Contributor filipf

Remove Mono and dependent applications from default Ubuntu Desktop CD. Mono occupies a significant amount of the valuable space on the live cd that could be used for translations and other things. Applications using mono use much more memory than their non-mono counterparts. Functionality can be provided by other applications that are just as good.

This will NOT remove Mono or any of the applications from the Ubuntu repositories, just the default Desktop CD. (Although removing them from the CD may mean they don't need to be in Main anymore)

This affects two applications included by default: tomboy and f-spot. Tomboy can be replaced by either sticky notes or zim and f-spot by gthumb.

I know many of you have concerns when it come to mono applications, but hands down, Banshee is the most interesting and most promising jukebox app in the gtk-land. Moreover, Ubuntu ships with f-spot installed by default, which is a mono app, too.

Banshee has a great iPod support, offers a clean and modern interface, is much more visually appealing than rythmbox, and has a more intuitive workflow.

When you play a video game, you have the choice before starting :

- beginner
- confirmed
- expert

Some softs have a lot of functionnalities : all are not useful to everyone.
I think they should propose several GUI corresponding to different levels of difficulty.

For instance OOo should have a basic GUI for beginners that could look like Abiword or Google Docs.

We could imagine that at firt start, OOo asks if the user consider himself like a beginner or if he has some experience with that kind of software.
Then OOo would choose the good GUI.
Besides, an option in menu bar would allow to change the GUI.

Abiword http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/_media/abiword_90.jpg
Google Docs http://www.centernetworks.com/images/sites/googledocssc.png

One application that I'm really missing on my Ubuntu box is a PDF editor. Sometimes I need to fill out (and save) a form, sometimes touch up some text, sometimes add some free-hand drawings to the document.
PDFEditor is one option, but it's been pretty slow and buggy. Plus the interface is not easy to use.
Is there anything else that would allow users to edit PDFs?

Ubuntu 8.04 will ship with the old Mono version 1.2.6. But there is already the new stable version 1.9. So why include an old one?

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.

Just Published Version 1.0 Monodevelop I think we can do a package deb and stop using the beta 3 that there are currently repositories Ubuntu hardy. Surely will be more stable and more functionalities. (google translate xD)

Maybe the Pidgin guys are working on this already, but Pidgin doesn't let you share files via the Bonjour connection.

It would be nice to have a little app like Giver (although I despise the bloat and overhead of mono) for transferring files between machines on a local network.

This is something I haven't found on Windows yet that would make Ubuntu a million times easier in small offices. No headaches about thumb-drives, setting up shared folders, figuring out how to connect to shared folders, burning to CDs, etc...just drag and drop from one user to another.

Strigi can be used for search (beagle can't be used because I dislike mono) but it is not comfortable tool. So it is mecessary provide good tool for searching (but without using MS technologies).