Contributor davim

Ban those corporate asshats from Microsoft and Apple from visiting Brainstorm.
They are uncreative and come here to take our ideas.

Like in Vista, they were like: "Thanks to the ground-breaking and security revolutionizing work of Microsoft Research, we are proud to present to you User Account Control (UAC)!". They even patented it.
I am like what? We've had sudo for 28 years!

Then they're like "We offer you Microsoft Research latest innovation the Windows PowerShell, a scriptable command-line shell!"
And I am like, yeah we've had that too. We've had bourne shell since 1977!

Then they're like "Microsoft Research presents you our latest innovation; Server Core will let you administer Windows Server 2008 directly from the command-line instead of from the graphical user interface!".
Hello? We've had that since the 60's.

I am personally very tired of seeing a bunch of so-called "ideas" here on Brainstorm of people asking for features or other aspects from Mac OS or (God help us) Windows.

Now, I'm not gonna say "automatically remove these stupid ideas" but I would like to say "put these stupid ideas in their own category so I don't have to put up with them so I can vote for actual *good* ideas."

People need to remind themselves that Linux is NOT Windows. Linux is NOT Mac OS X. Linux is NOT BSD, Be OS, DOS, or OS/2!

Anyone who suggests these "copycat ideas" is obviously not ready to use Linux. They want more of the same, let them USE the same and leave innocent alternate operating systems out of their own mess.

svgs are great for bigger icons but not for small stuff
like those in the menu bar.It just looks blurry.

An idea is to remove policykit, indeed this module is probably one of the reasons that speed down Hardy.
Then I don't see the utility of this software because to change system configuration the admin password was already asked.
This new implemented software is in my opinion one of the more useless and irritating thing in hardy and the main reason that makes Gutsy better than Hardy.
Moreover I don't evoke all the small problems due to it (no auto-edited fstab ect...) by the fact that it is strictly bound with Hal.

For me Ubuntu team has implemented this only to make Ubuntu looks like Vista ....

When you get a home directory, all the folders are capitalized. This really hurts when using the commandline. If they can't all be converted to lowercase by default, at least have an option do do so.

Amsn is better, it looks good and everybody that a know use it. In my opinion amsn must replace pidgin as a default Instant Messaging client

I HAD to get it working for my teenage step daughter, who just bought her new (she LOVES it) Ipod with her first paycheck from her first job (at McDonald's no less..)..

I could not let her down, even though we've been an all linux household for a few years.

After 4 days effort, it runs well..

Every time you open firefox, and try to type in a url, focus shifts to the google search. If I wanted Google for my homepage, I'd make it my homepage. Some people might say that instead of getting rid of it, there should be a change in the way focus works. I disagree. When I go to Google, I like to have focus shift to the search, but when I go to my homepage/release notes, I want to be able to immediately start typing the url of the page I'm going to, instead of typing half of it while the page loads and the other half in google. Also, if you're going to have google on the homepage, at least have it link to results that give you access to image results too.

Basically, I think everyone is getting bored of Brainstorm, not as many people are visiting now based on the number of comments.
My idea is that we close Ubuntu Brainstorm temporarily, at least, we disallow new ideas. We then set up a schedule where Ubuntu Brainstorm we would be open for new ideas for a fortnight (two weeks), say, two or three times a year.
That's how real brainstorming works in real projects, you don't brainstorm together all the time, you set up times to do it.
When Brainstorm opened, lots of people joined, ideas were posted and lots of people participated. Now that Brainstorm has been going on for some time, (what is it now, two months?) it's impossible to keep up with all the ideas, and there's no excitement and motivation to participate anymore. Having just three fortnights a year would focus people's attention much better, and develop momentum.
We would still have ubuntuforums.org for anyone desperate to talk about his/her idea.

Ubuntu is supposed to be free software, yes sometimes we absolutely need wireless drivers, .rar extractors, or Adobe flash plugins. However, these packages should not be dependencies of the ubuntu-desktop meta- package.
Try installing the program VRMS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrms ) and you will see that ubuntu-desktop depends on some non-free art, and linux-restricted modules.

Although this was copied from what is probably an april's fool joke, it directly made sense to me. The current directory structure is very confusing to new users and the one proposed below immediately makes sense to anyone:

/bin /system/executables
/boot /system/boot
/dev /system/devices
/etc /system/config
/lib /system/libraries
/home /users
/media /storage
/mnt /storage
/proc /system/processes
/root /users/Administrator
/sbin /system/executables/admin
/tmp /system/temporary
/usr /system/applications

(idea taken from http://blog.drinsama.de/erich/en/linux/debian/2008040101-renaming-directories.h tml)

Three little ideas which can make every filesystem work faster.

1) Set big slack space for /etc
Whole config file should be able to fit into 2048 size. When modified it wont cause fragmentation.

2) In home directory where you usually keep moovies, music, etc. These are all things which are always readed but very little people modifies them. So they should be written on the end of partition space. Few kbs slower of reading avi is invisible when watching moovie but space of disk at the beggining can be used much better.

3) MIME typed files from point above should be written continously. When you have free space on partition where only half of the avi will fit dont save it here, and then the rest below files which will be in the center of our moovie. Save whole moovie below those files to put it continously.

When you reboot your computer, open a popup (after you click "reboot") to select in advance the next OS (ubuntu, winXP, ...).

This is good only if you didn't set a boot/disk password ;-)

I remember that I used this option with my old mandrake/KDE distribution