Contributor davim

So OS X has coverflow in Finder, which is great. It is a easy way to _quickly_ browse through a huge amount of pictures/media/etc. I'm not suggesting that we do that as well, (unless you all want to, cool!) but maybe think of some other interesting way to show the contents of a folder in 3d or something.

Vodafone Mobile Connect Card driver for Linux is a GPRS/UMTS/HSDPA device manager written in Python, licensed under the GPL. Features: Data call handling Send/Receive SMS SIM phone book management Graphical user interface using GTK


this should be adapted to be more generic and usable with other mobile internet providers and then it should be added to Ubuntu's repositories...

LINK: https://forge.vodafonebetavine.net/projects/vodafonemobilec/

I've used Ubuntu for about four releases now, and I could not do without it. It's cost me nothing, and I've benefited greatly from it.

I would love the opportunity to 'subscribe' to Ubuntu (or other projects in Launchpad), and donate a small amount of money to the project each month.

This money should be charged to my Paypal, then associated with my Launchpad account. I should then be able to review a list of Requests For Funding, weigh their merits, and transfer already-donated funds to projects that I deem worthwhile.

There should be a Funding tab in Launchpad to help me find projects needing support. It should essentially be a queue of requests from different projects, each with a target amount. Open-ended funding requests should not be allowed. There should also be a limit on the number of requests allowable each month from a project.

If I don't visit Launchpad in a set period of time - for instance, 6 months - my donations should be automatically allocated to a global project pot managed by community vote.

It's important that I be able to name my own price and payment schedule.

Also, once I've made my donation, it should be non-refundable. We wouldn't want people using Launchpad as a bank account.

Finally, some form of recognition as an active donor or subscriber on my Launchpad profile would be welcome, but there shouldn't be any additional benefits to donating money. Some people have nothing to give.

Canonical should hire at least one full-time developer for X.org and GNOME.

X Server 1.4.1 was delayed by 212 days. X is used by pretty much every distribution, and not only Linux also other operating systems, so it is a very important package. We need the bugs fixed, such as EDID. We need new features such as input hotness, XKB 2, Xi 2 and MPX, etc.

Zenwalk Linux have a Xorg developer, we should have at least one too.

GNOME is also one of the most important packages in Ubuntu, and we should have a developer for it too, so we can make Ubuntu more powerful, functional and friendly.

I'd like a way to backup my entire system with all the settings and packages to a bootable ISO file. So that I can re-install or install on other computers.

As far as we know, the multi-touch trackpad of Apple Macbook Air / Pro is implemented in software not hardware. Having that killer feature would be amazing for Ubuntu. That thing could start a new way to interact with the computer.

Kde's FolderView allows you to have files from different folders shown in your desktop, even allowing filtering. It seems rather usefull. Gnome should have something similar.

(I know it is a gnome suggestion, but I think it's good to post it here)

It would be cool if brainstorm could be turned into a kind of social network, like in last.fm one could have a neighbourhood (based on similar promoted / demoted ideas) create user groups and have a list of friends...

This would make ideas that you agree with more visible to you....

what do you think?

"Uninstall" button for GDebi.

This is a generalisation of ideas 9770 and 8143 and other similar ideas.

What needs to be done to ensure speedy development overall is to sit down and decide where resources need to be allocation in order to achieve the best possible results. For example the author of idea 9770 is of the opinion that we (or more accurately Canonical) need to hire people to work specifically on 'X' and 'GNOME' while the author of idea 8143 thinks that GRUB2 is currently a more important achievement. While both of these are very valid ideas, I believe that the allocation of resources needs to be made as a community decision on the basis of need, and which projects are likely to give maximum return for minimum effort (and perhaps more importantly, money).

It would be very cool to have journaled hfs+ read/write support this would make it easy to share a home partition between osx and ubunutu...

this link might help: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1150.html

I am a paid Apple Developer member. I used to program in Cocoa. However, a week ago I gave QT a try, and as an Apple developer, I was amazed (I actually preferred it over Cocoa in most places, and over time, I believe it may be over nearly all places). QT is cross platform, and what we need to do is actively compare QT4.4 against Cocoa towards developers, and you will win them over.

I propose that we push QT support as a major feature in Kubuntu 8.04 on the website, and flaunt its features vs Apple's Cocoa language. They are very similar concept wise, and everyone knows C++, so they will be willing to listen. And in fact, for developers, QT has a lot more opportunities :) Everyone likes a cross platform language (with QTJambi, its java, so you don't even need to recompile).

I've shown a few people interested in Apple development the latest QT, and they were also amazed. But now's the time to start pushing this, at launch, instead of mentioning QT vs Cocoa 3 weeks after a Apple Development conference which hypes everyone up so they don't want to listen. Or when Apple developers still think of Linux as lame coding libraries.

