Contributor fcsonline

It's good to have the cursor out of the way when putting in text sometimes, it's a good option to have so users don't have to frustratedly shove their mouse out of the way really quick.

I'm sure the human brain is quite capable of picking up on where the invisible cursor is when they move the mouse again, but I'm sure it's not necessary to completely disappear the cursor for text entry.

Instead, it could be made mostly transparent but still opaque enough to know where it is. Perhaps when the mouse is moved again, some effect could be used to make it's location more obvious, like a halo or brief flash.

This may provide a minor improvement in accessibility for some users without drastically effecting the great many users.

Sometimes we need to see our desktop. It is intuitive to be able to click on it (if part of it is showing), just as you click on a window to raise it. However, to prevent people from accidentally doing this, we could make it so you have to double click the desktop to show it.

It really is more intuitive than an obscure button that n00bs don't really get.

We should only have ONE dictionary instead of having a bunch of apps creating their own. I couldn't think of anything else this would apply to (maybe one contacts list or something) which is where the "etc." in the title is for.

Applications can add their own words and delete repeats from their own dictionaries.

This would maximize disk space efficiency, but don't go flaming or criticizing me about a dictionary not being a big thing. I don't JUST mean dictionaries. I mean everything that can be shared should be shared. I don't know specifically, but you might. Please post with suggestions, explanations, clarifications, and thoughts of the idea itself.

I think that it should be the default behaviour if any trash window is open.
To me, it is a waste of time to have to close this window.
Not a big deal but such small enhancements can make your work more productive.

I am not sure whether this is a bug, or should be a proposed feature, but if you open the gnome run dialog (alt+f2), you can type the path to a directory, and it will open that directory when you press enter (example:/home/user). However, if you type ~, which is a shortcut in all file managers and bash to the home directory and press enter, it says that it could not open the location.

There is a serious security problem when you add third-party repositories. They can upgrade any package that wish of our system at any time.
The idea that I propose is that when you add third-party repository, it is mandatory to choose which packages have permissions of all it offers.

It is important to consider the tree of dependency of the packages offered.

When you upgrade, if any of the selected package calls for a package that is not on the list of permitted, it would have to display a warning and ask if they are allowed or not. Maybe it is a trusted package or maybe a malicious package.

A mockup:
http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/4201/thirdpartyrepositorieseu1.png

Idea: When trying to assemble a group of files from many directories on a hard drive, creating groups of files would help a lot.

Long-winded (Sorry) EXAMPLE:

I want to copy or move a group of pictures, music files, etc. from a number of directories around my hard drive(s) to a central location or even to write to CD/DVD.

Now, I go to the first directory using a file manager and select some file there and must move/copy them somewhere else until I am ready to chose a permanent location. So, I need to use a "move to..." selection in the right mouse menu (assuming there is one), and repeat for each directory in which I want to select files.

A NEW WAY:

I still need to navigate to each directory and select files but, when I do, the right mouse menu offers me an option to "Add files to group" function. This function tracks,
possibly with XML markup, the absolute path to each selected file and remembers it.

After selecting all the files in all the directory I want, I then right mouse and select the Copy group to or Move Group to entries to perform that option. It cuts out the repetitive Move or Copy function for each directory.

There should probably be a Clear Group option for do-overs.

I think it might have a positive speed of operation impact. Open to any comments or suggestions.

Ralph

Is it just me or would gigabytes have been a more appropriate unit to use?
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As discussed in the referred thread, the default sudo timeout is 15 minutes. This can be a security risk. Please add a gui tool so that people can adjust this timeout, even to zero if they want. Or maybe make it an option during install.

Make an entry to "install-font" in the context menu when right-clicking a font file. The font would then be moved to the appropriate directory in the home folder. It took me a while to figure out how to install fonts!

If you work with Photoshop, it is very difficult to use GIMP, but if it would be the possibility of make it more similar, it would make easy the migration

I don't say to put it by default, but yes give the option

In photoshop, all the pallets, and images appear in one window. I propose to add a windowlist embedded in gimp, of this same, the system windowlist is not saturated

The CAPSLOCK-key was really very helpful in the times of mechanical typewriters. But on a PC this key is nothing except annoying. I think everybody knows the problem of acidentALLY HITTING THIS KEY!!!

Ubuntu could solve this easily by disable the function of this Key. Make it to a normal shift key, please!!

(Or even let me change this in "CapsLock key behavior" in gnome-keyboard-properties.)

Here some Weblinks:
* http://capsoff.org/
* http://anticapslock.com/

Currently, when you drag and drop something in Gnome, it gives you visual feedback in the form of an icon added to the mouse pointer, like a plus sign or an arrow.

In the context of a file manager, this is usually sufficient, but we can drag and drop many other things to many other things. Why not make the feedback explicit? Instead of just an ambiguous graphic (arrows are used for both moving and linking), it could pop up a bit of text saying "Copy file" or "Move file" or "Create link", maybe like a tooltip.

