Contributor csulok

There should be no information about the monitor in any configuration like xorg.conf. All informations should be detected automatic. Just Plug and Play!

I think Canonical should have to support and improve 3D projects, in order to jeopardy the Micro$oft DirectX' API.

It's interesting for all 3D games, or other apps.

I hope 3D developpers will be interested, and will migrate to GNU/Linux.

When installing the server version we can select encrypted partition but when installing desktop we dont have this choice. Since Desktop version are more subject to be installed on Laptop I dont understand why this feature is not availlable.

I don't know why you can't pre-order 8.04 Hardy Heron CD's from the Ubuntu ShipIt site given that it's less than ten days from its release date.

The site only allows you to order 7.10 Gusty Gibbon CD's. What's the use of ordering outdated CD's that will arrive several weeks later when they will be of no use anymore?

Please, allow us to pre-order CD's of the latest version of Ubuntu.

Hello,

by default, when we install a soft with the terminal, this is not show in history of Synaptic, but i think go to the log for check history is not user-friendly...

So i propose to integrate in synaptic all history of apt-get / aptitude in synaptic.

bye

Google could put Ubuntu-style logo on their homepage on Hardy release day :). By the way, they use Ubuntu on their desktop computers.

Please provide a better way to request packages of new programs. At the moment there are 758 requests for packaging open on launchpad and the list is growing. Provide some way to give feedback on which packages are most wanted which the developers could focus on. Perhaps some kinde of voting mechanism similar to brainstorm?

It's silly to be pushing open standards when we don't follow them for our own sites.

Ubuntu.com Failed: 54 Errors
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fubuntu.com&charset=%28detect+aut omatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

All Ubuntu websites should pass the W3C validation checks. (none appear to currently)

For reference:
Microsoft, Redhat, Sun, Novell, openSuse and Apple fail.

Debian, Fedora, Linux Mint, Gnome, KDE, Opera, Firefox and OpenOffice.org pass

It appears that one needs to create separate accounts (username and password) for ubuntuforums.org, launchpad.net and brainstorm.ubuntu.com

How difficult would it be to implement a single login?

Update : NOT a duplicate of OpenID idea #9.

This is concerning the graphical and the text based installer.

It`s a bad habit introduces by microsoft. Do not ask questions in the middle of the installation after you did already started to copy things.

(1) The user starts the installation.
(2) He is asked if he wants to install.
(3) Make as many hardware tests as you need.
(4) Now ask all needed questions.
(5) Install Ubuntu in one run. Tell the user he can no go away for perhaps X minutes.

Otherwise it`s annoying. Input answer, wait a bit, input answer, wait again over and over again. You can improve this!

This guy is making very funny videos about Vista. Especially this one : http://www.dailymotion.com/popular/MrVista/video/x46p2h_episode-1_shortfilms

We could ask him to do one or adapt one for Ubuntu.


http://mrvista.net/

Create a system that allows programmers force to use swap memory for any data that will not be used much over a program, it can assist in the performance of ubuntu in general since many systems become slow when they start to use for swap Data read / write continuously while others are stored and used every minute or more and saved in the real ram memory (Dependent on the dataflow)
This should be done by creating a function in C to be more call for example swapalloc and used as alloc
In systems with little of ram or when we run a lot of programs that would be very useful since it would organize our data in the memory necessary to expedite the power system.
In addition, a good option would be to force load programmes in the RAM and not in the swap as possible (as long as there RAM available), and these would be used much flow

The idea is to have an application that simply make possibile to view OpenOffice file without launch openoffice.
This is only capable to view the file , not edit it.
It should be fast and with just few command/option.
It's only a reader, like evince or kpdf for pdf.

As other people said it could be add the possibility to open ODF file to evince or another existing document reader without make a new one.

I can't find an ODF printer!? I have used PDF printer for the last 10 years, and find it very handy.
If you want people to embrace ODF, i think this would be the first step to fix.
(OS independent of course!)

Improve deskbar-applet showing someway the percentage that it has indexed of total and the possibility of start reindexing.

