unpopular ideas a last chance to be seen before being removed altogether.

Putting the number at -10 makes it so that a slightly negative number won't hurt it and it has a chance to come back.

When ideas are at -7 they should be put on the "about to die" list and people can either save them from dying or push them on over the edge.

This is a great way for the community to get rid of spam posts too.

Ideas that are already below -10 at time of implementation should be artificially bumped up to -7 so they get a fair shake before taking the plunge into deletion.

Some ideas might be able to make better impressions if they are written better. Deleting them will free up others to re-submit the idea without being discouraged by a similar but poorly written post.

Dead ideas should be visible to the original poster, but invisible to others.

I'd like to see the Ubuntu devs take on a micro sized Ubuntu version. With each new release, Ubuntu is getting fatter and fatter, needing more and more ram to install, or to run the LiveCD. I think some practice trying to ram an entire OS into an ISO that is less than 100MB might be good for them. Maybe reverse this bloat trend they've got going.

And yes, I'm aware of Xubuntu. And I hate it.

I've noticed obvious duplicates for some ideas getting more votes then the original, just because the heading name was a bit more appealing.

To prevent this turning into digg, where you get digged based on the title, we should allow people to submit alternate idea names, which can be voted on (that can be approved by the originating author). This will allow us to optimise your heading names, so titles which don't make much sense, may make more afterwoods.

Its now evident that whilst people shouldn't be voting based on the titles, they are. We cant change people, but we can make idea titles all have a great impact, so the site is more to-the-point.

Yes, i know about songbird, i know about amarok, i know about gtk-pod, i know many people don't want DRM in Ubuntu. But if you have a perfectly working iTunes in Ubuntu you will draw more users. Put it in the partner repos, just like Parallels. You can always display a warning about DRM and propietary software when you choose to install it.

It would be easier to those who have MSN and Skype to have both in same app.
This point even only text chat would be nice.

Just use more HTML and (maybe) Ajax to build Ubuntu GUIs. It's simple and It would push Ubuntu one step ahead. Actually, It could turn Ubuntu on the most friendly OS.