Contributor korvins

a lot of times, text is not copied. even if i cut, the selected text disapears in firefox and isn't pasteable in pidgin. sometimes the clipboard is an older version, if i paste.

It is often useful to know the command used when launching a program from the Applications menu, for example if it doesn't launch, so that you can run the same command from a terminal in order to find out why it doesn't launch.

Another use, is modifying the command used to launch the program or rename it.

Currently, this can be done by using "alacarte", which can be launched through "right-click->edit menus" or "System->Preferences->Main menu".

I find alacarte to be slow to launch and it's faster to just do:
-right-click->add to panel
-right-click->properties
-right-click->remove from panel

But it would be much more practical to be able to access launcher properties directly inside the menu.

It would be great if users could attach money to Brainstorm ideas. Its all good and well to post hundreds of ideas, but as things go, ideas which are posted first may not be the best ideas, but will climb to the top fastest (and will stay there, because people will vote for them on most popular).

Lets make it possible for people to donate $5 or so to their own ideas. Sure nobody may implement it, or the patch may not be accepted but it opens things up a lot more. Nobody loses either.

For those who think that this will turn linux coders into people who only code for money are wrong. There have been many bounties in the past, and they have not wiped out the many developers (me inclusive) who code as a hobby. Even with the gnome bounties in place, I still continued coding my application at the time for instance.


Anyway, at the end of the day, its not hard to implement, and it will do nothing but speed up development for highly wanted features (and maybe even organisations like gnome could use the money on spreading word about linux, or improving their hardware support).

Ubuntu needs to go green. Powertop, Lesswatts and other tools have finally hit the Linux scene to pave the way for better power management. It needs to be said, "if you want your battery to last longest, or have your energy bill be the lowest, you better use Ubuntu Linux."

Please make it possible to - at least optionally - use the translations provided by upstream, e.g. GNOME and KDE. Their translators do a very good job at producing high-quality, consistent translations. It's a shame that these got replaced by lesser quality suggestions from Rosetta in the past, or are still stuck in Rosetta for several months.

I respect if you insist on using your Launchpad and Rosetta platform for translations, but please at least offer a way to use the translations from upstream. What about "language-pack-XX-upstream"?

gnome-system-monitor provides a cleaner interface than Windows "Task Manager", and provides many useful features including list of processes running, memory and network usage, etc.

This functionality should be more accessible by key binding it by default to CTRL-ALT-DELETE as Windows does--as this is more familiar to users coming from Windows. The current key binding for CTRL-ALT-DELETE brings up the shutdown/logout options, which is already accessible as a desktop button, which is redundant for a relatively less used function.

gnome-system-monitor is an idle interface for monitoring the system and killing processes without using the terminal and provides an interface for doing this that most are already familiar with. Changing it's key binding would make it's functionality much more accessible.

Currently, the default Grub Menu is ultra confusing for the average user. When a first time Linux user boots their system, they see three confusing boot options. Which one are they meant to select?

It would be more intuitive if the Grub Boot Menu Options were as followed:

Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 8.04 (Fail-Safe)
Ubuntu 8.04 (Memory Test)
Microsoft Windows

This way, all the boot options are available, but the user can almost instantly understand what they are and what they mean.

Right now, the boot menu has regular Ubuntu, recovery mode, and memtest. With just a simple Down arrow, someone can accidentally boot into recovery mode.

Perhaps we should make recovery mode a little less obvious. Is there some way to make a special key combination or something to access recovery mode? Mac OS X has you hold down Cmd-S during bootup to boot into single-user mode. I'm not sure if Grub can do this, but it'd be cool if it could.

The reasoning behind this is more user-friendliness. Users who aren't comfortable at the command prompt might accidentally end up there and not know what to do.

The added benefit is that those who need the illusion of better security would also stop complaining that the existence of recovery mode is a security problem.

When there is only one User on the Computer, the GDM Login makes no sense.

It makes the User think that his Data is secure while in fact it isn't as anybody can get root privileges choosing the recovery mode in grub or using a LiveCD ...

