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The one thing that NOBODY gets done: installing an ERP/CRM. Be it Compiere, SQL-Ledger, Post-Books, TinyERP, LX-Office - you name it and I show you a million threads in all the ubuntu-forums "can't install/can't run XYZ after installation"

Most small business just want in, stock, out, furnisher, client, offer, invoice - pretty basic stuff that EVERY ERP can handle.

How about getting one of those into the repositories as an "easy to install" or "no brainer" package? I'd LOVE it - and reading the frums in German, French and English, there are literally several thousand users that would love it, too.



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GNOME Games with some pretty stuff without GNOME-dependency
GQView with Ristretto or Mirage
Evience with ePDFview (which IS Evience without GNOME-dependency)



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-- Clock and Weather Screensaver.
-- Alarm Clock and Weather Screensaver.
-- World Clock Screensaver.
-- Local Weather with Weather Around the World Screensaver.
-- Count Down to Specific Date Screensaver.
-- World Atlas Map (Countries and Bodies of Water) Screensaver.
-- Human Body (Muscles and Bones) Screensaver.
-- System and Network Status Screensaver.
-- User Photos Slideshow Screensaver.
-- Panoramic view of landscapes screensaver.
-- Destination Photos from Around the World Sceensaver.
-- Icon which shows up when new Mail or Instant Message Arrives.
-- RSS Screensaver.
---- World News screensaver.
---- Word of the day screensaver.
---- Today in History screensaver.
---- Nutritional Health Tip Screensaver.
---- Screensaver with Collection of Jokes.
---- Various Dictionary Screensavers (Programming Terms, Linux, Mathematics, Science, Legal, Tech...)


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Many people are suspicious about general quality of implementation, even when everything works flawessly. A good example is audio. Even when audio cards work well under Ubuntu, some (audiophiles, etc) think the sound will always be better with Windows because the oficial proprietary driver should sound better than the opensource ones. Other example: users usually choose Mac for multimedia tasks, because it's "powerful and stable" for multimedia. Although it may be generally true, there is a lot of marketing envolved.

So, let's "advertise" and give proof of the true potencial of Ubuntu and it's quality.

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http://img514.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fontcomparisonzu7.png

Verdana: Isn't used anywhere as the default UI font afaik.
DejaVu Sans Book: Almost identical to Verdana, used in Ubuntu.
Lucida Sans: UI font on Macs.
DejaVu Sans Condensed: An interesting alternative for Ubuntu?
Trebuchet MS: Used in the title bars of Windows.
Droid: Used in mobile phones with the Android SDK. An interesting alternative for Ubuntu?
Arial (and it's copies Liberation Sans and Free Sans) are quite popular, but not used as UI fonts.
Tahoma: Used as the default UI font on Win 2000, XP and 2003. What's remarkable is that it is the font with absolutely smallest width of the whole list.

In my opinion it is absolutely striking that no vendor uses such a "wide" font for UIs. Even if we choose the condensed variant we are still on the top half of the list.

Droid looks much better than both Tahoma and Lucida when rendered on Linux which might fix the problem of people trying to "emulate" their Windows/MacOSX rendering on Linux.
Therefore I propose to evaluate alternatives for "application font" which can give ubuntu a more polished look:

- Droid Sans
- DejaVu Sans Condensed

Thanks for your time!

PS: I don't want to say that DejaVu is bad or anything in that way. I absolutely love that font and use it as the "document font". But it clearly shows that it wasn't intended to be used for user interfaces.

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I think it's not a good idea to by default install support for one specific brand of PDA's which only a tiny fraction of the users is ever going to use. Those people who do have a PalmOS PDA can easily install it afterwards.

So: Please remove support for PalmOS devices from the default install. This includes the packages: gnome-pilot, gnome-pilot-conduits.

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Then the same tool would be able to restore the backup.

It would be useful for both backups and migration from a computer to another.

Update : See duplicates ideas which contain even more great ideas about that idea.

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