Contributor changlinn

Someone please, please implement a global brainstorm site that would allow people to suggest ideas to other companies and entities besides Canonical. Some examples:

- Google
- Microsoft
- NASA
- US President
- Pope
- Scientific community

That will be a very useful and popular website. You will make a ton of money in advertising, and you'll probably make the world a better place.

"Make Brainstorm open source" is marked as done, so there is probably a source code somewhere that you can use.

For bonus points, use SlashCode for comments moderation system. Discussion threads are going to be huge.

Sorry if this doesn't appeal to Canonical directly, although you guys might also consider this. Thank you for this wonderful resource!

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Preferably make all the binaries in the system be digitally signed.

Or at least digitally sign some of the most important system binaries.

Canonical Ltd. can sign the Ubuntu system binaries.

This gives enhanced security because it verifies the application identity and ensures its integrity.

Microsoft and Apple digitally sign their binaries.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html#security

Why is it for a lot of windows users so hard to adjust to another os? This is a question i ask myself.

When upgrading from xp to vista i offiously noticed the many differences but still it's a lot of easier to adjust from upgrade to upgrade than to another os.
I tried ubuntu for 1 year without any other os and i still could not get comfortable with it while i deeply wanted it.
I know for sure that a lot of other have this same problem.
It's like windows is wired in your brain when u are using it for a long time.

Do not misunderstand me, i do not want to transform Ubuntu to a windows lookalike linux distrubution.

Maybe there are other solution to solve this problem.

When learning a new language it is easier to learn a language with basicly the same rules than a language who has completely other rules.

I think that most people are used to the "windows logic".
Maybe we can analyse this logic and make some changes so that it becomes easier (for a lot of people) to using ubuntu everyday and as primary/main os.

Keep up the good work!

I am a first time Linux user, I dual boot Ubuntu
7.10 on a Windows machine, and I while the install
went smoothly for me, I think a lot of Windows users
would have a hard time if they didn't do a few hours
of research first, as I did.

I am constantly telling my friends how impressive
Ubuntu is, and how they can easily install it as a
dual boot option on their existing system so they
can try it without giving anything up. But I'm
afraid that if they actually take my advice and
try to do the install without doing a lot of
research that may not be easy for them to follow
at first, they may end up unable to access one or
both of their OS's.

So I would like to see Ubuntu make the use a more intuitive for Windows users who don't know a lot about
partitions, dual boot options, etc. It could be an
install option: 'Would you like to get additional help files? Recommended for first Linux installers, the
help files are written so that the average Windows
user will find it easy to perform the installation.

This is more of a Mozilla Thunderbird issue but I think Ubuntu should push more for better calendering integration using the SDK provide by MS .

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms988691%28EXCHG.65%29.aspx


Calendaring

Microsoft® Exchange Server 2003 includes rich calendaring features that you can use to build calendaring applications. Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) provides the logic necessary to create applications that incorporate appointments, meetings, messages, and other calendaring items. The topics in this section describe how to use CDO to develop custom calendaring solutions.

//Creating an Appointment with CDOEx

#import rename_namespace("CDO") raw_interfaces_only

#include
#include

enum ConnectModeEnum

adModeUnknown = 0,
adModeRead = 1,
adModeWrite = 2,
adModeReadWrite = 3,
adModeShareDenyRead = 4,
adModeShareDenyWrite = 8,
adModeShareExclusive = 12,
adModeShareDenyNone = 16,

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Integrated in Firefox , that memorizes the passwords and logs you in automatically.
A idea like Roboform roboform.com
Many usernames and passwords today are need solution.

Bye

average person needs wizards across the board...

get rid of this package manager crap and make it easy with a installer wizard.
i had a look at a few pages and didnt see this on the list and its so important to linux being successfull.... why is it so hard to make linux user friendly?

help wizards for all is my call...

if it was easier to use more people would use it...its improved but not enough...

The voting feature is being abused at the moment, as its a feature that everyone sees the first thing, and are click-happy. It would be better if we were allowed to vote only when we also comment.

I've got the impression ubuntu is sometimes slower than the m$-windows on my pc.

When someone wants to unmount a volume and the mount point is used, he gets a message telling him that the volume can't be unmounted because an application uses it. The user has no idea which application is actually using it and can't remove the device.

I propose that the popup tells him which application(s) is(are) using the device and propose to terminate them (that list should be kept up to date when the app. dies).

Suspend and hibernate still seems to be a big issue based on forum posts. Really focus on fixing it, even with proprietary drivers.

Ubuntu's bootloader is a stark black and white screen, filled with confusing options. It gives newbies a moment of indecision, as they try to figure out if they are supposed to choose something, and wonder why there are three or four Ubuntus listed. Then the timer finishes counting down (starting from 10), and the newb begins to feel like he's getting in over his head as his PC boots into Ubuntu.

Too much information up front, stark text-only display, painfully long countdown timer. What would be the alternative? Well, when a Fedora PC is booted up, the first thing the user sees is a graphical splash screen, and "Booting into Fedora (kernel version) in 4 seconds ... " The user can press a key to interrupt and select from kernel versions or alternative operating systems, or just let it boot into Fedora.

Can't we create our own attractive bootloader? Or, failing that, copy-and-paste Fedora's?