When triing to access bad-burned CD or an FTP site, connected by a weak link, Nautilus temporarily hangs. You cannot click icons and even the contents of the Nautilus' windows not refreshed, so they display garbage. It would be much nicier if such operations were performed in a separate tread than the user interface-related stuff. The contents of the window can display "Please wait, operation is being performed" or show a clock image instead of garbage that is displayed now.

The Windows Explorer show the same problematic behavior, but even worse in that it also incorporates the taskbar in the same tread, so when stuck with file operations, even the taskbar is not responsive.

Expansion of Add Remove Programs - show user-provided descriptions, feature lists, screenshots, comments, ratings, integration with launchpad. Initial page should be top-rated apps, or newest apps. Managed by a webapp?

Or... leave it as it is, but create a website displaying all the great software available for ubuntu including all the features mentioned above with apturl links to install.

From #4613 (merged):

It should be indicated how much I'll have to download to install something.

We have download limits here and well... quite often I exceed them. It would be useful to indicate how big the download is going to be.

Why isn't it already like this?

Overview:
Provide the following services to Ubuntu users via a SSO method such as OpenID:

Hardware Submission
Configuration Settings per application
Bookmarks (Firefox, Konqueror, Epiphany, etc)
Bug Submissions
Brainstorm Ideas

Details:
Implement a web frontend (i.e. online.ubuntu.com) Ubuntu users can login to. This website will be able to store the user's computer profile(s).
A computer profile should consist of the hardware (using an application like Fedora's Smolt, or hwdb) including proprietary drivers, Ubuntu version (Kubuntu 7.10, Ubuntu 8.04, etc), and common software settings (Firefox, Pidgin, Mythtv, etc). Software settings could consist of Bookmarks, Settings, Plugins used, preferred background wallpaper, etc.

The website should also store and link any Bug Reports the user submits via the Apport utility. This should be linked to the hardware profile and user. Crash logs, kernel settings, core dumps, backtraces, etc should be stored here as well for proper linking to the bug report. If possible, bug resolution should be linked back to the user's bug report so they can see if their submission has been fixed. The frontend for the user should follow the same guidelines as Launchpad currently does by suggesting other bugs that have already been submitted, to cut down on clutter and duplicates.

The website should also link to Brainstorm and other Ubuntu sites that the user belongs to.

The use of OpenID and/or an Ubuntu Single Sign On service for all services would be an added benefit. Users would no longer need separate accounts for Brainstorm (QA), Forums, and Launchpad.

Finally, a graphical application should ship with all flavors of Ubuntu that integrates jockey, apport, hwdb (or Smolt, etc) and any other gui frontends already in use to facilitate easy submission to the website. This application should allow the selection and synchronization of software settings and hardware profiles (in the case of an upgrade, etc) manually by the user, or allow the user to automatically set synchronization settings per application.

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When I currently want to add an application to the main menu (applications/places/system), I need to open System>Preferences>Main Menu and edit the list there ...

I would like to drag-and-drop whatever to and from the Menu.

When dropping launchers, create or copy the launcher in the Menu. When dropping files or folders, auto-create a launcher to it in the Menu ...

Brainstorm is a great idea, like the ones are being posted.

However it would be complementary if users could vote on official Ubuntu polls.

We could make this page a complete feedback website for Ubuntu in such a way that it does not take a lot of time for Canonical to digest it.

Polls are always a good option and can focus the users to answer what Canonical wants to know about us.

I am sure they have a lot to ask :)

Ubuntu has work a lot to make the transition easier from Windows to Linux. This is a quite simple element that could be done.

In the menu places, which appears also in Nautilus, we have several default places such as hard disks and USB.

It would be nice if bookmarked two places when they are found:
"Windows Desktop" and "Windows My documents". That is all. I always do that manually, because all my old files are accesible from there.

This is taken from the following experiment:
http://contentconsumer.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/is-ubuntu-useable-enough-for-my -girlfriend/