Contributor changlinn

I know when I can't win. Let me clean up after myself.

I have an idea at -100, and I'm ready to drop it so as not to clutter brainstorm and all that. I need to be able to mark it as abandoned by author.

This would reduce confusion. I didn't even think Ubuntu had a key combo for that menu for the longest time. Turns out it's alt+F1. Two keys? Having to span the keyboard with your hand? Fail.

This idea isn't 'windows-like' or 'mac-like'; it's behavior expected from every 'human being' that's used a computer via the keyboard before.

If you have a really good reason to be different, do so. As far as I'm aware, not using super for the Apps menu does not.

...and if you're using super as a modifier, you will have pressed another key before letting up on it. That would be the only potentially sensible opposition I can think of for this. All the people that use alt+F1 now will be grateful, once they figure it out.

While requesting features to the open source community which consist mainly of free workers, we may often forget to say how much we like Ubuntu and look like costumers requesting.

So you can say thank you to the thousands of developers and users who gave their time by voting for this article :)

Well there is some support for webcam, but this should be much better, and plug and play..

I have a friend that recently tried Ubuntu, and ended up going back to Windows (disappointed as he was). Well, he couldn't make any voicechat trough YahooChat (Pidgin), or aMSN.

So this is something that should be taken care of

A separate partition for /home has been proposed for a long time in the forums. It implies some risks, though, so based on disk size Ubiquity should estimate the amount of space that should be left for / or whether a separate partition should be made at all. Then...

-The first time an user installs Ubuntu, he is given the option to set a separate /home. This option is selected by default, with a size for each partition based on a sane guess:

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7958/firstinstallaro2.png

-Of course, he can just choose not to set a separate /home. This option will be selected by default if the results of the system test suggest that's the best thing to do.

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/6498/firstinstallbfs6.png

-Manual install is also possible. Selecting it greys out everything related to separate /home, since it's implied that the user doesn't want to be guided.

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7976/firstinstallcvc2.png

-If the user set a separate /home, the next time he installs Ubuntu a new option appears and is selected by default, prompting to use the existing /home partition. All other options are still available, though.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9034/secondinstalliq1.png




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First of all: What is the difference between Preferences and Administration? For example: why do I see 'Encryption and Keyrings' in Preferences and 'Keyring Manager' in Administration? What is the difference between 'Default Printer' and 'Printing'? Why do I have to disable the Tracker under Sessions and not under Search and Indexing? And why are these menu's so large? I have 24 items in Preferences (they don't even fit on my screen!) and 18 items in Administration. To put all this stuff in a popup menu is bad interface design imho. Besides, the number of option should be much smaller. A few suggestions:

- Merge 'Screensaver', 'Screen Resolution' and 'Screens and Graphics'.
- Merge 'Network', 'Network Proxy' and 'Network Tools'.
- Merge 'Update Manager, Synaptic Package Manager, Software Sources'.
- Merge 'Encryption and Keyrings', 'Authorizations', 'Keyring Manager'.


Below are all settings I can visit via the System menu. This is just way too much.


-- Preferences --
Universal Access
About Me
Appearance
Bluetooth
Default Printer
Encryption and Keyrings
Keyboard
Keyboard Shortcuts
Main Menu
Mouse
Network Proxy
PalmOS Devices (I don't have one)
Power Management

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When the screensaver starts, this mostly means the user isn't using his computer for a while. It should then start executing tasks which have a high demand of resources but a low urgency (to the user) and require no interaction. For example:

1. Finish downloading that large torrent
2. Check for and install (security) updates for installed applications
3. Get new mail
4. Put the - still running - media player into full screen mode (like AmarokFS for Amarok)
5. Run a backup

This of course should be totally configurable (which applications, wait time after starting screen saver, which one first, etcetera)

There is a wide community of online artists capable of creating brilliant, unique artwork.

heading: Get your artwork on 10 million desktops

Ubuntu, the world's most popular Linux distribution, needs a new theme. The winner will appear in the default desktop of Ubuntu 8.10.

We're looking for original wallpapers, that match Ubuntu's color palette. You entry should also include a suggested combination of application, icon, and window themes. These can be existing themes, or your own original works - you only need to submit a wallpaper to win.

Work must be CC licensed, and be openable in either Inkscape or Gimp (rest of criteria continues)

Submit your works to DeviantArt and include the words [Ubuntu810].


Good luck!

Hi!

I'm a big fan of Images like .iso.
But it is not very easy to mount this Images.
I think there must be a Tool in Nautilus and Dolphin wich alows mounting Images with a double Click. (This feature exists int MacOS). Or with a right click on the file and then there must be a poit "Mount Image". I thick that would be a very use full Tool for every one.
A good example for this is CDemu.

I know there are some ohter good programs, but I think that would be the easyest way and very confortible.

Nanotron

Should be exist a way to associate the folder images or any other folder (configurable)in the wallpaper window settings.

