Contributor brownpr0

I have a Logitech Mx510 mouse.

It has a backwards and a forwards key on the side. In Windows these keys can be used to navigate backward and forward in the browser and file manager.

In Ubuntu these buttons are detected but have no effect in Firefox and Nautilus. Please make these buttons work by default in these applications.

I really like GNOME functionalities that allow me to begin again where i left before.

For instance, when i load a PDF file in Evince, start the reading, close Evince and reload the PDF file, the document shows the page where i stopped the reading and not the beginning of the document.
Same with OpenOffice documents, Tomboy...

But Totem, like Dory in Finding Nemo, doesn't remember what it was doing before !
Load a movie, watch one hour. Close Totem. Reload the movie in Totem and you will restart from the begining... too bad!

Totem should remember where the movie was interrupted when the same movie is reloaded

see also http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485651

It would be nice if include by adding a new tab for it.:
- temperature (cpu, hdd, chipsets),
- memory (with manufacture model?)
- graphics card (model, memory)
- chipsets (processor, cores, lan, wifi)
- ... others?

Ideas which are done (or work in progress) should have the voting arrows removed or replaced with a tick for done(or working symbol).

That makes it immediately obvious to people the idea is being actively worked on, or is going to be, at which point, voting no longer has any influence on the idea anymore anyway.

The status of projects isn't obvious enough, so doing this will make it more obvious, and make more sense overall.

For the 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" release we had a 'countdown'.
* http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/countdown

Users could link to an image/script that would countdown for every day that pass. Like "Ubuntu 7.10 - 93 days left".

And users could post it on their blogs, forums, websites, etc and it would generate a buzz and hype around the upcoming Ubuntu release and get people excited.

It was great. I propose we do the countdown again, now this time for the 8.04 "Hardy Heron" release.

I hate it when I have to do a lenghty update(such as when first installing Ubuntu)but being in a rush and not having enough time to wait for the PC to update in order to shut it down.

I suggest a "Shut down computer when update complete" option in Ubuntu Update Manager.

Sometimes it's unconfortable when you're searching some files (for example when compiling and installing a program) and when you are "inside" the folder in the file manager, you want to compile. You need the terminal.

So, you need to reach the folder and reach that folder typing all the way to do it, and it's very tedious when the program name is too long.

I suggest that in the menu (File menu) it would appear an item called "Open Terminal in this folder" or simply "Open terminal".

When I do an upgrade with Update Manager, many packages get removed from my system, but the configuration files remain. I remember having an issue with Compiz Fusion when I upgraded to Gutsy because the old Beryl configuration files were left by Update Manager. What I would like to see is an option in the preferences of Update Manager and Add/Remove Programs to automatically purge a package instead of merely removing it.

Fonts in OpenOffice are horrendously rendered and look thin and 'scratchy' (Times New Roman in Writer being a good example) and additionally there is no sub-pixel anti-aliasing even when the rest of my desktop is using it.

Some horizontal strokes such as on the small letter 'p' are actually invisible - there appears to be not enough weight in them and makes the document look like it has been photocopied too many times.

Currently this is not an application I would like to spend much of my day using (and thankfully I don't have to) - but if Ubuntu is being touted as suitable in an office environment, this could be a serious problem.

I am pushing for Ubuntu to be used in our company but this sort of thing does not help my case.

The idea is to create a server that hosts your account with your configuration files and a list of installed applications,
making it easy to have multiple computer with the same setup (given hardware limitations) and very simple to get new computers up and running.

I do not propose synchronization of personal files like other suggestions, that would require to much space from the server, something impossible to ask from a company that does not charge for the software.

This option should not necessary be applied to all directories, but is still an option that could be available for some directories.

The user should always be able to change this option per directory.

This is a nice to have when using shared folders. Without this feature you need to change the permissions back every time a user adds new files.

The functionality I am looking for, could be done by using some kind of combination of:

- The SGID bit in chmod
- Let the user assign some kind of umask to a directory

Use cases:
I have a home network and one of the computers is being used as file server. I want to use a folder to share pictures. And let users in the network to add more pictures to this folder, without the need from the user that added the new picture or the root to restore the access to everyone else.

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

Ubuntu already supports mounting the NTFS file system(Which windows NT and later uses). It would be awesome to have a tool to search and import all my pictures, documents and other stuff(or a particular extension or file name) without having to manually find all the files and move them over.

