Contributor glibik

I mean... why should i change my O.S. if i see your site badly? ... that will be the same with the O.S. (Simple user thought...)

Dont' you Agree with me?

Negative ideas should be shown in gray color.

It could be a good way to deal with "trash" and make brainstorm site cleaner and easier to read.

An intermediate solution could be turning the idea gray when it has too many negative votes (let's say -100).

As in Mac OsX: when you drag usb drive icon on the trash, the trash can unmount the pen drive. I know it's just a detail...but also details are important!

Sorry for my bad english :-P (from Italy)

I think that when i right click on the mouse when i am in the desktop then ubuntu should not show me the Change Desktop Background option cause it is already in the System>Prefernces>Appearance
it is like a theme.. no one will change background so fast..
Plus:
when i download a background and add it in the: Change Desktop Background .. then.. i change the place of the background i have downloaded.. the background of ubuntu changes the background to ubuntu default because he cant find the background i have downloaded.

Create a folder called drop box (as in mac os x) which has write permissions to all but not read permissions. This makes us easy to share files privately.
Create it as defult during installation itself.

When I press the laptop OFF button I don't want to have to use the mouse/keyboard again. The button should just get on with a shutdown or a suspend or hibernate (this should be configurable).

I know how to get to the Log-off/Suspend/Hibernate/Shutdown menu and I don't need a button especially for that.

I know the Idea sound stupid . first time it hit me I said to my self what stupid idea too, but let me explain please
The first thing windows users said when you tell them about Linux/Ubuntu is "it is hard, u need to learn commands to use it" and they don't understand that 95% of the time we use CLI because we love it.
imagine this title in Ubuntu website "Ubuntu 8.10 is so easy you don't need terminal any more" thats will encourage windows people to try it, and for all of old Ubuntu users I'm sure if you know how to use CLI you will know how to install it

The Ubuntu startup and shutdown splashscreens with the Ubuntu logo and a progress bar underneath it really looks like something from the 90ies (Windows 95 anyone?)

I don't know if there are any hindrances to using images or animations of higher resolutions than what is currently used (for machines that supports it), but I really think Ubuntu can do better here.

This may be an unimportant improvement compared to many other ideas here, but it should be a very quick and easy fix, and it will really help when you try to convince regular folks to make the switch (a graphically stunning desktop is _so_ important when you show it to occasional users!).

On windows, the backspace key goes to the previous page in your history but on Ubuntu it doesn't. It was because of a bug I believe but it would be a help.

When a user upgrade himself to a brand-new system, mean computer, he'll probably almost lose all of his personal-settings in his old computer. It'd be great to have a 'wizard' to 'transfer' all the files and settings from the old pc to a new one (through a cable, maybe).

Title is bad, but I have no other ideas how to describe this.
Mind: This should be done just for NON-security updates
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The upgrades now are very sporadic. I for example have been updating my computer every day in these last few days.
I'm all for bleeding edge but I still think that upgrades should not come so sporadic as they are now.

You get 2-3 upgrades in a day every day. You can specify at update manager that it should check for updates every week,
but then you could get a lot of updates all of them downloaded at once.

I propose that Canonical makes upgrade packages which would be released on every few day; when number of updates reaches 10.

This would come really handy especially during summer when a lot of us are not using computer so much.
Now I'm afraid that when I come home from my holidays I'll have 100 of updates waiting to be downloaded all at once.
The packages would break that, so I could still download 1 package a day, and slowly update my computer to "100" updates.

Even though I do have an DSL connection, this I think this would still be a good idea.
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Maybe just an option and not default or vice versa, this would be default but for those who want to stay bleeding edge they could still make that their computer would be updated ASAP the updates are available.

Note: This is not just a website to collect documentation in a single place (which has been done already) this is a completely new, sophisticated website to track documentation changes almost like source code. Don't vote this down without understanding the specifics of this idea thankyou.

Summary:
Many aspects of using Linux are similar from one distro to the next so it makes little sense for every distro to have to create and write documentation sites from scratch. I am proposing a modern web 2.0 site where all Linux distros share documentation using sophisticated tracking and syncing tools.

User Example:
Someone downloads 'Cool New Linux', the latest Linux distro but doesnt know how to use it. They click on the link for help on the distros website and are taken to Linuxhelp.org/CoolNewDistro. (Or whatever url)

Although the user doesnt know it, the site is using a bunch of sophisticated and clever ways to keep documentation synced up with documenation written upstream and because the 'Cool New Distro' developers have chosen what sections of the documentation to sync to even the most general pages are always 100% relative to their distro.

Why this is a good idea:
I am a member of a small but active distro community and one of our newest aims is to improve documentation. I feel however that I am wasting my time doing this. Why should every distro have to reinvent the wheel by writing documentation on the same topics? A central site where documentation could be tracked and synced to would improve the quality of documentation 100 fold. Imagine if one Gnome developer writes an article on how to use the new feature in Gnome and boom! all the distros using that new technology will have the chance to automatically sync to the tutorial and get automated updates when it is changed upstream.

In terms of how this shared documentation might work, all it would take is for a member of the documentation team of 'Cool New Distro' to check the notification in their account's inbox that a documentation article has been changed or created relating to a piece of tech found in his distro, or a page linked to from their documention has been changed, or that a certain documentation writer on his 'watch list' has written something. It could be that for 90% of the documentation created the distros would simply need to 'OK' it for inclusion in their respective section and that is as much as input as they would need to do on that article.

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Fast, easy access to applications features is a major enabler.
Hunting for features from the menus is tiresome, slow, and generally inefficient if the feature is buried deep enough in the menu hierarchy.

Please add a keyboard shortcut for every feature that an application provides.

an example screenshot:
http://aquamacs.org/latex/menu_shortcuts.png

Nobody likes that sloppy, hard to get, time-wasting binary installer of Google Earth. Make a .deb and make the experience much more user-friendly. I am surprised that Google Earth is not in the software catalog yet.

There is a Control Center that comes with GNOME. However, Ubuntu hides this easy-to-use Control Center by default. There is a way to make it appear, but that requires editing menus, which could make novices very uncomfortable. My suggestion is that Ubuntu put it on the desktop and on the System Menu.

I installed Ubuntu 8.04 few weeks before. I was wondering, shouldn't we add something like "Windows Task Manager"? I mean, how frequently it hangs! I miss that shortcut few times because when Ubuntu hangs nothing happens and you'll have to go for a hard boot!

New feature for Nautilus like Windows explorer when move files/folders to place whith files/folders with the same name. Look screenshot. Thanks.

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The only way to rename a file in Nautilus is to right click a file and then choose "Rename...". It will be much much more convenient if we have the ability to rename a file when clicked upon its name.

Ubuntu doesn't seem to be able to associate files by file extensions, and instead forces people to associate files by their content types (like it contain XML content so its XML).

This means that if I use XML for my program, and name the files .menutogo, in the gnome gui, it will only let me associate ALL xml/html files with menutogo. And other people use XML/html too. I should be able to set only .menutogo files to open in MenuToGo.

I don't know what can be done, but I've heard of "emerge" and I envy it.

"sudo install", maybe?

I hate telling potential newcomers how easy it is to install software in ubuntu... they hear "all you have to do is sudo apt-get install and then the name of the program" and all they hear is jibberish.

maybe even just "install", and then we can have it automatically prompt for root password. Imagine telling people all they have to type to install pidgin is type "install pidgin" in terminal!