Contributor mmcmonster

There is a problem with drivers: Obviously we want the best set of drivers, but no unnecessary drivers.

Please make synaptic2 which lists all computer models. The Installer detects the pc and than installs the models drivers (and nothing else).

For example:

I have a hp tx1327cl.

A developer has to unify all drivers necessary to run hp tx1327cl into one package. The installer detects my model and than installs the drivers for hp tx1327cl. If the installer can not identify my model, the user have to choose the model by hand. In case I inserts the harddisk into another computer, I can easily change the hardware model.

The advantage: No unnecassary drivers, the user just has to search for, download and install only one drivers package, the ubuntu community can easily say to the manufacturers to release a driver package for Linux.

And delete all drivers from synaptic1 and the kernel headers.

i have been taking mandriva 2009 one o/s for a spin

when installing it from cd to hdd it lets you pick what decorator you want for the desktop be it nill, or metacity or compiz


sare does save a lot of stuffing round trying to get compiz to work after the o/s is installed

Integrate support for updating kernel modules into apt, to enable upgrading system support once kernel modules are well proven. It would mean not having to wait until the next full release before new support is available as standard, or having to download and compile drivers from manufacturers.

I am not sure how feasible this is, and whether there would be a heavy resource requirement to keep up-to-date? If it could be done it would certainly mean Linux would not be as much of a pain to get working with newer hardware. I think the current situation, with kernel modules and their hardware support being slow to catch up, may scare some less technical minded types away from a great OS.

Is it so we can have incredibly unnecessary apps like Tomboy that have non-mono alternatives anyway?

Is it because we don't fear appearing like a windows clone? Then what's up with ubuntu not including WINE for that very reason?

Is it because we don't fear software patent threats? Then what's up with media codecs not coming by default?

Is it because we don't mind the space required to provide people with programming stuff? Then where the heck is build-essentials in the default setup?

So, how about we didn't include Mono, or how about we included those other things? But why take this mid instance that is so convenient to Microsoft/Novell and basically no one else? Why is it Mono is basically immune to so many BS that prevents us from having the much more useful packages I have mentioned?

I just found this article

http://www.usabilitypost.com/2008/11/20/in-ui-design-the-obvious-solution-isnt- necessarily-the-best-solution/

and didn't knew that Mac OS X behaved like this:

The regular scroll buttons in Windows and Linux are on the top and on the bottom of the scroll bar but in OS X they are both at the bootom of it. Putting them both down, would increase their usability because both directions are in the same spot and if you scrolled to low you can quickly scroll up without the need to go all the way up to scroll up.

This would take a short time to get accustomed to but it would be more usable than the current well established way.

Leave also the LTS versions at the store so that they can be purchased.

After having selected an application to install in Synaptic and clicking on "Apply Changes" a modal progress bar box appears. That means that one can not keep working with Synaptic and has to wait till download and installation is finished which often might take a long time.
Why not integrate the progress bar into the Synaptic removing the clutter and let users make new selections. Of course Apply changes can be disabled till the first installation is done.

make it possible to split Nautilus' tabs:
- Joe has got 2 tabs opened
- he clicks on one of it and holds(right mouse key)
- drags it out of nautilus and new Nautilus window appears

Wouldn't it be great to have an undo function?

Then, if you make a mistake, you can undo it instead of trying to figure out what you just did.

EDIT: I'm not talking about opening and closing programs. I'm talking about when you are trying to get some poorly documented thing working, and then screw it up, badly. You can do undo and go back to where you were.

Similar ideas have covered similar ground to this, but they're talking about backups and migration. I'm talking about the general save/load routine, but the ideas involved could have applications in a backup system.

Basically when I save a file - I'm particularly talking about OpenOffice documents, like notes and work, I can save to only one place at a time. Usually that has to be my laptop hard disk.

If I want to take the work to, say, another computer without lugging the laptop along, that means I save it again to a USB disk.

My uni also provides a network mapped drive where you are supposed to save your work to, that lets you access it from their computers, your computer and outside the university network. It's also considerably more permanent and stationary than a fragile laptop HDD or an easily lost flash drive.

That entails saving the same damn file 3 times.

When opening to edit, you have the fun of choosing your hard disk file, the secondary storage file or (assuming OpenOffice wants to, sometimes it just freezes up) the file on the network drive. Changes only go into the one of the three files that you opened, which means it's really easy to get very tangled up in which file you edited last. You can get round this by creating versions but a ton of redundant files builds up very quickly - and when working with large files, this redundancy becomes much more space-hungry.

I can't be the only one experiencing this - people working for a company, using a laptop, would surely want their work saved perhaps to a central server, but also (perhaps for the unpredictable times when a net connection may not be available) on their own hard disk, and for their own backup purposes, a personal secondary storage device.

So, here's the ideas:

1. Allow the "saving manager" to save to multiple locations. The manager writes a short list of where all the copies are into each copy - say, into the metadata, so that...

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For programs with tabbed functionality, allow separate windows to be merged into one multi-tabbed window.

e.g Having multiple gnome-terminal windows open a "Retach Tab"
function can be added to the Tabs menu.

Often while working, I'm using just a fraction of my screen size for the application I'm working with, while other parts of the screen are left unused.

Clicking 'maximize' or resizing windows manually is getting tedious, I'm looking for something that helps me with this.

I know this won't be something that I'll see in the next months, as it's pretty complicated (at least, at first glance). Don't know if Ubuntu is the one to ask this, or the Gnome/Xorg/KDE dev teams.

In addition to automated crash report, ubuntu can submit to basic user to install the debug package after 3 crash.
The target is to have a better report and stack trace for the dev without complicated operations.

when computer games and programs come out they are made for the windows platform so why not try to integrate a installer for .exe programs instead of using applications like win4lin and wine.

Something like xkill application that can suspend / resume any window.
For example user can pause file transfer, playing movie, download process without searching for appropriate button.

Optionally: suspend to hdd, so you can hibernate application, and run it later from the same place (like save in games).

The process is like hibernating but involves only single process.

A horizontal bar below the description with the last 12 votes. Just the arrows, up and down, green and red. To follow the growing of the idea.

I think GDM should be replaced by one with smooth animations and more professional look like this one: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=32336&file1=32336-1. png&file2=&file3=&name=simpelegance%2C+gdm+mockup

For complete customization, the button "show desktop" could be a small thumbnail of the image of the screen instead of a default image.

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.

While downloading the Gstreamer from apt, we either need to install ugly set or a good set. if we install ugly set its very cumbersome to install the good set vice versa. I suggest make it easy to uninstall the good or the bad sets easily, so that we can reinstall either of the sets. Or try to make a single gstreamer package.