Contributor blablum

New users of ubuntu often feel isolated and uncomfortable with ubuntu because they don't know their way around it. Such tasks as software installation and other areas are in dire need of brief introduction.

This should work as follows:

1-Boot the LiveCD

2-You are asked: "Choose your level:
A.Beginner B.Advanced"

3-If you choose "Advanced" you will proceed as usual.

4-If you choose "Beginner" a wizard opens and shows some valuable information like how software is installed in ubuntu and the like.

Simply, a control panel that include all application present in System menu.

Ubuntu currently doesn't upgrade the kernel, it just keeps adding newer and newer kernels to the system.

Currently, the list of kernels installed on a Ubuntu system grows over time. This takes up additional disk space and adds clutter to the boot loader.

Ideally, older kernels should be removed automatically.

Maybe leave current and current-1, but not _all_ of them...

Ubuntu should take full advantage of all available mouse buttons.
Integrate this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/146160

Many ideas posted here suggest that Ubuntu should look and|or feel like WindowsXP|Vista|OSX arguing that if so more Windows|OSX users would switch to Ubuntu. Often the suggested methods to achieve this are simplifying and|or even modifying Ubuntu in such a way that functionality, customization or adaptation get removed or limited. I don't think that this is the direction the Ubuntu development should follow. Because:

1. Creating a fool-proof system too often results in creating a systems for fools only. I personally think that Vista is the best example for this. By trying to make Vista more secure they made Vista more annoying. Starting to protect the system and the user's files from the user himself brought the system one step closer to foolproofness but also tends to be most irritating to the rest of us. Also by making everything as easy as possible alternatives, customization possibilities and adaptation are often eradicated.
2. By imitating Windows you most likely will attract Windows users. They will work with Ubuntu for a while then change back to Windows because you can't work on Ubuntu like on Windows and it also doesn't behave like Windows.

Windows and OSX might have some nice|useful features. And most of them are implemented into Gnome|KDE by now. So I think that we should stop with copying but start creating. Of course useful features should still be made available to Linux but the creation of new features should be more important. And by implementing new features, copied or created, functionality, customization and adaptation should never be limited. Also if it means that that particular feature might not be that "easy" to handle. e.g. providing a simpler GUI for apt is okay but replacing the package manager with a setup.exe like system would limit functionality.

Ubuntu should attract users with innovation, stability and possibility and not by providing "just an alternative". Constantly coping from Windows|OSX also demonstrates a certain inferiority. And Linux|Ubuntu are no more inferior. We slowly but surely caught up by now, so now we should start to overtake.

I don't want Ubuntu to be like Windows or OSX!
I want Windows and OSX to be like Ubuntu!

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As a laptop user, sometimes I want to listen to internet radio from across the room. At times like this, my screen doesn't need to be on, however my lid does need to be open because closing it would cover up the speakers.

Simply "locking the screen" in a situation like this, is useful as a security feature, but still leaves the backlighting on, which a) draws battery life or wastes AC power, and b) lessens the lifespan of the screen's backlighting lightbulbs.

I think there should be an easy way to turn the screen completely off for situations just like these. Optimally, when you right-click on the 'lock screen' GNOME panel applet, one of the options should be 'Power down screen'.

The commands:
xset s activate
xset dpms force off
and
sleep 1; gnome-screensaver-command --lock; sleep 10; xset s activate
might be helpful to accomplish this goal. Sleeping may be a useful feature in that we might want to discourage the rapid, repeated, or accidental turning off of the screen. I am not a technician, but I am guessing repeated turning the bulbs on and off in a strobelight fashion could be damaging to them.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to impliment this as an option for Power Management in general.

Android is the open source smartphone platform being developed that most handset manufacturers (including sony ericson, nokia , HTC and LG) have already stated they will support.

A team should be created to start investigating how we want Android smartphones to interact with ubuntu (before any handsets are released).

This will allow feature requests to start to be filed in appropriate places, and full integration to be added before the first mobiles are released.

Whilst OSX has the iphone, windows has Windows mobile, we would have excellent support for Android, which will be used on pretty much every phone in the future (and it even runs on slow ones apparently).

Lets get things ready in advance

Currently, there is no way for users or developers to select their default sudo command, because they all have different command names. For KDE, there is a command like: KDE-sudo. Not sure what gnome uses, but its probably another random command, and for terminal, its "sudo"

By creating a symlink from /bin/sudo-gui to the preferred sudo program (terminal or GUI), developers can easily take advantage of the preferred sudo program by running "sudo-gui". Otherwise its kinda brute force for developers. ie, Try KDE-sudo, if it fails try gnome-sudo, if it fails try bsudo, else, do via terminal based sudo. The user should be able to choose the sudo shell they want to use by default! Some gui based sudo's have security advantages over terminal based, or otherwise (ie, the gui ones may disable keyboard hooks and VNC whilst logging in so keyboard sniffers wont work, and you cant do that to the terminal sudo command or SSH becomes worthless for admins),

It just helps standardise commands for developers, and makes customisation easier for users. It may also provide future security advantages.



