Contributor glibik

Lets forget that I really don't know what a (or "the") keyring is good for and look at the other people who cannot set their computer up by them self.

I don't remember on which occasions I was asked, but the question was something like: "Would you like to add this password to your keyring?"
Or different: "Enter a new password to the keyring."

"No, I don't want to enter a new password, I already have a password! Why do I have to create another one?"

I am sure that there is a good reason for keyring to exist but it wasn't explained to me. I know, I am supposed to look it up on the internet but here comes the idea:

It would be great if there was a short explanatory sentence about keyring - what it is good for and why I have to write another password - when I'm being asked for a keyring password.

I noticed that if you insert the ubuntu cd (8.04), select install ubuntu, click next-> next-> next and left the pc alone, the screensaver start... i think is not a good solution for all that wont to follow the progress distant from the pc

sorry, duplicate... http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7237/

There should be a tool provided which is able to disable selected unused PCMCIA, Firewire ports, USB ports, expresscard ports, and any unused ports which complex peripherals can be plugged into, to provide better security.

The reason this is needed is custom made devices can be plugged into the system, and buffer overflow the kernel, or do other nasty stuff.

High security environments often get around this by supergluing peripherals to their ports, or custom metal brackets which block the unused ports from being used, but this would just offer extra protection. But by disabling the port entirely so the kernel doesn't try to load modules for it, we improve security a bit.

If the tools provided with ubuntu already allow this, please disregard this comment (refer to comments before voting)



This is an enchancement of 5074

In gnome, most applications (ie pidgin, tracker), refer to the "notification area" as the "system tray" - and they use the space meant for notifications (according to the HIC) as a system tray ala windows. This needs to commit one way or another (only use it for notifications, or change the HIC and call it a system tray).

If a user accidentally deletes their system tray, it can be quite confusing to find it; google can eventually tell them that "system tray" == "notification area", but this is a usability issue that needs fixing.

Developers should post their own ideas for future Ubuntu releases so we can vote on them.

That would be a way for them to say "We are thinking about including this new feature and we would implement it this way" and get our feedback.

Of course it could be a new category or section or whatever.

There are thousands of commands without a GUI and not everyone is comfortable with the command line. It would be a huge undertaking to create a GUI for all the command line utilities unless you had a way to automate it.

My idea is to create a program that reads man pages and automatically create Glade XML GUI files. Essentially converting one mark-up, nroff to another, XML. The translation would be intelligent and it could generate a HIGified GUI, input validation and provide a file selection dialog when the command accepts a file name as a parameter for example.

Along with the translator, there would be a helper program that would display the GUI and run the commands with the appropriate switches and provide user feedback on the execution of the command.

Man pages could be updated to provide hints to the translator and we could have a GUI translation specification that man page authors would follow for compliant man pages.

Not only would we be able to have a GUI that works exactly as advertised in the man page but it would automatically be documented.

Creating and Formatting Man Pages
http://www.fnal.gov/docs/products/ups/ReferenceManual/html/manpages.html

The Glade project
http://glade.gnome.org/

(H)uman (I)nterface (G)uidelines
http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/

Create a place where we linux users can shout out to the world "WE WANT TO PLAY ON UBUNTU LINUX"

Let us all sign and show the big companies that we exist and we are a potential marked that grows more and more every day!

Instead of asking the ubuntu team to make games work with ubuntu linux (which is quite stupid, hows that suposed to work and how much waste of development would that be?) make the gaming companies see that we exist and want support! Dont let all our requests get scattered and ignored over the www, make them all meet and bundle at one official ubuntu page.

There are games done for windows, mac, wii, ps3, psp and all other plataforms, why not ubuntu linux?

If the gaming world is able to visit a page and see "xxxxxxx ubuntu linux users want to play games!" why shouldnt they start doing it? It should be much easyer to develop games for a WORKING OS then for windows, with all its bugs and problems. That would mean less work for them, less support needed and more fun for us!

Please ubuntu team! Help us shout out!

PS: that can also be used for other types of applications, but I think games are the sollution to give Ubuntu the suport it needs. Games for Ubuntu bring working hardware for ubuntu (remember the nvidia logo before each game? "the way its meant to be played"?) and support from all companies who sell things to gamers.
Gaming mouses/keyboards joysticks... every big hardware company has something for gamers. If they start producing working drivers for that section, the other products will follow.

When Firefox downloads and saves new files to the Desktop or or when files are copied to the Desktop via the command line, the new icon reprensenting that file could be difficult to find when it is among many other icons.

It would be nice if new icons that appear on the desktop would have a nice animated glowing affect for a few moments.

