Written by loonyphoenix the 22 Aug 08 at 09:56.

Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #12432 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

<i>Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #12432 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution.</i><br /> Thanks!

Written by loonyphoenix the 15 Apr 08 at 19:25.

Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #7068 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

<i>Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #7068 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution.</i><br /> Thanks!

Written by loonyphoenix the 30 Mar 08 at 17:36.

Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #6109 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

<i>Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #6109 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution.</i><br /> Thanks!

Written by loonyphoenix the 22 Aug 08 at 10:13.

I propose that keyboard shortcuts to changing layouts should be configured from within Xubuntu's native configuration, like in (K)Ubutntu.

I propose that keyboard shortcuts to changing layouts should be configured from within Xubuntu's native configuration, like in (K)Ubutntu.

Written by loonyphoenix the 22 Aug 08 at 10:32.

Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #12435 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

<i>Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #12435 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution.</i><br /> Thanks!

Written by loonyphoenix the 3 Nov 09 at 00:54.

Count those ideas as having zero score. Only count the positively balanced solutions.

Count those ideas as having zero score. Only count the positively balanced solutions.

Written by loonyphoenix the 3 Nov 09 at 00:58.

The top is obviously being calculated, as shown in the dashboard. However, you can only stumble upon the members of this top accidentally, if you browse through different users' profile pages. This top needs to be prominently featured on Brainstorm's homepage.

The top is obviously being calculated, as shown in the dashboard. However, you can only stumble upon the members of this top accidentally, if you browse through different users' profile pages. This top needs to be prominently featured on Brainstorm's homepage.

Written by loonyphoenix the 8 Nov 09 at 15:42.

I know about Brainstorm by pure chance. I stumbled upon it. Make more references of Brainstorm throughout other Ubuntu resources: Launchpad, Ubuntu website, Ubuntu help and wiki, the desktop itself (for example, create an Ubuntu desktop widget for Brainstorm).

I know about Brainstorm by pure chance. I stumbled upon it. Make more references of Brainstorm throughout other Ubuntu resources: Launchpad, Ubuntu website, Ubuntu help and wiki, the desktop itself (for example, create an Ubuntu desktop widget for Brainstorm).

Written by chipbennett the 9 Nov 09 at 22:35.

If the purpose of Brainstorm is to incubate ideas, then rank contributors by their participation - that is, by number of solutions they propose, votes they make, and comments they leave.

Looking at a contributor profile, 80% (or more) of the focus is on the contributor's positive/negative ratio, with far less emphasis on number of votes and number of comments. No emphasis is given to number of solutions proposed.

The best solution would rank contributors according to ALL of the above criteria, but would weight that ranking such that *contribution* is far more important than *rating*, something like:

S = solutions
V = votes
C = comments
N = net rating

R = rank = (1)*S + (0.5)*V + (0.3)*C + (0.2)*N

The actual coefficients aren't as important, so much as the concept of including all criteria, and weighting them according to relative value added to Brainstorm.

If the purpose of Brainstorm is to incubate ideas, then rank contributors by their participation - that is, by number of solutions they propose, votes they make, and comments they leave. Looking at a contributor profile, 80% (or more) of the focus is on the contributor's positive/negative ratio, with far less emphasis on number of votes and number of comments. No emphasis is given to number of solutions proposed. The best solution would rank contributors according to ALL of the above criteria, but would weight that ranking such that *contribution* is far more important than *rating*, something like: S = solutions V = votes C = comments N = net rating R = rank = (1)*S + (0.5)*V + (0.3)*C + (0.2)*N The actual coefficients aren't as important, so much as the concept of including all criteria, and weighting them according to relative value added to Brainstorm.

Written by Mirek2 the 17 Nov 09 at 11:27.

I know this is a trivial change, but when "Most popular in 30 days" sort is the default, you get ideas which are overlooked and just a few ideas are brainstormed on. It also gives the idea of no activity when a person cursorily visits brainstorm and, not noticing the different sorts offered, sees the same idea on top as there was a week ago that he has already voted on. This might discourage that person from the Brainstorm.
Therefore, I suggest to sort by "Latest" by default.

I know this is a trivial change, but when "Most popular in 30 days" sort is the default, you get ideas which are overlooked and just a few ideas are brainstormed on. It also gives the idea of no activity when a person cursorily visits brainstorm and, not noticing the different sorts offered, sees the same idea on top as there was a week ago that he has already voted on. This might discourage that person from the Brainstorm. Therefore, I suggest to sort by "Latest" by default.

Written by tommis the 2 Dec 09 at 16:26.

create plasma widget and put it to kubuntu by default

create plasma widget and put it to kubuntu by default

Written by loonyphoenix the 3 Nov 09 at 00:28.

If Thunar and Windows can do it, the foremost Linux browser must be able to do it too. I don't know how they do it, because I'm not a software engineer, but I know it can be done, as evidenced in Thunar. Do whatever is necessary - rewrite part of Nautilus from scratch, make it prefetch the contents of subfolders of the opened folder, use cache, defer fetching of icons - to make the experience of folder browsing perfectly instantaneous.

If Thunar and Windows can do it, the foremost Linux browser must be able to do it too. I don't know how they do it, because I'm not a software engineer, but I know it can be done, as evidenced in Thunar. Do whatever is necessary - rewrite part of Nautilus from scratch, make it prefetch the contents of subfolders of the opened folder, use cache, defer fetching of icons - to make the experience of folder browsing perfectly instantaneous.

Written by loonyphoenix the 3 Nov 09 at 00:38.

The first time the keyring manager asks you to enter the master password, present the above info. How is a user to know he needs to enter the same password in some cases, or no password at all in other cases, if he wants the keyring to be automatically unlocked? Surely not by googling. To expect a user to google for any solution is not very ubuntu, in my opinion.

The first time the keyring manager asks you to enter the master password, present the above info. How is a user to know he needs to enter the same password in some cases, or no password at all in other cases, if he wants the keyring to be automatically unlocked? Surely not by googling. To expect a user to google for any solution is not very ubuntu, in my opinion.

Written by loonyphoenix the 3 Nov 09 at 00:09.

Make use of tray to indicate that external drives which need unmounting are connected and a simple drop-down menu to unmount them.

Make use of tray to indicate that external drives which need unmounting are connected and a simple drop-down menu to unmount them.

Written by Linux000 the 3 Nov 09 at 00:33.

Do somewhat what apple has done, click on the desktop icon, drag it to the trash and the trash becomes an eject symbol, drop the icon there and the drive is unmounted.

Do somewhat what apple has done, click on the desktop icon, drag it to the trash and the trash becomes an eject symbol, drop the icon there and the drive is unmounted.

Written by loonyphoenix the 3 Nov 09 at 00:15.

I'm not sure how web-sites work, but can't you make DejaVu or Liberation or whatever higher priority when using Brainstorm? Anything's better than ttf-tahoma-replacement.

I'm not sure how web-sites work, but can't you make DejaVu or Liberation or whatever higher priority when using Brainstorm? Anything's better than ttf-tahoma-replacement.