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Evolution should warn the user to archive their mail before it goes past the 2 GB limit. An even more user friendly approach would be to automatically archive email folders for the user. Of course, Evolution could also be fixed to allow more than 2 GB in a folder.

Please fix this as it drives my mother and ultimately me nuts every time it happens. I can't imagine how many other people have run into this and don't know how to recover from it.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324679

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]]> Tue, 07-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/14110/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/14135/ I have Printer+Scanner Canon PIXMA MP110. There is no driver for printer and scanner in ubuntu now.
The printer driver for gentoo: http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Canon-PIXMA_MP110 exists but it`s not supportable in ubuntu. Scanner in MP110 is not supportable in linux. Please, make a driver for Printer and scanner(+program for scaning and save images) for MP110 in Ubuntu.
Thank you!

PS: sorry for my bad english.

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When it happens, would be interesting the root password (like from 'gksudo') appearing asking permitions for these files being deleted.

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I see for the sounds they made the packaging more freedesktop-friendly, but it still doesn't mean I like it.

Hardy
wall: http://staging.altonlabs.com/ubuntu/hardy.png
login: http://staging.altonlabs.com/ubuntu/hardy-login.wav
logout: http://staging.altonlabs.com/ubuntu/hardy-logout.wav

Intrepid
wall: http://staging.altonlabs.com/ubuntu/intrepid.png
login: http://staging.altonlabs.com/ubuntu/intrepid-login.ogg
logout: http://staging.altonlabs.com/ubuntu/intrepid-logout.ogg

(Feel free to use the links (temporarily) for your blogs. For the wallpapers, see ubuntu-wallpapers or /usr/share/wallapapers. For the sounds, see ubuntu-sounds /usr/share/sounds)

I personally - as a computer nerd - don't care much about the default wallpaper in an operating system as I know it can be changed, but first impressions mean a lot to others. It does mean a lot to me, however, as someone who is in marketing and who has been trained in design for a number of years.

When I speak with my sisters, my father, my mother, my neighbours, my (non-nerdy) co-workers, designers and other general populace, they all thoroughly enjoy the Hardy background but are not impressed with the wallpapers I show from Warty to Gutsy (previous version of Ubuntu).

I feel that Hardy set a new standard for Ubuntu but that the new theme for Intrepid (wallpaper and sounds) are a regression to previous versions of Ubuntu (even though they at least had the better sound sample).

A better default - as a quick and temporary fix - would be the orange marigold photo with a soft focus roll, included in gnome-backgrounds: http://staging.altonlabs.com/ubuntu/FreshFlower.jpg

I like brown and know it can be used quite tastefully and eloquently, but the vibrant orange and reds in the Hardy wallpaper were a step above any default wallpaper used previously.

A supporting article: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Njc1NA

Testing PPA for sounds: https://launchpad.net/~kwwii/+archive [Kenneth Wimer]

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GNOME should offer this functionality for all text fields, so that developers can enable this in Evolution, Pidgin, Firefox, etc.

This way every time I get an email with details of an event, I just hover over or select the text containing location and date information and choose "Add Appointment" from a drop down. This action would bring up the calendar with the information parsed from the text filled in. Similarly when my Pidgin buddy sends me his address info, I just right click it and select map location (this would pull up google maps for example) etc.

This is the kind of integration, ease of use and attention to detail that is direly needed in Ubuntu (and GNOME in particular).

Edit: See comments for more brainstorming :)

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To ensure that the files don't disappear immediately after being trashed ruining the safety margin, there could also be an option for files deleted to be locked for a certain time period, to ensure that files don't get deleted instantly. (such as where you delete a 500MB file when there is only 500mb of space, and then 1 minute after immediately install something).

In fact, it actually adds a greater level of trash safety, because files in the trash will persist as long as they can, as opposed to now where if you don't empty the trash, there may be 300gb of files in there, and the only easy option is deleting all of them unnecessarily. However, files could still be manually deleted

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- http://ruc.pt/listen-low.m3u
- http://ruc.pt/listen-hi.m3u

since .m3u format is so popular, should be more simple listening it.

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Reason being I often times bring my laptop to bed after my wife is asleep, and the welcome tune wakes her up because the volume is on max. I try to always plug my headphones in to avoid this, but sometimes I forget, and then I get it in the neck for waking her up!

In fact I'm gonna disable that welcome sound now, but I still think forcing it to a low volume would be a nice touch!

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or
'that is an awful idea, forget it!'
would suffice, so one can better tell if popular ideas have a realistic chance of getting picked up or not.

Some ideas already have this kind of feedback (or even more detailed) but I think a high number of positive votes should always warrant official feedback.

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No attachments. ]]> Tue, 07-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/14005/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/14004/ If this is not possible in an automatic way, then make it a simple configuration option.

This is not a dupe of http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/6909/ that calls for disabling suspend and hibernate all out. I only want it disabled if it doesn't work on the machine in question.

Main reason being that I know of some people who keep accidentally trying to suspend and/or hibernate out of habit from when they used windows, where this did work [bleh]. I'm tired of hearing them complain about it.

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Maybe have two modes for the screenshot utility, one for just a basic one (like it is now) and an advanced mode (for blurring text and stuff).

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It seems like this is one of the next steps for Ubuntu. Touch screen support and handwriting recognition built in like it is on Windows tablets could really be wonderful. I swear to God I would use it.

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