Contributor jerieljan

When you play 'corrupted' videos in vlc, it just skips the frames it can't read. Totem on the other hand stops entirely and throws an errormessage at you. This is annoying. I'd like to see this kind of immunity in totem...

I don't know why you can't pre-order 8.04 Hardy Heron CD's from the Ubuntu ShipIt site given that it's less than ten days from its release date.

The site only allows you to order 7.10 Gusty Gibbon CD's. What's the use of ordering outdated CD's that will arrive several weeks later when they will be of no use anymore?

Please, allow us to pre-order CD's of the latest version of Ubuntu.

Fonts in OpenOffice are horrendously rendered and look thin and 'scratchy' (Times New Roman in Writer being a good example) and additionally there is no sub-pixel anti-aliasing even when the rest of my desktop is using it.

Some horizontal strokes such as on the small letter 'p' are actually invisible - there appears to be not enough weight in them and makes the document look like it has been photocopied too many times.

Currently this is not an application I would like to spend much of my day using (and thankfully I don't have to) - but if Ubuntu is being touted as suitable in an office environment, this could be a serious problem.

I am pushing for Ubuntu to be used in our company but this sort of thing does not help my case.

I found it very frustrating when I first got into Ubuntu, and was looking around at the Packages to install, that I had to have the installation CD in my computer. Especially since it was a laptop and I didn't have my CD Drive in.

I eventually found out how to remove it as a repository source.

It should not be set as default, or perhaps, if it isn't there, Synaptic should go and look on the internet. Which it doesn't.

Nautilus does its job as a light file manager. However, as Gnome's default file manager, I think it could use a lot more love than what it is given. This could include:

- Tabbed browsing! Most browsers today support tabbed browsing, but still few file managers. This doesn't really make sense now does it?
- Better remote connection/sftp handling. The current one is AWFUL. Slow, sluggish, buggy. Take example on Konqueror!
- SVN integration has been waved at. I find it a cool idea, even if only as a plugin.
- Speaking of plugins... those also need some love. How many plugins are there for Nautilus? Most users don't even know Nautilus can be enhanced.
- File tooltips - once again, take example on Konqueror / Windows explorer.

Edit: A few more ideas around Brainstorm:
- Separation of files and folders
- Slider bar for zoom
- A better icon management
- The ability to explode folders

Those are just a handful of ideas. My main concern is Nautilus is being underdeveloped, and the solid alternative is only non-Gnome (Konqueror).


If you liked this idea, check out my other ideas.

Make Wine 1.0 available in Hardy (through hardy-updates). This makes it easier for some companies who depend on XP software (which already works well in wine) to make the transition to Ubuntu.

IMHO it would be nice to release wine 1.0 through hardy-updates so everyone who hasn't disabled hardy-updates will get it. The wine 1.0 branch will probably continue to receive important updates making it easier for Ubuntu to maintain.

According to Eric S. Raymond's "World Domination 201" Wine is very important for Linux to become successful on the desktop.

Why wine is so important :
http://www.winehq.org/site/why
http://catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-domination-201.html

Wine 1.0 will release on june 6th. Hardy will release on june 5th. This makes it impossible to include wine 1.0 in Hardy except through hardy-backports or hardy-updates.

More information :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseSchedule
http://wiki.winehq.org/WineReleasePlan

I created a new Guest account, then I stripped it of all user privileges.

Then I found out, that it could access all MY private data files in MY home directory.

Please fix it so that other users cannot read the home directories of other people. This is a breech of privacy.

I have a Logitech Mx510 mouse.

It has a backwards and a forwards key on the side. In Windows these keys can be used to navigate backward and forward in the browser and file manager.

In Ubuntu these buttons are detected but have no effect in Firefox and Nautilus. Please make these buttons work by default in these applications.

KDE has had this feature for the longest time but Gnome has yet to have one!

There has been talks amongst a few users since 2006 at ubuntuforums about making one, but it seems none of us have any real programming skills to implement it.

So what I'm asking, and begging for, is someone to implement the vague awesomeness of fuzzy time into the clock on the gnome-panel.

Thanks!

Currently there is a very rough selection in Nautilus on previewing thumbnails. One can either preview local files only, preview always or preview never. The thing is that I have loads of stuff on gigabit ethernet in my company, but sometimes I access remote ftp site on colocated hosting via Eircom, which is slow. I'd love to be able to see thumbnails when network throughput is good enough. Ideally, I'd like to have a Kbit/s slider to select preview threshold.

