Contributor loldrup

There are some instances where the user will not be able to shut-down. For instance, if they are running kdm as their display manager, they cannot, shut-down, restart, or switch-user from Gnome. This is because you can't do this while kdm is the running display manager (i.e. it's incompatible). The action Gnome decides to take, is to hide the, shut-down, restart, and switch user button from the 'Quit' icon in the panel. I'd suggest that they stay unhidden, and if the user click on one of the operations that won't go, they are informed why it won't work.

Atleast my Acer Aspire 5024 needs the acer-acpi to get the wifi working (currently runnung 8.04)

http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi/

Basically, this suggestion is to change the manual network configuration GUI in Kubuntu to have an option for a WPA key. It already has an option for a WEP key and has everything else important to connect to a non-WPA network, but there simply isn't an option listed to use WPA. This is not about the driver; it's about being able to configure both WPA and one's IP address from the same interface as is possible for WEP.

For those interested, here's the story as best as I can remember of how this missing option has annoyed me.

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I recently switched from Debian Etch to Kubuntu Hardy. Overall, the transition was a lot smoother than my switch from XP to Etch about 8 months ago; however, there is one major issue for me. Although I can connect easily enough to my home's WPA-protected wireless network when DHCP is enabled, I cannot manually configure the IP address from the computer itself.

In Debian, I had to jump through hoops to compile, install, and configure MadWifi -- something that was automatic in Kubuntu. Configuring a manual IP address in Debian was not that hard once I knew what to do; I had to use Gnome-Net-Tool to manually configure the interface with a blank WEP key given and then manually start wpa-supplicant as root from the command line. It was completely counter-intuitive and probably shouldn't have worked, but it did.

Unfortunately, I cannot say I found a corresponding solution in Kubuntu. When I first tried connecting, it seemed to be working, but couldn't get an IP address so I clicked the "Manual Configuration" option to see if there was a way to manually configure the IP address. From there I selected ath0 in the Network Interfaces tab and clicked the Configure Interface button. I was disappointed not to see WPA as an option, but I figured that the solution I found in Debian (with KDE) might work in Kubuntu so I filled in all the fields except for the non-applicable one asking for a WEP key. With this, I wasn't even able to connect to the network.

Eventually I rebooted back into Debian, connected to the network and then changed the router's settings to re-enable the DHCP server. After this, I rebooted into Kubuntu again, changed the settings configuration to automatic, and it finally connected to the network; however, I do not like the reliability of the router's DHCP serving and prefer to set it in my computer, not the router.

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Currently I have to click on the user in the list or type their name before I can type their password, even if there's only one user. why? Just select the top user and let me type the password right of the bat. If I wanted to type the user name, I'd not choose to use a list as the login window in the first place.

This is how it should work:

1. Select the top (or default) user entry by default (so that I can just type the password & hit enter to login)
2. Allow arrow keys to navigate the list of users (I should neither have to use a mouse to select a user from the list, nor to type the full username, as that's what the default login window is there for)

When you're changing your resolution to another resolution, you'll often get something like this:

1280 x 1024
1280 x 960
1280 x 800
...etc...

Now which one is the widescreen one, and which one is fit for, say, a normal monitor? You'll have to do some smart guessing or maths if you're not experienced. Often you'll go off and try a few.

Why not display the aspect ratio next to every resolution, or next to the preview? An alternative could be to announce a resolution to be "widescreen" for example.

Many new users are confused by device names such as /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb5, /dev/hda2, /dev/hdc4, etc.

So I propose to show volume labels (partition names) in the installer, to make it easier for users who install Ubuntu to know which partition they are installing on.

Screenshots:
* Before
* After

This will make it clearer and easier to install Ubuntu without any mistakes being done which might result in that a new user accidentally looses valuable data.

Is it possible to increase the charge speed of the battery?
With kernel option or something else and add a right clic option on the gnome-power-manager applet.

For example I have running all pm my laptop on battery and I have only 40min for re-charge it ... but gnome-power-manager say me I must have 3h for fully charge it !

I think that the Fedora art team is a talented group of people that can help Ubuntu gain for partners.

I'm NOT saying "Change from Ubuntu to Fedora artwork", or "Make Ubuntu blue", but what I am saying is that we should have them help us with themes, promotional artwork(Ubuntu advertising), etc.

I hope you will a least think about it, and thank you for making such a wonderful operating system.

Ubuntu currently doesn't upgrade the kernel, it just keeps adding newer and newer kernels to the system.

