Contributor hunt.topher

An idea "do X" shouldn't be closed just because "There are no plans to do X." This is the case for idea #525: make thunderbird the default email client.

How can the community describe its wants and needs if the admins close ideas just because Canonical is not planning to change something the community clearly wants.

Lets forget that I really don't know what a (or "the") keyring is good for and look at the other people who cannot set their computer up by them self.

I don't remember on which occasions I was asked, but the question was something like: "Would you like to add this password to your keyring?"
Or different: "Enter a new password to the keyring."

"No, I don't want to enter a new password, I already have a password! Why do I have to create another one?"

I am sure that there is a good reason for keyring to exist but it wasn't explained to me. I know, I am supposed to look it up on the internet but here comes the idea:

It would be great if there was a short explanatory sentence about keyring - what it is good for and why I have to write another password - when I'm being asked for a keyring password.

If a USB disk is plugged in and and all partitions are mounted in, unmounting one partition shouldn't display the message "Safe to remove device" as other partitions are still mounted in the system.

The world clock in Ubuntu seems to be behind times little bit.
It shows the city Mumbai by the name of Bombay. Bombay got renamed in 1999. So as you can see the Clock isn't lagging by much!
Also many Indian cities haven't had their names updated. These names were changed even before Ubuntu began.
Tere are many other important world cities whose names havent been updated. Plz do it since it doesnt create a good impression about Ubuntu. It is throurghly unprofessional!

When you have a slow computer, you really don't want to update while working. It slows down everything you do. So i would like to see an option in the shut-down menu update and shut-down. Or when there are new updates detected, you already can choose for installing them on shut-down.
A lot of people i know would find this very handy, especially the ones I've convinced to use ubuntu because it stays fast instead of microsoft.

this is not the same idea as http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea 4511

I've one of the Dell Inspiron 1420n laptops with Ubuntu factory installed that came with the Intel X3100/GM965 video integrated on the motherboard. I cannot afford to simply toss this aside and buy a brand new machine. What I'd love to see is more work done to improve the xorg Intel video to support this chip and actually be able to play some games on it, namely World of Warcraft. I know that if I were to reformat the drive on it and install Windows XP, the thing would scream on Warcraft. Why can't the xorg Intel driver support the same performance on this chipset?

My printer, a Laserjet 1200, is pretty common and is supported by Ubuntu automatically. But I rarely print from it because it stretches my print output, vertically. For example, I have a table in OpenOffice Calc, as a to-do list organized by both importance and urgency, set up to print exactly in a certain way from OpenOffice on Windows XP. But when I open the same document on my Ubuntu computer, it prints stretched out more vertically, so that it doesn't all fit on one sheet. This is printing to the same exact printer. This seems to be the same with other programs.

Ubuntu would be a great choice for these notebooks that require an OS which responds fast, and boots quickly. However, at the moment it appears to be a struggle to get things working properly.

The sub-notebook market is growing rapidly, and I don't understand why Ubuntu is not _THE_ choice for most of these companies.

it would be just sensational if you could clean the heads on your inkjet printer with out the need to dual boot xp just so you can do this.

i have a canon i865 printer and i dual boot xp just so i can clean the print heads.

tried many different drivers and no luck.
even tried linux turbo print and no go

http://www.turboprint.de/english.html

The Bulk Rename feature included in the standard image of Ubuntu and Kubuntu. It is a very powerful tool that I can't live without.

Display the levels of ink left in the printer cartridges.

This way, the user can know which ink is getting low, when its getting low, and when and which to replace.

Some conceptual mockups;
* http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/8607/inkdq3.png
* http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/553/inkdiagramdk4.png
* http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/3990/inkcartridgenb8.png

A GUI for creating and using encrypted partitions. Should be for regular partitions and especially removable media partitions.

Warn users if they try to use a weak password. In the style of google account creation.

I originally thought that this would be good for the users login password. However, possibly this could be implemented for all passwords system wide.

Multiple users can be logged in by using the user switching. But when the second user forgets about the first one and tries to shut down the computer, no warning pops up and it kills all the sessions silently. That's really bad, because all the unsaved work of the first user is completely lost. It would be *so easy* just to pop up confirmation dialog saying, that other users are still logged in and the shutdown can lose their unsaved data. In the fast-user-switch-applet we can see users currently logged in, so this is really a matter of few lines of code to implement. It would often save a lot of cursing. Windows have this functionality.

Example: Alice is working with Ubuntu. Bob wants to read his email quickly. Alice fast-switches to Bob account. Bob reads his email, forgets about Alice's running session and shuts down the computer. All Alice's unsaved work is lost. This wouldn't happen with the confirmation dialog.

Currently there is no way to easily share files between multiple local users. I am talking about full read-write access to particular folder, eg. music folder.

Example: Alice and Bob uses the same computer. Alice has read access to Bob's home folder. Bob has read access to Alice's home folder. They want to fully share (read/write) their music. So they should ideally create /home/music folder, put all the music there and use it. Everything Bob puts into there, Alice should be able to read and remove, and vice versa. This is currently impossible in Ubuntu. Bob has to manually fix permissions every time Alice wants to delete something Bob's (Bob creates /home/music/Britney, but Alice can't delete /home/music/Britney/song1.mp3).

I have discussed this issue with several linux gurus and there is currently no easy nor difficult way to achieve this in Linux on the same (ext3) partition. With every proposed solution I can give you counterexample (group permissions, ACLs, local Samba, local NFS, etc - there is always problem when moving files). There would have to be created utility to set shared folders and some daemon would have to monitor changes and modify permissions.

Currently the easiest solution known for me is to share files on separate (ironically) NTFS partition, because when mounting NTFS you can force user/group/permissions on file access. What a shame, we use Microsoft technologies just to share files between Ubuntu users.

This problem is quite serious, give it a thought or two. Everyone who is not using Ubuntu computer alone and wants to share music/films/etc between multiple users knows what I am talking about.

//New info:
Atany has proposed in the comment that BindFS project can be used to achieve this functinality:
http://code.google.com/p/bindfs/
I have tried it and it works very well. Developers which would like to implement this idea should have a look on BindFS, it's very promising tool, it could provide all necessary background for this.

The point here is that Drivers manager should not only download restricted drivers, but it should solve all hardware-related issues where possible. I mean, it should recognize your hardware and download all the drivers available in the repos for you - when the drivers needed aren't on the install CD.

Make a guest account that people can login to, and check mail, surf web.

Every time the guest account logs out, its purged so next user who login is a clean fresh account.

Mac OS X has this;
* http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html#system

User should be able to copy an image, pdf, doc or other file URL from Firefox (Copy Image Location for example), an email or any other place and paste that into Nautilus in any folder to create an "internet symlink" that will automatically be updated with a newer version if it exists.

This would be particularly useful for ensuring that a team working together always has the latest version of a specification document, spreadsheet, image assets, etc.

This can currently be done via a cron-ed rsync job but it would be pretty nifty if Nautilus had the logic to handle this natively. Currently, if I want to make sure I have the most recent version of a doc, I have to go out to the web and compare revision dates (sometimes forcing me to open both documents, local and remote).

Automatic syncing could happen upon opening a directory in Nautilus and icons used to identify which documents were being actively synced. A right click option to "check for latest version" would also be nice. This would be similar to how Subversion clients work, but at a per-file level.

I think it would be good if the Ubuntu team made videos to show how to do stuff on ubuntu. From the basics of "Connecting to the Internet" to "Organizing your music"

What do you think?

to eliminate the confusion, a single drop down menu for both the Back and Forward buttons would be a lot simpler.. just like in firefox3..