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FADE_STEPS = 10
FADE_TOTAL_TIME = 1000

to

FADE_STEPS = 25
FADE_TOTAL_TIME = 500

Looks much better.

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Rest of the world should get nice font rendering by default, built in dvd playback support and so on, because they are savages and don't like democracy and freedom.

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For example, many business laptops have Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN

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Main things it needs:

1. Low latency. Part of Jack but we shouldn't have 2 systems, it should be one.
2. Sound event support. There's a separate library for this and it should just be part of pulse instead.
3. Multi-threaded support for multi-core cpu's.
4. Realtime ac3/dts encoding. I could never get this to work with alsa.
5. Sending out compressed audio. This seems to be controlled on an application basis, but never in an easy way.
6. 7.1 analog audio output. I'm tired of my sound blaster only having 2 channels of audio output. I want more.
7. Mixer on a per application basis like Vista has.
8. The ability to play more then one sound at once. I don't think alsa allows for this.

Notice I didn't mention anything about power there or the ability to send sound events over the network. I don't care about any of this as an end user.

Now OSS can do most of this, but it is rejected by the open source community because it use to be closed source and is now again under the gpl, so politics has interfered in something technical. And since the new ubuntu has switched over to Pulse, might as well stick with it instead of re-inventing the wheel which seems to happen a lot in open source.

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Actualy only Ubuntu name is shown.

The only thing that should be done is to write, in small letters, the ubuntu version that is being loaded.

Ubuntu (Big size Letters)
8.10 (Small size letters)

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Example animated PNG images:
http://people.mozilla.com/~dolske/apng/demo.html
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Animated_PNG_example_bouncing_beach_ball.png

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Original post:
If you read the Changelog for 2.0.4 on VirtualBox

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

You see:

* Linux additions: support Ubuntu 8.10

In the repository we have VirtualBox 2.0.2

I think it would be great if the VirtualBox in Intrepid Ibex actually supports Intrepid Ibex.

Just an idea :-)

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]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/14824/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/14771/ Why is this not implemented. Don't the subprocesses deliver this information? (Processes like resizesing, creating or deleting partitions)

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This should work for both compiz and metacity.

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(*.pgp files are produced by right-mouse-btn -> "Encrypt..." on any file)

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Then you click 'check' and find that it *isn't.*

This makes about as much sense as clicking 'Start' in Windows when you want to shut down, and it would be nice if Update Manager didn't tell you that you were up to date until AFTER you click 'check'.

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It's a popular concept used in OS-X (iTunes) and stuffs like iPod Touch.

Of course this could work for music player too, but at least we could start with EoG, and extend to Nautilus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_Flow

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since the PSCX project (PlayStation1 emulator) is in the repositories, it would be very nice to have the newer one, since it is pretty well playable and would enrich the distributions content.

All gnu software should be around as deb :D


http://www.pcsx2.net Official Site
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcsx2/ Sourceforge Site

Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pcsx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCSX2


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Ubuntuforums.org thread #399165
]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/13110/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9262/ When you use Ubuntu in any other language than English, when an error message is shown, of course, it's shown in your own language.
...But, as the best way to solve the problem, is googling it, and as most of the documentation there is in english, it would be a good thing to have a button (or a right-click entry) on that kind of message to print (or copy to the clipboard) the exact syntax of the original message. When we try to translate it ourselves, we can't really now how it was written in the original message thought there are different translations for a single message that could be used.
This would also be great to help us submit bugs.

[EDIT] : As some of you said, showing standard error numbers would help us finding response, and wouldn't force the users to install English languages packs)
[/EDIT]


Thanks

Brice

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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.

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1 - Improve usability, stability and speed for Firefox users in Ubuntu. Beta 5 has some big issues.

2 - This also would help the Mozilla dev team because there would be thousand of users using RC1 instead of Beta5.

3 - The "Beta" can confuse some users.


So, what do you think?

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]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8808/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9269/ And most importantly, talk to Mozilla about relaying your Firefox 3 repository download data to them.
More info here: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord

Let's help open source achieve another great victory!

RE to developer: You would have counted downloads, not users...

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