Let's say I have two hard drives on my system. One of them runs Ubuntu, the other runs an alternative OS. In order to run a program on the other OS I would have to reboot, and boot off the other hard drive to run a program. Instead, I can just open a window in Ubuntu via QEMU, and boot the other partition from within the virtual machine. But if I still want to boot off the other OS natively, I still can.

Update: When I created this idea, I didn't realize it was already available via QEMU:

qemu -hda /dev/sda1

This is an excellent feature that many users are unaware of. This feature should be expanded upon, and emphasized as an alternative to just dual booting.

I know this idea is bizarre but stick with me. A program witha gui written in maybe tkinter that can build very complex cli commands. A scripting language is first chosen like bash or korn. Then a command list is generated and the user can construct advanced commands, piping their results into one another to generate whatever result is desired. A built in debugger could be developed to speed up development. This would be a great tool for newbs, great educational tool for learning how to script.

I have two monitors. When I log in to work, I always open the same four or five apps. But then, I have to drag them all over the place so get them how I like them. I am required to do this every time I open them.

I propose that window statuses are saved (which monitor, position on the monitor, expanded size, maximized or not, ...) so that the user's workflow isn't interrupted.

I would love to be able to click the icon, look at where the window will be and have it open to meet me.

I really like gEdit, it's a simple app and abides by all gnome standards. Any changes in preferences are reflected in the editor.

I do wish however that ith ad more features. The first of which is code folding.

Plain and simple.

I think that the "Notebook Remix" theme is great. It is sexy, bold and innovative, just like GNU/Linux ;). http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/03/canonical-makes-ubuntu-netbook-remix-officia l-at-computex/
I know that a lot of people don't like the "brown" in Ubuntu but this variation of the theme is way better. What do you think? I think its great because it sets Ubuntu apart from all others but at the same time its simple and elegant.

P.S By theme I mean just the color and art. Not the interface itself.

Microsoft Communicator is widely used in corporate networks for internal instant messenging. Providing an alternative client in Ubuntu would remove a huge barrier to "use ubuntu at work".

That's big work. MS started with SIP and messed it up so their implementation is not standard at all anymore. A plugin has been started for Pidgin already, but still needs a lot of development.

* The splash screens for startup and shutdown: They are so simple and minimal that I wish more things of the artwork well like that. They also do work and look good. Please don't change them, at least not brutally, I think it is better to invest time on more important things.

* The same goes for the sounds, they are so nice and original, I love the drums and the clock! Please, don't change them just because a brainstorm post appears saying they are updated, who cares? They work and they are nice.

I suspect this should really be a bug report, but haven't found a place for submitting brainstorm bug reports. As a result I'm making a suggestion for improvement instead.

Don't know all the platforms on which this is an issue, but it is an issue on Firefox 2.0.0.14 under Microsoft Windows XP.

When the Firefox window is sufficiently wide, all the text wraps at the right hand edge as expected. As the window width is reduced, the text dynamically re-wraps, also as expected. Unfortunately, this is the case only up (down?) to a point.

That point seems to be when the window width gets down to about 920-930 pixels on a 1280x1024 screen. For window widths less than that, the text 'disappears' off the edge.

It's not only text that fails to dynamically adjust. The box, in which comments are written, starts to disappear off the edge when the window width gets down to about 875 pixels.

I believe the html in brainstorm should ensure pages render correctly down to window widths of 640 pixels, possibly less.

If there are features on the pages that make rendering in 640 pixel wide windows impractical, then a compromise could be to ensure correct rendering in 800 pixel wide windows.

If even that's not practical then, I suggest, the whole brainstorm html design needs to be re-visited.

For those who may want to, don't bother suggesting; "Just make the window wider or full screen.". That option is not acceptable and not considered viable.

it good have some basic offline translator /english-german, german-english, ......../

The Eldmannen application will allow all Ubuntu users to quickly and easily add ideas in Brainstorm just by double clicking on the heading of their favourite Sourceforge project. No more sitting and racking your own brain, just let Eldmannen do it for you.

Eldmannen

(grin) ...and thanks for all the fish.

I'd love to see a stylish wallpaper switcher, which fades wallpapers at predefined intervals a la OS X.

There are lots of lovely wallpapers on sites such as www.interfacelift.com, and having them switch automagically with a beautiful fade transition would really complement Ubuntu and the often gorgeous-looking themes that people customise their desktops with.

Freenet is a decentralized, censorship-resistant distributed data store. Freenet aims to provide freedom of speech through a peer-to-peer network with strong protection of anonymity.
Freenet works by pooling the contributed bandwidth and storage space of member computers to allow users to anonymously publish or retrieve various kinds of information.
It can be thought of as a large storage device which uses key based routing similar to a distributed hash table to locate peers' data.

* http://freenetproject.org/
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet