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If you're not a graphic artist, you probably don't know what this means. To be short: the practical effect is that you fonts look smoother, like the Mac OS X fonts.

Also, most fonts look very bad with hinting enabled, virtually only Vera/DejaVu has acceptable results, while most other fonts are not usable.

This is very easy to implement: it is just a true/false value in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
You can also set it per user in your ~/.fonts.conf by pasting this snippet:


false


(Affects only newly started applications)

Artists and eye candy people, make your voice heard!

Kde 4 has its compositing window manager, instead gnome hasn't it. To have some bling a user should install compiz but it's not really reliable software, instead i see that you're working on clutter (for ubuntu mobile), it will be a great job to improve metacity using clutter as foundation library and move results upstream to the gnome community.

Good idea:
XAMPP (LAMPP / MAMPP / WAMPP etc.) web servers:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/extra.html

Although XAMPP is Mac/PC/Linux, it does not go on an OS independent CD like this:

Stunnix OS-independent web-server on a CD:
http://www.stunnix.com/prod/aws/overviews.shtml

How about having some sort of OS independent solution that will run CD and DVD projects without the target machine having to install any software at all. But not just a Stunnix clone, something better: Remember Macromedia Director and Authorware? And Flash too.

Essentially a projector for OS independent "multimedia / database / web-based projects" all running of the same CD / DVD no matter what the presentation technology used.

(The client is also requesting that this disk be password protected and encrypted, to prevent un-authorized access.)

Listen is a complete music player with:
-Lyrics
-Wikipedia information about the song, artist and album.
-last.fm audioscrobbler and related artists.
-Complete library management
-iPod support
-Podcast
-...

It's very useful and easy to use, but many people never heard about it. It could be installed instead of Rhythmbox to compete against Amarok.

How about creating a universal interface (together with some file format) for configuring applications?

The problem: when user needs to configure e-mail client, instant messenger, some other software, he always have to do it by hand. Reading manuals and setting values s/he can barely understand.

Here is how I see a solution. There should be some application that can "play" some configuration files (a-la .reg files in windows). So, for example, when I need to set up SIP client, I can just download configuration fragment from the service provider and run it with configurator. It will then set up only those parameters, which present in downloaded file and leave all others as they were.

It has a potential to become a security nightmare, but if implemented correctly can be a big win for linux usability.

I have a feature request. Let me explain it with an example.
Imagine that I have two pictures and I need to create one picture from those two.
I will need to open the first image and for example drag & drop the second to this one (to The GIMP window with the first image).
So we will have two layers: one below (first image) and one above (second image, it covers the first one now).
And if it is for example 800x631 and 800x245, we need to change the canvas size height to 631+245.
Here we need to count 631+245=876 in mind/orally or, otherwise, to use a calculator.
The both processes make a sure slowdown. So, how to simply kill this slowdown?
Just add a feature to execute simple algebraic operations right in the width and height fields!
So users will need just to write 631+245, press enter, and it will be changed to 876 by The GIMP.
I think only four operations are needed: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Hi

The only reason I am still on Windows is that there is no native music player like foobar for linux especially Gnome UI. I know there is Amarok for KDE but I myself a huge fan of Gnome. Anyway I need this music player to be just like foobar without having to run it under wine. I know there is something called lamip which is basically foobar, however, it would be very nice if it could be in apt because it is very tedious right now to get it up and running.

If you know of any other plays which will let me navigate through a music cue file and that will play FLAC/AAC and support 24 bit depth of the output then please let me know about it. I want to hear about it. If something like this is allready in ubuntu I would love to hear your opinion.

Thank you

I'd like to see an deb package for wxMusic - or at the very minimum some better installation instruction for Ubuntu

I used to be philosophically opposed to Wine and it's ilk. But recently I had the epiphany: Linux is succeeding in the marketplace on it's own merits -- now we should embrace windows' binary api. When Linux really starts taking off and devs start porting all their apps to wine (from windows), we slowly evolve the wine api away from windows... So, goble up the windows applications, then slowly "upgrade" the api to alienate them from windows (just like windows does to the rest of the world). Eventually, Wine will become a deprecated appendage and devs will then start developing for Linux natively, thereby extinguishing Windows.

Much easier to tell newer users to cat something to pastebinit
for examination in IRC help channels and then paste the automatically generated url; less flooding and more efficient.

On my openSuSE System the Emerald Settings Manager changes the Theme instantly, but on Ubuntu it requires an restart of X to apply the Theme.

Include more recent version of IceWM package into Ubuntu-repository. Create tools for XDG specification menu support. Change IceWM default theme to more attractive.

Summary:
Ability to download only changed bits of files and use much less bandwidth.
Scope and Use Cases:
Ann has slow internet connection. She sees that there are 150MB of updates and decides not to update at all leaving her with vulnerable and buggy system.
Implementation Plan:
Adopt it from Debian?

Previously discussed here, but still not implemented: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=409916