We need to get the word out to developers we have an awesome development library, which has fantastic development tools which can easily compete against Cocoa. Because if we succeed, it means a whole new generation of programmers on the linux platform, and a whole lot of new applications

Our problem is, we aren't marketing Linux at all towards developers of other operating systems with any ammunition other then "its free". Lets change that..

Gimp is the defacto photoshop clone, please be it the default in kubuntu too!

I would to see Screenlets (http://www.screenlets.org/index.php/Home) installed in Ubuntu by default. Why, you ask? just an eye candy, especially with the widget layer enabled in compiz-fusion and the user press F9 (or any other button the user wants) and the widgets that you have chosen popin on your desktop. Of course it would be marketing point. :-)

I think that gnome needs more eye-candy and awn and screenlets universal-applets should be integrated into Gnome.

This would bring more eye-candy and functionality to gnome.

what I propose is not to install it by default, it's to really integrate this applications into gnome the awn as another type of gnome panel and universal applets as the plasmoids in KDE. And I don't mean just put them there, there should be some modifications so everything would fit better.

Note: This is not just a website to collect documentation in a single place (which has been done already) this is a completely new, sophisticated website to track documentation changes almost like source code. Don't vote this down without understanding the specifics of this idea thankyou.

Summary:
Many aspects of using Linux are similar from one distro to the next so it makes little sense for every distro to have to create and write documentation sites from scratch. I am proposing a modern web 2.0 site where all Linux distros share documentation using sophisticated tracking and syncing tools.

User Example:
Someone downloads 'Cool New Linux', the latest Linux distro but doesnt know how to use it. They click on the link for help on the distros website and are taken to Linuxhelp.org/CoolNewDistro. (Or whatever url)

Although the user doesnt know it, the site is using a bunch of sophisticated and clever ways to keep documentation synced up with documenation written upstream and because the 'Cool New Distro' developers have chosen what sections of the documentation to sync to even the most general pages are always 100% relative to their distro.

Why this is a good idea:
I am a member of a small but active distro community and one of our newest aims is to improve documentation. I feel however that I am wasting my time doing this. Why should every distro have to reinvent the wheel by writing documentation on the same topics? A central site where documentation could be tracked and synced to would improve the quality of documentation 100 fold. Imagine if one Gnome developer writes an article on how to use the new feature in Gnome and boom! all the distros using that new technology will have the chance to automatically sync to the tutorial and get automated updates when it is changed upstream.

In terms of how this shared documentation might work, all it would take is for a member of the documentation team of 'Cool New Distro' to check the notification in their account's inbox that a documentation article has been changed or created relating to a piece of tech found in his distro, or a page linked to from their documention has been changed, or that a certain documentation writer on his 'watch list' has written something. It could be that for 90% of the documentation created the distros would simply need to 'OK' it for inclusion in their respective section and that is as much as input as they would need to do on that article.

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A cool feature will be can enable in the config panels of wallpapers an options like " Change my wallpapers all the x minutes "

I thinks Lot of people love that and it'll be cool to can choice an folders where all the pictures will be added in the list of wallpapers to be randomly show.

Advanced users of Ubuntu like to use the terminal for many tasks. Often these users leave a terminal open on the desktop, and must switch to it when they want to move from a graphical program to run a command. It's sometimes a hassle to have to find, click, type, click back...

I propose that a "Quick Terminal" be created. When the user hits a certain keyboard shortcut, the desktop fades and a terminal comes up with immediate keyboard focus. The user can then enter a command (or many) and then quickly jump back to the regular desktop. When the user returns to the terminal that is in the background, it remembers everything that has been typed before.

This would create a seamless transition from the normal GUI desktop into the terminal world. Having both the GUI and terminal tightly woven will allow advanced users to very quickly accomplish their tasks in the most efficient way possible.

The quick terminal could be integrated with stuff like Compiz so that the animation of going from desktop to terminal could be changed.

a little terminal included in the desktop!

This kind of menu bar is very practical. Why have a menu on every window when you're only using one at a time? It saves screen space especially on notebooks and Eeepcs! And it could be provide as an option for users, like an applet for gnome panel (so using it will be your choice)!

This is dynamic menu, it will be different for every window - example: If you are using firefox, the menu will be from firefox, next when you click on pidgin or gimp window, the menu will have the options from main pidgin or gimp window etc.. So besides more open windows, you are using one at a time only!

And if there is no open window, it will be the normal gnome menu (for launching applications).

I'd love to see this option become part of Gnome! Thank You

Please visit this link for more info and screenshots
before any voting!

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/global_menu