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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)

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]]> Fri, 05-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9965/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12292/ a. The lack of 3rd party software.
b. Undocumented APIs, lots of development targets.
c. Second rate development environments.

Nokia Qt framework solves problems (b) and (c).
In order to solve problem (a), 3rd party (non FOSS) developers should be able to use Qt without paying the huge 3000$ per license currently required. It can be done by having LGPL as one of the release options of Qt.

It is also the interest of Nokia, if they want their mobile phones platform to be as popular as the iPhone. XCode is free of charge.

Note:
Gtk is slow, cumbersome, under maintained, and not truly cross platform - it is not a solution.
WxWidgets is very limiting,
The rest of the toolkits are niche, and far less useful than the three above.

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Every time the guest account logs out, its purged so next user who login is a clean fresh account.

Mac OS X has this;
* http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html#system

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]]> Fri, 05-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/1474/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/7321/ * Category colors are now shown next to an event box, giving users a much better overview of their differently categorized events
* Events with alarms now have a visual indicator showing an alarm bell
* A totally overhauled alarm dialog
* Sunbird now recognizes the timezone definitions in .ics files created by other applications. This fixes the longstanding issue of Sunbird miscalculating the date or time of events contained in those files
* The timezone guessing has been significantly improved
* Sunbird now contains experimental support for viewing remote calendars offline. This feature has known bugs and is included for testing purposes only
* Sunbird contains several performance fixes, which should improve working with larger calendar files
* You can now define for each of your calendars, whether you want to be notified of alarms for events in these calendars or not
* A full list of changes that have gone into this release can be found on The Rumbling Edge website

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]]> Fri, 05-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/7321/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12269/ First of all: apologize for my english.
I'm an user of Ubuntu since 6.10 and i'm very proud of have more than a year with ubuntu.
But i want to propose one interesting goal which could make the diference between UBUNTU and the resting OS.
My proposal is:
Let's try to build new versions of ubuntu making our OS consume less memory each new version is released.
Microsoft and MAC have a horrible mistake: each new version of their SO requires a lot of memory..let's make ubuntu get the opossite way (as much as posible)...with each new version get a lower profile of minium requirements.

I know that programmers and all the staff will call me idiot. But i really think that this should be one of the first goal to take on mind for the new version of ubuntu.

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http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/

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''Firefox is a cross platform web browser, it's modular, has an active user base and motivated fan base, has many extensions and about 2.5 million lines of code.

KDE is also cross platform, modular, active user base, third party additions, 3.8 million lines of code. So quite some similarities.''

''Users like a consistent look and feel, UI configuration (colours and themes) should only be done once and shortcuts should be consistent.''

http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Firefox+KDE+Integration



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http://go-oo.org/discover/

Why another free office suite? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/03/1212234

It's better, faster, and freer. 'nuff said.


Why wouldn't we want this? If you disagree, why?

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]]> Fri, 05-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/11674/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9871/ I would like to propose a new way to use copy/paste without the use of Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V and without right click.

I'm thinking about a way to copy one OR MORE files or folder to a temporary place which can be associated to "I've picked these files and there are in my hand". Then, you can release the group of files in a new location after browsing.

It will be thus possible to copy/paste more than one file/directory at one time :-)


Example :
- I want to copy home/me/list.pdf and home/me/subfolder/image.jpg to my usb key
- I go to home/me/ and I drag and drop list.pdf to the clipboard stack, which in represented in nautilus as a list (see
http://www.vergeylen.eu/stephane/uploads/divers/copyPaste.png )
- I can see that the clipboard contains list.pdf
- I navigate to home/me/subfolder and I drag and drop image.jpg to the same clipboard. This new file is added to the clipboard for further traitment.
- When I've chosen every files and folder I need, I navigate to my USB key (let's say, I click on its icon on the desktop, which opens a new window)
- In this new window, I see the same contents in the clipboard and I click "Copy to this place". I'm done


In summary, here is what is necessary to add to Nautilus to do this :
- A list (stack) which represent the contents of the clipboard
- An "Empty icon" to empty the clipboard
- An "Copy here icon" to copy all the clipboard in the present location
- An "Move to here icon" to move the clipboard in the present location

Furthermore, we can imagine that a Ctrl-C in another app (for example copy a text from firefox) could be viewed in the clipboard stack when opening nautilus an be pasted directly in a file...