Alternatively "Generate thumbnais" button in Nautilus toolbar would be great.

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See my other ideas:
ShipIt Affiliate Programme
Right-click directory navigation in Nautilus

Now we can sync evolution with pidgin but seems to be only one way and how it synchronizes is a bit messy.
The name synced is the "full name". Well if for example if I have a user "Mr. Steve Jobs", the contact in pidgin must be "Mr. Steve Jobs". I would like the name of the contact is the name of "File under" or better "Nickname"

The more, I would like, that like in pidgin, different messenger addresses for the same user are stored in the corresponding fields of the evolution contact.

The synchronization must be more intelligent, this means first check by addresses if not found in any contact, create a new contact. If found and not set, set the nickname. If nickname is set but differs from the name in pidgin, update nickname in evolution (cause I think the names in pidgin are more up-to-date).
The sync form evolution to pidging must first check all the messenger addresses and then see if exists in pidgin. If is not so, add the missing messenger address to pdgin under the corresponding nickname (or a new one if don't exists in pidgin).

The fields in Evolution should be have the possibility to add Skype addresses (since there exists an plugin for evolution)

When I am using a laptop, determine if I am using an external mouse or not.

If I am not using an external mouse, enable the "Tap to Click", "Horizontal Scrolling", and "Vertical Scrolling" features of the touchpad.

When I connect an external mouse (or if I was already using one) disable these features.

This would be useful because some of the touchpad features, especially "Tap to Click", get in the way and cause problems when an external mouse is already being used.

This is some good publicity

Guess who wins?


http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/03/28/pwn-to-own-final-day-and-wrap-up

When you press ctrl alt f1 ect you get a terminal indepenant of X and is wonderfull if you know what your doing, but say my mum accadentally presses ctrl alt f1. Not knowing really what she is doing or the cat lands on the keyboard and puts it into a terminal. She would think the computer is broken and be very confused on how to fix it I think we should put a discription as to what it is and how to get back to X

I think, a lot of people like to help with ubuntu development, but they don't know where to start. This includes not only programmers but also designers, music composers or just the normal ubuntu user.

So how about creating a website "howcanihelp.ubuntu.com" where everyone (except for C/C++ programmers ;-) ) can find out how to contribute?

Examples:
PHP Programmer -> help with Brainstorm Development, someproject.ubuntu.com needs a new Website, ...
Music Composer -> (don't know where this should link)
Graphic Artist -> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork
Foreign Language Native Speaker -> Translate Subtitles at screencasts.ubuntu.com,...
Beginner Ubuntu User -> (don't know if we find something for them :-) )
Advanced Ubuntu User -> Help people at IRC #ubuntu, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiToDo, join the Documentation Team...
Marketing Expert -> ...


and so on!

Multiple pointer devices, e.g. one touchpad and one mouse, might require different sensitivity settings.

If mice report their model to the computer (they do, right?), reasonable default settings could be kept in a database and mabye adjusted according to how the user has adjusted the settings of other devices. Any changes the user makes should of course be remembered until next time the same mouse gets plugged in.

With or without a database, a window could pop up the first time a particular model is plugged in, allowing the user to adjust the settings.

(I'm not sure if I'm posting in the right category.)

OpenOffice.org 2.4 got released March 27, 2008.

Good stuff.

It is unnerving to touch buttons when the screensaver runs while a movie is playing.

I've got two monitors, and right now if I use the wallpaper settings in gnome it stretches the wallpaper across the two monitors. It does this even for the default ubuntu wallpaper. This can look really bad depending on the image. In order to get around this I had to get two wallpaper images and join them into one large one with the GIMP and set that as my wallpaper.

There should be a way in gnome to set a different wallpaper for each monitor.

==== Merged with ideas of a similar scope: Different wallpapers on different workspace ===

Many workspaces option in Linux allows you to separate your work, why not allow users to have different wallpapers on each workspace. This allows for easier identification of which workspace you are on.
When used with compiz-fusion you can rapidly switch between your workspaces and the different wallapaper will allow you to quickly recognise what desktop you are on.

Currently this is natively available in KDE but not in Gnome. In Gnome you can't even let Compiz take over the wallpaper control because Nautilus doesn't allow for transparent backgrounds.

Other solutions like Wallpapoz are slow and when switching between desktops it takes too long to switch WP.

Include Compiz Fusion Manager by default