Lets be honest here: X Org, in its current state, stinks.

Right now, if you are trying to set up an external monitor or configure a video card most tutorials send someone to manually configure an xorg.conf file. For some, thats not a big deal, after all they are very skilled at figuring out the correct syntax and successfully editing the file. For others they are very adept (or at least competent) at going out, finding where someone else has posted their XOrg.conf file and have copied the relative portions of the file to their own.

The problem I see is this: I have been using Ubuntu/Linux for over 2 years now. Getting an external monitor working on My work MacBook was one of the most frustrating experiences I have ever had in Linux. I edited more files, read more tutorials than I care to remember, and wasted an entire 12 hours trying to get an external monitor to work. After all that, I got so frustrated and gave up. Now, imagine if I were a new user. I would be frustrated and go tell everyone that Linux Sucks.

Getting screen settings and drivers to work CORRECTLY in Ubuntu can be one of the most frustrating experiences anyone can have.

The problem, as I see it, is this: Ubuntu/Debian/Linux in general keeps on putting band-aids on the problem rather than laying aside some pride and actually FIXING the problem. The problem is simple, we keep putting band-aids on XOrg rather than sitting down and admitting that what really needs to happen is that XOrg needs to be completely redesigned or replaced. I know that XOrg is used in most (if not all) Linux distributions, so this would require more than just Ubuntu doing it. It would require working with Linux Kernal devs and others upstream to make something that is rock-solid and reliable (and yes, I know that reliability takes time and effort).

What I see as the solution is this:
We need to start over, and re-design XOrg/windowing/compositing system from the ground up. XOrg worked great when most monitors were 800x600 or 1024x768). However, times have changed and the world has more monitors with more resolutions then XOrg and its developers can keep up with.

here is what I see as must-haves:

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I'd like an easy way to set environment variables (both globally and for the current user only) and have them take effect without having to log out and back in.

We have very little choice to input extra details into files of particular value like i have an word or opendoc,odt file
allow me to insert some more information in file details,edit custom fields for files like (word document,mp3) right click>>properties there you have "Summary".which allows you to add lots of meta information like author/owner of file,date created,date modified.description of file.For mp3 we have mp3's artist,album,date released etc,date created,owner,version,id tags etc can be editable.Although users who only want to have extra information attaching to file will benefit its not security threat as user only will input information upon his own wish.user may attach his phone number,fax,etc information.In general it may sound little inappropriate but users of business value would absolutely love it.

When I read the ideas, most of the time I am curious to know where the users are from, so the idea is to:

- OPTIONALLY have a little flag attached to the side of your name specifying your nationality!

- In the future it could be useful to see where is ubuntu receiving more contributions from.

- We could see also which countries are having more problems with language, accessibility an so on.

Off course, if you don't want your country represented you may just hide it naturally.

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Hello, no need for more negatives here! I had already lerned the lesson that nationality is the worst thing in the world and very harmful for this forum even optionally.

Furthermore, once an idea gets negative, no way to recover since people see the negative number before voting :-(
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Or fix GDebi
Right now,GDebi KDE locks the computer and crashes when trying to install a package with it.It should work like GDebi in GNOME-seamless,fast and easy- but it's slow,sluggish and broken.

A package installer like GDebi will be very well accepted by newbies in the KDE community :-)