Contributor fluo

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Please add something like this (thanks to kliklik)

kliklik
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Here's a mockup I've done, based on the ideas from this thread and a couple of my own. Tell me what you think.

http://ultimate.co.yu/ubuntu/CopyQueue.png
http://ultimate.co.yu/ubuntu/CopyQueue_Expanded.png

The top progress bar shows the total progress, two buttons beside it pause/cancel the entire queue.

The cancel buttons may have confirmation they pause the queue/item, ask you if you're sure and than either stop or continue the process. For the brave crowd, they immidiately stop the process :)

Folder button opens the destination folder.

Only one process at a time unless forced to start.

Up/Down arrows reorder the items based on priority, the higher ones get processed first.

Clear button clears all the finished jobs.
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A default GUI for PulseAudio would be great, the ability to control the volume for each program is a very useful thing...

[edit] For those who want it, just install padevchooser (PulseAudio Device Chooser) through synaptic, it also install all the other packages needed...

Make Wine 1.0 available in Hardy (through hardy-updates). This makes it easier for some companies who depend on XP software (which already works well in wine) to make the transition to Ubuntu.

IMHO it would be nice to release wine 1.0 through hardy-updates so everyone who hasn't disabled hardy-updates will get it. The wine 1.0 branch will probably continue to receive important updates making it easier for Ubuntu to maintain.

According to Eric S. Raymond's "World Domination 201" Wine is very important for Linux to become successful on the desktop.

Why wine is so important :
http://www.winehq.org/site/why
http://catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-domination-201.html

Wine 1.0 will release on june 6th. Hardy will release on june 5th. This makes it impossible to include wine 1.0 in Hardy except through hardy-backports or hardy-updates.

More information :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseSchedule
http://wiki.winehq.org/WineReleasePlan

Ubuntu should have better native support for the Atheros wifi chipsets, which give huge problems in Ubuntu at the moment.

For example, MadWifi does not work properly/stable with the popular AR5418-chipset.

apple's iChat is able to comunicate with other iChat users on the same network without any configuration, using bonjur. It would be nice to have a chat program that could use avahi to find people to chat with on the same network.

I think ubuntu should bet more on zeroconf technology...

Actually, for beginners, it can be a little confusing to navigate through filesystem (/var, /bin, ...)
Also, when clicking on a labelled partition, he could not clearly understand to get an url from root (/media/sba1 as an example)

I suggest to add a "beginner" mode by default (the current mode sould be easily avalaible) that "hide" the filesystem from / and that only shows mounted partitions and connected devices. Partitions in this mode should keep their label in the url (and so avoid /media/hda as an example)

Sound Juicer is installed by default on Ubuntu, it's a nnice and simple CD extractor... at first sight.
But when you want to tweak a bit the encoding profiles, (FLAC for example) you face a weird command line that looks like this:

audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! flacenc name=enc

...and of course no clue whatsoever about what it means.

I propose a more graphical way to change these profiles in order to make it easier to tweak.

Make a sound theme contest or at least a contest for startup and shutdown sounds the winner(s) of which will be included in the next release.

Just like idea #384: Engage DeviantArt for Ubuntu 8.10 theme competition

Google could put Ubuntu-style logo on their homepage on Hardy release day :). By the way, they use Ubuntu on their desktop computers.

It drives me insane trying to diagnose if my sound card Microphone input is working correctly.

it would be great if I could have some kind of visual feed back like the old "VU" meters we used to have on old fashioned tape decks.

Getting skype to work or dealing with any "sound in" / "mic in" issues on Ubuntu has been a nightmare to trouble shoot. this would make it a bit easier.

Gimp is a great software but some very useful features will come in next releases (2.6, 3.0). The next version will not come before at least 2 years at that rate...

Under Gutsy the "/usr/share/gnome/help/" directory is 208 MB. For every application there is a help file in many languages. I only need English, someone else may only want Spanish or French. So only install help files for the Users main/native/primary Language.

--With more and more work to create more detailed help files the help file directory is likely to grow quickly above its current 208 MB.

--Under "/usr/share/gnome/help/rhythmbox" if you remove the non english languages you can save 2.9 MB;

Here is a sampling of what I found if you removed the non-english files (I randomly looked at 3 different ones):
/usr/share/gnome/help/rhythmbox 2.9 MB
/usr/share/gnome/help/windows 6.5 MB
/usr/share/gnome/help/about-ubuntu 4.3 MB

--Also since these files are XML files (with a few images), compressing them will greatly reduce the size further. You can use the GZ format which webservers use to reduce bandwidth which the browser auto uncompresses and displays.

