Contributor dragoninsane

A lot of us use WINE to run the Windows version of firefox. I use Firefox on ubuntu, but I like my Add-ons and themes for it. When I use Windows, I can install all I want. In ubuntu when I use firefox, It says, "This add-on is not availible in Linux" or something in that manner. We should fix that, I'm sure everyone hates being confused in which browser to use, either Firefox or Firefox.

This is obviously not an easy one, but:

If the Windows XP user have some way of keeping there windows installation completely intact and running it alongside Ubuntu this would reduce the barrier of having to completely ditch Windows and move to Linux.

I know about dual booting, of course, but _I_ don't wan't to have to shut down all my applications and reboot just to see how that thing in Excel works so I can replicate it in OO on Linux (or summat).

If the user had the option of keeping their previous Windows XP installation running in Virtual Box or something, and possibly having all the Win XP hardware support (e.g. USB) to smooth the transition.

Now that would be something, wouldn't it?

I have a VBox VM with Windows for developer support, so I know it is possible, I also know it is a bit Herculean, but the question is: "Would it make people migrate who otherwise wouldn't?", E.g. small businesses.

I am also aware of problems moving WinXP to a VM from native, but these have been fixed.

http://grahams.free-online.co.uk

intrepid ibex must come with a higher screen resolution by default, and not the one that it has now by default (1024*768), it should come for example: 1280*960 or 1280*1024, if it isnt posible please tell me why and what could be the solutions, if it is posible please make intrepid ibex comes with a higher resolution by default, 1280*960 is my prefered, and if u are askin, my video card support a higher resolution but i have to do it manually, i want that it comes by default. maybe becouse a driver that i must install!! can drivers come by default when it detects my video card

But it has a long way to go. If you want to change people from Windows or Mac O/S X than I think that you need to a redesign from the ground up! Make it easier (I am a PC tech and I know people that can't use XP!)A lot of people have used dos change it to more friendly commands. Have a repository form apps that people download. Windows has copied so much from other O/S so do the same to them, If a file is downloaded (like an .exe , .rar) When someone clicks to open it downloads the program and opens it right then. Or it takes you to a website and gives you links to download the program. Auto linking files to programs, (like .jpg) just auto link the files so you don't have to find the app that opens that file in the hard to understand file system that opens that file. Let the file system make sense . (Put a apps folder, where all the apps install by default) Let the commands on the test based side easier to use and remember. Preinstall codces for video and audio in Firefox and Video player. People like to click and go. Have flash and Java Preinstalled. Mouse themes, let user choose KDE, or Gnome installation. Have a RAM manger (Like RAM XP Pro). I think that some of these changes will help Ubuntu on it's way.

I think Ubuntu needs a new 3D logo, so its logo can be truly different from logos of any other Linux distributions.

I've already seen some good 3D logos, for example, this one:

http://grevenlx.deviantart.com/art/Ubuntu-Linux-Logo-Icon-18879369

is used by the Clear Intrepid theme (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/Clear_Intrepid
).

Am no technical person. Wonder if it would be possible? Perhaps nobody has got around to integrate a windows abstraction layer with Linux. It might be a great service if someone would do that. I certainly would love to have an operating system that can run seamlessly software designed for windows or OS-X or linux. Or for that matter it would be great if software made for any major operating system or linux distro could be seamlessly installed and used on ubuntu without having to start up a seperate package such as wine.

At a time when Vista is facing resistance and XP is off the store shelves, this is the right time to strike a death blow to Microsoft. A drastic rethink by Ubuntu is needed at this stage. I have suggested that if Wine could be integrated with Linux (however less efficiently) and perhaps some interoperability tools fr other OSes (If such tools exist) too, it would render the purpose of buying/pirating windows meaningless to many users. This would only be a tactical move to grab the typical XP user who would feel encouraged to abandon Windows if many of his preferred applications work with Ubuntu. Over a period of time, such users could be weaned away from proprietary applications towards open source applications. I am sure this suggestion would draw a lot of flak but I strongly feel that something different and drastic has to be done to fix Ubuntu Bug No. 1. Efforts such as Wine and Wubi are only half measures and something stronger is needed.

There should be a standardized way to install applications to one user account only, without the need for administrator/root/superuser password authentication.

Many, many programs, from movie players to text editors to video games to business utilities, could easily be installed without exposing the whole system. So why pose a security threat for no reason?

In the spirit of Linux/UNIX, users should be able to do a lot of things without affecting the core system or other users. And users often want or need to run new programs for whatever reason.

So, there should a standard install folder for each user, such as:

/home/username/.installed-packages

The subdirectories in the folder would be like all the typical system directories, such as /usr/bin and others. These directories would also be added to the list of places that bash looks for commands.

There could also be a folder for third-party installs for all users:

/public-install

which would have chmod 777 so that any user can install and run software that other users can try too. And of course any user can mess up the folder, but that's okay because it wouldn't mess up the system, and no one would lose important documents (only downloaded programs).

Programs like apt-get or synaptic could be modified to install to these folders. The trickier part would be to set up a log of what packages are owned by who. User packaging should definately be kept separate from the classic root packaging.

