Remove Mono and dependent applications from default Ubuntu Desktop CD. Mono occupies a significant amount of the valuable space on the live cd that could be used for translations and other things. Applications using mono use much more memory than their non-mono counterparts. Functionality can be provided by other applications that are just as good.

This will NOT remove Mono or any of the applications from the Ubuntu repositories, just the default Desktop CD. (Although removing them from the CD may mean they don't need to be in Main anymore)

This affects two applications included by default: tomboy and f-spot. Tomboy can be replaced by either sticky notes or zim and f-spot by gthumb.

Many people use NTFS drives, and Ubuntu shows poor performance dealing with them.

NTFS writes are slow, put my CPU at 80% during the process. Basically, writing a ntfs-formatted USB hard disk makes my system unusable (pentium-m toshiba laptop).

Maybe it's not possible to integrate NTFS driver in Linux kernel, so I suggest optimice it to have a better performance.

Ubufox is very clever at wrapping the Firefox extensions and add-ons feature with the Ubuntu package manager.

A similar thing should be done with Open Office extensions - so that installing an extension with the Open Office package manager integrates well with Ubuntu.

Yesterday a friend of mine asked for help in Photoshop. And instead of configuring my router, care for my IP or dyndns-stuff, he just called me via Jabber on iChat in OS X. That was - awesome -! One of the big, big time-saving things, Apple serves.

To cut a long story short: we definitely need an audio-chat possibility (at least for XMPP) in Pidgin or Empathy (speaking of gnome). Bundled with screen-sharing it's just perfect to solve problems over the internet.

First off: This is NOT a duplicate of idea 7792. Apt-P2P uses similar meathods to bittorrent in the downloading from peers, but is not based on it in any way.

Anyway, I suggest that there be an option in Software Sources to be able to use apt-p2p instead of the normal apt protocol to download packages. Apt-P2P basically adds localhost:9977/ in front of the repo, so that it would look like "deb http://localhost:9977/path.to/repo" in your sources.list instead of "deb http://path.to/repo". This allows you to download from peers when available, but if no peers are available for a specific package, it downloads from the repository as normal. Once you have downloaded a package and it is in your cache, though, then apt-p2p would share it with others.

The uses for this would be that it would take a load off of the servers. Every year around the time a new version of Ubuntu is released, Ubuntu's servers are pushed to the breaking point when everyone is trying to upgrade. With this, that can be cut to a minimum for those who choose to use it. Since some ISPs set limits on your internet usage and this can raise it up, enabling it by default would be a mistake (just like having new ISO downloads be bittorrent by default would be a mistake).

Actual Ubuntu hardware database (http://hwdb.ubuntu.com/) is not very usefull.
We need to improve it to collect better data about hardware support in Ubuntu

Create a Firewall that allows you to lead the applications that connect to Internet

By default it should be on with a pre-configuration for Ubuntu default apps

It should show you a pop up for the new apps that ask you if you want to leave the app to connect, and give you two options: Yes or No. This should create a permissive rule that after you could make it more restrictive in a rules manager

The rules manager should have a General rules tab, and a app rules tab, listing all the apps

There is help online for getting an Ubuntu laptop to send out to a projector, so it's definitely possible, but it would be nice if there was some graphical interface for this process. Also, most laptops use fn+f3 to switch between varying output methods. This could be easily integrated into Ubuntu and would go a long way to winning over academics, like myself.

SystemTap is a tool which is similar to Dtrace. Unlike Dtrace however, it is GPL, so it can be legally included with Linux, and distributed without issues.

For non developers, all they need to know, is that systemtap is an awesome tool, that greatly aids in optimisation, and improving programs (its kind of the next step forward in program development). Ask any programmer who has tried dtrace, and they will rave on about it!

The main problem is, there has been a massive drive by Sun and Apple for Dtrace, so nobody really knows about systemtap. In fact, since Apple released their instruments tool with Xcode 3, Systemtap doesn't really get a say.

Canonical should join Red Hat, IBM, Intel, and Hitachi to become a systemtap project member, and program an eclipse plugin for systemtap, so the output is easier to read and sort through

Lets get the word out about systemtap and start supporting it, and get a GUI together. It helps optimisation enormously. And, it may even help sort out a few issues with I/O intensive tools like tracker ;)


We aren't officially supporting anything that can compete against Apple's Instruments programming tool, or Dtrace, included in Solaris. We need to fill this void. And no, this idea does NOT mean including it by default! It just means ensuring that we can easily use it