Contributor dega1999

You usually click "about" menu entries, if you want to know which version of a program you are running, so that you can ask for help on the internet.
Therefore the "about Ubuntu" menu entry in "System" should show the currently running kernel version and the version of xorg.

There are a lot of themes available for download from http://www.gnome-look.org/, but it would be nice if some of the best ones that are not currently included with Ubuntu WERE included by default. What would it hurt to include a few more?

I've got a 1 Gb USB storage with an 800 Mb file on it.

When I want to copy an updated version of this file (same name), Nautilus warn me that the operation can't be done cause there is not enought space on the disk.

So I have to manualy erase the old file, empty the trashcan, and finaly copy the new file.


Therefore I suggest that Nautilus check files name when coping or moving operations BEFORE complaining about having not enought space left. (and then simply ask if we want to replace/rename/cancel)

When the left pane in nautilus shows tree view, it should be possible to traverse this tree using the keyboard. That means, the following functions should be available from the keyboard:

arrow down: climb down the tree in the listed order
arrow up: climb up the tree in the listed order
arrow left: collapse the current part of the tree
arrow right: unfold the current part of the tree
enter: unfold the current part of the tree

as it is now, when you try to climb down using the down arrow of the keyboard, it will immediately move focus to the main part of the windows making further traversing impossible.

Ubuntu needs to go green. Powertop, Lesswatts and other tools have finally hit the Linux scene to pave the way for better power management. It needs to be said, "if you want your battery to last longest, or have your energy bill be the lowest, you better use Ubuntu Linux."

At the moment it's possible to manage traditional wired and WiFi connections using Network Manager. To connect via a modem, a 3G/GPRS card, over bluetooth to a cell phone or via USB to another device requires that the user installs extra packages, and does a fair amount of configuration that isn't found in Network Manager.

A single unified tool should be provided which allows the user to connect to a network (or internet) via any supported method. It would also be useful to provide an extension to this tool to manage firewall rules and network connection sharing.

It's easy to get into the habit of looking to the computer screen for the time.

The time should be displayed in unobtrusive, simple text at the bottom of the login screen and in the status line of the locked screen dialog.

Hello,

I propose to integrate NM 0.7 in Hardy Heron because:

- the 0.6 version give many problems
- the 0.7 version is in Fedora 9 and others distributions
- the 0.7 version is more more more great :p
- it is normal to work on the 0.6 version for Hardy?

so, please to vote for my idea :p

bye,
fred

There's a feature in Mandriva that is really cool: laptop-kernel. You can use this kernel and your system is all tweaked to be correctly used with a laptop. It' easier to use this and not to have to configure by yourself your computer.

I'm not sure my idea is clear (I'M french so my english is really accurate), but the thing is that it would be great to be able to choose a kernel already optimized for your laptop.

Ubuntu need a processes manager that will load quickly and thus be preloaded in memory to use it when I need it quickly, an process manager who always respond well light and have their "sleep" in the code to enable him to run in real time without harming the functioning of the machine to use it
That for me is essential because sometimes some software tilts and I have to wait forever to react, windows and even though it has many times the system becomes unstable be solved very quickly with the manager processes that possesses.
Ubuntu have one, but it doesn't meet this features
(preload, speed, reaction, response and high priority, etc)
It would be perfect to kill the process or lower the priority to be able to continue working normally while ending "freezes"
In ubuntu we can not act quickly drift which results in inefficient that can be solved easily in this way

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.

This is not an Ubuntu idea, it is to send a message to OpenOffice programmers.

I try to explain a concept...
The base idea is to have at widget library level (GTK,QT etc) a way to retrieve keycode for an action in a standard way.
For example suppose the Copy action of a program.
Usually a program use CTRL+C combination for this kind of action.
The programmer when write the code of his application, instead of choose by itself a predefined combination for the copy action, can ask to the library/os/otherThings which is the predefined key combination for the Copy action.
It is better if this kind of thing it's set in the compilation asking to a library with a particolar function, for example something like:

char* = getKeyCode(Action.COPY);

instead of asking this kind of things at runtime to a library of the OS everytime that the application start.

If i want to share the "look and feel" of my desktop with someone else, i have to send many different files: wallpapers, gtk-engines, gtk-themes, metacity themes, iconpacks, screenlets and so on.

I would like to press an "export look and feel"-button to get a file with all the look-and-feel-related stuff included, so that i can reproduce my complete look and feel on another machine.

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

All Ubuntu websites should pass the W3C validation checks:
http://www.ubuntu.com/ 4 Errors
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ 12 Errors
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ 311 Errors
https://launchpad.net/ 5 Errors
http://releases.ubuntu.com/ 17 Errors

Some of these are really simple fixes, but showing that we care about open standards is priceless.

For reference, others that fail:
Microsoft, Sun, KDE fail. Novell and Apple fail with 1 Error.

Those that pass:
Red Hat, opensuse, Debian, Fedora, Linux Mint, Gnome, Opera, Firefox and OpenOffice.org

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!

While requesting features to the open source community which consist mainly of free workers, we may often forget to say how much we like Ubuntu and look like costumers requesting.

So you can say thank you to the thousands of developers and users who gave their time by voting for this article :)

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?

I propose to hide the folder in nautilus, when not in super-user mode.

On every partition ubuntu creates a "lost+found" folder for the purpose of recovering broken files during disk-checks, which happens very rarely. Nautilus won't let you browse the folder unless you are logged in as super-user. So all in all it's pretty useless (and actually quite confusing!) to the everyday user.

Update: thanks for comments. It seems that making "lost+found" a hidden folder by default would be a good solution to this problem. Continue voting :-)