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Thunderbird as default email client  
Written by cmayoros the 29 Feb 08 at 02:34. Category: Internet & Networking. Related to: Nothing/Others. Won't implement
While both Evolution and Thunderbird are great applications, Thunderbird should become the default email client available on Ubuntu.

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There are currently no plans to move away from Evolution at this time.

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basic video editor in default installation  
Written by Ubuwu the 28 Feb 08 at 18:41. Category: Multimedia. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
Include a basic video editor/movie maker by default. Something with the functionality kdenlive or kino, but with an interface similar to pitivi or diva.

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Give Ubuntu it's own calendar  
Written by amosharper the 28 Feb 08 at 17:11. Category: System. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
It's great that clicking on the clock brings up a calendar - but why Evolution's calendar?

The majority of people use a webmail service, so having a calendar that can sync with major web calendars (eg Google Calendar, Windows Live Calendar), that is easy to add and remove events to, to add alarms and notifications and to be able to do all of this without opening an email application would be fantastic, I think.

Thanks for the oppurtunity to be heard.

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Include a graphical frontend to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst installed by default  
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Written by aysiu the 28 Feb 08 at 18:51. Category: System. Related to: Nothing/Others. New
Right now, the most likely successful migrations to Ubuntu happen for *nix experts and total novices who have someone install Ubuntu for them, but the most likely people to try Ubuntu are Windows power users--those who like a lot of configuration options but who are also used to using the GUI for tweaking options and not manually editing a text configuration file.

The most popular requests for editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst file involve changing the default boot option (to Windows instead of Ubuntu) and changing the timeout before a boot option is selected. The other less popular ones would be just bonus features, I guess.

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