Contributor maknu

I've got two monitors, and right now if I use the wallpaper settings in gnome it stretches the wallpaper across the two monitors. It does this even for the default ubuntu wallpaper. This can look really bad depending on the image. In order to get around this I had to get two wallpaper images and join them into one large one with the GIMP and set that as my wallpaper.

There should be a way in gnome to set a different wallpaper for each monitor.

==== Merged with ideas of a similar scope: Different wallpapers on different workspace ===

Many workspaces option in Linux allows you to separate your work, why not allow users to have different wallpapers on each workspace. This allows for easier identification of which workspace you are on.
When used with compiz-fusion you can rapidly switch between your workspaces and the different wallapaper will allow you to quickly recognise what desktop you are on.

Currently this is natively available in KDE but not in Gnome. In Gnome you can't even let Compiz take over the wallpaper control because Nautilus doesn't allow for transparent backgrounds.

Other solutions like Wallpapoz are slow and when switching between desktops it takes too long to switch WP.

Hi!

I'm a big fan of Images like .iso.
But it is not very easy to mount this Images.
I think there must be a Tool in Nautilus and Dolphin wich alows mounting Images with a double Click. (This feature exists int MacOS). Or with a right click on the file and then there must be a poit "Mount Image". I thick that would be a very use full Tool for every one.
A good example for this is CDemu.

I know there are some ohter good programs, but I think that would be the easyest way and very confortible.

Nanotron

Ok we all know, Nautilus is slow, and needs to be optimized for speed, better memory/cpu usage.

I would like to see an option under System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications to choose my default filemanager e.g. PCMan/Krusader/Nautilus ... whatever installed.

I'd like to disable Nautilus as startup item
I'm using PC man file manager (http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/). I also use it as desktop manager, I've disabled nautilus as startup session, but when i start nautilus (for ssh support or some program starts it) Nautilus adds itself as startup item (and overwrites my desktop), I like an option to choose de desktop/file manager..

These: http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/nonautilusplease scripts can replace nautilus but not for all desktop managers..

Add a plugin support inside nautilus, exactely like Rhythmbox or Totem.

By doing this, many useful G-Script (Nautilus File Manager Scripts) can be rewrite in Vala and "bundle" with Nautilus.

Useful plugin can be for example :

-> Automatic file renamer (like the one in Thunar)
-> Mounting Iso file
-> Audio file converter (wav->mp3,wma->ogg)
-> Video file converter (flv->avi)
-> Tab support (like PCmanfm)
-> Picture sorting (by resolution, etc.)
-> Duplicate file searcher...

etc..

Ubuntu's keyring facility is nice, but is a far cry from a real password manager. While there are several password manager's in the repository, none of them are very good and none of them are integrated into the keyring. Of the bunch, probably KeePassX is the best.

Seahorse, which is the (optionally installed) GUI to the keyring is good at storing keys, but doesn't handle web site passwords, credit card numbers, etc.

Ubuntu needs a highly secure all-in-one password/key/private note manager. Ideally it would be integrated into Firefox and Thunderbird such that those systems would work with the keyring.

Replace initscripts with upstart events. Our boot sequence is currently slow, full of race conditions and poor interactions, especially with competition between the series of tasks run by sysv-rc, udev and sometimes just with the kernel. We developed upstart so that we could have a truly event driven boot sequence that would be fast, reliable and flexible; we should take advantage of it.

Ubuntu's bootloader is a stark black and white screen, filled with confusing options. It gives newbies a moment of indecision, as they try to figure out if they are supposed to choose something, and wonder why there are three or four Ubuntus listed. Then the timer finishes counting down (starting from 10), and the newb begins to feel like he's getting in over his head as his PC boots into Ubuntu.

Too much information up front, stark text-only display, painfully long countdown timer. What would be the alternative? Well, when a Fedora PC is booted up, the first thing the user sees is a graphical splash screen, and "Booting into Fedora (kernel version) in 4 seconds ... " The user can press a key to interrupt and select from kernel versions or alternative operating systems, or just let it boot into Fedora.