Currently, the list of kernels installed on a Ubuntu system grows over time. This takes up additional disk space and adds clutter to the boot loader.

Ideally, older kernels should be removed automatically.

Maybe leave current and current-1, but not _all_ of them...

Now I know there are couple of TimeVault BrainStorm ideas, one is improve the interface (http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3282/) and the other is to improve it (http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5781/). I like both of them, but what my idea is, is to have TimeVault installed by default and have the user setup it up when they want to. This would be a good point to make to the user that you can backup your files in a timely manner and with a very good powerful tool, similar to what Apple has done with Leopard and TimeMachine.

Hide the borders / frames of windows. Only if mouse moves over a certain area, the frame appears. Make it a compiz option.

Yes it is possible to make a script that will "remember" all installed packages from Ubuntu installation A and install the packages on Ubuntu installation B.

But we should have a little tools that can make those scripts, so that you can keep your programs (like configurations) without writing down what you had installed on your old Ubuntu or Computer.

Two options available:
- only user software and by that software needed packages (libaries, ...)
- all packages installed, also when they aren't user software (like codecs, ...)

Off-line offices will be gone soon. Just propose for Google to create a Google Docs Start page for Ubuntu users and add an icon at Ubuntu.

To have a better overview of the currently 5100 ideas in the Ubuntu Brainstorm database, move all ideas older than one month and less than 15 votes to the archived part of the database.

This will keep the focus on the most voted ideas, without removing the least voted ideas.

The main advantage is that it makes fun again to go to a larger amount of ideas to vote. Currently also a lot of ideas without any change are in the list as well.

Now only way to see if there are new comments on your idea is to
a) comment on it
b)Search through my ideas and click on any for which you think it has new comments.
Both ways are not really easy.
There are many options to improve this, but this is the easiest:
An simple icon - the same as it is in latest comments on Ideas I have commented.
You could make a simple chooser with which you could order your ideas (as it was proposed by another idea):
- by date
- by name
- by vote
- by newest comment

It will be great that programs as F-spot or Eye of Gnome will support video files.

Picassa for windows supports its, but not for linux.

That is for people who start pidgin automatically on boot time and always have to close the buddy list when the system boots.

I'm talking about the window that pops up when you right-click on a file or folder in Nautilus and select "Properties".

Maybe it's just me... but 90% of the time when I have the Properties window of any file open for more than a few seconds, it's because I'm watching the file/folder to note whether its size is changing. But the Properties window doesn't refresh the filesize data. Refreshing the Properties window data every couple seconds would be a very useful feature for me and it wouldn't be too difficult to implement... please consider!

When you right click a folder in Nautilus and select properties, you are shown among other things how many files it (and its subfolders) contain.

However, with folders containing MANY files it will take some time to reach the final verdict. In the meanwhile you're shown a lot of different figures. It would be nice if there was some indicator to whether the displayed figure actually is final. (With multiple large subfolders the count appears to be final but then suddenly springs into action again...)

E.g. the red text would change from calculating to ready http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/5610/screenshotimagespropertrd4.png

(And yes, it IS my secret pr0n stash.)

The actual disk mounter applet lacks for certain features that make more configurable and easy to use it.

It's more easy and fast to go directly to the icon in the gnome-panel and remove a device, than to the desktop and "unmount" the device. But the actual applet works creating an icon for each device mounted in an horizontal way, which is unpractical.

This are my suggestions to improve the applet:

It should be configurable (Preference page):
* It should have a preference page showing the following check boxs: []USB Flash, []Memory Cards, []Hard Drives, [] CD/DVD ROM... these are the device to be show by the applet.
* Also in the preference must have an option to show if the user like the horizontal way (actual behavior) or a vertical way (Menu style).

The Menu style must be something like this:
* The menu style should be only ONE icon. (the main app)
* The main app expand a Menu with all devices mounted (following the user preference), and then it expand a submenu with the actual open and remove (unmount) actions.

General behavior:
* The applet should show the Label of the device mounted NOT the fabricant of the device (ex. Kingston DataTraveler 2.0), if there is no label then it should use the fabricant model.
* If I check USB and CD the applet will show only those I check.
* The icons of the devices should correspond to the device mounted. (USB Logo, CD icon, hard drive icon, memory card icon).

Finally, probably should be enabled by default in all new installations (Intrepid Ibex?) with only the options USB MemCards selected and the menu (vertical) style.

That is pretty much what it should be done to de disk mounter applet... and I just noted that this applet is developed by Canonical, then there is no problem for doing that,

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