Contributor henk0775

Personal configuration in the first session.

Example 1:
Do you have Wi-Fi or Blutooth?
If don't use it, the system or script will be remove configuration to Grub or in the session initial make boot more fast.

Example 2:
Do you have HP printing?

Others configuration:
Splash Screen; PC or Lap Top; Questions about boot; initial programs that will be running in start; update System, configure ubuntu drives and codecs restrict, and many other configuration.

It wold be access in the Sistem/Administration when is will be necessary.

With all the artists Ubuntu has, and Grub not going anywhere soon, could grub at least get a splash screen by default? It's much more appealing than the simple menu that exists now.

Problem -- Many generic requests such as "Make Ubuntu faster!" are being submitted as ideas. Making Ubuntu faster is definitely something that everyone wants so everyone votes up but we still don't have any ideas on how to make Ubuntu faster.

Solution -- Split ideas into "Problems" and "Ideas". Problems could be submitted separately from ideas but ideas need to be linked to a problem.

In the "Make Ubuntu faster" example, the submitter would enter a problem such as "Ubuntu boots slowly". The idea could be "Don't start any non-interactive processes such as Apache until the user interactive ones have completely loaded".

Voting would be done on the ideas and problems. This way we could see which problems are most important by vote count.

Idea voting would work a little differently. You could only vote for one idea of each problem but have the option to move you vote between ideas for the particular problem.

This system doesn't need a migration from plain text to xml.
About all config files of about all programs have a simple scheme: a key followed by a value.
This system should read a file, parse line by line, find a match of the key in an xml file and apply the change.
It will be useful to bring a system in defaults, to create gui for every programs, to upgrade a system without change users' customizations.
Cases:

- Lucas wants to configure Xorg, he launches this configurator and with a gui he will be able to change all the keys.

- William doesn't want to upgrade his system, because a major change will destroy all his customizations. But packet mantainer uses this system and will be added only the new keys, without touch the other.

- Meredith made a disaster. The configurator read keys and value from a special xml file and system will be reverted in an usable condition.

Ask freely.

Currently, the default Grub Menu is ultra confusing for the average user. When a first time Linux user boots their system, they see three confusing boot options. Which one are they meant to select?

It would be more intuitive if the Grub Boot Menu Options were as followed:

Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 8.04 (Fail-Safe)
Ubuntu 8.04 (Memory Test)
Microsoft Windows

This way, all the boot options are available, but the user can almost instantly understand what they are and what they mean.

In Linux Mint, when the mouse hovers over a sound file in Nautilus for more than 3 or 4 seconds, it starts playing the file without opening any other program, like a media player!

As soon as the mouse leaves the file, it stops.

This is an amazingly convenient feature which I would love to see in Ubuntu!

To set your system sounds, you need to go to "System" -> "Preferences" -> "Sounds" and set all of them manually. How about a universal sound "theme"?

Currently we have a number of repositories maintained for ubuntu or other linux distros. This is good in the way that users don't usually have to google for the software they need. However some of the software doesn't make it into the repositories, and there is no way for an application developer to reach the users other than put their software on the web and hope that users will find it through google. Another drawback of this approach is that there are requests to put software into the repositories. And yet another drawback is that it takes a little more time for a newer version of the software to make it into the repository. All of these problems can (at least partially) be solved by using a distributed repository approach. In this case there can be a central directory which will only need to contain some metainformation: where the packages are, how to download them, their checksum, and maybe if they are secure (read: maintained by canonical)

there are other advantages to using this approach, however there also are some security issues that need to be solved before implementing this idea. One is that since anyone can publish to the central directory, an attacker can possibly publish a modified version of software which was developed by another author and already gained some popularity (e.g. Pidgin), that contains a back door.

Premise: I know that there is two projects, unionfs and aufs, and neither is complete, after all this is a brainstorm...

I think that it will increase the read performance, mounting a ramdisk (a little rd, because etc is small), because there is no heads wandering. And the data will be written anyway in the hd. And a unionfs also allows a snapshot of this important directory.

Consider an early in the boot unionfs to shorter the boot time (but this must be verificated, I admit)

I suggest to use mouse doubleclick at empty space. It must be user-selectable as follow:
do nothing;
create empty text file;
create new folder;
make a sticky note (for desktop)
or so.

(added) Why dislike this? Please drop a line. By default it's never doubleclicks. Only option.

At least a small set of css2 and 3.
The advantages are convergence, standardization and (with a small set) simplicity.

We can play youtube videos in Totem now and they work great, as we are using youtube's api.
Flash still has some issues on Linux and Firefox that don't seem like they are going to improve drastically (like sound).
Apple's iPhone doesn't have flash on it and instead uses the youtube api to view videos.

Let's use it too.

*Note: I am not saying we shouldn't try to improve Flash support, just that youtube will also become better if Totem does the playing, (better acceleration, better fullscreen).

Join the search engine text field with the addressfield in order to save space.

Michelangelo said that his art was actually "to take out marble chips and free the statue".
There are many old and dead apps in official repository.
For example scrollkeeper project is dead since 2003.

A brutal solution is to delete the package.
A clever solution is to finger each possible substitute, work on deleting deprecated dependencies and reuse of code, if possible.

Mark said that "pretty is a feature".
Ubuntu must be eyecandy, pretty, beautiful, glossy. Sometimes human theme is not so, if we try other ones. For example, glossy theme works well.
My idea is beautiful by default.

n.b. Give attenction that this idea is in "marketing".

Currently, the take screenshot feature (Print Screen key or Accessories>Take Screenshot) hides the mouse when it is taken. It could be useful to be able to show the mouse if needed.

For example, i was trying to explain a bug that caused the mouse to turn into a black box, but i couldnt visually show it because the screenshot hid it.

If you apt-get Frets on Fire from the repository it is virtually unplayable due to slow graphics. If you download it from http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/ and run it the game is smooth - and GREAT FUN!

Please repackage and make this fun game easy accessible. Bad packages make great software look bad!

Most applications that offer a tabbed viewing experience use the Control+T keyboard shortcut to create a new tab (firefox is probably the most frequently used one). However there are occasions where the focus is on a desktop window with a legitimate file (or worse, set of files) selected; in these occasions, hitting Control+T sends the selected files to Trash, which is quite frustrating.

Granted, the files can be easily recovered from Trash and the keyboard shortcut can be changed by the user after installation, but still, this is frustrating.

I'd suggest changing the default "Send to Trash" shortcut to "Alt+T", or deactivate it completely (the good old Delete button can do the same trick just fine).

Notification applet could get rss feed for important security issues.

I think we should have like a voting system for the howtos. =]
Just like for cool tips and stuff.