Can't we create our own attractive bootloader? Or, failing that, copy-and-paste Fedora's?

I guess everybody has experienced the rather long boot up times in Ubuntu (particularly with laptops). I know they are already working on it, but the change from feisty to gutsy was a pain in the ass in terms of boot up speed.
A default WinXP installation beats Ubuntu's boot up time by far!! That shouldn't be allowed fellas!!

I therefore propose to the development team (both Ubuntu and by extension Gnome)to work on the improvement of boot up times in Ubuntu systems.

I myself have my icons centered on the panel and I expect many other people have too. It's a lot of work keeping them that way as you add new icons and remove old icons. I suggest 2 new features

a center icons tickbox
a slider to control the distance between icons

This would be very easy to implement.

The notification area original goal is to notify the user. Sadly, a lot of applications abuse it and use it as a simple icon dock (like under Windows).

This is a violation of the HIG ( http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/desktop-notification-area.html ), makes the notification area clutered and a lot less useful.

For people with no prior Windows experience, it also seems to be completely counter-intuitive and non understandable (why are some application there and some other in the panel).

I suggest to consider each abuse of the notification area a bug and that, by default, application use the notification area according to the HIG. (Gaim for example, can use the notification area only if you have a new message, which is the way the HIG recommands to use this feature).

I love NetworkManager and think it is a great app. However, I think it greatly abusing the idea of the notification area. I feel NetworkManager makes more sense as a panel applet. As it currently stands NetworkManager ignores the HIG. NetworkManager isn't actually notifying me the mojority of the time, instead it is acting as program sitting in the panel; hence an applet.

I think NetworkManager could still use the notification area when it is in fact notifying the user of an event, such as a network disconection. But the user interaction should be in the applet itself.


From the HIG

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The utility of the notification area decreases rapidly when more than about four icons are always present. For this reason, icons that appear only temporarily in response to events are preferable.
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Notification Area or Panel Applet?

You should probably write an applet instead of using the notification area if:

* clicking your notification area icon does anything other than opening a window directly associated with the icon (e.g. a mail folder window for a new mail icon, or a print queue window for printer notification icon), or
* there are icon-specific options on its context menu for doing anything other than that
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This is just one of those little things that would be useful.

Canonical, can you support GNOME Scan development by engage a developer like Étienne Bersac?

http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-scan/

Social networks are very popular nowadays, but computers are very individual, we don't use possibilities of wifi cards in our notebooks.

I want go to my friend with notebook, she easily share her internet connection through wifi from her adsl/lan internet.

I want easy communicate, share files, talk with her through our wifi connection.

I want come to school, make small ad-hoc wifi network with my colleagues, play games, share with them my data, communicate, make temporary small chat room... Someone add internet to our wlan, through mobile.

In old times, we make small/big lan parties, why there isn't wlan parties ? I know internet is faster, but we can share without internet.

It means:
* easy connect ad-hoc with other devices (notebooks with whatever OS, smart phone (Windows mobile, symbian, iphone)
* easy choose ipadress, easy create dhcp-server
* easy create bridge to share internet connection
* easy create rules of connection (firewall)

In future
* easy make ad-hoc wlan
* easy communication through wlan, maybe ad-hoc jabber networks

Currently, the gnome-panel uses an insane amount of RAM. Some users have reported it using up to 110mb of RAM! We cannot let something so small be such a huge memory hog!

(Note: This idea is different to #368 - excessive ram usage as this is an idea for a specific issue)

One of the suggestions powertop (a tool that helps to save battery power) told me is to turn off my notebook's bluetooth when it is not being used.
"Disable the unused bluetooth interface with the following command:
hciconfig hci0 down; rmmod hci_usb"

I think it would be nice to have a way to turn off/on bluetooth graphically using bluetooth applet.

OpenTTD (Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe) requires some data files from the original TTD, which is freely available i.e. from abandonia.com. So those data files could be added to a package in the Medibuntu repository and be connected to OpenTTD as a (recommended) dependency.

This would make OpenTTD much easier to install and more available to beginners, who like to rediscover fantastic classic games.

There are at least 13 unpatched security vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel.
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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