Contributor blindvic

I've 2 distros installed on my laptop: Ubuntu Gutsy and Arch Linux! The feel with arch is that it's whippy. From the other side ubuntu is sluggish. Sure I know that my system is not so up to date (a 1.5 Ghz centrino 512 M Ram) but Arch work very well on it with the same services loaded as in ubuntu.

So I think Ubuntu can do something to improve performance.

Change start page of Brainstorm to show latest ideas or something, else people will probably push for the already high-graded ideas and won't care of other newer ideas.

Maybe a page with random ideas?

And remove the grades if not specifically requested, since it will affect peoples voting.

I mainly see this with Eclipse, but it also happens with OpenOffice. What happens is this: I'm in workspace A looking at my email. I decide to start Eclipse in workspace B. The Eclipse splash screen appears and I flip back to workspace A again, because eclipse takes a while to start. After a while the eclipse main window comes up on top of my email program, in workspace A. Then I have to drag it over to workspace B, where I wanted it to appear. I would prefer that it come up in the workspade where I started it.

OpenOffice has a similar result, but GIMP will actually pull you over to workspace B when it comes up. That's kind of cool, but behavior is inconsistent between GIMP and OpenOffice or Eclipse.

Summary:
Ability to download only changed bits of files and use much less bandwidth.
Scope and Use Cases:
Ann has slow internet connection. She sees that there are 150MB of updates and decides not to update at all leaving her with vulnerable and buggy system.
Implementation Plan:
Adopt it from Debian?

Previously discussed here, but still not implemented: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=409916

When an external NTFS hard disk is not cleanly unmounted because you unplugged it wildly on Windows, or because of a Windows crash, there is an error when you try to plug it on ubuntu, explaining what to do on the command line.

There should be an easy way to mount the volume anyway, by giving the choice to the user to mount it anyway, or not to mount it. A clear dialog box should do the trick.

Update__
Please add something like this (thanks to kliklik)

kliklik
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Here's a mockup I've done, based on the ideas from this thread and a couple of my own. Tell me what you think.

http://ultimate.co.yu/ubuntu/CopyQueue.png
http://ultimate.co.yu/ubuntu/CopyQueue_Expanded.png

The top progress bar shows the total progress, two buttons beside it pause/cancel the entire queue.

The cancel buttons may have confirmation they pause the queue/item, ask you if you're sure and than either stop or continue the process. For the brave crowd, they immidiately stop the process :)

Folder button opens the destination folder.

Only one process at a time unless forced to start.

Up/Down arrows reorder the items based on priority, the higher ones get processed first.

Clear button clears all the finished jobs.
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Drag&Drop is such a intuitive and simple action - it must be promoted.
There are many things that already work in Ubuntu/GNOME/KDE with Drag&Drop, but there is much that can be improved:

- DnD an image from Firefox to the Desktop should place that image there, not a textfile with the link to the homepage.
- DnD from the icon on the left side of the URL in the Firefox address bar to the desktop should create a .desktop file with a link to that URL.
- DnD of devices onto the Pastebin should unmount them (like OSX)
- DnD of a Desktop file into a mainmenu/submenu of GNOME should create a menu item.
- fix the Nautilus-in-list-view-doesn't-accept-DnD-files issue: Launchpad bug #61237
- DnD file from anywhere (e.g. Desktop) to a folder in the "file open" "file save" dialogs.
- DnD a file into an edit box should insert a file:// link - KDE has this; Idea #3027
from Idea #4105:
- DnD Attachement from Thunderbird to Nautilus
- DnD Files From File-Roller to Nautilus
- DnD Picture from Nautilus to OOo

...and many more, please submit your ideas, I'll put them into the description!


If you like this idea, also look at my other ideas

My computer has a single bad memory address in it.
I should be able to use my computer.

Currently I am forced to limit the amount of ram it is able access by a simple cut off. There is a better way:
http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/

I am not even requesting this be on by default. Just the patch/source included in the repos.

Currently we let people test that they have badram, let's give them the best solution we have.

Add DirectX 10.1 support for Wine.

This will make Linux a more attractive platform for gamers who currently use Windows but who wish to move to Linux.

Pause could be handy while moving bigger files.

Include Compiz Fusion Manager by default

It would be nice to be able to mark an idea for removal such as spam, or mark that a request is already implemented.