Make hardware vendors aware of www.ubuntuhcl.org
Will the vendors realy disregard let's say 1% possible market share?
Often just a tiny effort, could raise their rating from lets say 3 to 5?.
(personally i will always choose the product with rating 5)
The least one should expect from a vendor, is to find information how to install/tweak their product into Linux.
At ubuntuhcl.org they can se what the Linux users think of their product.

The mount system in Ubuntu is very fragmented at the moment.

First there's the traditional unix system, exclusively utilizing /etc/fstab. This is the only system used at bootup.

Then there's various desktop-specific mount systems (gnome-volume-manager, thunar-volman, whatever kde uses). And then there are various other mount systems such as pmount, whatever hal uses behind the scenes, usbmount, etc. These do not reference /etc/fstab at all.

The upshot of this is that disks are mounted in different places depending on whether they're plugged in during boot or hotplugged later on. Mount location may also vary depending on the user's desktop environment. Hotplugged drives are only mounted if someone is logged in and running the appropriate volume manager. And it is difficult for an administrator to override the default mount location.

It would be ideal if these could be unified into one system, so that:

* When a drive is hotplugged, it is mounted in the same place every time with the same settings, regardless of which (if any) user is logged in or which desktop environment (if any) is in use at the time.
* A drive can be manually mounted and unmounted from the command-line and GUI, and will be mounted at the same place every time, and in a human-readable location. (i.e. not the UUID or device filename, but using the volume label or a location predefined in fstab)
* one command-line program handles mounting. This would obviously require modifying the mount program so that it doesn't only care about fstab.
* a drive is mounted in the same place regardless of whether it's connected to the system at boot time (currently handled by mount/fstab) or hotplugged later (currently handled by various programs).

There is that annoying Nvidia ad every time I boot X. That comes with the restricted drivers. It would be better without the Nvidia logo.


EDIT:
It can be manually disabled with

Option "NoLogo" "True"

in xorg.conf, but the logo should be disabled by default.

When I'm at Ubuntu's GDM login screen, from the "Options" menu, I can choose "Select Session", choosing between Gnome, KDE, or XFCE. But what if I'm only interested in running a certain Virtual Machine?

Oftentimes, all I'm interested in is using a particular Virtual Machine (from VMware Workstation/Player, or Virtualbox). It feels like overkill to log into Gnome (taking up considerable RAM and CPU on weaker computers), just so that I can, in turn, launch a Virtual Machine in VMware or Virtualbox (and then go "full-screen", which hides Gnome anyway).

It should be possible that VMware Workstation/Player, and/or Virtualbox be choices in the "Select Session" dialog of GDM. That is to say, VMware/Virtualbox should behave, and be treated like "Desktop Environments" (in their own right) as far as GDM is concerned. Each of these Virtualization Softwares could be thought of as a "Desktop Environment proxy" because the VMs that they run contain their own equivalent of a Desktop Environment.

This would be a great feature whenever multiple people use the same computer, but some obstinate people may ONLY want to use a Windows VM (directly after logging in), while others want to log into a traditional "Desktop Environment" like Gnome. In this way, a stubborn Windows user who does not want to learn Ubuntu can still be cajoled into using an Ubuntu computer, since they can still easily use a Windows VM, never having to learn how to use Gnome (or KDE, etc.).

This would be a far better option than having a computer being "dual-boot" between Windows and Ubuntu. By using this method described, whenever a Windows VM is in use, the Ubuntu box can still be:
-SSH'ed into remotely for system maintenance
-logged into remotely over XDMCP
-files can remotely transferred in and out using SCP or samba, etc.

The "Ubuntu-ness" of the host machine ("underneath" the Windows VM) would also make the computer more secure (less prone to viruses, etc.), if "NAT" networking is used within a given Windows VM.

Kiss dual-booting goodbye, when this brainstorm comes to fruition!

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OK, I know that's not direct Ubuntu related, but I guess this will read also people responsible for CMYK support..