Contributor brokencrystal

When the mouse pointer is activating a tooltip, the screensaver never comes on (and the monitor doesn't shutdown if you have it configured).

It happens a lot when my daughter is on the computer and doesn't pay attention to where the mouse is when she leaves.

There are two pieces of hardware that many many ubuntu users use: the external harddrive an the iPod.

If ubuntu had an easy to use GUI for updating an ipod - from music to video to artwork to whatever, it would make a lot of people happy.

This functionality is all available for the most part, someone just needs to make a clean and reliable GUI for it. In my experience gtkpod and rhythmbox just doesn't cut it. I have had permissions issues, and all sorts of other issues.

Ubuntu having great iPod support would be one more step to show the masses that windows is unnecessary to utilize peripherals.

Any advanced linux user could take this.

This should be already possible using command line commands. However, it`s only theoretically possible. Practically there is no entry in the wiki for that.

What I want is...

1) Encrypt your hole disk, including /home /swap /boot ... All! Using TrueCrypt.
(The harddisk could be also en external usb-harddisk!)
2) Install a mini linux on USB-Stick.
3) Place a keyfile on that USB-Stick.
4) Boot from that USB-Stick.
5) Use that keyfile and ask for a password to authenticate.
6) If the authentication is correct unlock the harddisk and decrypt and encrypt it on the fly (just like normal encryption).
7) Now boot the rest of Ubuntu from the (USB) harddisk.

This should be already hard enough. If you want even more challenge and it even more secure you could also store a keyfile on a smartcard. To enter pin and read that keyfile from that smartcard at stage 4) (booting form usb-stick) should be very hard.

I want an easy GUI for adding desktop widgets like wheather, cpu, notice, pictures, flowers, decorations, animals, chat, mail-alert, diary etc. to my desktop. :D

my laptop never leaves my house. therefore, when i install ubuntu, right away i set it up for autologin. however, once i setup my wireless passwords/keys, then ubuntu asks me for my default keyring password on every reboot. i don't want to be asked on every reboot to put the same password in every time. let me decide if i want my system to be that secure or not. i've searched the forums and no one has a good solution to stop ubuntu from asking me for a *default keyring* password on every reboot

I think this would be great for everybody, because OpenOffice 3.0 has A LOT of improvements that will help people that uses this kind of program constantly to migrate from MS Office to OpenOffice.
Support for MS Office 2007 documents and PDF editing are two good examples.

I know that Intrepid will be released in 15 days, but I think there aren't going to be a lot of crazy bugs to be fixed in "only" 15 days by developers if this program gets upgraded in Ubuntu repositories!

Think about that and let's do this now, instead of waiting more six months (Ubuntu 9.04) just to get this great program by default... you know, if more good programs comes by default, more the newbies and veterans will like!

Add ubuntu Tweak as default in the installation

http://ubuntu-tweak.com/

Ubuntu Tweak is an application designed to config Ubuntu easier for everyone.

It provided many usefull desktop and system options that the default desktop environment isn’t provided.

At present, It is only designed for Ubuntu GNOME Desktop, and often follows the newest Ubuntu distribution.

Features of Ubuntu Tweak

* View of Basic System Information(Distribution, Kernel, CPU, Memory, etc.)
* GNOME Session Control
* Auto Start Program Control
* Show/Hide and Change Splash screen
* Show/Hide desktop icons or Mounted Volumes
* Show/Hide/Rename Computer, Home, Trash icon or Network icon
* Tweak Metacity Window Manager’s Style and Behavior
* Compiz Fusion settings, Screen Edge Settings, Window Effects Settings, Menu Effect Settins
* GNOME Panel Settings
* Nautilus Settings
* Advanced Power Management Settings
* System Security Settings
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....

One of the biggest factors that attract PC users to Microsoft's Vista is the fact that it looks attractive and fresh. Integrating a Sidebar like that of Vista's would improve the over all look of Ubuntu, especially with the new theme in Hardy Heron. Furthermore, the Sidebar would also be useful as well as pretty, housing small applications or Widgets such as a clock, calculator, Pidgin Buddy Lists, e-mail checkers and other thing of that nature.

I think Ubuntu should have some sort of simple programming language (like BASIC on the old Apple IIs) so that people can write generic gui frontends to command line applications.

What I imagine is one or more simplistic templates, which non-expert Ubuntu users can customize to serve as a gui to various and diverse cli applications. Templates would have any number of input file selectors, to each of which could be assigned by the author a particular cli program. The template would also have check-boxes to which normal language could be written to correspond to command parameters (IE, more easily understandable than cli parameters like "-jumppad" "-toc" and "-T").

The template could be designed to include other common functions, like previewing or choosing a specific output location.

I have no idea how difficult this would be to implement, but if it could be done, I bet it would be exceedingly helpful to the community at large. Guis would pop up like mad if such a template/language could be made to work well.

Canonical should convince Adobe to make their products for Linux.
I came across few petitions on the Internet, but that obviously had no effect.

With the right vision and marketing plan to increase market share, maybe Canonical could convince Adobe to make the native Linux version of their software.

Right now, with 2% market share overall, it is not a lucrative niche for commercial (very expensive software).
On the other side, many windows users are reluctant to switch to Ubuntu Linux because they can not use Adobe products (among other windows applications).

Finding way to join the corporative interests and the customer needs and wishes is the key to success.

I've spent way too many hours on the Ubuntu forum figuring out what to do to install, configure, test and subsequently "try to" roll-back video card drivers.

It's a pain in the freaking neck!

