Contributor blueglow

For those of you that are unaware of noise cancellation headphones, they are headphones that have a mic and listen to the noise around you and then alter the sound that comes out of the headphones. The result is great.

I would like to suggest that there be an option in Ubuntu to provide noise cancellation when there is a mic in the computer and someone is using headphones.

I propose a tab in System -> Preferences -> Sound The tab would have an input drop down menu and an output drop down menu. This is where you can specify your input/ output sources. To activate / deactivate noise cancellation it should be straight forward, maybe right click on the volume icon in the panel and click on noise cancellation.

Real world example... Jack is sitting on a plane and a baby is crying. Jack turns on noise cancellation and can no longer hear the crying.

I hope that this problem is resolved

The seperate screensaver applet will fit nice with in the appearance applet as it is a part of desktop appearance and "look & feel".

We all love Ubuntu, but most of us can not easily participate or just lack the time. So to give Canonical extra speed, I would love to invest 1 to 10 USD a month. With the power of millions of investing users, the money invested could give a push that we can not have today. What about adding 500 chinese or indian low cost developers to the mission? Ill pay. Especially if I could get some return on investment. And, switching users just got a new dimension - then it´s called sales - building up our collective product.
I don´t know if it has to be stocks in Cannonical. There are quite smart people out there that could find other ways I am sure.

One of my favourite features in Windows, compared to Ubuntu, is renaming files in Windows Explorer. In Windows, you click on a file, wait a bit so it doesn't register as a double-click (and thus, run the file) then click it again. Doing so allows you to rename the file.

In Nautilus (not sure about other File Managers), you have to right-click then go to Rename to rename a file. This is slow and cumbersome.

I really have no clue why the second day of the week is marked by default as the first.

Maybe Canonical is blindly following any ISO standard, regardless of how logical, rational, or sensible it is, but that is no excuse for doing something this silly.

Allow users to right-click a photo and left-click "Set as wallpaper" in Nautilus.

This can be implemented by installing 'nautilus-wallpaper'.

Please include this as a default.

At the beginning, sry my bad english...

My idea is that Ubuntu could/should be the first OS, that has a built-in national electronic ID-card (smart card with certificates for Authentication; Issuing digital signatures; Encryption; Electronic voting; Buying ID-tickets) support.

I know that at this moment, my country, Estonia, is few of which have ID-card with that kind of features but i belive that can change in pretty sort of time.

You can look more information about our ID-card project at http://www.id.ee/?lang=en .

There is even a local ubuntu based distribution called estobuntu, wich allready shows some hope. http://www.estobuntu.org/estobuntu-english

We want to log in securely to our online banking accounts, we want to log in to our (ubuntu) computers etc..

As a non technical novice, ideas are different than those posted by technical minds. Ideas for easy use by grandma are usually voted down by technical people, allow the novice to vote up or down based on their usage ability.

I looked high and low for a good IDE that can be used for application development in c/c++ (GTK/GTK++). The ones I use are "code::blocks" or "Anjuta", which are not rich in features.

Gedit is good for files and not for huge projects. Eclipse is huge and primarily meant for Java. Kdevelop is meant for KDE and not Gnome(which is the default WM in Ubuntu).

I really hope the editor would have the following features.

1) IDE should be able to display inheritance relations.
2) syntax helper.
3) a damn good GUI supported debugger. one that works with individual files and project. People should not be made to create a project to debug a single file.
3) support for various version control systems (cvs/svn/git)