Contributor greg.hagen

An Alarm to user remember about some important events.

Evolution have an alarm, but it is a big and fat program and many people don't like use it just to have a alarm.

I found these Alarm programs:
http://gnomefiles.org/app.php/Alarm+Clock
http://alarm-clock.54.pl/

Maybe other more simple Alarm can be included.

Some (most?) printer manufacturers still don't make printer drivers for Linux, or just for a few models or low quality drivers. This make people running into trouble when migrating to Linux. There is a program called ddiwrapper (developed by SUSE) that can use the XP drivers in Linux to make printing to unsupported printers possible (at the moment only Canon drivers seem to work). Of course support as much printers as possible!

Since I don't think many people would be scared of an extra button to configure their selected screensaver, it would be really nice if it could be included (like it is in xscreensaver-settings).

Implement a "random submission"-button into the menue

A nice, (pretty) application for viewing media quickly and efficiently would be awesome.

There's a very old application called Xmove which does not work well at all. What would be very helpful, is to be able to SSH into a box, (ssh -Y) and run a gui application directed to the local X server (via ssh -Y), but have the X application **detachable**!! The 'screen' command is limited to shell-based programs, but this would be for gui applications that draw to the remote X server via 'ssh -Y'.

So, if the ssh tunnel disconnected, or if I wanted to detach and pick it up again later, I could simply detach it as simply as one detaches a bash shell using 'screen', but for a gui application. The way ssh works now, if I lose that SSH connection, the gui-application dies with the SSH session.

Of course, VNC and NX (nomachine) provide this, but they're **whole desktop** solutions. If one works often with remote-gui applications (as I do) forcing the WHOLE DESKTOP to the client really kills my real desktop, and I cannot easily run both local and remote applications without some creative sizing of the remote-desktop.

The versatility of 'ssh -Y' allows for single-application mapping over remote connections, but there's no way to safely detach it, and allow it to continue to run and then re-attach to it at a later time.

Perhaps this is more of an ssh request than an Ubuntu-specific request (though it is discussed in some Ubuntu forums). Regardless, it's one I've been trying to do for some time.

Cheers!

There are lot of people having troubles syncing their devices (pda, smartphones, etc.) with ubuntu. At this poing there is only one solution available, multisync, and works for only a few devices, and it's very limited on their functions.

And I think, this is a very important point for lots of people.

**Suggestions from duplicate idea 397 work on that idea :

1) Clean up the Opensync and SyncML plugin packages to work properly with Evolution by default.

2) Set up an official Ubuntu SyncML server for Ubuntu users.

3) Possibly clean up open source SyncML clients for the different mobile platforms.

Ubuntu should include a way to add/remove fonts from a repository just like the add/remove program panel. When a user needs a new font, they could open up the window, and the program would download the latest repository fonts. The user could look through the fonts and choose which ones to install by simply checking a box and clicking "apply." A user could search for font keywords to find certain styles of fonts. For example, someone could search for keywords words "serif","sans serif","cursive", and the GUI would display fonts that match the search. This would be a killer tool for designers.

Furthermore, the GUI could be very helpful. When a user browses a font, a sample image of it could be automatically loaded so that the user can quickly find fonts that are appealing to them. A rating system or popularity gauge could be used so that the best fonts can be highlighted.

A tool like this would create inscentive for font designers to make their designs free/public. Credits could be given to designers in the font descriptions.

Many GUI configuration utilities work by modifying config files. They should tell the users what files they modify and the modifications they make because sometimes it's easier, faster, or necessary to edit configuration files for functionality the GUI tool does not support, but figuring out what files are involved can be more difficult than actually making the changes.

Even if users don't intend to edit the configuration files, knowing which files are modified and how will help users to build accurate mental models about the tools they use, which will help them to effectively use those tools to accomplish their goals.

Add option for periodical automatic changes of the desktop background.

I would like to switch my Monitor from Landscape mode to Portrait mode on the fly. Say by right clicking on the desktop like I do in MS Windows at this time.

In any of the Linux's, I have to edit the xorg.conf file to make this change and it's not on the fly.

Thanks