Contributor droetker

When music player is working, preview on mouse-over of mp3 files should be disabled. Lets say, you open folder with mp3 files. Clicking on some of the files will open song and play it in Totem (or some player), but when you move your cursor over some other mp3 file is starts playing that song along with the first one. Then you get one annoying sound.

Hei..

Synaptic its very good pack-program..

Im use (mostly) Gnome.. So i dont install progs for KDE.. So it could be more more easy to install software and decide what i want IF there was some icon that show what Desktop the program are fore.. If it are for Gnome or KDE...

Put icon/logo of Gnome Or KDE beside name of Package../progs..

Sorry my english...

Hope u understand.. this vil be very important for many users...

a plugin to allow a user to choose between flash players on the fly. this would
1) allow more widespread testing of gnash/gstreamer
2) allow gnash/gstreamer users to fall back on adobe flash if it fails

blurb:
while gnash is a good video player it fails with certain content. Most new user, and even existing users dont want to suffer a diminished web experienced by using gnash or gstreamer so stick to adobe, this will allow them to get the benefits of gnash/gstreamer without having to put up with the weaknesses of any one player.

valid flash players would include (others also avalible)
gstreamer - video only afaik
gnash - video and some games afaik
adobe flash 9 -buggy & high cpu usage
adobe flash 10-more temperamental w/ lower cpu usage

I think this is best implemented as something like mozpluger as that would make it avalible to all the webbrowsers i can think of. but i can also imagine it
being usable as a simple extension (like flashblock but with options for others) for firefox as firefox is the main ubuntu browser.

As a desktop OS Ubuntu needs more developers for the user experience part. We all know that the look and feel is important.
MacSlow is the king of bling! He has done some amazing work. I'll start by mentioning GdmFaceBrowser (login experience) or the Elisa GUI, both projects are not yet finished.

Just check out some of the amazing stuff he is working on:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Macslow
http://macslow.thepimp.net/
http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/04/29/ubuntus-opengl-face-browse r-will-bring-bling-to-gdm

in kde you have a couple of start menu categories - like office, games etc

now everybody has mobile phone, PMP etc

in this category, programs to use with this things culd be placed - like gnokii, some videoconverter etc

i dont know much about gnome, so i dont know if it has such category, if not - it could also be there

i use quanta all the time at work, usually i have more then 10 opened files,

in firefox i can move tabs - it is very comfortable - if i want to change to tab i dont have to scroll through all other tabs (if they are far away from eachother) - i can move them

quantacant do this, and i think it would be very very usefull

with my current isp i have a 50 gig download limit per month.

i get 25 gig for peek and 25 gig for off peek.

my isp says from 4am till 9am is off peek

and 9am back thru till 4am is peek time

it would be nice if i could leave my pc running overnight and at 4am it connects to a ubuntu mirror and downloads any updates it needed

For programs with tabbed functionality, allow separate windows to be merged into one multi-tabbed window.

e.g Having multiple gnome-terminal windows open a "Retach Tab"
function can be added to the Tabs menu.

Ubuntu has a great implementation for getting a Dualboot-system if one doesn´t want to completely switch over from Windows to Ubuntu.
The installation is easy enough for former Windows users.

But its much more difficult when it comes to silly ideas like "I want to have another Linux-OS on my Computer".
If you don´t have the standart layout (whatever the reason is for that) you run into deep troubles when you are not so experienced.
The other Linux OS, Ubuntu included will overwrite the Grub of the already existing Linux OS when you don´t care about "where do I put the bootloader?".
Or the Grub of the existing Linux-OS will not recognise a new installation if you put the bootloader of the additional Linux somewhere else (not into MBR)

So my idea and question is:
would it be possible to implement some feature into the install and partitioning routine which detects other Linux-Grub installations and asks the user: "there is another Linux. Do you want to keep it?" and two buttons: "yes, please add yourself to the boot-menu" and "no, please delete the old system"

With clicking the "yes"-button Ubuntu should add its bootloading-stuff to the existing GRUB so that after the reboot the user could chose like it is in Ubuntu-Windows Dualboot systems. I mean such an automated mechanism like it is existing for existing windows-installations.