"E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report."

→ This is very frequent problem and a lot of beginners dont'know why fix the problem/resolve it.
Just please look here: see - https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+faq/52 - this FAQ located/placed on Launchpad website and during 1 month there are already 15 "related questions", so that means this is very often problem.

It would be fine thing to have some automatic utility to fix this problem, but it will be enough to make this error message more user friendly (for now it's very misleading information).

Because right now Ubuntu doesn't boot from USB (e.g, on the Santa Rosa MacBook Pro)

http://tennessee.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?t=510030

related: http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=1230
Using load options 'USB'
Error: Not Found returned from legacy
Error: Not Found from LocateDevicePath
Error: Not Found from LocateDevicePath
Error: Not Found from LocateDevicePath

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I realize that Ctrl+PgUp and Ctrl+PgDn works, but Ctrl-Tab seems more natural.

Allow everyone to see the code for brainstorm so we can submit patches and additional features and speed up development.

The database can be kept closed, only the database formats need to be available.

Most people are just switching to Ubuntu from Windows and would feel a bit more at home if they could switch the the Times New Roman Font without any installation.

the thinkpad's accelerometer feature is awesome, but enabling it on a fresh install of ubuntu is overwhelming. i have no idea what specific kernel features i want to turn on in order to recompile my kernel to enable this one feature. surely this is something you could detect on install (since you already detect my sound card, video card, network card, tablet screen, and touchpad) - if you detect it, turn the feature on so that the laptops can take advantage of this feature.

Each time I change my partitions, I have to do 'it' again. Yes, you know what I mean. Change /etc/fstab to point to the new partitions. Or suppose I insert a USB harddisk with more than one partition. I either have to mount those partitions myself, or edit, yes again, /etc/fstab. But then I reboot without the external drive attached.... "Kernel panic, filesystem not found". That happens automatically when you have a ext2/ext3 filesystem in /etc/fstab that doesn't exist.

Now, you might say "You don't often change your partitions, do you?" Yes, that's true. But think of a newbie. Installs Ubuntu, likes Ubuntu, says "Hey this Linux thing is wicked, lets try uhm... say Mandriva". Good, he installs Mandriva, but what happens? The partitions are messed up, Ubuntu won't boot anymore. In a very bad case, the previous Ubuntu /-partition had the same name as the /-partiton of the other Linux install, resulting in something very messy.

Now, this all can be avoided very easy. Like any problem, solving this problem requires eleminating the root of the problem. Yes. /etc/fstab. But how do we have to eleminate it? Simply removing it isn't an option, since that would result in a kernel panic. So, you say, "Well it's simply impossible to eleminate /etc/fstab". Think again. Mac OS X is a good example of a Unix system that doesn't require /etc/fstab. Even better: /etc/fstab contains a single line: "# This file is present for backwards compatibility. It may be removed all together from future versions." This can become reality for Ubuntu too. How, do you say? Very simple actually. Somewhere in the early boot process, mount -a gets called. As we all know, this will mount everything in /etc/fstab. So remove that. Next we need something to replace it. A daemon that cooperates with hal, udev, ... to check for new devices. Or even merge hal and udev with this daemon. The daemon -- lets call it "mountd" -- will check for any new filesystems. It checks if it can mount it, if it can, it will do so, at a predefined location, such as /media/devname where devname is something like hda1, sdb3, ... This directory will be created if it doesn't exist. It also has to check if a filesystem hasn't been just unmounted by the user, so it won't remount it again. This can be done by patching umount to log the devices it has unmounted.
But how about special mount-points? How about homedirectories? Well, that's solvable, too. In the root of each partition which has to get mounted on a special location, a text file called ".mountpoint" will be created which contains the path where to mount that partition, e.g. /home. Mountd will check for such a file once a partition is mounted, next it will unmount that partition, and remount it on the proper location.

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Currently, each time when my Ubuntu install is messed up, I have to reformat my partition and reinstall Ubuntu. Next I have to set up everything again. That's very annoying. Other OS'es (Windows, Mac OS X, yes even SUSE, ...) have a "Repair existing system" option. This allows to reinstall the OS without having to reformat. All it would have to do is to manually check and repair dpkg/apt-get, next it has to reinstall every package present on the cd. Very easy, not too hard to implement, many users that would be very happy. Why not do it?