I preformed a test by compressing the help directory with gzip "gzip -r --best help" the help directory went from 162.1 MB to 83.6 MB. Thats almost half the size.

The Intel HD audio driver in the kernel allows for the support of various onboard HD audio devices. Intel, Nvidia, and Conexant are a few of the devices that this driver enables on various notebooks, however there is poor headphone support.

Sounds play through both the headphones and speakers on Nvidia HD audio devices. This is rather annoying and I'd love to see it fixed!

People have claimed some success fixing this issue by applying various patches or upgrading to hardy. A hardy upgrade did not solve this issue for me however. I'd love to see it "just work"

I know it is easy to install audio and videocodecs in Ubuntu just installing Gstreamer* -packages or simply installing ubuntu-restricted-extras but...

For newbie installing Gstreamer -packeges by step to step is very hard and on other hand there is users like me, who never installs ubuntu-restricted-extras becouse it installs a lot of more than just multimediacodecs. I personally hate msttcorefonts and don't use Sun Java (IcedTea is open, and works better). I also prefer use Gnash becouse Adobe Flash usually means only problems. So for users like me there is no an easy way to install multimediasupport ”by one click”.

All what is needed is some simple metapackage to install audio and videocodecs to play most used multimediaformats. Like ubuntu-restricted-extras without flash, java or windows-fonts. Needed formats are:

- MP3
- OGG
- AAC
- FLAC
- Real Audio
- WMA

- MP4
- WMV
- XVID
- DIVX
- Quicktime
- Real Video
- 3GP

...and so much more as possible. Idea #316 ”Codec Manager” sound good too, but I think metapackage would work better.

I don't think we have a single 3D printer working in linux at the moment.

We should investigate improving CUPS to support 3D printers in a standardised way for starters.

Our first printer to support should probably be fab@home which is a totally open source (open circuit design printer), thats cheap, and we can easily support and afford to test (you basically can probably buy the parts from mostly anywhere to build it, or get their kit. http://fabathome.org/ .

3D printing will certainly take off in the future, and we should definately get a infrastructure in caser to properly support them (prferably before Apple and Microsoft get one). So that by the time fab@home model 3 is out (which hopefully will be the same cost as a current inkjet, although I doubt it), we are totally ready, and we become the platform of choice for 3D printing

I frequently watch the system monitor on my top panel, e.g. is my cpu busy, what about my memory, that sort of stuff. Then to check which programs are running I use top or htop in a terminal.
Would it not be nice to combine the two? When you'd hover your mouse over the cpu part of the system monitor, a pop-up would tell how much cpu is used by the different processes (obviously with a threshold or a limit of say 5 listed programs). Same for memory/swap.

Like many people I have a rather large music library which I have extracted from compact disc. Unfortunately the only tool we have to manage our music once it's extracted is Rhythmbox. What's needed, at least for me, is a tool that can edit the tags of and rename files en masse using pattern matching and cross-referencing and fun stuff like that, as well as something that can quickly convert files to any format for which an encoder is available with a minimum of fuss and complexity.

On Windows I use foobar2000 for this, and it's functionality that I sorely miss whenever I'm using Ubuntu.

Medibuntu is now available for all Ubuntu 'family' except "Hardy Heron". Should be also available there.

Make a new application or improve Beagle, Tracker or Deskbar.

It do acronym lookups, math calculation, fact lookup, data generation, unit conversion, etc.

So that when I ask it something, it answers me.
RAM? = Random access memory
91*74-26 = 6708
Capital of Sweden? = Stockholm
22 inch in centimeter = 55.88 centimeter
chemical formula for water? = H2O
#0000ff = shows the color blue
01101000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 = hello
68 65 6C 6C 6F = hello
Hello in Italian? = ciao
Time in Tokyo? = 19:46
Weather in Paris? = 7°C, sunny.
rot13 hello = uryyb

So right from the Deskbar (or something) on the desktop, I can ask something, and it will answer me.

Pulseaudio is enabled by default on ubuntu hardy heron, it can fuse two audio cards, stream audio over (local) network etc.

Unfortunately, it's not installed by default on Ubuntu server editions. It would be great to have it implemented here as well so you could easily stream laptop sounds to your music server/high-end speakers for example.