Contributor holizz

Hi guys,

I'm new to linux and got the idea to try running roaming profiles on Ubuntu 8.0.4 from a Windows AD environment.

Now on an Windows environment I'm quite comfurtable with such a small task although on Linux it's a whole new ball game. To be honest I don't know the first thing about the OS. Please...can somebody give me some advice with this?

The window list (otherwise known as the "task bar") provides a list of the application windows currently open or minimised, and right clicking on these enties allows the user to choose various things to do to them.

However, as it stands these options are limited to window management, like "close", "maximise", "move", etc. If an application wants to use arbitrary options which are always accessible in the panel, they have to make a notification area icon. For instance many music players create such an icon so that play, next, stop, etc. buttons are always available. These icons take up space in the notification area and are not notifications at all. Often, clicking on them produces a minimise/restore effect exactly like clicking on a window list entry does. To me this seems completely redundant.

Allowing applications to add arbitrary entries (such as play, pause, etc.) to the right-click menu of their window list entry would allow the notification area icon to be gotten rid of, as all of the functionality they allow would be available.

Since many applications use a notification area icon due to its cross-desktop standardisation implementing this would have to be done through freedesktop.org to create a cross-desktop, cross-platform, language-agnostic specification.

This idea doesn't touch upon the exact method of doing this, or the display (for example adding the options above window management ones, below, in a sub-menu, etc. this would probably be left to each window list/window manager implementation)

Ubuntu and all other Linux distributions tries to implement drivers at kernel level or something like that...
Why linux volunteers write driver ?
Linux should prepare only platform for device driver, not write driver code itself...

after the driver platform, any volunteer may develop driver, but DEVICE VENDORS SHOULD BE encouraged and helped to write drivers for Linux using that driver platform...

Songbird is IMO the best music player, however there are many issues that people have with it. First off, it isn't in the Add/Remove so people don't try it. Also it needs to be compatible with the multimedia buttons and also put an icon in the notification area and not crash so often.

I feel that if the Ubuntu and Mozilla teams worked together to develop this more for ubuntu, then it can be a very nice edition to the pre-installed programs for future releases of Ubuntu, maybe drawing some more people toward the OS.

It would like to be good to realize autocompleting input in Gnome Terminal. I don't speak about Tab key, I want to see something like in OpenOffice.org when editor automatically show recently typed words and you can simply press Enter to complete input.

For example, you begin to type command. System looks at the command history, find there similary item and show it by other color. You can press Enter and select this item or you can press Up and Down for search another similary items or you can simply follow typing or press Esc if you don't want use this feature.

I think it is more usable then command history search with Ctrl+R

There are lots of small games in the gnome-games package and there are simply too many. It looks kind of bloated with that many games installed by default. So I suggest that you just have 2 or 3 games instead of the whole package.

To win people over to Ubuntu it needs to put significant resources into developing a video game on the level of GTA, Halo, or WoW. This would be an incentive for the millions of video game players out there to download and install Ubuntu on their desktops. Openoffice just doesn't cut it!

Its about consistency. If they're all Ubuntu they should be on the same website isn't it?. (All family on the same house maybe :-)? )
Would be nice that Xubuntu website was something like www.ubuntu.com/xubuntu and the same to kubuntu, more integration, it is a way to give the user the feeling that they're all the same distribution.

It's not like they'll be using them. It also slows down in learning what they can use.

when you copy many files, soon you will have a plenty of windows with transfer status

they could be joined in one, with tabs

something like this
(sorry for my gimp skills :) )
http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/968894/img/968894.png

This is not my idea, is from willwill100 on DevianArt:

He/she make this mockup for Ubuntu and I think is one of the best ever created (my opinion).

He/she doesn't know that I publish his/her ideas here... But I think that if Ubuntu has this Look and Feel, Ubuntu will be better (or best :P)

http://willwill100.deviantart.com/art/Interpid-Ibex-Mockup-Part-1-93584571

As always, excuse my poor english.

In windows people are accustomed to download a single .exe files and double click it to install it. In Ubuntu we use Synaptic. Sure synaptic is good. I have slow speed so I save those .deb files to install things later. I am sure many people do that. Now the problem is, most Ubuntu softwares like VLC, comprise of 4-5 .deb files this makes it tough to install software manually. If there are single source files for Windows and Macs I am sure, single files can be created for Ubuntu too.

Lately, many programmes have not been working with the old OS, be it Windows or Linux. I suggest that this new OS can support these new programmes so they work on all pcs.

iTunes is a very popular music player, the only problem is that it cant work well on Ubuntu. Living in a household of 3 people with 3 iTunes users and 2 Pure Linux users, we have to collaborate all our music on our friends XP. I have tried to get iTunes to work through wine but I can never do it. I dont know if there would be licensing though.

I just opened a case to have shockwave configured for linux. I don't know if this will help but maybe if people start posting on the case, they might take the idea more seriously.

case number

0180341317

Debian-based distributions have sensible-browser, sensible-editor and sensible-pager to launch an existing (or preferred?) browser, editor, or pager, respectively.

Why not also add ones for media-players (possibly differentiating sensible-audio-player and sensible-video-player), document-viewers, file managers (e.g. thunar vs. nautilus), image-viewers, terminal-windows, sensible-mailer (for sending e-mails), etc.?

This will allow one to write portable scripts that are agnostic about preferred or available applications.

Sure, it is called "Application Switcher" in compiz, but why not add the desktop to the "list of applications." The application switcher changes the focus of the windows, so what is wrong with changing the focus to no windows at all. Because this is not an option everyone will embrace, my philosophy is make it an option. Linux has a lot of popularity because of it's level of customization, and this can just further that.

I hate to say it, but i do like how Vista's Flip3D and Alt-Tab both contain the desktop.

It’s just an idea!! (For business issue only)

I was thinking about a new email kind that means nobody from internet can send me an e-mail if he doesn’t know my email secret code.

All email codes will be stored on file on the mail server (in a secure place) every time we receive an email we should check if there it contains a code if yes we compare with codes on the file;


If match === > e-mail OK, and will be delivered!!

If not match === > e-mail not ok, and we have 2 options, discard the email (spam) or forward it to a non-secure email address for an other checkup (spamc, mailfitre, clamv…etc..etc).

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A lot of people can know who you are in real life, but they can’t call you (you got cellular = email) simply because they don’t have you phone number (code) , or they can’t send to you a letter even if they know you location but not house number (code) !!

You only receive calls from persons that you gave your phone number, why not for e-mail??


Sorry for my English :o) Anyway it’s just an idea…

This could be done either by recognising and treating them as regular zip/rar files or introducing a new frontend to allow support for automatically expanding zip files.

how about making (ubuntu messenger) for the users.like someone@ubuntu.com
someone@kubuntu.com
someone@xubuntu.com
and like that.provide text chat and voice chat and maybe video chat! to make the people who use ubuntu or linux generally convert to it.hotmail and windows live messenger have so many difficulties for linux users to use their email addresses.
even if that need some time,I will wait for that to happen.
than you all :)