Contributor ffm246

We should prompt the user as part of the Ubiquity installer and ask him/her whether they wish to enable automatic security updates or not.

Currently, Ubuntu, and Linux in general, have few real viruses in the wild.

This will change with time, as all systems, no matter how well designed, cannot be made perfect.

When problems are found and fixed in Ubuntu's security, they are signed and released into the repositories.

Currently, the default is to not update automatically. This makes sense, as we shouldn't do such things without a user's permission. However, many users are not aware of security updates, and do not know that the update process can be automated, as the option is hidden away in Sys>Admin>SoftwareSources.

Prompting would allow the user to better protect himself, and the user would be able to choose from
* No automatic
* Download and notify
* Download and install

The system will not reboot without the users permission, no matter what the user chooses.

Non-security updates should _never_ be automated, and should require user intervention (this is the current behavior).

There is a wide community of online artists capable of creating brilliant, unique artwork.

heading: Get your artwork on 10 million desktops

Ubuntu, the world's most popular Linux distribution, needs a new theme. The winner will appear in the default desktop of Ubuntu 8.10.

We're looking for original wallpapers, that match Ubuntu's color palette. You entry should also include a suggested combination of application, icon, and window themes. These can be existing themes, or your own original works - you only need to submit a wallpaper to win.

Work must be CC licensed, and be openable in either Inkscape or Gimp (rest of criteria continues)

Submit your works to DeviantArt and include the words [Ubuntu810].


Good luck!

A separate partition for /home has been proposed for a long time in the forums. It implies some risks, though, so based on disk size Ubiquity should estimate the amount of space that should be left for / or whether a separate partition should be made at all. Then...

-The first time an user installs Ubuntu, he is given the option to set a separate /home. This option is selected by default, with a size for each partition based on a sane guess:

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7958/firstinstallaro2.png

-Of course, he can just choose not to set a separate /home. This option will be selected by default if the results of the system test suggest that's the best thing to do.

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/6498/firstinstallbfs6.png

-Manual install is also possible. Selecting it greys out everything related to separate /home, since it's implied that the user doesn't want to be guided.

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7976/firstinstallcvc2.png

-If the user set a separate /home, the next time he installs Ubuntu a new option appears and is selected by default, prompting to use the existing /home partition. All other options are still available, though.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9034/secondinstalliq1.png

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I recently switched to linux mint, I must say it is very nice and based on gutsy 7.10.

They use the red hat liberation fonts by default and OMG It looks amazing.


The default ubuntu fonts are painful to look at once you know how good it can look.


https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/

Ubuntu should include a way to add/remove fonts from a repository just like the add/remove program panel. When a user needs a new font, they could open up the window, and the program would download the latest repository fonts. The user could look through the fonts and choose which ones to install by simply checking a box and clicking "apply." A user could search for font keywords to find certain styles of fonts. For example, someone could search for keywords words "serif","sans serif","cursive", and the GUI would display fonts that match the search. This would be a killer tool for designers.

Furthermore, the GUI could be very helpful. When a user browses a font, a sample image of it could be automatically loaded so that the user can quickly find fonts that are appealing to them. A rating system or popularity gauge could be used so that the best fonts can be highlighted.

A tool like this would create inscentive for font designers to make their designs free/public. Credits could be given to designers in the font descriptions.

I have a music folder, and I put all my musics to it. When new music is added, I have to "re-import" my music folder for the musics to get added.

Would be great if Rhythmbox monitored my music folder for new files and automatically added them.

EDIT : There is a way to tell Rhythmbox to do it on the Settings menu - So the complete idea - Either do it by default or at the first run, when asking for the music library folder, have a checkbox for this feature.

When I use public WiFi with my laptop, I often SSH tunnel to a server to prevent people from packet sniffing me. The only problem is, the only way to configure the SSH tunnel, is to manually set the proxy settings on Firefox, Pidgin, and others manually.

