Contributor fmorel90

Everyone by now has seen the world famous mockups of what Ubuntu apparently should look like. The problem is that what is shown in those mockups is not yet possible with the current way gnome works.

I worry with everyone clambering for this mythical theme and with time running out before 8.10 ships, what will end up happening is Ubuntu will ship with the same old problematic brown and orange theme that is so hated by a lot of people.

There is a solution though...

The Dust theme
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/DustTheme

The Dust theme has gotten a lot of praises on Digg and is easily as sexy as anything I've personally seen for Linux (and I'm not usually a fan of dark themes), bust most promising of all... is actually possible with the current technology we have at our disposal.

It's time to be bold! Stop defaulting to the same brown and orange and make a big bold change. Embrace Dust.

Yes you will get a few idiots who will say it's too like Vista just because it's black, but ignore them people. The wider tech community will praise Ubuntu for finally ditching its dorky themes and becoming sophisticated and sexy. New users will be eager to try out this Ubuntu thing they have heard so much about.

View the idea:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3099/2631616390_a1c79cb507_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3102/2630811421_1ccd353665_o.jpg

The Ubutnu is a popular distribution, and the choice of their standard theme should be made by all by voting. And not by a small group. The community can elect the theme through the Ubuntu Brainstorm.


For the choice of a new theme that is the satisfaction of the majority that idea is essential.

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Initially thank you all. This idea may help it to developers in the choice, and can have an extra theme.

Can serve as a basis for changes in the theme chosen by the team of Ubuntu, even if the popular themes are not adopted.

This idea will help.

Hi! I'm using Ubuntu 8.04, and I dislike the "recycle bin", and the way to delete files with delete/supr button.

Like said dr88dr88 in:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/60/

"We need the possibility to restore deleted files with a right mouse click in the trash bin in Gnome."

But too, a restore option in menu "file".

And one more thing, very important, a menu "tools" to configure the recycle bin. With:

* When select delete o push delete/supr button:
- Ask to send file/s & folder/s to the recycle bin.
- No ask nothing, and send directly file/s & folder/s to the recycle bin.

And the same with shift+delete/supr.

why? because is possible that persons like me, push accidentally delete/supr button, and you know, that in Ubuntu when you have got selected files or folders, if you push it, are deleted immediately without asking nothing.

New adds 13/7/8:

Included: Files with more of 15* days in recycle bin, will be deleted.
*You can change 5-10-15-20-30 days.

In Ubuntu, you don't know the time that the files can be in the recycle bin, ok, if you search in Internet YES, but we want to aproximate Ubuntu to every people, and is good, that the people have near the information.

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The auto hibernate/shutdown needs to be made to work, there needs to be clear instruction in acpi-support/laptop tools conf file as to what is needed to get it to work and it should be clearly stated what Ubuntu disable in these files as reported in many forums.

One ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE=true, it should work with minimal fuss or edits/changes from user, as reported its intergration with GPM rarely works for most people without spending hours of stuffing around, and still then for many it doesn't work period, not even poping up a balloon saying critical battery.

Also the time and percentage remaining needs critical working, as neither work properly in ubuntu, polling times appear non existent. I could file this under bugs, but its more a brainstorm category to get it all changed once and for all to working, the best anyone from ubuntu can say is the batteries are old .. pppft! mines 8 months old, and it lasts 3 hours, thats hardly old.

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Due to the structure of the release, Kubuntu users who wanted KDE 4.0 out of the box had to use the community supported Kubuntu Hardy release to do. The (K)ubuntu update path, however, made waiting for 4.1 packages to come along through official channels a futile effort. In reconciliation, Kubuntu offered a Launchpad Personal Package Archive with which Kubuntu users wishing to test (and eventually upgrade to) 4.1 could do so as they please. This may not be the most accurate description of the situation, but those missing details are impertinent anyway.

Here is the idea: Ubuntu maintainers should offer a Launchpad PPA with which Ubuntu users can test the latest GNOME development series of packages(odd-numbered point releases indicate unstable in-development packages; 2.23.5, as an example was released today). Additionally, this repository would allow users to upgrade their GNOME desktop (so perhaps Gutsy or Hardy users wishing to use 2.24.0 could do so) to the latest even-numbered stable release.

If I have missed out on the fact that an testing/upgrade path similar to this is already implemented, than I guess this idea is moot. However, to my knowledge, not even Backports offers such an opportunity.

Finally, I think such a thing would help with testing upstream packages by providing easy installation/uninstallation, possibly a major deal-breaker in tinkering with such things, and so allowing a larger test base.