Contributor hunt.topher

We could get this effect allowing to put a gif (or another kind of image file format wich support transparency) as task-bar backgrown. If the user push click in the transparet area then the task-bar doesn't activate and if the user push click in the area with color then the task bar catch the click.

This is an optional feature for users with graphics accelerator.

Would nive to know so you could select to ignore the update.

I am thinking something like this: http://blog.chip.de/chip-linux-blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/mintdesktop.png

Why?

It will ease for new users to configure some desktop settings (and others) that should be as easy as possible to configure

The categories are categorized based on the range of "uses".

Idea:
Make a new category for "Real World Interfacing"

This would include;
- hardware (other than standard PC peripherals)
- software
- projects (how to build, how to program and use)

Some Examples ;

1a) Use Brainwaves to Control Your PC.
http://www.pcworld.com/video/id,451-page,1-bid,0/video.html

1b) Other ways to Control Your PC (Human Computer Interface)
i) TUIO: A Protocol for Tangible User Interfaces.
http://tuio.lfsaw.de/
ii) The reactable is a collaborative electronic instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface.
http://reactable.iua.upf.edu/

2) Home Automation and Control Projects like;
HeyU http://www.heyu.org/
Minerva http://www.minervahome.net

3) Linux in Cars

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if you start up thunderbird and then click on "write"

now size your window down a bi, infact a lot.

if you make it so it is big enough to read the address lines then you have to resize the window again to make it big enough to see the body of the message o type in it.

this is a real pain.

then you make the box small you should be able to use your scroll wheel in your mouse or there should be a scroll icon appear say on the right or left side that will allow you to scroll the enitre screen inside this window.

if you try this you will understand a little what im trying to say

I'd like to see the ability to rightclick a music playlist, or a utility from within Nautilus and see a "Schedule this..." option.

This would basically interact with cron, setting up jobs. It would allow the user to run apps or music at specific times without having to resort to cron.

I used Ubuntu for an entire year before I got brave enough to start using cron. And while I love it, I don't think my mother will.

a link to a html profesional looking banner to add to any other forums we are members of to help promote ubuntu would be great to help get free advertising and help increase user base

Voice-activated software should be supported in Ubuntu by default.

Compiz recently has been working on a plugin that lets you make a window temporarily transparent to clicks and other inputs. Unless I'm mistaken, it's called ghost. A similar plugin is called dodge.

For example: if I'm keeping a video window on top (watching it while I work), and have a word processor below, then if I need to select a word below my video, I can do this without having to lose my video window's visibility. It can be frustrating to have to hunt down the window and bring it back on top again.

NOTE: I do not wish this to be a default-enabled plugin (bad idea, I think). I just want it to be present in Intrepid so I don't have to use an unsupported version of Compiz Fusion.

i don't know why... but lots of things like this one,don't let me think that Nautilus is Modern File Manager ...


I think UBUNTU _should_ push Gnome developers to fix/remove these nasty Bugs..


Image:
http://i35.tinypic.com/6ge820.png


[UPDATE]
heh! it's the killer part of Nautilus !
http://i36.tinypic.com/2vazko7.png


(sorry for bad English)

I found this awesome idea on Gnome-look.org and thought the world should know about it.

http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Future+File+Management+Mockup?content=71 112

Quote : All files are presented in a single window; the user is able to move around the files like in an RTS game or Google Earth. An excellent example of this implementation would be the game Defcon. The user is able to zoom in and zoom out and follow the mini-map in order to locate files.

Ubuntu could team up with open Source (Or even non-open projects) to bring users a competitor to iLife on the mac. This would definitely helped popularize Ubuntu. This would be a download so that we could keep ubuntu on a CD. Or if there ends up being 2 Versions of ubuntu (CD $ DVD) then you could put it on the dvd one.

My idea is that ensure that when a negative duplicate(an idea with negative votes) found reporting it to original idea wont affect original ideas votes because everybody wants there ideas to flourish,get attention.Add/combine votes of duplicate ideas only when both have positive votes.so this way people will report duplicate without worrying about there idea gets neglected.also when some idea gets implemented as
said in some other idea immediately Cascading its effects or closing the duplicates is necessary.

Right now there are too many brainstorms to be sifted through and made sense of, spreading the votes of any reasonable person too thin.

Brainstorm should select a group of moderators to filter out ideas that are not feasible, not ideas, bug reports, or poorly worded before they are able to be voted on by the general registered user populace.

It will make Brainstorm less cluttered and allow people to decide on a few well-crafted and feasible brainstorms instead of having to make sense of the mess of 10s of thousands of brainstorms that have no hope of ever coming to fruition ("Include all proprietary codecs by default," "Make Ubuntu better," "Fix this upstream Gnome problem").

LTSP is a system to simply and secure Linux thin clients. Building the LTSP client image requires internet access. This is good in theory but a remote site on a slow internet connection may need to get up and running and then download patches. It is possible to do this by tweaking some of the client builder config files but non-trivial. It should be much easier to make the install without an internet connection (from the install disc) to assist these users.

May you are a commercial game producer and want to distribute your software to linux users (including Ubuntu users). You want to sell your software on compact disks in shops in your country (and in the internet). The only way there is, is to use an setup program (like on windows commonly), isn't it? You can use e.g. autopackage. There is no comman interface for it. Please give developers a recommended install method for additional software.

.deb is no solution because you only can use it on systems like debian and ubuntu. (and it's an security risk)

softwares like
*-Accounting and banking software for banking
*-Web designing and Animation software for animators,architects(cad and cam like)
*-Billing software and reports system for doctors that has integration into even online websites to track patent records.
*-software to maintain and update student marks and university records,syllabus.
*-more professional software for different fields in life like
seismographer,land surveying,chemistry,physics,botany,zoology.
i mean there are too many areas but focus to some key,important areas is must.
even ubuntu should reach rural areas of countries.

When i change the master volume with my keyboard's increase/decrease volume buttons i got only about 17 steps from no sound to full volume. That's fine. But the stepping is very hard and uncomfortable to my ears. What I would like to see is the volume manager fading between the volume steps. I suspect rhythmbox is doing this already. I'd like to see the volume manager displaying the set volume with an arrow or something and then showing a quick animation that fills the bar in about half a second or something depending on the amount of change in volume. This would not increase the amount of needed keypresses but would make a volume change sound much better. I'd like to see some simple adjustable preferences for the volume control as well (number of steps etc).

Kino is seriously outdated and Avidemux is only good for a few simple tasks. Cinelerra and jahshaka are too complex.

Ubuntu needs a simple thumbnail based video editing solution that can work with a variety of formats (GStreamer).

In the age of YouTube and where everyone has a video camera the importance of this cannot be underestimated.

This has been suggested before in quite good detail, but only in a comment:

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xirtus wrote on the 21 May 08 at 10:37
hey I really want to say the most important thing right now for a open video editor is that it has to be thumbnail based like the new imovie 08. This should be very easy to accomplish, many folks have been doing this for some time in some form or another; editing on compressed files and then applying the edits to the higher definition originals...

This means less processing, and no rendering until the final render out...

An open source video editor that offered a thumbnail workflow would blast away most of the competition...
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I just remembered once I clicked it and I didn't happen to have a mouse around - although you could use your keys to re-enable it, my mom would have a cow if she did this.

Oh, and she uses Ubuntu quite awesomely actually :D

Maybe this is a Gnome thing, but it should ask if I really want to do this, or disable it's ability to disable unless a mouse is plugged, and once a mouse is unplugged re enable (another idea).