Contributor hthetiot

Apparently, because firefox is trademarked, we cannot remove customisations added by Mozilla (such as the default ebay search engine link, which is only there because they pay mozilla, but only promotes ebay's rubbishy Paypal, and demotes competition).

By changing its name, we can get around that (similar to iceweasal and Debian).

It will still be exactly the same firefox, only difference is the name, and flexibility in what code we can change in it.

One of the features of Ubuntu hardy heron is virtual machine. but for the setup u have to use command prompt to install graphical back end and in my case qemu also.
My proposal is to make meta package like Ubuntu restricted extras to make install easy and simple.

the current voting sytem supports older ideas more than newer ones.
Maybe there should be a mixture between a rating of 1 to 5 (stars or whatever) and the total amount of positive votes.

It would be great if You could make a multi-language translator(for Edubuntu) for translating web site's and text.Of course it could be downloaded from repositories.

Mozilla Firefox comes with search engines by default.

In Google, when you search for something, and it lists the links it find, and you click on the links, you get directly to the links.
In Yahoo, when you search for something, and it lists the links it finds, when you click on the links, it redirects you to them through themself, hence spying on their users.

Example, instead of linking directly to http://www.linux.com/ they link to;
* http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGkxY36.NHOFUA1vBXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzcnVyMjkyBHNlYwN zcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA3NrMQR2dGlkA0gwODVfMTI1/SIG=119t26bpi/EXP=1206205623/**http%3a //www.linux.com/

Yahoo has been criticized for their adware and spyware;
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo#Adware_and_Spyware

They also helped the Chinese government by giving up data, resulting in the imprisonment of Chinese political dissidents.
Shi Tao, a journalist working for a Chinese newspaper, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo#Work_in_China

We should keep Google, Wikipedia and Creative Commons. Google is our strong ally.
However, Yahoo and eBay never did shit for us, why should we help them out?

already done :)
Thanks!

things to be done:
easy rotate picture without losing clarity.
easy one click print
easy resize even inside nautilus or on desktop.
easy crop option
compress photo/export to other formats like png etc.
zoom in/out easily/fit to window
slide show.
link picture viewer to other photo editing software like
gimp or default picture editing software.
change default photo folder.

A separate partition for /home has been proposed for a long time in the forums. It implies some risks, though, so based on disk size Ubiquity should estimate the amount of space that should be left for / or whether a separate partition should be made at all. Then...

-The first time an user installs Ubuntu, he is given the option to set a separate /home. This option is selected by default, with a size for each partition based on a sane guess:

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7958/firstinstallaro2.png

-Of course, he can just choose not to set a separate /home. This option will be selected by default if the results of the system test suggest that's the best thing to do.

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/6498/firstinstallbfs6.png

-Manual install is also possible. Selecting it greys out everything related to separate /home, since it's implied that the user doesn't want to be guided.

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7976/firstinstallcvc2.png

-If the user set a separate /home, the next time he installs Ubuntu a new option appears and is selected by default, prompting to use the existing /home partition. All other options are still available, though.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9034/secondinstalliq1.png

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There is a wide community of online artists capable of creating brilliant, unique artwork.

heading: Get your artwork on 10 million desktops

Ubuntu, the world's most popular Linux distribution, needs a new theme. The winner will appear in the default desktop of Ubuntu 8.10.

We're looking for original wallpapers, that match Ubuntu's color palette. You entry should also include a suggested combination of application, icon, and window themes. These can be existing themes, or your own original works - you only need to submit a wallpaper to win.

Work must be CC licensed, and be openable in either Inkscape or Gimp (rest of criteria continues)

Submit your works to DeviantArt and include the words [Ubuntu810].


Good luck!

I'm not sure if this is fixed by using PulseAudio but i find the volume control in gnome is way too linear. Because of this the user has very little control with extreme loud and quiet volumes. For example, when reducing the volume it will decrease to a certain level then suddenly just go silent. Much more control would be given with a logarithmic scale.

This page explains it much better: http://sound.westhost.com/project01.htm