Contributor mahir

It would be nice if include by adding a new tab for it.:
- temperature (cpu, hdd, chipsets),
- memory (with manufacture model?)
- graphics card (model, memory)
- chipsets (processor, cores, lan, wifi)
- ... others?

There is a wide community of online artists capable of creating brilliant, unique artwork.

heading: Get your artwork on 10 million desktops

Ubuntu, the world's most popular Linux distribution, needs a new theme. The winner will appear in the default desktop of Ubuntu 8.10.

We're looking for original wallpapers, that match Ubuntu's color palette. You entry should also include a suggested combination of application, icon, and window themes. These can be existing themes, or your own original works - you only need to submit a wallpaper to win.

Work must be CC licensed, and be openable in either Inkscape or Gimp (rest of criteria continues)

Submit your works to DeviantArt and include the words [Ubuntu810].


Good luck!

Please, make possible to install (without opening the case if it's possible) ubuntu in appletv. Specifically, I thinking in MythTV.

It could be useful for media users and for extending ubuntu to many people

dell printers do not seem to work well with linux in general...and that's strange that especially dell printer drivers are so hard to find....or at least seem impossible to work with linux or ubuntu.

i think an important effort should be made for this drivers. as a lot of people do have dell printers.

i mean tracker searches internet,but what about stuff
in my harddisk,Google desktop does better job but why
not with tracker.

The update manager is a great tool. However, I don't have the time to sit there, waiting to see if an update requires my attention.(Samba)(installing kde)

So i would like for all updates that require user input to be pushed to the back of the queue. So that i can come back authorize those updates and shorty have it done. Instead of realizing its only halfway done.

My computer has a single bad memory address in it.
I should be able to use my computer.

Currently I am forced to limit the amount of ram it is able access by a simple cut off. There is a better way:
http://rick.vanrein.org/linux/badram/

I am not even requesting this be on by default. Just the patch/source included in the repos.

Currently we let people test that they have badram, let's give them the best solution we have.

One thing that's always bothered me, no matter which OS I've been on, is the way I can be typing in one window when another program tosses up a notification or error which immediately gets closed because I just pressed space or enter. I propose a mechanism be developed by which keyboard input is temporarily paused or halted if a window appears when more than X number of keys is being pressed per ten seconds.

I realise the difficulties inherent in this; a daemon or service would eat up unnecessary CPU cycles, it's impractical to patch every program in existence to follow this behaviour, and most other ways of doing this have one argument against them or another. However, if this were presented as an opt-in behaviour, I believe it would benefit a fair percentage of people for a relatively small amount of coder output.

Drag&Drop is such a intuitive and simple action - it must be promoted.
There are many things that already work in Ubuntu/GNOME/KDE with Drag&Drop, but there is much that can be improved:

- DnD an image from Firefox to the Desktop should place that image there, not a textfile with the link to the homepage.
- DnD from the icon on the left side of the URL in the Firefox address bar to the desktop should create a .desktop file with a link to that URL.
- DnD of devices onto the Pastebin should unmount them (like OSX)
- DnD of a Desktop file into a mainmenu/submenu of GNOME should create a menu item.
- fix the Nautilus-in-list-view-doesn't-accept-DnD-files issue: Launchpad bug #61237
- DnD file from anywhere (e.g. Desktop) to a folder in the "file open" "file save" dialogs.
- DnD a file into an edit box should insert a file:// link - KDE has this; Idea #3027
from Idea #4105:
- DnD Attachement from Thunderbird to Nautilus
- DnD Files From File-Roller to Nautilus
- DnD Picture from Nautilus to OOo

...and many more, please submit your ideas, I'll put them into the description!


If you like this idea, also look at my other ideas

I'd like a way to backup my entire system with all the settings and packages to a bootable ISO file. So that I can re-install or install on other computers.

At the moment, installing a package is sometimes like:

1) Install package
2) While package is installing, run another instance of the package manager
3) The second package manager just commits suicide with a "repository is locked" error. If you're lucky it asks you to click the retry button. Generally it will just error out with a lame message.


This should be changed so that your general package management programs simply wait for the others to finish at least.

Nobody likes programs which quit with locking errors. And yes APT, my friend, you locked your repository for me yesterday. I knew what was wrong immediately, but I know plenty of people who wouldn't (locking error eh, does that mean you have locked up?). I love you APT, but sometimes, its too much :-(


It makes remote administration easier (ie, you can have 4 administators logged in at the same time installing stuff, without 3 installers stalling or crashing, they simply will wait for their turn). In a very large network with a few faculties, this may really help, if its deployed via SSH. Otherwise, all 4 admins may have 50 random computers with programs that aren't even related, that did not install because the other ones locked the repo.

The package management system should provide a means of waiting for the system to unlock (maybe via a parameter?)

