Contributor mmcmonster

There should be a tower defense type of game in the repository. Perhaps even included by default, I think many people would like that.

Tower defense is a cool game genre. It is a strategic game, that I think many people would enjoy.

There are a couple different kinds of towers which you strategically put into a maze. The towers fire at at a swarm of creeps that run and try to reach the base/fortress/castle/whatever in the maze, if they do you loose. You have to defend it with towers that you buy.
Towers may have different damage, range and fire rate depending on type of tower. Towers may cost different prices, and can be upgraded to become better. There may also be bonus towers. As the game progress, the swarms gets faster, bigger and stronger.

Example of tower defense type of games:
* http://www.towerdefence.net/games-24-Onslaught.php
* http://www.towerdefence.net/games-18-Defender.php

When I set an image as a wallpaper from eog or any other app, and later i move or delete the wallpaper file, my wallpaper turns to a blank color.
and i mostly don't remember where was the image file or what was its name so i end up feeling very helpless.

i suggest that when i set an image as a wallpaper, it gets copied into a directory like ~/wallpapers or something first and is used from there instead of the original file.

Install the gnome theme complete with one click. No configuration, no tutorials. Install a full subject is complex and requires time. This can be facilitated in a single operation.

We have to make everything much simpler. New users do not want complication in Ubuntu. They want simple solutions.

Visualize the idea.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3199/3077953373_593edd5207_b.jpg

With the possibility of each user export their particular subject, and send to a friend.

I know you have similar ideas.

My idea is based on installing the theme of the entire system from the grub to the themes of Firefox. Including specific configurations of gnome and programs.

The basic idea is to point the possibility of exporting its user customized themes. That's the difference. I can send by e-mail all my theme for a friend or relative who uses Ubuntu.

The system monitor displays information about how much ram the system is using. Now that desktop composition is almost standard, and video cards get used for other purposes as well, maybe it would be useful to also see some info about how the video memory is used?

Most probably due to corporate losses Mandriva sacks two top notch contributors:

LWN.net "Two Mandriva contractors - Adam Williamson and Oden Eriksson have announced that their contracts are being terminated. These two developers are responsible for a great deal of the work which goes into the Mandriva distribution; as Oden notes: "Someone, or a couple of people will get their hands full (or not) maintaining the 1200+ source rpm packages I currently maintain. This is mostly server related stuff. For example the (L)AMP stack, to my knowledge the most complete on the planet, constantly growing and alive."

My suggestion is to hire them before Red Hat does.

As far as we know, the multi-touch trackpad of Apple Macbook Air / Pro is implemented in software not hardware. Having that killer feature would be amazing for Ubuntu. That thing could start a new way to interact with the computer.

I would like to have a real working and installable client from the repositories. Finished with the "UTN-First-hardware" issue and the not reliable keyboard-issue.

User directories on ubuntu are easily a mess at the moment. They need more standardisation and more sense to remain clean. If you go to terminal/bash you may discover that your directory looks something like:


/home/auzy/Documents
/home/auzy/.Azureus (Hidden)
/home/auzy/.gnome2 (Hidden)
/home/auzy/Desktop
/home/auzy/.bashrc2 (Hidden)
/home/auzy/readme.rtf
/home/auzy/.Trash (Hidden)
/home/auzy/iffy.rtf
/home/auzy/delete me.rtf
/home/auzy/argggggg.c
/home/auzy/fgdhgfdhd.txt
/home/auzy/Music
/home/auzy/.ooffice (Hidden)
/home/auzy/friendsassignment.c
/home/auzy/friendsassignmentCopy.c
etc.


While you may note that anything with . is hidden normally, what if someone wants to delete the settings for a program? They need to manually unhide it, and sort through the dozens of directories in the home directory to find it. The problems with this is that:

a) Its messy, and certainly not a clean solution
b) Users cannot easily access their settings.
c) Everyones home directory is normally trashed with hundreds of other files, making it difficult to navigate.

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There should be a easy way for end users to add space to /home (or any other partition) by adding a hard drive and following a wizard.

The wizard will give the user options to add the hard drive space to any partition (or break it up and add to multiple partitions, etc.) and be told to reboot to complete the changes.

This will work similarly to a guided partition manager.

The user should not have to understand all the details of LVM to make this work. If, in the future, ZFS gets added to Ubuntu, it can use this wizard as well.

If a folder or file is owned by a specific user, and private, badge it with that users avatar, if any

Follow Unix rule of "silently succeed" and make boot process more sleek and professional by removing low level GRUB messages about operations which were successfully performed (staging info). This info is interesting only for debug purposes. The verbosity should be disabled by default and should show if you press a hot key (F1 for example) or if something goes wrong. In case GRUB could not catch problem in time and hangs, then start verbose at next boot.

would be consistent with nautilus, gnome-terminal, firefox

There is a newly launched website that shows screenshots of programs packaged in Debian.
http://screenshots.debian.net

Note it says:
Michael Vogt has added support into synaptic.

I hope to see it included in Jaunty!

But since most newbies use Add/Remove programs it would be useful to include the screenshot support there as well.

Jaunty aims at merging the web and the desktop, it should include automatic downloads of screenshots from this site in the Add/Remove application, so that users can see what an application looks like before they decide whether to install it or not.

