I've observed in my job that most of the users forgets to empty their trashes regularly, and suddenly one day they start to have problems due space limitations, or they don't know where is used their hard drive space.

in a tree becouse we'll know what to update:

1. for example:

>compiz
---compiz-core
---compiz-plugin
---compiz-gnome
>evolution
---evolution-data-center
---evolution-webcal
---evolution-plugin
>firefox
---firefox-3.0
---firefox-3.0-gnome-support
>security updates
---kernel

2. update manager should ask to confirm changes that also affect other programs

3. confirm recommended packages as dependencies like in synaptic package manager.

Update manager should be more intelligent in general!

Currently there is no way to boot from Ubuntu into another OS without a restart. The bootloader's UI isn't integrated with the rest of the system. The boot options are static. The ability to load from removable media, or indeed the boot priority, is defined and restricted by the non user-friendly BIOS.

People around the globe that are using/concidering using Ubuntu are afraid that some of their hardware won't work for them. And some are frustrated to buy additional add-on cards to work around unsupportad onboard chips. All this could be avoided with a lookup in an ubuntu Hardware Database Website.

Some problematic hardware can be used with more or less work if helping information is available together with the hardware compatabillity data.

The hardware database can be found at http://hwdb.ubuntu.com/

From idea #47: The data should then be available in a format that is simple for users to browse on-line when considering new hardware.

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."

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Power management still isn't very effective in Linux and it still puts a lot of laptop users off Linux. While Linux has come on a long way thanks to the work of Intel with PowerTOP informing developers when their software breaks the idol state unnecessarily so they are doing their part as well as the kernel developers now we still have a long way to go to compete with Windows and I'm looking at ways for Ubuntu to do this.

One of the benefits of Linux is that is very easy to customise and a lot of its users love to tinker. Ubuntu should therefore use this to its advantage by allowing its power users to easily have access to the latest developments in Linux power efficiency. This would also be useful to Ubuntu as power users could submit results on what settings are most economical for specific hardware. This would give Ubuntu the chance to market itself on its power efficacy over other operating systems by it silently implementing these settings on the detected hardware setup for new users.

To give users these advantages Ubuntu should help more on Intels Lesswatts projects as these are Linux's best bet on beating windows power management. The problem is the solution to effective power management needs to simple enough that it works for a new user that wont even know its active but also very easy for power users to modify and test their own setups from one central tool.

http://www.lesswatts.org/

Many people use NTFS drives, and Ubuntu shows poor performance dealing with them.

NTFS writes are slow, put my CPU at 80% during the process. Basically, writing a ntfs-formatted USB hard disk makes my system unusable (pentium-m toshiba laptop).

Maybe it's not possible to integrate NTFS driver in Linux kernel, so I suggest optimice it to have a better performance.

Today the usage of a GPS-Device isn't easy in Ubuntu. There should be an auto-detection for GPS-Devices ..like Printers and Bluetooth-Devices. It would be very cool to track myself with tools from the standard-installation. Only the basic GPS-information are needed: positions, altitude, speed and tracking (positions-with-time). Thanks.

More and more notebooks have hybrid graphic cards now. It would be very nice to see this battery saving technology supported under linux.

Trying karmic I've seen that it warns you about low disk space on any partition. The problem is that it uses a dialog window and you must press a key to get rid of it. The warning itself it's a good idea but that method it's not convenient at all; it's very annoying.

Hovering over a directory and looking at the status bar for "0 items" is slow.