See the screenshot I made with Gimp :
http://www.vergeylen.eu/stephane/uploads/divers/copyPaste.png



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This would provide a mechanism for spammers to be identified quickly, whilst forcing spammers to resort to posting real comments, and hiding the spam within them (inefficient in the spamming world), signing up to thousands of accounts, and post using different account names (but, account creation uses a captcha stopping that), or dumping random words within it (which will make the messages immediately obvious they contain spam).

If we don't immediately get on top of the problem now, we will have no mechanism in place to protect against spam bots.

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But strictly no advertisement should be put in the cd(cd contents).This can easily cover the cost of cds... and can also let canonical make and ship more cds.

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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 05-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/11611/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/11615/ There are some reasons for this:

- people sometimes vote (good) ideas down just because it is a duplicate.
- It would help solve the problem of double votes.
- ATM you have comments spread all over 3-4 ideas which would be more convenient haveing them in one together.
- people are more lead to the leading idea and don't give the duplicates that much importance

The way launchpad works is really good.

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(See multiples duplicates and comments about more requested improvement)

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My Idea:
- Adding a Selection for "Using Gimp in one Window"

IMPORTANT
- That should NOT be default, but an option, which doesn't go in trouble for users liking this multi window management with its advantages!

I guess that more than 20% of the gimp users where really happy for this important feature. I know that Gimpshop and other Plugins are available, but this couldn't be the end solution. Gimp should bring this "little" feature with it in future! Thanks!

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An example would be, say, allowing a composited GTK+ theme to alter the opacity of Nautilus, while leaving the content boxes opaque for visibility.

I created a crude mockup to show what I mean:

http://picasaweb.google.com/steampoweredlawngnome/LinuxMockupIdeas/photo#5236101676680115298

Superficially, this would provide yet more useless eye candy, but even on that point alone, eye candy is often what gets people interested in GNU/Linux in the first place. The other benefits keep them using it once the novelty of wobbly windows, spinning cubes and painting the desktop with fire have worn off.

Aside from eye candy though, I think in-window compositing could have many far-reaching benefits, including providing better usability for visually impaired users and adding powerful enhancements to video & graphic design applications.

If used tastefully, it could also provide a new level of visual refinement.

I see there is something similar in the form of the Murrine GTK+ engine, allowing transparency effects on window backgrounds, but from what I gather this does not provide nearly the same comprehensive set of features of full 3D rendered compositing.

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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 05-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/11682/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/3217/ in this way each user can customize his own disto and then remaster a live cd in order to have a fully customized system from a fresh install!

Also create a rolling release like Debian testing, where users install it only once and then get the newest packages with few bugs. This way the users won't have a "static" installation and therefore would not have to upgrade every 6 months!

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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 05-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/3217/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12377/ My music collection contains files in mp3, ogg and flac format. My music player unfortunately supports only mp3.

It would be nice, if I could set the format (bitrate, aso), and when dragging the songs, for example in Rhythmbox, to my music player, it will convert all the music automatically on-the-fly to the format my music player supports.

This way there is no manual interaction required anymore. And it would support free codec, like ogg and flac.

What do you think?

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In UNIX-based systems, hidden files are designated by dotted file names like ".something". These are not displayed when viewing files with Nautilus or using "ls", for instance, but can be viewed by enabling "Show Hidden Files" in the View menu or using "ls -A".

FAT and related filesystems have hidden files, too, which are treated by Windows tools exactly the same way. They are designated by a flag in the file system, though, not by a dotted filename, so when you're viewing drives created by other operating systems, they are cluttered up with Thumbs.db, desktop.ini, __MACOSX, Word temporary files, and so on. Ubuntu should treat these exactly as it treats native hidden files.

When navigating a drive created by Windows, MacOS, or other operating systems, files that would normally be hidden in those operating systems should be hidden in Nautilus, too. They should be treated the same way as UNIX dotted hidden files, since they serve the same purpose.

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