Contributor fragro

How about a better trash/recycle bin other then the current tiny trash/recycle bin that is on the bottom menu bar? At least in windows and OS X it's a full icon like a mounted drive that is on the desktop. The current way it is displayed doesn't tell you it's the recycle bin to remove your files/folders. It needs to be a regular icon on the desktop but one that is not removable since it is an essential function. Once it is on there, then to most consumers it makes sense what it does. Currently it is not intuitive.

Am no technical person. Wonder if it would be possible? Perhaps nobody has got around to integrate a windows abstraction layer with Linux. It might be a great service if someone would do that. I certainly would love to have an operating system that can run seamlessly software designed for windows or OS-X or linux. Or for that matter it would be great if software made for any major operating system or linux distro could be seamlessly installed and used on ubuntu without having to start up a seperate package such as wine.

Auto-NDISwrapper is a project that aims to automate the whole process of setting up wireless cards with NDISwrapper. To help all you need to do is to fill out a simple form. Please make sure to fill it out with the correct information.

Thanks!

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Please_help_make_setting_up_ndiswrapper_a_little_bit _easier_2

Now this is probably subject to free formats etc, but the Print Screen screenshot application presently only allows saving in PNG format. This is great and all, but it would also be great to be able to save in other formats without needing to load up the GIMP every time.

Also, a checkbox option to create a thumbnail image file along with the screenshot (say, 160 x 128 or user-configurable) would be hugely beneficial and could be saved with a simple "_thumb" extension to the filename, eg:

Screenshot.png
Screenshot_thumb.png

Would save many minutes of work for those who do lots of illustrated documentation sites!

Stability in one of the reasons why Linux can be better than other operating systems.
Lately, Ubuntu is becoming more unstable.
I think is great to have brand-new packages but being more patient everything would be more stable.
I don't mean as "stable" as, for instance, Debian stable but just a little bit.

Thanks

File-roller has 46 critical bugs open, is (I think) orphan and has an inconsistent interface (contexual menu view and open with). It could be replaced by fuse or by a nautilus script.
Remove file-roller is secure, because is only a front-end to tar, unrar, etc...

choose some media center -
elisa, freevo, mythtv, whatever,
and integrate it to the default installation.

http://www.f-prot.com
This comes in as a requirement these days for two things. One is when mounting and using windows partitions, viruses could spread. The other is, VirtualBox can run a windows os, hence letting in viruses. F-Prot is a no hassle antivirus, free for single users. Updates regularly too.

Sancho is an excellent GUI for the MLDonkey p2p server. Sancho is far more stable and offers much more features and a better user interface than the "MLDonkey" frontend that is currently available on the repo.

http://sancho-gui.sourceforge.net/

here is a screenshot of sancho :
http://sancho-gui.sourceforge.net/images/ss-new-1.png
http://sancho-gui.sourceforge.net/images/ss-new-2.png
http://sancho-gui.sourceforge.net/images/ss-new-3.png

This idea is closed!

I think it would be useful to be able to open multiple pdf files within the same viewer window. I know that I would use this feature a lot, because I like to multi-task, so I read multiple ebooks or whatever a the same time a lot... but yeah, it would also be cool if there were an option to view your tabbed documents side-by-side somehow for comparison purposes, Im sure that would come in handy sometimes...

but yeah, we have a tabbed text editor, and web browser, so why not a tabbed pdf viewer?

It would be great if Ubuntu (or other distributions as well) provide an easy to use remote desktop solution. While it's quite easy to connect to a remote X-Server (x over ssh or nx), it's rather hard to get also support for sound (from the remote desktop), printing (using your local printers on the remote desktop) and other things like "tray-icons" / "notification area" (have the Notification-Icons of remote applications in the local "notification area").

Update:
"x2go" looks pretty interesting: http://x2go.berlios.de/index-en.html
It uses the NX libs and they also provide a client for Windows. But I have not tested it (yet).

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/

Firefox extensions are a pain to maintain in the repositories, and very often lag behind when updating them. They should be removed as they are EXTREMELY easy to install from Firefox itself.

Ubufox may be an exception due to its nature though.


If you liked this idea, check out my other ideas.

Gnome needs a revoultion. Ubuntu uses Gnome.
Canonical could help the Gnome3-developers e.g. with money, tips, pc-resources or something else to speed up the development and to create a better Gnome3-release.
(KDE4 has much more features than Gnome, it is faster and looks better (my oppinion). Also it uses the powerful Qt4 as widgetset that is better than GTK+ at time. Gnome is going to leave behind KDE)
[edit] I dont't say that any DE is better, but Gnome needs help and Ubuntu primary uses Gnome. KDE4 is a great DE without help from the Ubuntu developers. [/edit]
[Sorry for my English]

I use LAN at home and at work. I have to change my MAC address in /etc/network/interfaces by myself. It is very useful change it with network-manager.

Just look: http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/1/1d/OS11.0beta1-inst7.png

I have read a lot of posts stating so many bugs in hardy and it will still be released. It is also slower to boot. THIS ISN'T HOW IT SHOULD BE!!!

Shouldn't LTS releases focus on bug fixing and stability and reliability, then speed, then other stuff?

We might have to delay hardy a couple of months if it is really this bad. I don't want a messed up computing system!

This is the first thing that I do on a fresh install always. It takes less clicks to get to pendrives, cdroms....

Amarok is an amazing and pretty (read sexy) jukebox. From its ability to generate automatic playlists, to its integrated support for Shoutcast, to its recursive scanning of music directories, and its themability, it's an all-around awesome music player.
Rhythmbox, on the other hand, is clumpy, buggy and has far less built-in features. Not to mention, at any time it will randomly not play files or Shoutcast stations that I have manually added (by necessity, for lack of integration).
And all the scripts you can add to improve Amarok's functionality are just icing on the cake!