With clicking the "no" Button Ubuntu could proceed like before: overwriting the GRUB and boot-files in the MBR.

How about this? Is it a great idea or... just stupid? :-))

Thanks and greetings

We have composited window managers (Compiz and KDE4's kwin to name the two best known), but I'd like to see the content of the windows themselves support compositing. As I understand it, compositors like Compiz treat what's inside the confines of the window as one unit, and do not recognize the individual elements, menus excluded.

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#523610 1676680115298

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.

I think both kubuntu and ubuntu project should share the same colour pallete, obth blue or both orange-brown. I've tried kubuntu Kde4 and change the color scheme to a human one and really looks good.

Maybe this belongs solely on Rhythmbox's site but I would like to be able to apply my own album artwork to rather than only having Rhythmbox download it's best guess.
I listen to allot of music that Rhythmbox can't find covers for or that it applies incorrect covers to. It would nice to get consistency but defining my own downloaded art work.

This is my only complaint with Rhythmbox, I otherwise love it's simplicity, functionality and integration with the desktop.

Perhaps there's a way to do this already, but I haven't learned it.

From my point of view, Linux and Ubuntu's main weaknesses are:
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.

It could be dangerous for my stats... but I need to mention that...

In real world 90% of PCs are using Windows, nowadays fewer people use it because of vista, but Windows XP is dangerous..

This idea propose to create a place where the people can tell us, "What things are using, and likes about windows". There, we can see the real things that the people wants, things that Ubuntu does, o doesn't do.

"The Windows eXPeriencie". People like things that are more easy to do, and more beautiful to see in Windows, these things We know, but not all things, simply things that we don't think.

Remember, don´t kill me, be "open", open your mind and remember it, UBUNTU is for human people, then, is neccessary that Ubuntu be easy and intuitive like Windows is for donkeys.

Easy like Windows XP (never Vista XD), beautiful like Apple, someday..it will be Ubuntu.

PD: Ubuntu have things better that Windows, but the people have to say what things they like them, because the people don't know what things have o no Ubuntu and GNU/Linux.

It would be great if users could attach money to Brainstorm ideas. Its all good and well to post hundreds of ideas, but as things go, ideas which are posted first may not be the best ideas, but will climb to the top fastest (and will stay there, because people will vote for them on most popular).

Lets make it possible for people to donate $5 or so to their own ideas. Sure nobody may implement it, or the patch may not be accepted but it opens things up a lot more. Nobody loses either.

For those who think that this will turn linux coders into people who only code for money are wrong. There have been many bounties in the past, and they have not wiped out the many developers (me inclusive) who code as a hobby. Even with the gnome bounties in place, I still continued coding my application at the time for instance.


Anyway, at the end of the day, its not hard to implement, and it will do nothing but speed up development for highly wanted features (and maybe even organisations like gnome could use the money on spreading word about linux, or improving their hardware support).

There is currently no default way to launch the expo function of Compiz using only the mouse. It would be great if, when Expo is active, you could middle-click the workspace switcher to activate it.

It would be handy and wouldn't detract from current functionality.

It is quite unprofessional to see a text style boot every file system check. Include this step in the graphical ubuntu bar progression and add an one line information to notice the user why the boot is longer.

Please! Please! Please!

>. Lower consumption of memory

HI!.
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.

I think it could be useful to know in which countries we cannot use audio/video restricted formats, as for a user, in a given country, it's very difficult some times to find info about this fact. I also suggest to associate at every entry, related to countries that doesn't allow the use of audio/video restricted formats for free, the infos that explains how to use them legally (that is "you have to pay this to this company", or "if you have bought a DVD player maybe you have already the possibility to use mpeg formats" and so on).