When i change some hardware pieces i need to configure them manually, ubuntu should recognize there has been a hardware change and configure it.

How come in windows I can select 2 network connections, right click, and bridge them with no hassle?

In linux, I have to use firestarter or some other complicated way of doing a simple task.

Currently pretty much every gnome application has a completely different UI.

Some applications have long menus, other have lots of buttons. Still others use multiple (read MANY) windows that open.

There is currently the HIG but little is done to enforce or even push this. Users should only need to learn to use a GUI once, they shouldn't have to re-leard GUI's every time they install a new app.

If you install an unfamiliar app from the package manager, you will probably end up starting off with "ok, now where did THIS app put the save button..." This is needs to change.

Allow use to rename the hard disk partition as they wish like Videos , Music etc instead of 40gb media. Distinguish the Display inside the Computer like Hard disk , Optical Drive etc.Show the free space of each drive under it in a icon like vista.

Many users, especially less computer-literate ones, have sent a document to the printer, and when it doesn't print, they send it again. I recently opened a print queue to find the same document 6 times. Normally the problem is a simple as the printer being switched off, or a cable being unplugged.

I suggest that if the same document is sent more than once to a printer that there should be a notification of this, and maybe a dialogue confirming that you want to send the document multiple times.

This is a simple one. When changing the volume slider there's no indication of the volume. This is a good thing IMO as you don't always want a loud *dong* when changing the volume. However, it would be handy to have a small button below the slider which plays a quick sample sound to test volume.

This would be handy when setting up a presentation and want to quickly test output volume. Or when playing with an external amp and need a quick test.

A similar button in the volume controls could be useful also.

Change start page of Brainstorm to show latest ideas or something, else people will probably push for the already high-graded ideas and won't care of other newer ideas.

Maybe a page with random ideas?

And remove the grades if not specifically requested, since it will affect peoples voting.

The bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254159

In short:

when Thunderbird shows mail in threaded view, the mails are sorted on date on FIRST mail in thread. Instead it should sort on the date of the last mail received, like many good mail readers do.

Why is this such a big issue?

If you have a thread of mails you got say one months ago and you today get another mail to this thread, this last mail will be almost impossible to find as it will be put long down (up) your list.

As it is now I think threaded view in Thunderbird is USELESS as many many of my mails have been lost.

It's such a easy patch but the Mozilla people doesn't care.

We should allow jabber clients to make video/audio calls to users on other protocols such as MSN messenger or Yahoo messenger. This is done by adding support for Jingle over Jabber transports. It is entirely possible that Jingle compatible clients need no new work to "just work", and that converters only need to be added on the server side now to support it.

The benefits?
- Any IM chat client which supports Jabber+jingle+jingle via transports(may not be needed), can support AV over ANY chat protocol without extra code (even new ones that don't exist at the time of programming).
- Much less code. Currently, we have to add code to EVERY client, for every different IM protocol included. With this idea, clients would only need to support the jingle JEP over Transports. This means they can spend more time working on adding features!
- Users logging into only one jabber account, will automatically be able to access all their other IM accounts on other networks.
- Obsoletes multi-IM protocol clients. Since Jabber clients could support AV over any protocol, we don't need to code for them specifically client side. Thats all handled server-side/transport server-side
- Jabber is a totally open protocol, which anyone can set up a server for. People automatically get an account with jabber, whilst maintaining support for other protocols.

CONS
- Greater CPU load on server. However, maybe not a problem, as in some cases, may simply cost a bit more to translate the AV stream, and that could be done by separate transport servers from the server. And we know CPU's with hundreds of cores will be here within 2 years anyway, so servers will be ready in time.

Please make Brainstorm web application able to kickban users writing posts with activated capslock - I'm not joking.