Be able to change the Ubuntu Icon next to 'Applications' in the top panel to provide a more customizable desktop for the user

If the Ubuntu installer detects Windows, it should copy Arial, Verdana and other standard Windows fonts into Ubuntu, because the user has the license to use them.

when posting a new idea...
each new post should require verification through use of a CAPACHA.

this should stop automated attacks, and at least slow stupid users hitting back and re-posting.

When you have a different web server than apache or lighthttpd, some packages that require a web server cannot be installed, because they depend on one of them. It would be nice if there were an empty package "other web server" to just tell the packaging system that a web server is already installed.

Hello Friends.

I am witting this post after a frustrating experience in recently in Ubuntu....

I wanted to download few heavy videos (like 250 MB) from Google video. for this i needed a download manager.

I could not use:

1. Firefox own Download Manager as i needed to pause and resume downloads, sometime even after closing Firefox or restarting Ubuntu.

2. DownThemAll for same reasons as above...

I downloaded Gwget from Ubuntu repos and installed flashgot extension in Firefox.

Now when i sent download link to Gwget via flashget, Gwget didn't process the link and showed error "Can't write file" while even the firefox download manager and DownThemAll, both were able to download the .mp4 file.

Story doesn't end here....

I started looking for other download manager.

Aria Download Manager : There were no buttons when i opened the program. I don't know why. But the same problem was there with Aria in Ubuntu Feisty as well.


wxDownloadFast : not available in Ubuntu repo.....Gutsy package not available, neither on getdeb.net, nor on its official website....feisty and edgy package are unstable when installed in Gutsy....though it was the only one which could start the download....

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Okay, so I was working on a paper that somebody in my group project for school had sent me through email. I assumed that when I saved it in ooWriter, it would save in the usual user space. NOT THE CASE. It was saved in temp. As soon as my computer was rebooted, all of my work was gone.

To prevent this from happening to others, it would be beneficial for recovery purposes to set a timestamp a week in the future (or some user defined time) to mark the time for the deletion of temporary files.

This could have been avoided, if when opening the file from Thunderbird, it would put a copy outside of temp, or when saving in ooWriter, it would have realized it was saving to the temp directory and given me a warning.

Still, for general recoverability purposes, a timestamp-based solution seems reasonable.

So the main suggestions I'd make out of this event:
-Get OpenOffice and other applications to generate warnings about saving in the temp directory.
-Give temp files a certain amount of time to be recovered.

How about allowing the community by "stock" in applications. Allow ubuntu core to stay free, while allow those interested in particular apps. Purchase certificates of ownership which allow the holders to vote on the direction of the development. They would also get first try to beta test. Giving those who care about the application a chance to go through a UAT process.

In my opinion this would:

Give Ubuntu applications to multiply under their own support and die due to the lack of support. Darwinism at its best.

It would ensure Ubuntu lives beyond Mr. Shuttleworth.

If I were to invest in Streamtuner, I would have a vested interest to make it popular ( I would have in effect paid for it.)

Again I am not suggesting that this model be applied to anything other than applications like word processors, media players and such.

...In the same area of the application which shows that information.

As Wikipedia, but with more control.

It is likely that the situation will occur that you vote an idea up or down, only to then take part in the discussion and change your mind about it. After all, there is bound to be someone with more expertise with a different view on the subject that you hadn't considered. Currently, you cannot see, remove or reverse your vote. I think you should be able to, on the basis that it would give a more accurate and up-to-date representation of user opinion.

The counter-argument to this would be that it could cause an element of uncertainty, but I do not feel that avoiding this should come at the expense of being able to change your mind.

Right now, setting download speeds in applications is a common necessity for working with a shared Internet connection. However, no two applications present that option the same way, and some don't present it at all! It is also an option that, when available, must be accessed very often.

I recently discovered a number of neat tools that fix this for me. One of them is called "wondershaper", which lets me change the downstream and upstream speed for a particular device, on the fly, for everything. The results are instant and quite satisfying.
There were other tools that could do the same idea for particular processes. It stood out to me that they all demanded to run the process themselves, but it doesn't seem like it would be impossible to selectively shape networking for a process once it is running.

One major benefit of the graphical user interface is that windows can be traced directly to processes. In this way, the user can select a window and have a program know exactly what process to kill / limit.

Granted, moving network speed limiting outwards sounds weird. How dare we pull control from the applications?
Actually, this is already being done for many other kinds of resource! That is what "nice" is all about, for example. The difference here is that this would be a "nice" control for resources outside of the local ones, which we may not necessarily see. That is what the window management stuff is all about, with reserving space that programs can draw to. We are not expecting the program to manage system resources for us; the program just has to go with the flow, and the operating system keeps it all organized as the end user would like.

How to implement it?
This would be an upstream type of thing. Somebody will have to persuade the GNOME people. I think, done right, this would be a positive adjustment for GNOME since it simplifies the user interface in the way we like, while adding functionality across the desktop. No longer must you hunt across menus to find out how to limit network resource usage in Download Tool X; it is always in the same place. Big, big plus for usability, and that's not even counting the benefit of easily controlling network usage for the forward-thinking applications that don't think to include the option!

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