Contributor jrusinek

When you delete file on your Phone, it moves to Trash. You usually need to clear .Trash, when you put new files to Phone. And you usually clear the .Trash on Phone before unmount.

1. I don't want to store .Trash on my phone.
2. I want to restore deleted files after some time.

Remove files from phone then user delete it.

What about trash?

Use special place in hard drive. Put the deleted files from phone to .Trash in hard drive. This is much better: you can restore removed files and you can put new files to phone without cleaning Trash.

Maybe more complicated way. But default trash is not good.

This can be also applied to flash drives.

A Windows version of usb-creator would be nice...
Maybe even include it alongside with wubi, on the CD?
I bet it would be a kick ass program!

Download link:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/all/usb-creator/download

Since Intrepid, the installer contains a slide show which shows function demonstrations and basic usage of the new Ubuntu version. It would be nice if this slide show will be shown in the upgrade window, when upgrading to a newer Ubuntu version. This gives the user an impression of new features in the next version.

I noticed that when going through the bulletproof-x wizard, it doesn't let you select the proprietary NVidia or ATI drivers as easily as you can after Ubuntu has been booted. I propose we should include that ability. Once that is done, the display should be refreshed to allow us to select a resolution that those drivers support. Otherwise it only lets you select 640x480 I find. This happens when connecting to a hdtv where the xorg.conf is not valid and I can only select 640x480 because of the generic vga driver that is currently loaded. So after the proprietary driver is reloaded, it should read in the edid modes that the hdtv supports and allow me to select one of them.

I would like ubuntu to recognise new hard drives automatically instead of having to jump through various hoops and even edit configuation files, which is frightening for a beginner like me!

After all, Windoze recognises a new drive, so Ubuntu should do no less.

Update-manager just shows a list. I have no way of knowing which repositories are behind which updates.

What is to prevent a third-party repository from pushing updates for *any* package on my system?

Example: Say I add the repo for Banshee media player. I expect (and trust) it will only push updates that involve Banshee, but what is to stop them from pushing a non-banshee related update? Maybe it's a bit paranoid of me, but I'd like to know which updates are coming from which repo. Then, at least if I see a third-party repo pushing an update for something like sudo, then I'll know something is fishy - but right now I have no way of knowing where the updates are coming from, and that bothers me.

Also, the update-mananger, could possibly group the update list by repository.

I've been watching a few shows on the internet; abc.com, nbc.com, fox.com; and having to rely on my dual boot XP system to view them.

ABC and Fox switched last year from formats that were compatible with Linux to those that are not. I've been searching for work-arounds and have been mostly unsuccessful (many have tried Wine, ie4linux, etc). I've tried commenting to the media sites about supporting Linux (and have found many others that have done so too). I poked around a bit and uncovered some startling dangers.

The new system, by Move Networks, inc. Offers a better viewing experience over Flash due to some technology they have (see http://www.movenetworks.com/). The keys for the content providers using them is that the software identifies users quite deeply with the goal to distribute focused advertising. What information do they capture? They list some at their site and are probably expanding that with recent funding...

The interesting danger to Linux is that major "agreements" were by Microsoft last March and again this August. Some statements about using Silverlight and whatnot to more tightly bind the content distribution (to Windows).

Looks like some other big names are involved with the Move Networks venture besides Microsoft now: Cisco, AT&T, Comcast, and others.

A few articles.
http://pulse2.com/2008/08/25/microsoft-corporation-invests-in-move-networks-inc /
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/082608-microsoft-invests-in-move.html?hpg 1=bn
http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=26112

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Add an easy way for Banshee/Rhythmbox users to contribute to the Radio directory: to get a more comprehensive and more diverse radio directory than say.. Itunes, we need to let users add their favorite radios URLs, to catogorize them and to send them via their Music Player to a database. They would be reviewed, and possibly included in the next version of the media players.

In general, the apps should gather as much user-contributed content as possible where relevant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntfs#File_compression

Currently Ubuntu reads and writes NTFS compressed files just fine, but there is no way to compress/uncompress them. Compression files can prevent partition resizing, and alone for that being able to set it in Ubuntu would be helpful.

I've often wished I could take a screenshot of firefox and get the entire webpage as an image. This should be a feature of the screenshot tool in Ubuntu.

