Contributor blablum

I think this is something that can be done better. The vast majority of users need these as much as they need the restricted graphic drivers.

Currently, they are hidden deep within the reps. I suggest popping up a dialog field (or something similar) asking whether the restricted extras should be installed. This would facilitate the use for most of new ubunties. :)

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As for the OSSness of this: There's already the exactly same feature for graphic drivers. This is exactly the same problem. Yes, you are explicitly -encouraging-(not forcing) the users to install proprietary software, but there's no way around this. Consider this a temporary solution for the time being. Once again, same story as with the hardware drivers.

I think this is a very Ubuntu-ish matter. In my understanding, "Linux for human beings" suggests that you should be able to use it easily. Digging through the reps for one specific package is not -easily-. If you have a friend installing the system for you, no problem, however, this can be the sort of thing that will turn away a very large number of people. This would be a significant plus, especially for those who are switching for other distros, e.g. Mint, or proprietary OSes.

Lastly, we're in 2008, almost 2009, now; Multimedia content is everywhere. Watching videos and listening to music is an everyday thing now. There's definitely room for simplification of the said process.

The default image viewer in Ubuntu can be much more useful, if only one 'Edit' button add to it. I mean 'Edit with GIMP', but it can configurable. This also prevents users from un-associate image file types from this viewer. Thanks.

The "Update Manager" steals focus several time.

When I click the Reload button in update-manager, the "Downloading package information" progress dialog takes a few seconds to start, with the main window's widgets disabled. In this case, I switch to another application, and the download progress steals the window focus. If I switch again to another window, the "building dependency tree" progress dialog steals focus again.

** This idea is pretty similar to idea 5237 but still different. This one ask for a update-manager which does not steal focus while the other ask for the possibility to automatically install updates without showing any window.

Something buried in both KDE and GNOME zeros all X11 power management settings and screensaver settings, as available with xset. Some of these have a preferences pane, but most do not.

If there is no preference pane for them, then the GUI should not mess with the settings. (The defaults for these are both hardcoded in the X server and in the Xconfig file.)

If there is a preference pane for them, then it should READ
the existing live settings when it is opened, and preserve them if nothing is changed.

These are the settings. Only two of these settings (timeout and off) are currently available in the preference panes. All of these are zeroed by both KDE and GNOME by default.

Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
timeout: 300 cycle: 600
DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 400 Suspend: 500 Off: 600
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is Off

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.

Sometimes I like to resize a window all the way to one side of the screen but quite often it spills over the other workspaces. This can be confusing (when you switch workspaces it shows in the window switcher even thought only a tiny part of the window is in the current workspace) and I dont think there's any advantage to being able to do this. I believe resizing a window should be confined to current workspace.

Gimp is a great graphics editor we all know. Congratulations to all developpers!

My Idea:
- Adding a Selection for "Using Gimp in one Window"

IMPORTANT
- That should NOT be default, but an option, which doesn't go in trouble for users liking this multi window management with its advantages!

I guess that more than 20% of the gimp users where really happy for this important feature. I know that Gimpshop and other Plugins are available, but this couldn't be the end solution. Gimp should bring this "little" feature with it in future! Thanks!

You should be able to resize several icons at the same time in Ubuntu so you can more easily (and faster) get the same custom size on them.

I really like to see an option in calculator to switch to tape mode, like in this picture made with gimp:

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/8210/calcnewnn6.png

Improve Nautilus:
Give it the possibility to display list of files with multi columns, like a normal 'ls' would.

It is more usable when accessing a folder with many files inside.
This is reported in launchpad:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/12204

It's hard to catch the corners of the windows, in order to resize them.
Some gnome theme can also worsen this situation (when the borders are too thins).
For instance, in Fluxbox, when you are in the proximities of the corner, you can easily resize the window (you don't have to be exactly on that few pixels, but just near to them).
In Gnome you must be precisely in the position of the corner, and if you move the mouse of one micron, you lose the focus on the corner.

The tolerance around the corners, should be increased.

The same happens on the borders (left, right, top, bottom), but on the borders it's a bit easier, because you have to control direction only in one way, while on the corners you have to control your mouse movements up-down and left-right in conjunction.

Provide the ability to update the system just by right-clicking on the update icon->silent update (or anything) so that no window appears and the full process runs in background. (only for official and authenticated packages of course)

When I got error messagebox while incorrect mounting of a NTFS drive, I can't select its text content to later use.
All displayed text must be selectable & copyable.

This question is really unless for an installer. It`s about privacy. People switch from windows to linux because them hope that there is no phone home. Why should an operating system ask for the real name them are thinking.

There is no real need to brand the operating system with this information. The user can enter his name in programs he really want to itself.

i want my window list buttons as icons only

There is wizard on Evolution's first start, that forces users to enter all email details. There should be option to create basic account without email, because some people want to use just calendar and contact functionality.

When i open Add/Remove or Synaptic i cant see how big the file for download
is or how much it will take of my hard disks space after installation.It would be
very nice to see those information before starting to download/install some application cause there are people with slow internet(56/128 etc,i have 512 but thats not blazing fast either) and theres download limit(which is evil by it
self) and other obstacles that may prevent u from getting desired application.
I dont know if Adept has that or not so it would be good to add it to Adept as well if Adept doesnt have it,or any other package manager in *ubuntus.
(And for the record i searched for idea similar to this,i couldnt find it,if there is one please link to it in comments or to merge votes or whatever(yea i have tons of votes so it would be very important to merge them :) [joke])
*btw this is my first idea so if i did something wrong please tell me,i am always welcome for tips :D

Dell seems to be ignoring this in Ideastorm.
http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/62549/coreboot_formerly_LinuxBIOS_instead _of_proprietary_BIOS

Maybe Canonical could bring it up at their next meeting or something.

Benefits:
# 100% Free Software (GPL), no royalties, no license fees!
# Fast boot times (3 seconds from power-on to Linux console)
# Runs in 32-Bit protected mode almost from the start

Coreboot link:
http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot

Just right-click on the media, and click on "Rename Disk".

The Ubuntu team really needs to resolve Ubuntu's compatibility issues which seem to pop up in every other corner. For example my Intel v pro on board LAN finds it really hard to make friends with Ubuntu. This is really problematic as Ubuntu's actual foundation is the internet. I have also noticed compatibility issues with many sound cards. So I request the Ubuntu team to consider this issue and take it seriously for the sake of the Ubuntu community.....