If you view long file names in Nautilus List View, it truncates by cutting off the end. But the vast majority of the time, if there are similar filenames, the part that differentiates them will either occur at the beginning or the end. If you cut off the end in this case, they will look identical and you will be forced to scroll or enlarge the text field to identify the one you want:


This is a file.txt
This is a long filename which is c...
This is a long filename which is c...
This is a long filename which is c...
This is a long filename which is c...
This is a short filename.jpg


A better way to shorten filenames is to cut out the middle and leave the ends:


This is a file.txt
This is a long f...is number 001.jpg
This is a long f...is number 002.jpg
This is a long f...is number 003.jpg
This is a long f...that it ends in.htm
This is a short filename.jpg


This should be the standard way to do it in Nautilus as well as other apps. It applies to any list of strings that go past the edge of the viewing area, really.

Of course, the *best* way to do it would be to keep track of subsequent file names and display just the parts that are different, no matter where they appear, but this would be significantly more complex and usually isn't necessary.

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in the file chooser dialog, it would be good to add the button to choose the icon view, list view, and compact view.

It would make faster choosing images than only with the preview

¡Sorry for the english!

Kerneloops is a small program that lets you report "Linux kernel oops" to the developers of the Linux kernel by collecting so-called oopses, which are the crash signatures of the Linux kernel. The collected oopses are processed statistically to present information for the kernel developers, such as:
* Which crash signatures occur the most? (and thus need to be fixed most urgently)
* When did a certain crash signature show up first?
* Which API functions are the most error prone?

I propose that kerneloops should be installed and enabled on all alpha releases of Ubuntu.

This will ensure that problems with alpha releases have a better chance of getting fixed, which will ensure that the final release of Ubuntu is stable.

I just installed Ubuntu and i see a red arrow with exclamation mark telling me that there are 86 updates available. Great. I click on the error and Update manager starts.
Pretty soon i get confronted with the following message box:

"
You must check for updates manually

Your system does not check for updates automatically. You can configure this behavior in Software Sources on the Updates tab.
"

First of all i had figure out the meaning of the first sentence: "You must check for updates manually" Is it an order? Is someone telling me that I MUST do something? Why do i must to do it MANUALLY? How do I do it manually? After some cognitive friction i realized that it was not an order but a statement that the system was not configured to do it automatically for me. Oh ok. Why not turn things around and put "Your system does not check for updates automatically." on top? And explain that in order to keep system safe and sound i will have to "check for updates manually".

Last statement explains how and where to do it and there is another sentence ("Hide this information in the future") that allows me to just ignore the issue forever right here and then. Why not turn this around as well? Let me "Enable Automatic Updates" right here and then instead. And telling me then that i can revert to Manual Updates "in Software Sources on the Updates tab" seems logical to me.

It does not end here though...
After i clicked on Close and ran the update i decided to enable automatic updates. Update manager did not have a any tabs at all! Huh? After looking for an "Update tab" all over the place it turned out there was a Software Sources menu item under System--Administration which has an Update Tab.
Better wording would be "You can configure this behavior on the Updates tab in Administration's Software Sources menu."


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it is a plug-in to watch youtube videos in high quality, now a days it is working really bad, so it could be a great idea if ubuntu developers support it and add it to totem as a second option for youtube plug-in, so people will choose between, low quality and high quality youtube videos

I am using galician (gl_ES) as system language in Ubuntu.

When untranslated apps are found, Ubuntu-Gnome sets English as secondary language.

My idea is to modify the "System-Administration-Language Support" menu, including an option to change the secondary language.

For example, in my case I need to set Spanish as secondary language, instead of English.

The Ubuntu installation process could use more idiot-proofing with respect to checking that the Minimum System Requirements are being met BEFORE the end user gets into a frustrating situation that completely "turns them off" from Ubuntu (before they can even install it).

Namely: what if a novice user gets an Ubuntu Desktop install CD, but the Live CD grinds to a painful, eternal stall because there is not enough RAM, or the CPU is too slow?

These users wouldn't know what to do next if their computer froze on them: is their computer broken? Who is to be blamed? Themselves (making a wrong choice)? Their hardware? Ubuntu? Who? Most users haven't got any sort of troubleshooting skills or experience to narrow this down, and could very likely just give up, which would be a shame.

They should be warned about any basic hardware inadequacy BEFORE X windows starts, and they should be gracefully pointed towards doing the right thing if necessary: locating (on the internet), and downloading, and booting from the Alternate Installation CD instead.

A timely, simple script on the Live CD (run at boot time) that checks the current hardware, then prints a helpful text message on the console if necessary (halting further booting) would go a long way to saving these users a lot of frustration!

This relatively simple fix would go a long way towards making Ubuntu more "humane."

Most users installing Ubuntu will by default attempt to install from the Live CD (Desktop version). But for people with older computers that do not meet the Minimum System Requirements, they are currently expected to be technically knowledgeable enough to intelligently choose the right kind of installation CD first: Desktop Version or Alternate Installation CD.

This could be a huge stumbling block to A HUGE NUMBER of potentially new Ubuntu users, who are such novices that:

-they never RTFM, (namely https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements ) and know that they should instead install from the "Alternate Installer." Moreover, these novice users don't even know what RTFM means. It would be prudent to assume that must users DO NOT READ ANY DOCUMENTATION WHATSOEVER before they attempt to use the Live CD.

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