And of course there are packages that should only be installed as root (such as system updates). But by making every program require root to install, it either restricts users or puts the whole system at risk. After all, it seems the only time a Linux system doesn't work is when someone did something stupid as root. So why not just avoid the problem altogether?

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Integrate Cedega in Ubuntu as default for powerful gaming features, for users who wanna playing on their desktops and laptops.

Some people would be more comfortable with this stuff. It also may help migration of new users from other operating systems.

For those who wants to hide these icons, it would be a good solution to add a special tab into gnome-display-propertis where users could check and uncheck icons they want on the desktop.

I'm a big fan of eyecandy and i know a lot of people do too. I would love for people to change their windows or mac to try and make them look like UBUNTU. This has not happened though. i started thinkin how about breakin up the development. have the one side that deals with fixing bugs and making things faster and hardware find faster work in terminal, then have the ubuntu-look people. they make all those gui things. the menu, the boot loader the splash. they will say we want to use this program to load and tell the terminal guys they check bugs and the gui guys make it user friendly and beautiful. that way we wont think we are changing the wallpaper and then find settings for compiz. the gui people select the icons, wallpapes that and wording.t the gui guys make sure that kubuntu looks similar ubuntu with a different colour maybe. they would make emerald themes that and metacity themes that look the same.

A recent article on ZDnet caught my attention. And i think this points out very good why a popular program like VMware could do with a proper repo.

Also read that article's other little frustrations, that might inspire some of us for more brilliant ideas.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2144

This frustration kicked up quiet some dust there on ZDnet. And to me its VERY clear that this needs to be improved.

My original post to Ask VMware for a repo is thisone:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/9592/

For years Flash was the only way to embed multimedia in a website. Microsoft is now trying to enter the market with Silverlight. The Open Source Community should do the same. An open standard needs to be developed for embedding multimedia into websites, so both content providers and users aren't locked into one vendor.

Since Ubuntu is meant to be human friendly, I suggest adding the Accessibility settings from System>Preferences>Advanced Desktop Effects Settings (not installed by default) to System>Preferences>Assistive Technologies (or maybe elsewhere?). The rest i believe to be mostly eye candy, but these Accessibility settings can be crucial to ones productivity and should therefore be included by default.

Case1:
Elvis has problems concentrating with all the background windows or he gets confused which window is active, ADD Helper helps him find focus.

Case2:
Old John has bad eyesight, and even a 800x600 resolution seems soo small that it might just as well be 1600x1200, with the help of Enhanced Zoom Desktop he can easily enlarge on screen text to a size he can see without sodomizing the screen with his face.

I think the other accessibility options might be equally useful for some people, also the level to which they can be configured makes them flexible for people with different problems, so i also suggest that these tools be added in their current state without simplification (if it aint broke...).

I suggest to use mouse doubleclick at empty space. It must be user-selectable as follow:
do nothing;
create empty text file;
create new folder;
make a sticky note (for desktop)
or so.

(added) Why dislike this? Please drop a line. By default it's never doubleclicks. Only option.

these are the options that you should add to the desktop right clic:

1- Hide or Show All Desktop Icons
2- the Desktop View Alignment Settings (top, right, left, button)
3- Change the Desktop Icons Sort By Order
4- Change the Desktop Icons view (classic view, small icons, big icons, etc)

please do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Allocate multiple points to ideas. I'll first explain my line of thought before I outline my idea.

Right now we have the buttons up and down to increase or decrease the total points by 1. It doesn't get much simpler than this, it is great:

* I like it -> 1up
* I don't like it -> 1down

But what if I think an idea is remarkably good or incredibly bad?

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/94/ "Fix Suspend and Hibernate" is a real important idea for me but it still only gets 1up when I click the button.
There is no possibility to distinguish between good but less important ideas (http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/8972/ "Don't show the fast user swith applet if there is just one user") and really good an extremly important ideas like mentioned suspend fix.

Finally, my idea:

For this to work, made votings need to be changable (http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/83/ "Allow changing of votes in brainstorm") and an limited amount of points. I thougt a good amount of points would be the quantity of ideas but when is an idea an idea? The moment it is posted? After no duplicates could be found? After an initial phase of voting ups?

Lets assume we now have this amount of points based on something and want to assign them.
The design of the voting buttons would stay exactly the same; up, down, total number in the middle (which in my opinion should not be visible till I voted, but that's another idea). The difference would be that clicking once on up (or down) increases (decreases) the total points by 1 - no change here - but holding down the button longer, raises the number of points that I plan to assign. There should be a limit to the number of points I can assign to one idea: 100 looks and sounds good and has no special meaning besides looking and sounding good. Another limit number could be better.

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Some hardware picture frames have the feature to change the displayed picture via e-mail. Similar to this I would like to send pictures via e-mail which are displayed as the Ubuntu desktop wallpaper of my family and friends. This would allow me to keep them updated while traveling.

When changing start page in firefox, it should ask for the users password, so others doesn't change it. I hate when my friends does that :P

EDIT: or at least, there should be an option to activate this.

It think, default icon size should be set to 75% of current size by default. It would more closely resemble icon size in Windows, KDE and other desktop environments and operating systems.

This also would leave more free space on your desktop.