Then when you do some action like dragging an image to the Gnome Panel, it will clearly say "Set background image". If you drag the image to a Launcher instead, it might say "Open file with...". This would be much better than an ambiguous pointer graphic that just indicates "Yes, you can do something by dropping that here, but I won't tell you what".

Maybe the tip should only appear after hovering for a second? Maybe it should be in a different style than a regular tooltip to match the pointer? Maybe it should be translucent? Should it track the mouse after appearing or stay in one place? How should it work when accompanied with a dragged graphic, like in Figure 10-3?

Since the drop areas are rectangles, and the Gnome HIG recommends highlighting each drop area as you drag over it, maybe the text feedback could appear in a static place relative to the drop area, which is consistent from app-to-app, like putting a "tab" of pop-up text near the outside corner of the drop area.

I'm not sure about these details (please discuss!), but the basic idea is to provide text feedback for what a drag and drop action actually does, instead of just hinting with a graphical mouse pointer change.

if we must have screensavers give us some useful ones. Educational and Informational.

-- Clock and Weather Screensaver.
-- Alarm Clock and Weather Screensaver.
-- World Clock Screensaver.
-- Local Weather with Weather Around the World Screensaver.
-- Count Down to Specific Date Screensaver.
-- World Atlas Map (Countries and Bodies of Water) Screensaver.
-- Human Body (Muscles and Bones) Screensaver.
-- System and Network Status Screensaver.
-- User Photos Slideshow Screensaver.
-- Panoramic view of landscapes screensaver.
-- Destination Photos from Around the World Sceensaver.
-- Icon which shows up when new Mail or Instant Message Arrives.
-- RSS Screensaver.
---- World News screensaver.
---- Word of the day screensaver.
---- Today in History screensaver.
---- Nutritional Health Tip Screensaver.
---- Screensaver with Collection of Jokes.
---- Various Dictionary Screensavers (Programming Terms, Linux, Mathematics, Science, Legal, Tech...)

This idea has been withdrawn.

Please make a wizard based tool for creating dynamical color schemas for ubuntu/linux. It should work like that: i choose one primary color (or i can let it calculate from my desktop background picture). The picking of the primary color could be with some slider or with some color picker.
After that, that tool generates a color schema _reckon with rules of color theory_.
The result should be an _eyefriendly, with ideal color compatibility and with optimal contrast for human eyes_. That tool _should eliminate_ bad color schemas, but make easier to make new cute ones.

Color schemas generator in web: http://www.colr.org
About color theory: http://www.worqx.com/color/

Existence of that kind of tool could be the answer for all these "Ubuntu is too brown" / "make ubuntu more [any other color than brown]" ideas, even when the original theme stays like it is.

Sorry my bad english, it's not my native language.

When you visit http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download to download the latest Ubuntu release, you currently get a huge dropdown menu. Then you have to scroll down a huge list filled with continent names, and a lot of strange looking server names -- where is Mirrors.brianm.name located anyway? I don't need so see all that.

We can do better. How about a world map that lets you click on your current location - or relative location?

To paraphrase user-interface guru and recent mozilla hire, Aza Raskin, whenever you ask a user to make a choice they don't care about, you fail as an interface designer. Me and probably 99.9% or the people who visit the Ubuntu download page don't care which specific server we download from. We just want our download. Give us a map, ask us to click on the part of the continent we're on, and leave the rest up to you.


REVISION:

Following our discussion below,

* we can use the user's IP to narrow the possibilities of which servers will best handle the request.

* possibly add an algorithm which takes into account both geographic proximity to user's ISP, as well as real-time server availability.

* returning a short list (of possibly three) servers which might best handle the request.

* naming the servers by city, state/province, country, and not by their (sometimes arcane) server names ...
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Look, I know it's "always been" a certain way, but it really seems intuitive for highlighted text to become capitalized upon pressing the caps lock key. Sometimes this would be handy.

I think Ubuntu should show an alert when a USB drive is unplugged "hardly", that is without selecting the option "umount drive". Or, another way, could be to add a message in notification bar, when he plugs-in the USB drive, remembering he should umount the device before plugging it out.
I prefer the first idea.

I use Xubuntu but I presume this is true of other versions of Ubuntu.

I find from time to time I'll get a popup from the system tray that rather than giving me any actual information says something like "Something needs your attention, click the icon for more information" ...(Sorry I cant remember the exact wording).

Point is, the popup could just tell me what it is I need to do, but instead it tells me I need to click on the icon to find out what I need to do.

Urm?? WHY? I'd love to hear someone explain to me how this is good GUI and how Windows is doing it wrong by having the information in the first popup.

Everytime one of these meaningless popups comes up I always wonder why the information isnt in the popup to begin with.