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Ideas:

* SVG icons.
* A theme that apply to EVERY application.
* More then just human theme.
* Better menus. Like the KDE4 or OpenSUSE menu.
* More then just a brown wallpaper included.
* Fresh up the look of synaptic, make it look like "Install or Uninstall programs", maybe a Apple influenced theme.
* Just one activity bar, like in Windows.
* Not just a blank activity bar, make it look more like Windows or at least make it look better.
* Stop making the screen flicker when starting up, like in Fedora ( think it was called X11 fst or something like that)
* Nicer icon theme, like Crashbit on gnome-look.

Well that just a few of my thoughts about how to make Ubuntu look better.

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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)
* https://www.torproject.org/

Tor is a software project that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location.

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3. convert the zoom button to a slider, move to buttom left
4. move view mode to the left of the slider, convert to buttons.
5. add "eject" button next to removable media.
6. see ubuntuforums url for mock-up

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This is a cheap way to promote Ubuntu to all your friends in Myspace!

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Many comments said it would be better if we would not be able to vote for our ideas.
believe it or not, but I wanted to post that long time ago, just thought it's not the best idea. Now I see that there are lot of people that agree with me.
I usually don't vote for my idea at the get go, but do vote after some time when it's still on 0 or even on -1.
I still have not voted on some of my ideas, and I voted one of my ideas down (fully consciously).
And that 1 vote really doesn't make a difference if idea is bad it's still bad it just have 1 plus vote and 50 minus votes.
BTW: I didn't voted for this idea

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No attachments. ]]> Sun, 07-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8534/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8047/ Please fix these. Some of them are many years old...

* Linux Kernel CHRP Denial of Service Security Issue
* Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel Various Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel SMP "/proc" Race Condition Denial of Service
* Linux Kernel perfmon Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
* Linux Kernel IP ID Value Increment Weakness
* Linux Kernel Socket Data Buffering Denial of Service
* Linux Kernel URB and IPv6 Flowlabel Handling Denial of Service
* Linux Kernel "syscall()" Argument Handling Denial of Service
* Linux Kernel "is_hugepage_only_range()" Denial of Service
* Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel Page Fault Handler Privilege Escalation
* Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel Binary Format Loaders Privilege Escalation
* Linux Kernel Multiple Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel IGMP and "__scm_send()" Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel Local DoS and Memory Content Disclosure Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel smb Filesystem Implementation Multiple Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel ELF Binary Loader Setuid File Handling Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel ide-cd SG_IO Functionality Permission Bypass Vulnerability
* Linux Kernel NFS and ptmx Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel File Offset Pointer Handling Memory Disclosure Vulnerability
* Linux Kernel Sbus PROM Driver Multiple Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel IEEE 1394 Driver Integer Overflow Vulnerabilities
* Linux Kernel Framebuffer Driver Direct Userspace Access Vulnerability

See Secunia for more information:
* http://secunia.com/product/2719/?task=advisories

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I don't know of any open source PDF reader plug-in for any browser. So I installed adobe acrobat, which I think it's not open source or is it?
There are good open source PDF readers like Okular or XPDF, so
I think it wouldn't be so hard to make plug-in at least for Firefox if not for all other browsers..

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Ubufox may be an exception due to its nature though.


If you liked this idea, check out my other ideas.

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No attachments. ]]> Sun, 07-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8435/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8203/ Today a beta version of the project was released with a lot of long awaited features:

http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/featurelistbeta.html

Beta version for various OS can be downloaded here:

http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/


OpenOffice is one of the most important OpenSource and Free Software and it's vital part of Ubuntu.

I suggest to create a ppa repository for OpenOffice 3.0 development version in order to test it thoroughly before the final release.

Similar ppa repositories for AbiWord 2.6 and many other smaller projects have already been created for Ubuntu.


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It would be better if ubuntu didn't allow multiple instances of the update manager and other apps where there is absolutely no need to have more than one window open. The same goes for add/remove and others...

