The recently released Droid fonts were developed for Google Android by Ascender, a leading typography foundry. These fonts were released with the Apache License, and have been packaged for release in Jaunty (and available in PPAs for Intrepid and prior).

This font is easier to read, cleaner, and more professional looking than DejaVu and Bitstream Vera, the two commonly used application and menu fonts. Personally, I've used Free Sans for as long as I can remember, and Droid looks better than it.

In Nautilus I can choose Single Click, but this only a feature of Nautilus.
In the GNOME dialogs Open file, Save file, etc, I must do two clicks!
(In Windows the Single Click is for all system).

As a user I want to be able to listen to audio or watch videos with the least amount of setup. I would like to have a single interface (Codec Manager) that lists all of the most common audio and video formats and shows me if I am missing the necessary codec for playback.

Use Case: Enable MP3 playback.
Precondition: MP3s are not currently playable.
1. User logs into the system.
2. User opens the Codec Manager.
3. System displays a list of common audio/video formats.
4. User selects MP3s.
5. System displays some info about MP3s.
6. System displays a list of available codecs.
7. User selects a codec and clicks Apply.
8. System downloads and installs the selected codec.
9. System informs the user when completed.

Other possible features:
- Display a list of audio/video types that are missing codecs.
- An auto-setup function, that grabs the recommended codec for all formats.

Audio and Video formats that should be supported:

Audio:
- MP3
- OGG
- AAC
- FLAC
- Real Audio

Video:
- MP4

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If you're not a graphic artist, you probably don't know what this means. To be short: the practical effect is that you fonts look smoother, like the Mac OS X fonts.

Also, most fonts look very bad with hinting enabled, virtually only Vera/DejaVu has acceptable results, while most other fonts are not usable.

This is very easy to implement: it is just a true/false value in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
You can also set it per user in your ~/.fonts.conf by pasting this snippet:


false


(Affects only newly started applications)

Artists and eye candy people, make your voice heard!

I would like to see when you or i first install Ubuntu after logging in. Icons on the Desktop. Icons for computer, network area, internet(firefox), trash bin, and a user folder, or any other icons for shortcuts. this would be very helpful. As of now it does not show icons for the desktop unless the user creates them.

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.

Make Avant Window Navigator easily installable from the appropriate Ubuntu repository. It is annoying to have to install it from a 3rd party location.

Also, when installing have it ask if you want to automatically remove the bottom dock and reposition needed functionality to the top dock.

Making a great product design like Apple Macbook/Pro and adjusting ubuntu to that hardware so as to improve the performance of linux and ubuntu. Knowing in wich hardware is going to run that ubuntu would boost the performance.

Also some integrated goodies like webcams, graphic card, would be supported on that laptop.

Finally, the design product is also important to gain market, so it must be very well designed and should have a disctintive look (again look at MB/MBPro against Acer/HP/Packard Bell -like my laptop-, MB's looks very different to them).

Now days I don't see any advantages for Gnome.
On the other hand XFCE is much, really much , "lighter" and includes all functionality Gnome provides.
While KDE has very-very rich functionality while it's footprint is simply lower. And I am still not talking about KDE4 :-) which seems to be even more polished in footprint, architecture and look-and-fill.

For all Gnome advocates:
Yes once, Gnome was tiny DE. And person who willed to use simple taskbar and few buttons, would prefer Gnome.
But today it's not like that anymore. Gnome is still same "thin-client like" environment and simply far-far outdated by it's functionality and eats more resources then you ever dreamed of. Only one software product (the latest from famous blue-screen makers :-)) behaves similarly.

I am pretty sure Canonical developers has to re-invent the wheel every single day, while core technologies for their needs are just ready and waiting for the to use, and irony here that they are also maintained and located on same repository.

Can anyone provide me with reasonable explanation why Gnome is main stream in Ubuntu?
Can't Canonical just post a poll for that?
There are tons of code that waisted and duplicated when several DE are trying to sync functionality, is that rational?

Note:
I want to ask for forgivness in advance, from hard working Gnome developers who's feelings I might hurt.
I am developer my self, and I know the feeling when your creation has to die, but I believe that time, of natural causes.

P.S.
Strike me with your opinions, I'll be happy to discover new things or maybe even change my mind.

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To improve translation of every program in linux it will be a really great idea to create WEB interface which allow to translate selected application from one language to another. interface should inlcude such fields like :
Source language: (especially eglish)
Target language:
and
Application: (for instance Evolution, kOffice or other we choose to translate)
and then active table to introduce any changes.


This active table will be created automatically from .PO files. And at the end of the table the button "submit" to accept our changes.

I dont know how to use and translate PO files and i dont understand gettext program and other programs used in translation files. I try to use KBABEL but i dont know where can I find the newest PO files and after translation where should i send it etc. When u do something like this online we always have actually PO and u can automaticly send to inventor of the application.