Contributor fazillatheef

After adding new repositories and clicking reload,Synaptic downloads lists from servers.And after that When I search for an application in synaptic it takes to much time to find me the package.Actually its looking into the list that was downloaded.

I think indexing the package name and description after reloading the package list can improve synaptic performance.

When a user enters username and password in GDM ,and press enter the screen rotates and displays the desktop. This can also be used when user logout or switch users.

This is desktop eye candy,I think this looks good ,but there is nothing functional.

And this should be enabled only on systems that has compiz enabled.

Similar idea can also be used for an application like mediacenter.

I am using hardy heron..and I connect to internet using a "how to" that I got from the ubuntu forum..It requires me to type commands in the terminal....
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-257127.html

What suprised me was the the fact that, Hardy has lot of improvement in terms of bluetooth configuration gui...and the network manager has new gprs configuration section... I think someone can connect to internet using it...but not me

As a normal user I think there should be a Gui wizard to configure a GPRS internet connection through bluetooth.

This is a duplicate of my idea.. I changed a few things for making things more clear...

People who dont have internet or people with slow internet connection can find it very difficult to update or install new software on their system.Even though Cds are there .. there maybe some softwares not included .. And it is not logically correct to download many softwares and write a cd just to install one or two apps.

I came to know about a program made in python that could solve this problem.This program works in fedora. https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/opyum/
Since I heard that developers are keen to hear features and programs in other linux distribution that is not there in ubuntu,I thought this would be a good idea. The basic concept is as follows:-

consider the following

A is a computer with no internet
B is a computer with internet

At first the program is run in A which generates a file which contains the information about the installed application and hardware present. This file will act as a profile for the computer A.

Now this file is taken to B and is given to the program ,which shows installed applications status as in A .

the user installs(installation just downloads the application) application of his choice.Since the program is interfaced with the package manager ,it can easily deal with the required dependencies and downloads all the debs to a specified folder.In this folder a script will also be created.

Now the folder is taken to A with the help of a storage medium (thumb drive,cd,dvd,etc..) and the script when run gives the user two options


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This is not a development stuff. But something that can show off what open source can do. Include the open source movie BIG BUCK BUNNY ,which can be used to test video playback and advertise what open source tools like blender ,gimp,inkscape etc.. are capable of . It will be very small because its just 8 mins long and its very funny.

Audio preview in nautilus is a very good feature.But I would like to add some more things that can be improved.

1) Ability to fast forward - can be done using some key combination along with the mouse scroll.
2) Smooth fade in effect ,because sometimes music may start accidently when user places mouse on top of an audio file.And some people may find it disturbing.Because the volume maybe high.
3) Ability to set the default volume that nautilus uses.Currently it's the system volume.
4) All the above features should be optional.

There should be an option for disconnecting the internet connection based on the specified data usage for one session. This can help people control their usage with limited data plans. This option can be added to the network manager.

This is a feature for the note taking application tomboy

1)A person copies text from a website or a document
2)Right clicks on the tomboy icon on the panel(desktop) and select paste
3)A new note is created in tomboy with the copied text

note: Append/Linking to previous note should also be available

When a pen drive or external hard drive is connected ,ubuntu mounts the drive and keeps an icon on the desktop.This icon can be moved to any place in the desktop. And after removing the drive the icon disappears.And the next time when the same drive is connected the icon comes in the exact position. At beginning this was very cool feature.But when it comes to daily use I find it as an unusable feature.Especially when someone tries to do clean up desktop.

I suggest the following.Let the right side of the screen be used for showing mounted devices.Even when the user does a clean up by name. The mounted icons will remain on the right side of the desktop.

Another method would be locking individual icons.But I dont like that.And I believe its difficult to implement.And there are more important things to do with the gnome desktop.

Another feature I would like to see is horizontal arrangement of the desktop icons. And in that case the mounted icons can be put below and all the remaining icons on the top.

I believe this idea doesnt use any extra resources.

Currently there is bittorent client(Transmission) by default in hardy ...

but it would be also good to include a download manager with it.The following features should be included

*it should be included with Transmission gui itself,no need for another program.It gives a feeling for the user that the program is used for downloading purposes.

*Download file in parts.This is used by download accelerators.I know that D4x is there.But its too flashy with many icons and the UI looks really bad.It needs to be standardized like Transmission .And I have experienced lot of problems(confusion) with it.

*Integeration with firefox using some plugin (this should be by default).So a popup comes up asking whether it should be downloaded by the download manager or firefox itself

*Settings for Automatic hang up and shutdown after downloads are finished.some thing like a check box.(make it simple).

Since ubuntu forum ,brainstrom.ubuntu.com are website maintained by ubuntu ...I think I dont have to paste the BB code in the signature of the user in ubuntuforum.. it just needs to be like add it into my signature...

The current method is also not working.

I also request the maintainers to create a kind of interfacing between these users in brainstorm and ubuntu forum

I think it would be a good idea to print advertisment of official partners on the ubuntu cd.Anyway the cd goes to all parts of the world.So this can be a hot place to put advertisements for companies ...

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.

At first I could'nt understand the method used for installation in linux( after using windows)... I used to get software from cds from a linux magazine and they used to be in source code form (tar.gz files containing the source code)... I thought that since linux is an open source software ,the developers wanted the users to make sure they were open :-) .. that was what i used to say when some of my friends start blaming software management in linux... Then I heard about synaptic . It's a wonderful software for those who have good internet connection.

In a normal case when a user tries to install a software ,he has to add source (repo)(apt-get line) and then the key and all that stuff .. then he reloads in synaptic ..and the package can be installed easily by right clicking and selecting install (which also selects the dependencies required) ..

Instead why can't there be a system to search the package from the internet (after searching in the repos that has already been added in synaptic) and ask the user to select a repo from the list of repos and this inturn downloads the key and later the user can do the installation ... a list of repos can be maintained by ubuntu developers..or something like that .. i dont know about the solution for this problem but the idea is to avoid the user for searching the repo(apt-get line) for installing a particular package