If this is already being done, please comment and let me know, and I'll mark this idea to be deleted. I've only used sudo from command line, none of the programs I have written have ever needed to escalate their privileges, so if this wont work, let me know too.

i want my window list buttons as icons only

Include Compiz Fusion Manager by default

I think ubuntu should look more like a big slice of cheese.
cheese makes me feel good and all thoses holes would be perfect for storing things like ... you know ... cheese.

I think that it would be great (and a lot more user friendly) to combine the "Add/Remove" program and Synaptic. It would default to the Add/Remove interface (for beginners) with synaptic under an "Advanced" tab. On the advanced tab there should be an option to make it the default tab to open on launch.

Kde's FolderView allows you to have files from different folders shown in your desktop, even allowing filtering. It seems rather usefull. Gnome should have something similar.

(I know it is a gnome suggestion, but I think it's good to post it here)

(Excuse me for my bad level in English)

It's a bit annoying to restart our computers after updates/upgrades and it decreases user's productivity.
It's the same way for servers.

I'm sure It will be a real good progress when Ubuntu and other distributions won't need any restart, without reconfigure kernel.

Maybe this sounds odd.

Panels can be hidden. But when it is hidden, their is still the hide-button left. Why not make it a little more attractive: Combine it with the cairo-clock. If the user wants to hide the panel, he pushes the hide-button and the panel converts into a clock. If the user then clicks the clock, the panel reappears. And please do not forget to make the hide-button a little more attractive (Transperency, icons instead of words, etc.).

SUMMARY
Change the procedure to type a ç on a US International Keyboard.

PROBLEM:
Most people who type non-English languages on a US International keyboard have to type "ç" (cédille/cedilla/cedilha) every now and then.

At this moment, they have to type Right Alt together with , (comma) to create a ç. There are 3 reasons why this lowers the usability of Ubuntu:

1) This is a atypical way to type a character with an accent. The rest of the international characters have another logic:

' (apostrophe) followed by a, e, i, o, u gives á, é, í, ó, ú
` (backward apostrophe) followed by a, e, i, o, u gives à, è, ì, ò, ù
^ (hat) followed by a, e, i, o, u gives â, ê, î, ô, û
" (double quotes) followed by a, e, i, o, u gives ä, ë, ï, ö, ü
~ (tilde) followed by n gives ñ (n-tilde)

2) typing two keys with one hand is annoying. It may increase the risk of RSI.

3) people who step over from Microsoft are used to typing ç in another way and spend a lot of time to find out how it works.

SOLUTION:
Use one of these two procedures to type a ç:
' (apostrophe) followed by c gives ç
, (comma) followed by c gives ç

This bug has been around for a while and hasn't been fixed. Any changes you make to System>Preferences>Sessions cannot be saved, even when you click save. It pretty much makes gnome-session-properties useless.

Changes only take effect if ~/.gnome2/sessions is changed in an editor.

Fix it, please.

There is an important feature that Aptitude that Adept Manager, Apt-get, and Synaptic Manager does not have.

Let's say you install a package, and it brings in 10 more packages.

Later you want to uninstall that package but when you go to uninstall that package, it doesn't install all the other 10 packages.

If you use:
sudo aptitude install
Then it will record all its dependencies.

Uninstall it using Aptitude, and it will remove those extra packages, UNLESS it is in use by another app.

This is great for trying to save memory space and making your computer faster.

So next time you go to look at packages needed to be installed in Synaptic, memorize the package name and use Aptitude.

The package management of Debian-based distributions is by far the best available; even better than Mac OS X. It's the best part about using Debian-based systems.

All the documentation still suggests people use apt-get to install things, and Synaptic and Add/Remove Programs, to my knowledge, are based on apt.

The good thing about apt is that whenever there's missing dependencies it's smart enough to download and install them itself. The bad part is that once you've installed something, if you choose to remove it you can still be left with programs or libraries that were installed as dependencies but are no longer required.

The reason aptitude is better is because it remembers what gets installed as a dependency, and if you go to remove a program and it has a dependency that aptitude knows is no longer required by any program installed on the system, it'll remove that dependency program also.

Because of that I think making Synaptic and Add/Remove Programs based on aptitude instead of apt would be an improvement.

On this website, we see ideas and implemented in other operating systems.

But if it propose ideas far more original?

Include Compiz, for example, was a very original idea, but I think that there is room for more revolutionary ideas. In this way, Linux could attract new users. Recall that Linux is installed in less than 1% of the computers, but its number of users is increasing, thanks to Ubuntu. (It must be acknowledged that Linux is widely used many Web servers and supercomputers) pity that some people have few excuses for not User ubuntu, however, and the excuses are scarce ... Very rare. And soon there will be no excuse to take Ubuntu.

(Forgive the mistakes of this text. Automatically This text was translated from Spanish to English by google)