I think it would be nice to have SSH tunnels treated like VPN's in the network manager, so that in a few quick clicks, you can have most/all of your traffic going through an SSH tunnel.

Provide Ubuntu Brainstorm logo in a reasonable file format (PNG with transparency, SVG), both with and without the caption (only the icon).

I would gladly promote Ubuntu Brainstorm on my websites, but you must give us the logo! :)

There should be an option to install newer packages rather than the outdated ones on disc during system installation. Doesn't Debian already have this?

Currently there is no way to easily share files between multiple local users. I am talking about full read-write access to particular folder, eg. music folder.

Example: Alice and Bob uses the same computer. Alice has read access to Bob's home folder. Bob has read access to Alice's home folder. They want to fully share (read/write) their music. So they should ideally create /home/music folder, put all the music there and use it. Everything Bob puts into there, Alice should be able to read and remove, and vice versa. This is currently impossible in Ubuntu. Bob has to manually fix permissions every time Alice wants to delete something Bob's (Bob creates /home/music/Britney, but Alice can't delete /home/music/Britney/song1.mp3).

I have discussed this issue with several linux gurus and there is currently no easy nor difficult way to achieve this in Linux on the same (ext3) partition. With every proposed solution I can give you counterexample (group permissions, ACLs, local Samba, local NFS, etc - there is always problem when moving files). There would have to be created utility to set shared folders and some daemon would have to monitor changes and modify permissions.

Currently the easiest solution known for me is to share files on separate (ironically) NTFS partition, because when mounting NTFS you can force user/group/permissions on file access. What a shame, we use Microsoft technologies just to share files between Ubuntu users.

This problem is quite serious, give it a thought or two. Everyone who is not using Ubuntu computer alone and wants to share music/films/etc between multiple users knows what I am talking about.

//New info:
Atany has proposed in the comment that BindFS project can be used to achieve this functinality:
http://code.google.com/p/bindfs/
I have tried it and it works very well. Developers which would like to implement this idea should have a look on BindFS, it's very promising tool, it could provide all necessary background for this.

There is a problem with GPL/LGPL in my country (Russia) and may be in others. Our law dictate to approve only licenses written in the native language but FSF admits only the English variant. So, this problem is slowing down in some manner the convertation of the market to open source in my country. Please fix it!

I've voted for ~40-50 good ideas at this point. Give me a link below "My ideas" that says "My votes" so that I can see all the ideas that I've voted for. That will help users remember ideas that they might want to help with or donate time on in the future.

I can easily vote many times on any idea, if I click many times fast enough. This is clearly wrong and very undemocratic!

I tried Brainstorm on Opera 9.23 and Windows XP

The default fonts in linux are ugly especially with LCD monitors.The Windows Vista have beautiful Segoe UI font for LCDs. It will be great to create new linux font for universal use.

Currently I can encrypt an ubuntu system during install, but if I did not I have to reinstall to get encryption. I would like a simple way to tell ubuntu to encrypt the system or a part of it, such as:

Swap
Home
Root
All

Just created an account and couldn't figure out how to change the PW. Had to revert to the email that was sent to me. Shouldn't PW management be found under User Profile?

Here's the link to the mysterious page:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/user/5164/edit

There should be a button "Set as standard" in the Gnome Volume Control. My Front Speaker is always at 80%, I have to turn it up on every system boot.

The idea is very simple. A small message saying that the usb drive is ready to extract after you unmount the unit to extract it. It is only to be sure about the device is ready to be extracted.
Thanks.

When I run Totem and try to watch a movie, it can require few new codecs. When I select each of them, I need to agree that this is okay to install this proprietary codec. But what if the user just doesn't care? I think, In Russia no one cares, because software patents never worked here as I know. So it will be very useful, if you will put this button in that dialog and allow the user to never more say "next, next, next, finish" just to install a simple program. It's not Windows, after all. :)

I know that's not ubuntu-team fault..but i think that would be nice to have in ubuntu repository sure-stable ati graphic drivers in order to have a better and a painless experience with linux..especially for beginners..