Contributor gabtrat

Now there is only option to make all volumes visible on your desktop. How about letting each user choose witch volumes should be visible on the desktop. For example only removable drives.

Suspend and hibernate still seems to be a big issue based on forum posts. Really focus on fixing it, even with proprietary drivers.

Have a section on brainstorm where we can see the top 10 developer picks for the month. This will do many things:

1. Get developers to see and pay attention to this website. (I hope that they already do)

2. Let the community know that the developers actually do see and pay attention to this website.

3. Draw support or opposition to ideas that developers may be thinking about including in the next release.

4. Let the community know what sort of things that the developers are interested in seeing in Ubuntu :D

5. Give positive feedback to the contributors by letting them know that they made the top 10, even if their idea takes a long time or never actually gets implemented.

ubuntu should have a webcam control panel app where would be possible to set configurations like brightness, colour, exposure, etc while we are using the webcam in any application.
maybe some effects too.

In Nautilus file browser pane, I wish I could drag and drop files to archives **without** having to open file-roller.

(other ideas in brainstorm only mention D'n'D between a file-roller window and nautilus)

Just right-click on the media, and click on "Rename Disk".

As of now, if one wants to add/edit a menu item, one has to right-click on the gnome menu title bar, select to edit the menu, and then navigate through another hierarchy. It would be much simpler to add an option to "edit this item" or "add a new menu item" through right-click when you are navigating the menu normally.

edit: Also moving items in menu just by drag and drop.

So I right-clicked on a file and selected "Cut" in the context menu.
So that I later could "Paste" the file into another directory.

Make so that when you select "Cut" on a file, the icon becomes dimmed.
Because right now, there are no visual indication, so you don't know it worked.
In Windows there is a visual notification by the icon becoming dimmed.
In Ubuntu there is no visual notification, the icon does not become dimmed. This is confusing.

If i want to share the "look and feel" of my desktop with someone else, i have to send many different files: wallpapers, gtk-engines, gtk-themes, metacity themes, iconpacks, screenlets and so on.

I would like to press an "export look and feel"-button to get a file with all the look-and-feel-related stuff included, so that i can reproduce my complete look and feel on another machine.

It is likely that the situation will occur that you vote an idea up or down, only to then take part in the discussion and change your mind about it. After all, there is bound to be someone with more expertise with a different view on the subject that you hadn't considered. Currently, you cannot see, remove or reverse your vote. I think you should be able to, on the basis that it would give a more accurate and up-to-date representation of user opinion.

The counter-argument to this would be that it could cause an element of uncertainty, but I do not feel that avoiding this should come at the expense of being able to change your mind.

I really like to see an option in calculator to switch to tape mode, like in this picture made with gimp:

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/8210/calcnewnn6.png

I recently had a chance to work with subtitles and I found out that despite the presence of several tools none of them worked like their windows counterpart did. Aegisub is a good open source editor and I think Ubuntu community should make sure that we soon get some kind of official repositories for it. Also tools to create new DVD videos, edit IFOs, ripping DVDs, and editing movies should be enhanced.

Kino is a great video editing tool but it is no where near Windows Movie Maker. It should be improved.

There should be a single, low cpu app that displays all the notifications for all programs in a corner of the screen (bottom right)

It should say:

[App Title]
-----------
[Notification]

It is much better than popups and notification Icons.

Eyecandy would also be nice here - fade effect, etc.

when i was looking for sound converter, i found about 6 positions in synaptic

it would be great if i could turn on "moore info" and inside this window i will se some screenshots, reviews, maybe some videos etc

there is a great functionality in some package manager - user rating, more info about packages would be very good especially for new users

from the other side, every user should be able to write review,, add screenshotss etc very easily

this could be made with special option in menu - review this software (just like translate this program, report bug etc) - this would show a dialog with fields to fill - this way, community could rate each software very precisely

this data should be also available from web

imagine this:

user has just removed windows, and now he is looking for svg editor

he just opens package manager - chooses category "graphics" -> "svg editor" and he is able to browse through the catalog, watch some screenshots and videos, and finally choose which software is the best for him

there is ksnapshot, krecordmydesktop and other usefull apps for implemeting this

Progress bars are a nice idea, but they become pretty meaningless when they fill up, empty, fill up again, and so on since different tasks are running. Similarly, it is difficult to use a single progress bar to cover many tasks.

A nice progress bar implementation was used on the Amiga (and probably elsewhere) where there are two progress bars, one at the top for the current task and one underneath for the total task.

It would be nice to see a GTK/QT widget made which implements thi behaviour with a simple API and GNOME and KDE encouraging its use in applications where long-running, complex things are being done (like installing, for example).

Hello. I am newbie on linux world and i find it is very difficult to manage the software if you don't have Internet access, which is my case. I would like to know if it could be possible to download the packages with all the dependencies needed at once.

I'm sure i'm not the first one who ask about this but i would like to know if it would be feasible to do something like:

1º User does "dpkg -l > list.txt" and take that file to the computer with Internet (for example: at work place)

2º Then uses a browser at the package website to upload the file with the list of packages installed in its computer.

3º It selects the software which want to download

4º The site checks the dependencies needed with the packages list (list.txt) and download everything necessary.
It could also create a script to install all the downloaded packages in the user's computer.

Thank you and sorry if i'm repeatting something which someboby already talked about

PD. Sorry also about my english.

As much as Ubuntu gains in uniqueness from its default color scheme, the theme is not necessarily going to be liked by everybody. I, for one, do not particularly care for it.

Since the default theme is not likely to be changed (more specifically, the "Human" color scheme), why not make an easy way for the user to optionally change it after installation? Of course, it is possible to do this now, but it takes a significant amount of knowledge and time to manually modify:

-GNOME theme
-GNOME wallpaper
-GNOME icon set
-GNOME splash
-GDM theme
-Boot splash (Usplash)
-GRUB theme
-etc.

There should be an option to click ONE button and have all of these things change to another theme/color scheme. Furthermore, Ubuntu should include at least one built-in alternative theme to Human (to maximize the potential of the one-click theme switcher idea).

If Ubuntu truly wants to be the "Linux for Human Beings," it needs to maximize the ability for the user to choose his or her own options. Creating a facade of earth-tones and calling it "Human" is a bit questionable and misleading. Rather, it is this one point--the ability to make choices--that is the quintessential characteristic of being Human.

I think Ubuntu should incorporate a repository with a collection of wallpapers. Even should include some wallpapers in the default installation.

Allow users to right-click a photo and left-click "Set as wallpaper" in Nautilus.

This can be implemented by installing 'nautilus-wallpaper'.

Please include this as a default.

I'm bored with dual-screen on GNU/Linux, it really has to have a graphic configuration, and better features.
I would like to move windows from a screen to another, but when I maximize I need it to be in a single screen.

Update: Xrandr GUI blog post by Bryce Harrington