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Also, Firefox 3 allows you to select text and search in the currently selected site which would improve the ability to find things on Launchpad immensely. Imagine coming across something on Brainstorm that you're pretty sure has a bug filed already but it wasn't included in the idea yet. You could highlight the appropriate text, make sure LP was the selected search widget, then right click and search Launchpad for it. The search would open in a new tab, allowing you to still have the Brainstorm tab open. That's what a LP search widget would provide, and if it were referenced in the LP HTML code (which shouldn't be that hard to do once the widget were made) then to discover it all someone would have to do is check their list of search engines while on Launchpad and it's availability would be shown for easy installation.

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space for others,after implementation this idea too

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An alternative made by Canonical would be very nice.

[edit] Automatix is no longer supported on ubuntu!
It was one of the main reasons newbies used ubuntu, I think this makes it even important to develop a good alternative!

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The theme I am talking about will obviously please everyone, a lot of users go away to other OSes after noticing I don't like the default theme.

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Can't Canonical make a partnership with Yahoo to at least get part of the code,in order to make a compatible Yahoo messenger client for Linux/Unix?

I don't really care if the final product(if it will exist) will be GPL'ed or not,I just want to use it(as I use Skype,but unfortunately that's not so popular,only 3 contacts in my list)

Sorry for my preety crappy english

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I think totem (or an alternative) should become a simple resource-cheap do-it-all alternative to WMP in Windows (is not the best for anything, but it can do most of things)

At least when it comes to music, video, streaming... Looking nice, mini-player, integration with brasero and cd-ripping soft included in ubuntu...

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Let us all have a laugh, and learn from our mistakes.



(...this is a joke... but go on, vote for it...)

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An alternative to this would be to add a prompt to the installation process asking (or auto-detecting) basic processor information. For example "Which best describes your computers processor?". Available answers should include newer Intel and AMD processors, or the option to select "I don't know", which will then either install an optimized or basic kernel.

While I realize that the average Ubuntu install is fast, flexable, and will "just work" on nearly any PC, there is a select user base that will benefit from the enhanced instruction sets that an optimized kernel can provide these chipsets.

While users are able to build, customize, and compile their own kernels, this can be very taxing, time consuming, and confusing to the average user and adding to that, bug reports submitted via platforms with custom kernels are rejected.



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This is a huge time waster for me, especially since I just came from Gentoo Linux and I've made terminal a part of my daily life. I understand that a user should be protected from one's self. But, come on.

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$present = ($vote*100)/$totalvote;


Example :
Total vote:(Unknown) eg: 200
Down vote: 165


Result = 18%

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and eliminating the need for it could subconsciously make the interface feel
more usable. Why not center menus under the mouse rather than the traditional
method of drawing it right of the mouse? The one exception for this of
course, would be if centering a menu under a mouse would interfere with the
visibility of the menu.

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This gives the possibility to "zcat /proc/config.gz" to see the .config of the kernel.

I'm poking around with the 8.04 server beta right now....


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