It would also be nice to prevent users from creating duplicate ideas. Yes, hard to implement but the way it works on digg.com is fairly good. If the system things your post is a duplicate it shows the other stories before letting you post the idea, so that you can verify that is in fact a new idea.

Currently, Compiz is pretty efficient. Lightweight in memory, kind of fast and smooth, really tunable to suit your personnal needs.

But in my opinion, it lacks 2 small things to really shine:
Firstly, an easy way to switch on/off anti aliasing, for old computers can't trigger this on, but on my desktop machine, anti aliasing is off, and the cube or window deformations are sometimes really strange.

Second point, stop the tearing effect. For the moment, a really nasty tearing effect appears when you move a window horizontally, it's even more flagrant with Wobbly windows enabled.

I think these two small improvements could really help Compiz Fusion to become a top notch window manager.

www.nonetdebs.homeip.net
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This website is to help people with Ubuntu but without an Internet connection on it or with a dial-up or low-bandwidth.

Here you can obtain a list of links of the packages you need to install or upgrade from a cybercafé, workplace, school, college, library, etc and from any operating system, including Windows.

With the list of the links you need or want on the browser, you can download them to an USB memory or burn them on a CD and then install them on your offline Ubuntu system.
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This is a cool thing!!! It should be easier to find for novices. So it should be placed on Ubuntu's website

If you are in 'file view' mode with the side bar disabled (the view I like best) you have to drop a file or directory on a empty space to copy or move it.
If your target directory contains a few hundred sub directories and the scroll bar appears, there is no empty space to drag to. So you have to use ctrl C, ctrl V instead. On old versions of Nautilus you could drag the file to the status bar or the top border but somewhere down the line this option was lost.
They are debating this problem on bugzilla since 2002 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101938 but nothing happens, maybe Ubuntu can be the first Gnome distribution to fix this problem.

There are absolutely no guidelines at the moment on what makes a good idea. And theres many reasons we need them!

- People keep saying that we are barking up the wrong tree with coding ideas, because "Canonical doesn't do coding" or "canonical shouldn't be inventing new standards".
- We need to know if you want new project ideas, or just enchancement ideas.
- What are you expecting us to write in an idea. You should present examples of ideas, and the format you want us to write them in. And example format may be:
Title: Clear and concise. Mention affected programs if any
Description: Summary/idea, what happens now in the program, benefits of implementation, disadvantages of implementation, etc.
- Without an example, what are you expecting? We need a few examples! So that we know the best ways of doing things
- Should we be targetting certain programs only, do you want us to suggest new protocols, or are they outside the scope of brainstorm? Do you want us to suggest new standards? Without a clear specification of what the ubuntu team actually does, and what they dont do, we cant optimise the process.
- Are ideas posted upstream?
-Help us, help you by explaining why some ideas are particularly good
- Its Software Engineering 101, we are expected to submit random ideas, but we don't know enough about the ubuntu development teams to submit the best choices
- Outline coders strengths in the team. If you have many coders who are good with image processing, let us know, we will place an emphasis on image processing ideas

One of the first things I noticed when I moved from Windows to Ubuntu was that changes I made in any Preferences window took place immediately. In Windows, changes are deferred until the user presses the "Apply" button. As a new user, I always worried about accidentally making an unintended change, and not being able to undo a long sequence of experimental changes I made while playing around.

Providing an Undo button that undoes that last change on the form would greatly reduce anxiety for new users and would encourage experimentation, which will in turn lead to quickly achieving a level of comfort with Ubuntu.

I realize that this will require changing many apps, so I suggest providing an Undo framework that allows developers to quickly drop in an Undo button to forms. Or maybe even make the undos GNOME's responsibility instead of the app's responsibility.

I would like to set suspend in my laptop before 11 minutes. 11 minutes is a lot of time and battery power is crucial for users who are on the go. And besides it helps save energy and make the system more green.

It would be nice to have an option to download a desired package along with it dependencies on packages.ubuntu.com (I mean using browser, not a package manager)

Sure, aptitude, synaptic or whaterever else is a better way to manage mackages, but with no internet connection this way could be faster.

Obviously choosing all dependencies without any filtering would cause to download a big part of dependency tree, so this option could accept some kind of list of packages which user already has installed on his system as input.

Here it is my idea: in "Add/Remove Applications" we can choose all available applications, all open source and so on. Why cannot we choose soft only for Gnome or only for KDE? If I choose Amarok in Ubuntu, I need to download KDE libraries. This is not suited for everybody.