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No attachments. ]]> Sun, 07-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8129/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8179/ My Kubuntu System was roaring and terrible slow. I was wondering: “Did something go wrong during the upgrade?” One look in “top” thought me it was a daemon a “pinot” daemon. An other Search tool.... I just deinstalled “Strigi”! Many people will not look up what is using their resources they just will say: “ubuntu is slow”. People who want to use a Search Tool are able to activate it! So:

Please do not activate Data Crawlers per default!

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If I am not using an external mouse, enable the "Tap to Click", "Horizontal Scrolling", and "Vertical Scrolling" features of the touchpad.

When I connect an external mouse (or if I was already using one) disable these features.

This would be useful because some of the touchpad features, especially "Tap to Click", get in the way and cause problems when an external mouse is already being used.

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There are loads of Ideas e.g. on gnome-look.org about improving the panel and especially the menu. It looks like a lot of people don't like the situation right now.

It would be nice to have some discussion, how gnome-panel could be improved.

Please notice, this is not about changing the panel into a dock, but about extending its funktionallity and look and feel while keeping what we already have, and works well.

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Like a lot of us pay a subscription fee for Cedega. Instead of paying USD5 to them per month though, I'd rather pay Wine USD5 per month and have more control to be able to list the priorities on what they should code in terms of gaming.

We should work together with projects to set up a Donation pledge type system, with various projects, and votes (approved by the project) for different targets. (So that people are a bit in control as to what their donation works towards doing).

I bet a lot of people would be willing to pay $5 a month for 6 months if it meant flawless X-FI support for instance.


Some example targets people could vote for on Wine may be: Improve Internet explorer support, Improve support for copy protection in morrowind, EAX support for games

And some examples for openoffice may be:
Decrease loading times, Start coding compatibility with iWork.

And some for the Cups team may be:
Improve support for latest HP series printer, Investigate Fab_at_home 3D printer support


This is different to bounties, because its subscription based, and your subscription goes towards the most important of a few items you choose

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Well, Everything in the hardware category is a dupe of that. It got over 1000 votes, yet it does not help developers at all, is obvious, and it cannot be fulfilled. "Better webcam support" is a tad more specific, at least people can mention exactly which webcams they are having issues with. Better would be to say "support UVB webcams out of the box".

Any comments in "Better hardware support" will be so broad, it wont help target specific hardware

There must be a way to stop this sillyness. Ideas marked as requiring more info or obvious should notify the author, and close the idea. Otherwise we end up with unattainable ideas, that get us nowhere, and dent future development.Mods should have the last say so the system wont be abused.


Otherwise next idea I post should be "Make ubuntu more user friendly". Yeah, that will get me to most popular ever. But it shouldn't!

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We need to offer a way to show people when visiting the main website why you would buy a Linux computer, and the benefits.

Apple's website has garbage like "114,000 viruses? Not on a Mac." Surely we can compete with garbage like that.

We have our own strengths, and as Ubuntu proceeds, we should emphasise them to people, and show them why they need linux. Because at the moment, you go to any website, and it shows you all these features (which is all good), but what makes them better?

Some things may include:
Its free, largest selection of high quality free programs, commercial and widely available free support, easily managed via Canonical Landscape or free solutions, Plays better with Windows and Apple networks then they do, etc.

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I've got "ubuntu" and "hardy heron" on google-alerts, so I can read all the latest blog posts and news articles that are coming up lately. There's a lot of critisms. I recommend we address those criticisms thoroughly and completely in the next 6 months, and I mean, address them tirelessly and rigorously.

There needs to be a way in which we can monitor all the complaints, criticisms, etc. in one place so that they're in a database, easily accessible. Meaning, can we consolidate the critiques that show up in the blogosphere, ubuntuforums, brainstorm and launchpad? Maybe something similar to ubuntustats.com.

What do ya'll think?

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