Contributor ketilwaa

Nautilus is curently very slow especially when opening folders containing many files and sub-folders.

It takes 10 seconds for example to display /usr/bin directory with Athlon XP 2500+ CPU and 512 MB RAM machine. Thunar does the action with no lag on the same configuration.

Remove Mono and dependent applications from default Ubuntu Desktop CD. Mono occupies a significant amount of the valuable space on the live cd that could be used for translations and other things. Applications using mono use much more memory than their non-mono counterparts. Functionality can be provided by other applications that are just as good.

This will NOT remove Mono or any of the applications from the Ubuntu repositories, just the default Desktop CD. (Although removing them from the CD may mean they don't need to be in Main anymore)

This affects two applications included by default: tomboy and f-spot. Tomboy can be replaced by either sticky notes or zim and f-spot by gthumb.

I guess everybody has experienced the rather long boot up times in Ubuntu (particularly with laptops). I know they are already working on it, but the change from feisty to gutsy was a pain in the ass in terms of boot up speed.
A default WinXP installation beats Ubuntu's boot up time by far!! That shouldn't be allowed fellas!!

I therefore propose to the development team (both Ubuntu and by extension Gnome)to work on the improvement of boot up times in Ubuntu systems.

Currently the Compiz-fusion cube has rough edges and isn't particularly nice to look at when being rotated at slow speeds. I think this would improve the look and feel of the cube dramatically and with today's computers, this shouldn't be much of an issue to render this effect. Disabled by default but able to be turned on if the user's computer can handle it.

Bring the same thame for both desktops, if we use app from both desktops we ant it too look simmilar

Universal Applets is a Plasma-like framework for GNOME. It's based on Screenlets, however most of the codebase has been rewritten from scratch while maintaining backwards compatibility.

Universal Applet's first stable release is scheduled for early October, and both the UA and AWN development teams are hoping to add in Universal Applets support to AWN by the 0.1 release. (It's _extremely_ simple [under 500 lines of code] to add support to an application to embed Universal Applets, but due to the projects young age, there's currently only a UA compatible sidebar.)

While I don't expect Ubuntu to include Universal Applets in Ibex, it would be something interesting to look at for future releases, assuming that the framework can completely stabilize and is adopted by the wider GNOME community. Both OS X and Vista include widgets/gadgets by default, and if a stable alternative for Linux exists then it may be worth considering in order to make users from other operating systems feel more comfortable.

There's still no website for UA, but it can be found on launchpad at https://launchpad.net/universal-applets

The original vision for UA is explained at http://theesylum.com/2008/02/01/desktop-20/ and http://theesylum.com/2008/02/28/universal-applets-update/

It is very frustrating when you get caught out after 30 boots and the system does a full check. Especially if you are about to give a presentation or you just need to read one bit of information. The Ubuntu team have done a great job of speeding up the boot time but this irritation undoes all the good work.

Possible solutions and further explanation:
http://micrux.net/?p=52

If my laptop that I use as a virtual network client does not support the server's resolution, the desktop should be shrunk. Having scrollbars on a desktop is a horrible user experience.

Hands aloft, who's still running a machine with 32-bit CPU? Make the 64-bit compile the focus, dump Gnome and make KDE rock solid.

Having Tomcat 6 packaged for a distribution targeted at the enterprise would make it a whole lot more appealing.

I'm constantly frustrated by applications stealing my focus. There should be some way for me to ensure that when I begin typing somewhere, an overzealous application will never pop up in front of what I'm working on.

If an application needs my attention, it's task bar button should simply pulse so I can turn my attention to it when I'm ready. Pidgin does this; why not everything else?

On Mac OS X, Growl provides a system-wide way to notify the user that something has happened without getting in the way. I'd very much like to see Ubuntu adopt something like that.

Whenever I install a new Ubuntu desktop at work, I find myself removing a bundle of applications not mandated by our IT policy. This is annoying, and I don't do it enough to develop a custom solution.

Why not offer an ubuntu-desktop-minimal that depends on nothing but X and GNOME itself, along with any other 'core' desktop infrastructure?

Ubuntu's standard application bundle could go in an 'ubuntu-desktop-applications' package which would depend on 'ubuntu-desktop-minimal'. 'ubuntu-desktop' would then depend on 'ubuntu-desktop-minimal' and 'ubuntu-desktop-applications'.

This could of course be done with Kubuntu as well.

Another advantage would be that upgrades would be better handled - removing OpenOffice wouldn't suddenly opt-me out of the main Ubuntu desktop package.

Right now photo managers, and music managers crawl the filesystem just like a desktop search engine, and then build their own database. Instead let the desktop search engine do this. Using tracker as a backend would allow users freedom to choose their frontend application, while at the same time keeping all media organized on the filesystem.

Some Gnome applets do not support transparency.
For example, the characters applet does not support transparency: http://sebsauvage.net/i/ubuntu/transparency.png

This breaks the overwall unified look & feel.

When booting ubuntu, what do you do? You turn your computer on and then either wait for it to boot, or walk away for a moment.

However when the gdm login screen pops up, you type in your username a password and then sit there waiting for gnome to load. So, If gdm could automatically begin loading the default desktop environoment whilst waiting for the user to input their username and password, this extra waiting time whilst the desktop environment loads could be reduced or eliminated.

In essence, the main purpose behind this idea is to standardise the time taken for a particular user to boot ubuntu: ie is does not matter if you logged in immediately or 20 seconds late, your desktop will still be usable at the same moment.

If the user selects to load a different desktop environment at the login screen, then simply unload the default and start loading the next one when the user logs in as normal.

Compiz is getting more and more users because it is often the selling point that wins them over. The new compiz settings in the appearance dialog is nice, but emerald themes belong in there too.

The default colors of all Compiz elements are blue (resizing box, desktop switcher that appears in the center of the screen). They should be well-integrated with current theme colors (for example brown-orange for default Ubuntu theme). The same could be done in KDE.

I believe that a "standard installer package" as in Windows platform which does all the job for you to install any application will appeal more people and make it easy to move from other OS's to Ubuntu. It is really difficult and complicated for a newbie to install application in Ubuntu. For instance, when I first moved to Ubuntu from XP, I wanted to download and use my favorite programs like VLC player, i really didn't know what to do after I downloaded the file. If it was a single "installer" file, all I needed to do was to click it twice and there you go! My friends also complained that "compiling" to install applications is hard to prefer while they have an opportunity to install any file with a couple of clicks.

In my opinion, that would be more appealing for non-Ubuntu users.