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The majority of people use a webmail service, so having a calendar that can sync with major web calendars (eg Google Calendar, Windows Live Calendar), that is easy to add and remove events to, to add alarms and notifications and to be able to do all of this without opening an email application would be fantastic, I think.

Thanks for the oppurtunity to be heard.

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When I installed Kile (every time I update my System - I don't like the auto-update) in the past, I had to look for all the packages I need.

In reality this ends up to be a breath teaking, never ending process (even though I wrote down most of the kile-packages i need on a paper!) which in my eyes should be easier. I don't expect it to be one single file, but a wizard (for example), asking for languages and kile-package-groups or something alike, would be cool.

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Remember, the first thing a user see's when he wants to download Ubuntu is Ubuntu.com

It needs to be more intuitive!

Mandrivas site (although Ugly) is designed with simplicity in mind: http://mandriva.com/

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easy one click print
easy resize even inside nautilus or on desktop.
easy crop option
compress photo/export to other formats like png etc.
zoom in/out easily/fit to window
slide show.
link picture viewer to other photo editing software like
gimp or default picture editing software.
change default photo folder.

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And yes, I know, that you can resize individual desktop icons, but if you have many of them this is a time-consuming task which you have to repeat for every new icon.

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The archive should be small enough to be transported via a USB-Stick or mail, let us say max 250MB.
As it is for now, i will have to do this in several steps.

1. sudo dpkg --get-selections > Packages.lst
2. Export bookmarks
3. a.s.o...
And as many steps to complete the target computor.

Why not have a System Import/Export, the archive could be protected by crypto and a separate password.
By scheduling a daily backup of this file, i would also have someting like "Windows System Restore" but better.

A Simple GUI that lets you choose which items that should be included, would also be nice.

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* "Sessions" is also complicated i think. I can't understand some tabs as a new user.

* I want to add/remove programs to startup easy.

* my startup profiles must be transferred easily to my brothers' account.

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Include reconstructor (or some other official respin/remaster app) in repositories in order to make it easy for people to customize their own Ubuntu disks enabling users to have an Ubuntu LiveCD set up with the apps and tools that they like.

While it will enable people to make more offshoots of Ubuntu, it will also allow users to create their own private distro with things set up how they like.

It would also enable people to create their own disks with ndiswrapper and their specific WiFi card drivers included on the disk for easy Live session connectivity.

For inspiration, look to the MkDistro tool from Dreamlinux as well as the nLite tool for Windows. PuppyLinux also has a remastering process that makes it very easy for people to customize their own version of Puppy.

The tool need not be installed/available by default. Just include it in the repositories and be sure to document it well.

To the "There are too many distros" crowd: There are already 500+ distros and climbing... this isn't really a problem, and you're not going to change it. This is just the definition of choice. Celebrate diversity!!




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OpenOffice has a similar result, but GIMP will actually pull you over to workspace B when it comes up. That's kind of cool, but behavior is inconsistent between GIMP and OpenOffice or Eclipse.

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a quick google search tells me it was attacked and is planned for relaunch soon. That was said in November. :/

Could we please get this back up?!

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Like the Borealis sound theme or something else.

Hear yourself

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/%22Borealis%22+sound+theme?content=12584



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I know some person like this behavior. So a solution would be to add a checkbox to enable/disable the "hide on close" in the preferences.

Edit> IMO, once an application is in the systray, "close" differs from "quit" (i.e. you "close" the window, but you don't "quit" the program).

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please delete this idea

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