Ubuntu should provide administrative tools to control how a computer is used. The ability to control access to various feature, programs, file systems, etc. It should include web content filtering, black-listing, logging, and most traditional content control features. This is absolutely essential if Linux is to be remotely considered in the corporate environment.

Possible Applications:
1) School Environments
2) Public Terminals
3) Parental Controls
4) Office/Corporate Environments
5) Enterprise Environments
6) Countries with Restricted Access

*Note: This idea is similar to "Parental Controls" idea submitted, but people don't seem to understand the full implications of this idea.
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2495/

Every time Ubuntu starts, you first have to wait 2 seconds for GRUB todo nothing. This steals 2 seconds of your start up time.
2 seconds everyday...

I propose to change so GRUB boots Ubuntu immediately without wait 2 seconds. This will be faster startup times.

For people who need to access the GRUB menu, they can just hold down a key such as CTRL, ESC or F8 or something.

I propose a few things that would prevent Ubuntu from waking up a system which has spun down its disk, and generally should not be using a lot of power. This is an issue because many times the crontab will wake up the disk, swappiness will wake up the disk, and coming out of the lower power state will take forever if all your apps are swapped out (which is common).

This lower power "state" should be enabled when the laptop is on battery power and in use, or the system has not had kb/mouse in put for a while on battery. Maybe create two separate states for each case if need be.

1) Turn swappiness to 0, or disable the swap file/partition completely. This would go a long way to reduce disk IO on modern laptops, which saves battery life and disk life and heat.
2) disable the crontab, or have a separate crontab file with critical jobs and one with non-critical jobs (or 2 sections in the same file). This would allow noncritical cron jobs to be postponed until the disk spins back up. It will also prevent updatedb from happening while the disk is spun down.
3) disable most other background processes which are not critical and might cause the system to wake up the disk


When the system is in use (ie, there is kb/mouse input) then other things should happen:
1) non-critical cron tabs should be postponed until the system is no longer in use
2) swappiness should be decreased to 0 (or be very low) to give better responsiveness on the desktop.

nowadays, laptops come standard issue with 2GB ram, 1GB on ultra low end laptops. There is no reason that the kernel should be swapping your web browser and all of GNOME or KDE out to disk just because updatedb ran in the background. It is unacceptable.

Please give your feedback in the comments section. This is just a rough idea and I haven't thought up all the different tweaks yet.

Totem is a good player, but vlc is much better. Please put the best software as default in ubuntu, because the problems of new users , coming from windows, will decrease a lot with vlc, that recognise more codecs than totem.

When you plug in something like a USB dongle, it should be mounted synchronously (-o sync) instead of in buffered mode.

For me, this is far preferable to the minute performance gain gotten by mounting the device in buffered mode. You're very unlikely to be using such devices for anything except data storage/retreival, in which case mounting synchronously is a major benefit. Expecting new users (or those used to Windows XP's behaviour) to know you have to right-click, 'unmount', before removing the drive is not a good idea, as well as just being unnecessary if the device is mounted synchronously. It's also irritating for people like me who know you need to do it, but either occasionally forget or don't want to bother.

Mount the thing synchronously by default. This is what Windows XP does, and it allows you to just remove the drive after any file transfers have finished. Yes, problems will occur if you remove it durung a file transfer, but that's gonna happen in ANY mount mode. It's far more obvious to the user that this will cause a problem than removal of the drive before unmounting. Also stop displaying that 'unsafe device removal' message for devices mounted synchronously.

Ubuntu needs to go green. Powertop, Lesswatts and other tools have finally hit the Linux scene to pave the way for better power management. It needs to be said, "if you want your battery to last longest, or have your energy bill be the lowest, you better use Ubuntu Linux."

Right now, at school, there is a limit (cap) on the weekly bandwidth that I can use. Unfortunately, the school does not provide bandwidth monitors, and there is no comprehensive program for linux. It would be nice if there was a program that monitored bandwidth (on all or some ports) and totaled it to provide daily/weekly/monthly totals. An alarm built into this to warn you when you approach a limit would be helpful.

While it is common for modern machines to have at least a GiB of memory, older machines (2-3 years old) are (or IMO should be) a major target audience for Ubuntu.

Unfortunately, having 256MB of memory makes the machine almost entirely unusable for more than one task at a time.

Even the "minimalist" xubuntu is barely usable with this amount of memory.

I think Ubuntu should do some work on reducing memory usage to this level, at least for the xubuntu variant.

With Ubuntu on Dell machines in the USA, I'm sure this means better boot times, hardware integration, sound, network are all nice and good.

Ubuntu should really be pitching to be the default install (an option for the customer) on as many PCs as possible.

adobe flash has become ridiculously slow. it's perverse that i can play a dvd in full screen mode and that uses about 5% of my processor, while as a small flash window on youtube stutters. as well as this, there is of course no 64-bit version, or a version for sparc/powerpc under linux.

the solution is obvious--gnash must be developed. could canonical/ubuntu invest some development time in getting gnash working well? that would be great :)