It confuses users.

hpn-ssh would be a big data-transfer speed improvement for many Ubuntu users, sshfs, backup over ssh

http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssh/+bug/162253

Administering multiple systems and often through SSH, I spend a great deal of time at the command line. While I know the current version is "good enough" and stable, I think the default command line could use some overhauling.

I think the command line should be as colorized as is humanly possible. Almost every distribution now comes with ls aliased to ls --color. That's an example of what I'm suggesting but only the tip of the iceberg.

I don't know if it's the default but I've inherited a Gentoo machine where the prompt itself is colorized, nano, less, and diff are all colorized.

Vim and emacs should have syntax highlighting out of the box (I think emacs might already, but I know I had to edit .vimrc to add colorization to Vim).

It may sound prissy but if you're staring at terminals all day it really makes things so much more readable.

There's a very old application called Xmove which does not work well at all. What would be very helpful, is to be able to SSH into a box, (ssh -Y) and run a gui application directed to the local X server (via ssh -Y), but have the X application **detachable**!! The 'screen' command is limited to shell-based programs, but this would be for gui applications that draw to the remote X server via 'ssh -Y'.

So, if the ssh tunnel disconnected, or if I wanted to detach and pick it up again later, I could simply detach it as simply as one detaches a bash shell using 'screen', but for a gui application. The way ssh works now, if I lose that SSH connection, the gui-application dies with the SSH session.

Of course, VNC and NX (nomachine) provide this, but they're **whole desktop** solutions. If one works often with remote-gui applications (as I do) forcing the WHOLE DESKTOP to the client really kills my real desktop, and I cannot easily run both local and remote applications without some creative sizing of the remote-desktop.

The versatility of 'ssh -Y' allows for single-application mapping over remote connections, but there's no way to safely detach it, and allow it to continue to run and then re-attach to it at a later time.

Perhaps this is more of an ssh request than an Ubuntu-specific request (though it is discussed in some Ubuntu forums). Regardless, it's one I've been trying to do for some time.

Cheers!

Evolution is sort of nice, but needs tons of work in order to be a competitive PIM.

for example, some actions can be:

1. remove week view, it is redundant to work week view, and provides less information.
2. integrate search-as-you-type.
3. switching between views it terribly slow.
4. Imap sync is problematic - synchronizing with google's imap gets you 3 junk email folders, 3 trash folders, etc.
5. add a counter to the number of items in each category, and the number of unread items. (in the left-side view).
6. remove the word "search" before the search filter, move it to the toolbar.
7. improve sync. with mobile devices.
8. Imap synch is very slow, compared to, for example, outlook.
9. fix the weather calendar to support countries other than the US. if not possible, remove it from evolution, and use an ical subscription.
10. allow easy access to additional ical subscriptions.
11. add smart calendaring formatting (like google calendar).
12. don't change the view when selecting a day in the mini month calendar. (very annoying. when I want to see what happens in the week a month from now, for example).
13. wrap around mail headers when using horizontal mode - currently the headers are not warper, but truncated, and the headers become very hard to read.
14. add clearer separators between the message headers.
15. allow adding more data sources for eds, so it will serve as the desktop personal data server
16. allow face browsing from contacts.
17. allow separation for components, for those of use that like to be able to view tasks and mail on the same time,
communication between the components can be done by using dbus, or simply querying eds

1. add a filter bar (similar to finder/ explorer)
2. add tab support (optional)
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

DAV/WebDAV (aka webfolders) works very poorly in Ubuntu, whereas it works quite well in Windows and very well in OS X.
It is stopping quite a few of us from using Ubuntu (and Linux) to access organisational servers using the protocol. This is a fix that requires some work and that would feed back into Linux as a whole.. but it would make full or partial migration to Ubuntu much easier. See posts on Ubuntu forums for people with the problem.. BTW I do not know if it is a problem with the Microsoft servers or the whole protocol.. or moving the default to the apparently better davfs2.. see threads..

Alright now that we finally have a GUI tool for ndiswrapper, it should be able to detect the chipset used and if there are drivers available, automatically download and install them.

This may seem very special, but a lot of small companies (1 to 10 employees) would love to run linux because of the cost (a Win workstation has easily 500 to 1000 Euro of software on it - each and everyone of it).

The one thing that NOBODY gets done: installing an ERP/CRM. Be it Compiere, SQL-Ledger, Post-Books, TinyERP, LX-Office - you name it and I show you a million threads in all the ubuntu-forums "can't install/can't run XYZ after installation"

Most small business just want in, stock, out, furnisher, client, offer, invoice - pretty basic stuff that EVERY ERP can handle.

How about getting one of those into the repositories as an "easy to install" or "no brainer" package? I'd LOVE it - and reading the frums in German, French and English, there are literally several thousand users that would love it, too.

Allow user to "customize their ubuntu experience" while the user is waiting during the install of Ubuntu from the LiveCD. Display a Wizard to customize the look and feel and other options of ubuntu.