Contributor maybeway36

Right now, all other hard drive partitions on the system will appear as 80 GB Media, 19.5 GB Media, etc. Ubuntu could name the drives' desktop links as follows:
1. If the partition is formatted with NTFS, name it "Windows/NTFS Partition [size in GB]"
2. If the partition has DOS on it, name it "DOS Partition [size in GB]"
4. If the partition does not have DOS but is FAT-formatted, name it "FAT32 Partition [size in GB]"
5. If the partition is formatted with ext3, reiserfs, etc. and is either mounted under /media or is not in the fstab, name it "Linux-Native [name os fs-type] Partition (size in GB)"

These names could probably be improved, but they're better and more informative than what GNOME (and KDE) do now.

It seems strange to have three OpenOffice.org applications in the Office menu, but have one over in the Drawing menu. All of the OO.o applications should be in the same menu.

Ubuntu should ship with a few more themes besides the three Human variants and the GNOME defaults. I propose a sky blue theme. It would be based on Clearlooks, but use the Human window decorations (which will show up in blue), the Mist icon theme, and an appropriate wallpaper.
This can be done now by mixing and matching, but I think it should be a new optional theme in the next version of Ubuntu.

Right now, the Human theme comes in brown only, unless you customize it. But what if there were several color schemes, like sky blue or red? Try changing the GTK theme to Clearlooks while keeping the Human window decorations:
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5325/skyyy1.png
I propose making alternate GNOME themes for Human in different colors, with GTK engines and icon sets (and maybe even wallpaper) to match.

The edubuntu-desktop-kde metapackage should refer to kolourpaint instead of gpaint. Gpaint is a GNOME application, while kolourpaint is KDE-based. Why include a GNOME-based program with the KDE version? It's not even in the GNOME version!

The edubuntu-artwork package should have special settings for Xfce, for users that use the edubuntu-addon-light package to use Edubuntu on low-end hardware. Edubuntu+Xfce should use the Gartoon icon set, the EdubuntuColors GTK+ engine, the Edubuntu wallpaper, and a more simplistic window decoration like the one called "Default". This can be accomplished by changing some files in /etc/xdg/xfce4. These customizations should be in the edubuntu-artwork package, to avoid confilcting with Xubuntu installations.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't offer a resolution option anymore. This means when I boot up my computer with Ubuntu but my monitor is off (or my KVM switch is on th other computer), the system selects a resolution that is too high for my monitor and I have to restart the X server.

The meaning of "Kubuntu" and "Xubuntu" are clear, but when someone says "Ubuntu" they could mean the desktop distro, the server version, or the base system encompassing them all. I propose we name the desktop version "Ubuntu Desktop," the server version "Ubuntu Server," and the basic command-line version "Ubuntu Core."

In KDE 3.5 I use the "Run Command" widget for kicker and place it onto a second panel placed above the first one. This way, I can always run URLs and commands easily:
http://img241.imageshack.us/my.php?image=snapshot3xa8.png
I just need to type something and press ENTER and it launches, clean and simple.

Let the idea's poster and posters of duplicate ideas edit the description for a Brainsotrm idea.

The edubuntu-artwork package should have special settings for Xfce, for users that use the edubuntu-addon-light package to use Edubuntu on low-end hardware. Edubuntu+Xfce should use the Gartoon icon set, the EdubuntuColors GTK+ engine, the Edubuntu wallpaper, and a more simplistic window decoration like the one called "Default". This can be accomplished by changing some files in /etc/xdg/xfce4. These customizations should be in the edubuntu-artwork package. This way, edubuntu-artwork will treat Xfce the same as GNOME.

Linux Mint's mintInstall uses gzipped .mint files that act as sort of an "APT script"; they tell mintInstall any repositories that need to be added and what packages must be installed in order to use the program. Ubuntu should consider including mintInstall by default. It might not be visible in the menus (and would not be the primary means of installation), but should launch when a .mint file is opened.

I happen to use OpenOffice.org Drawing on a regular basis, but most people don't, and having the OpenOffice.org Drawing option in the menu will probably confuse them. (See http://contentconsumer.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/is-ubuntu-useable-enough-for-my -girlfriend/)
Also, this would probably free up a little space on the CD.

In Windows, the Firefox Preferences option is in the Tools menu. In Linux/Unix, it's in the Edit menu. It makes a lot more sense in Tools than it does in Edit, and moving it would help cross-platform familiarity.