Contributor mathis94

Make Wine 1.0 available in Hardy (through hardy-updates). This makes it easier for some companies who depend on XP software (which already works well in wine) to make the transition to Ubuntu.

IMHO it would be nice to release wine 1.0 through hardy-updates so everyone who hasn't disabled hardy-updates will get it. The wine 1.0 branch will probably continue to receive important updates making it easier for Ubuntu to maintain.

According to Eric S. Raymond's "World Domination 201" Wine is very important for Linux to become successful on the desktop.

Why wine is so important :
http://www.winehq.org/site/why
http://catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-domination-201.html

Wine 1.0 will release on june 6th. Hardy will release on june 5th. This makes it impossible to include wine 1.0 in Hardy except through hardy-backports or hardy-updates.

More information :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseSchedule
http://wiki.winehq.org/WineReleasePlan

When you use multiple USB hard drives you might know the problem: you unplugged one of them and rebooted. Now some drives, even non-USB drives, have changed their names e.g. from "disk-2" to "disk-1". Sounds like no biggie, but suddenly some programs don't find their files anymore and all folder settings and thumbnails are gone.
Idea: Have Ubuntu remember the drives by their unique ID or something and issue the same name whenever it's plugged in.

Greetings
wiberg

If i want to share the "look and feel" of my desktop with someone else, i have to send many different files: wallpapers, gtk-engines, gtk-themes, metacity themes, iconpacks, screenlets and so on.

I would like to press an "export look and feel"-button to get a file with all the look-and-feel-related stuff included, so that i can reproduce my complete look and feel on another machine.

Ubuntu’s goal is to be the most popular desktop OS for humans. But new versions of Ubuntu, like most Linux distros, are still marketed towards Linux geeks. They’re concerned with technology, trumpeting version numbers and drowning out the actual things you can do with their software.

We’re picking on Ubuntu specifically because it has higher goals than most distros - it’s Linux for human beings, not Linux for hackers. Unfortunately, the release announcements have forgotten what humans care primarily about: themselves.

http://blog.gobanquet.com/index.php/why-ubuntu-804-needs-better-marketing/

That website seems to be down, but here is the cached version on google:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:B1jvt3wvqC0J:blog.gobanquet.com/index.php/ why-ubuntu-804-needs-better-marketing/

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.

When you press ctrl alt f1 ect you get a terminal indepenant of X and is wonderfull if you know what your doing, but say my mum accadentally presses ctrl alt f1. Not knowing really what she is doing or the cat lands on the keyboard and puts it into a terminal. She would think the computer is broken and be very confused on how to fix it I think we should put a discription as to what it is and how to get back to X

Gimp is a great graphics editor we all know. Congratulations to all developpers!

My Idea:
- Adding a Selection for "Using Gimp in one Window"

IMPORTANT
- That should NOT be default, but an option, which doesn't go in trouble for users liking this multi window management with its advantages!

I guess that more than 20% of the gimp users where really happy for this important feature. I know that Gimpshop and other Plugins are available, but this couldn't be the end solution. Gimp should bring this "little" feature with it in future! Thanks!

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

Under Gutsy the "/usr/share/gnome/help/" directory is 208 MB. For every application there is a help file in many languages. I only need English, someone else may only want Spanish or French. So only install help files for the Users main/native/primary Language.

--With more and more work to create more detailed help files the help file directory is likely to grow quickly above its current 208 MB.

--Under "/usr/share/gnome/help/rhythmbox" if you remove the non english languages you can save 2.9 MB;

Here is a sampling of what I found if you removed the non-english files (I randomly looked at 3 different ones):
/usr/share/gnome/help/rhythmbox 2.9 MB
/usr/share/gnome/help/windows 6.5 MB
/usr/share/gnome/help/about-ubuntu 4.3 MB

--Also since these files are XML files (with a few images), compressing them will greatly reduce the size further. You can use the GZ format which webservers use to reduce bandwidth which the browser auto uncompresses and displays.

I preformed a test by compressing the help directory with gzip "gzip -r --best help" the help directory went from 162.1 MB to 83.6 MB. Thats almost half the size.

I think, a lot of people like to help with ubuntu development, but they don't know where to start. This includes not only programmers but also designers, music composers or just the normal ubuntu user.

So how about creating a website "howcanihelp.ubuntu.com" where everyone (except for C/C++ programmers ;-) ) can find out how to contribute?

Examples:
PHP Programmer -> help with Brainstorm Development, someproject.ubuntu.com needs a new Website, ...
Music Composer -> (don't know where this should link)
Graphic Artist -> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork
Foreign Language Native Speaker -> Translate Subtitles at screencasts.ubuntu.com,...
Beginner Ubuntu User -> (don't know if we find something for them :-) )
Advanced Ubuntu User -> Help people at IRC #ubuntu, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiToDo, join the Documentation Team...
Marketing Expert -> ...


and so on!

It is unnerving to touch buttons when the screensaver runs while a movie is playing.

create ubuntu's desktop rich applications conected to internet and (like uteo for an online open office). these rich desktop application could be a music player, gimp picture manager google calendar like, a client mail, widgets & plasmoids etc and do free rich desktop application like adobe air for ubuntu & others

Smooth scrolling in all applications with one click or choose which applications enable this.

when clicking on item to install it takes forever to see the check mark

Sometimes the update manager says there are no updates, but if I click check, and put the password, and some new ones appear!
Thats of course because the repositories are not up to date...
Would be nice to have an option to check for updates every X hours...

[edit] Today exploits/malware, and all that stuff can propagate/infect/compromise systems in minutes, sometimes, even seconds! Thats why I proposed this, security is very important... and once a bug/flaw is detected and a patch released, it should be applied to the system as soon as possible...
And since in ubuntu, it is usual to have a considerable amount of updates released through a single day, i think this makes some sense...

Hello, like many body I have a dual-booting system after I install Ubuntu on my computer with WindowsXp already installed.I want to use only one "My Documents" with both 2 OS, and I think the "Migrate Documents and Settings" should create a symbolic link to Documents folder in /home/[user name]/

Sorry for my poor English, but the command line:

In my /home/[user name]/Documents/
ln -s /media/[your windows partition/Documents\ and\ Settings/[user name]/My\ Documents My\ Documents

You can do the same with your My Music, My Picture, My Videos folder in order to acess it easier from Ubuntu.

I like to have an better support on printers and drivers for my wireless printer.

I have an lexmark x4850 wireless printer with all in one

well i guess it is an general request ...

It will be good for everybody to pre-install folding@home on ubuntu to order to help the research !

And this project is also supported by big company as google, ati, dell ...so why not by ubuntu ?

And it will be also a good marketing event for ubuntu!

The link : http://folding.stanford.edu/

PS : sorry for my english, im french :)

Multiple pointer devices, e.g. one touchpad and one mouse, might require different sensitivity settings.

If mice report their model to the computer (they do, right?), reasonable default settings could be kept in a database and mabye adjusted according to how the user has adjusted the settings of other devices. Any changes the user makes should of course be remembered until next time the same mouse gets plugged in.

With or without a database, a window could pop up the first time a particular model is plugged in, allowing the user to adjust the settings.

(I'm not sure if I'm posting in the right category.)

Given the success (as far as I know) of your Dell partnership, please do everything possible to seek alliances with other vendors, as it will reinforce the idea that Ubuntu is a viable alternative to other operating systems and will provide better hardware support for current Ubuntu users.

Dell is offering new models based on Ubuntu (recently the XPS M1330 in a few countries), proof that the business model makes sense.