Possible solutions:

- Integrate Envy (as Linux Mint does)
- Develop whole new Envy-like tool
- Add features to the Video Settings dialog, or
- Develop documentation (with visual diagrams) that explains what does what.

Am I alone?

If not, any other possible solutions?

Include support for the libmtp project that will allow media players such as the Creative Zen, Microsoft Zune, Dell DJ, iRiver, Insignia, Intel, Nokia, Palm, Phillips, Samsung, Sandisk, Sirius, Toshiba, and other media players that use the MTP protocol to work with Ubuntu.

http://libmtp.sourceforge.net/index.php

libmtp is an implementation of Microsoft's Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) in the form of a library suitable primarily for POSIX compliant operating systems. We implement MTP Basic, the stuff proposed for standardization.

libmtp was initially based on (forked from) the great libptp2 library by Mariusz Woloszyn but has since been moved over to follow Marcus Meissners and Hubert Figuere's libgphoto2 fork of libptp2 (or is libptp2 a fork of libgphoto?). The core implementation is identical to libgphoto2, there is just a different API adapted to portable media players.

It is of course licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

Nautilus does its job as a light file manager. However, as Gnome's default file manager, I think it could use a lot more love than what it is given. This could include:

- Tabbed browsing! Most browsers today support tabbed browsing, but still few file managers. This doesn't really make sense now does it?
- Better remote connection/sftp handling. The current one is AWFUL. Slow, sluggish, buggy. Take example on Konqueror!
- SVN integration has been waved at. I find it a cool idea, even if only as a plugin.
- Speaking of plugins... those also need some love. How many plugins are there for Nautilus? Most users don't even know Nautilus can be enhanced.
- File tooltips - once again, take example on Konqueror / Windows explorer.

Edit: A few more ideas around Brainstorm:
- Separation of files and folders
- Slider bar for zoom
- A better icon management
- The ability to explode folders

Those are just a handful of ideas. My main concern is Nautilus is being underdeveloped, and the solid alternative is only non-Gnome (Konqueror).


If you liked this idea, check out my other ideas.

Make gedit (the primary text editor in Ubuntu) be able to open any type of file.

When I try to open a binary file or a .png file or something, it whines and says;
* "gedit has not been able to detect the character coding.
Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file."

Well, I would like to be able to open a binary file.

Build a hardware detection system based on retrieved lspci and lsusb information and have pre-configured setup information or something similar that can be updated with normal Ubuntu updates. The correct driver can then be downloaded and configured based on this information. A repository full of pre-configured setup files could contain the information to correctly setup the hardware.

This would be much better than using a third party application, and it would make Ubuntu much easier to use as well as keeping it up to date when new hardware becomes available.


Example 1:

John, an Ubuntu developer, purchases a new video card. He discovers that it does not work in Ubuntu. He finds the driver he needs, gets it all configured, and now he submits his driver information and configuration for testing. After bug testing from the community and developers, it is added to a dedicated hardware configuration repository that is included in Ubuntu. Now when Lisa, an Ubuntu user, inserts this same card in her recently updated Ubuntu machine, it just works.


Example 2:

Sarah, a new Ubuntu user, purchases a TV tuner card. It doesn't work. Using a GUI based utility included in Ubuntu, she submits her hardware information and a brief description of the hardware with a few clicks of the mouse. Three weeks later, she updates her computer and her new hardware is automatically detected and configured thanks to Ubuntu's new hardware detect/submit tool and pre-configured hardware setup repository.

It's coming and will be on web sites in the future.

Ban those corporate asshats from Microsoft and Apple from visiting Brainstorm.
They are uncreative and come here to take our ideas.

Like in Vista, they were like: "Thanks to the ground-breaking and security revolutionizing work of Microsoft Research, we are proud to present to you User Account Control (UAC)!". They even patented it.
I am like what? We've had sudo for 28 years!

Then they're like "We offer you Microsoft Research latest innovation the Windows PowerShell, a scriptable command-line shell!"
And I am like, yeah we've had that too. We've had bourne shell since 1977!

Then they're like "Microsoft Research presents you our latest innovation; Server Core will let you administer Windows Server 2008 directly from the command-line instead of from the graphical user interface!".
Hello? We've had that since the 60's.

Calculator need more functionality particularly for conversions (weight, currency, distance, graphing etc..) Possibly even integrate with commercial calculators (TI-xx, Casio).

Windows 7 Calculator is going to include several new functions
and the Mac OS X Calc already includes these features.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqZkkqgSJ4A

Gimp, nice as it is, needs 16 bit support.

Google recently sent code upstream to Wine to make Photoshop CS and CS2 run on Linux. We don't need/want Photoshop in Linux, we need _proper_ _open_ software.

Yes, krita can do 16 bit, but it´s really not as polished as gimp. Yes, cinepaint can do 16 bit, but that interface is for the blind !!

Help the gimp team implement gegl !!

Hans Reiser is currently imprisoned, facing a murder trial. He was accused of the murder of his wife Nina Reiser, after she disappeared while cheating on him with Sean Sturgeon, a self-admitted serial killer.

Hire the "dream team" legal team, consisting of Alan Dershowitz, F. Lee Bailey, Robert Shapiro and Johnnie Cochran who defended O.J. Simpson in the murder case against his wife. O.J Simpson never spent a single day in prison.

This will allow Hans Reiser to continue the developement of the 'reiser4' file system. A revolutionary file system which is 10 to 15 times faster than its most serious competitor, the ext3 file system currently used in Ubuntu.