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Currently, Adobe has given us a bloated semi-working flash plugin without releasing the source code for it. The result is a slowdown in firefox and stutters in the video (for higher end computers, perhaps only on fullscreen).

My current setup: I currently have REMOVED the flashplugin-nonfree and I use Video DownloadHelper to download the flv file and then I open it in VLC. This works great for me.

The Benefits:
1)Full screen resolution (No big status bar)
2)No stutter
3)No slowdown in firefox.

So here is what I propose, there are two ways of implementing this idea:

1) Find a way to make VLC a flash player embedded into Firefox (mozilla-plugin-vlc)

2) Open Youtube website -> Automatically starts downloading to ~/Videos -> Opens in VLC.
User has a choice of how long the videos should be kept.

What does everyone think?

network-manager should more options to create shared or ad-hoc connection.

I suggest the following options for internet sharing:
1) wifi w/time-out (which we currently have)
2) wifi w/o time-out
3) wifi presenting itself as AP instead of ad-hoc
4) sharing internet connections (bridging two networks or "internet sharing") and deciding weather the client computer is NAT'ed with its own DHCP server, or given an address through DHCP on the same network as the host computer.

The point of ubiquity-preserve-home is that it's supposed to work smoothly behind the scenes using Ubuntu's Installer "Ubiquity".

This feature seems to be missing from the Alternate CD, which means that people who cannot boot from the Live CD cannot do do this kind of recovery. I propose we create an alternatecd-preserve-home initiative to create the same recovery options.

What you can currently do with a Live CD
If you choose not to format the partition assigned to "/", then everything on that partition that would cause problems for an Ubuntu installation should be removed (e.g. the contents of /boot, /etc, /lib, /usr, etc.), but /home and other unknown directories that might contain data will be preserved.

Doing this does not require an explicit action by the user, other than choosing manual partitioning and *not* formatting the partition assigned to "/". This may be used as a last resort to restore Ubuntu to default at the point of installation but will preserve the /home directory.

This is very possible on the Live CD. When trying this from the Alternate CD I get the following errors:
1) Debbotstrap Warning - Failure while configuring base packages.
2) Unable to install busybox-initramfs

Add/Remove has multiple bluetooth entries that should be displayed to the user as one metapackage containing: kbluetooth, kbtobexclient, Kinputwizzard, kbluemon, Kblueclock, Bluetooth Obex Server

My idea is to integrate compressed archives to that they may be viewed & expanded/collapsed within nautilus. Files could me moved to another folder (decompress) or moved to another archive. For archive types (different compression standards) make it easy for people to install packages like rar and 7zip to add that functionality.