So heres the idea, You want to copy a heap of files onto a friends USB hard drive, or disk drive plugged into the computer(or maybe just another location.. Eg sorting out your "creative commons" MP3 download folder). You fire up nautilus, browse to the folder on the harddisk you want to copy files to, then open up a new tab, select the files you want to copy/send across, right click then click something like "Move Files to location in other tab" or "Copy files to location in other tab"

Or maybe you select the files, then drag them to the tab, and a prompt appears 'do you wish to move these files, or copy them" etc etc


I mean, one of the main purposes of having multiple tabs aside from cluttering the task bar is to move files around, right?

Ubuntu feels really great to use with activated "Extra Visual Effects" (System > Preferences > Appearance > Visual Effects).

Everything is smooth, wobbly, fancy. In contrast, browsing files in Nautilus File Browser feels awkward. It is rough, almost brutal if you compare it to a soft pop up of a menu.

Expanding a file tree should look similar to the effect on this website: http://moofx.mad4milk.net/ (Click on the headings to see what I mean.)

Expanding should be smooooth (as shown). The root element (=the element you want to expend) should also be scrolled to the top to have as much space as possible to show the children elements.

If you do not like the particular effect but would like to have smooth expanding of file trees, please still vote up this idea.

The fact of Interpid Beta having so awful system sounds and a weak wallpaper made me having an idea:

What about having a sponsored competition for each Ubuntu version artwork, like wallpapers, system sounds, gnomecc/kcsrc colour schemes, themes, etc.?

The prizes would be sponsored, symbolically (like Ubuntu merchandise, more shipit install CDs, etc.) or not (like computers with Ubuntu OEM), and i think this not only will not hurt artwork licences like cc-nc-sa or gpl, as well this can provide Ubuntu plenty of much better artwork (specially from the artwork .deb packages each version, having hundreds of excellent artwork instead of some few mediocre (poor) ones), and help increasing the Ubuntu popularity.

It would be great if the GNOME Games set is split into separate packages, as out of the 10 or so games I only actually want 2 or 3 which means I have to hide the rest with the menu editor.

I reported an earlier "idea" of better support for 1680x1050

Well, it turned out System -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution didn't do its job for me - but with grandr it was a different story - but the way I found it was pure luck.

I think this whole thing with graphic settings need a shape up. Now we have:

* Screen Resolution (That doesn't cut it)
* Multiple Screens/grandr that somehow replaces "Screen Resolution"
* Hardware Drivers (That only shows proprietary grahics drivers - and it shows up in the menu even though you have open Intel drivers and no need for proprietary stuff)
* Compizconfig-settings-manager that isn't installed by default
* Nvidia X-server settings

Well, as a matter of fact the whole administrative/system-menu needs to be remade, but I think the most urgent need is to clean up graphic settings.

I think it is very important particularly for users who use their computer only for daily office/business/school routines. Mostly these users aren't computer savvy and any changes they may invoke accidentaly in their desktop or favorite application will surely piss them off. I personally experienced such scenario when I eagerly installed Kubuntu and Ubuntu in my friends' computers only to find out they were calling me very often because something has changed in their computers and they couldn't remember what they did.

Nice generic web based gui to create live-USB/CD/DVD, install-CD/DVD/USB, virtual images, web appliances, harddisk images.

http://www.susestudio.com/

Unfortunatly it's not Ubuntu.

Would it be possible to make this happen on Ubuntu?

I vote +1.

In Windows, you can rename multiple files by choosing them all and rename one. This gives all the files the same name, with a "(#)" behind. Great for renaming i.e. pictures from the holiday

This is a simple one. When changing the volume slider there's no indication of the volume. This is a good thing IMO as you don't always want a loud *dong* when changing the volume. However, it would be handy to have a small button below the slider which plays a quick sample sound to test volume.

This would be handy when setting up a presentation and want to quickly test output volume. Or when playing with an external amp and need a quick test.

A similar button in the volume controls could be useful also.

Compiz Fusion is a great application, and most effects look awesome. However, it runs to 5% its capacity without compizconfig-settings-manager installed (unless you know how to configure it manually, thought that can be a pain in the ass). Thats why I think ccsm should be installed by default on Ubuntu for easier using of "other" plugins by new users.

EDIT: If you want simple-ccsm to be installed by default promote this idea, since they are pretty similar.
EDIT2: No, this will not make Ubuntu slower. Compiz Fusion is already installed by default since Gutsy, all I want is the configuration tool for Compiz (a very little app) to be installed.