Contributor motang

There is a problem with the current implementation of firefox and gedit tabs. See the picture without, and with this small adjustment I propose. It is simple, but makes it look cleaner.

Before:
http://img529.imageshack.us/my.php?image=firefoxtabsnq5.png

After:
http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=firefoxtabsnewhu8.png

Basically, there should be a bar at the bottom of the active tab, separating the tab bar from the actual webpage, like firefox does in vista, xp, and mac.

Note: This is quick gimp work: the actual implementation should be better.

Would love to have a wiki page or other system for brainstorming (and possibly voting, maybe a separate topic here on brainstorm) on upcoming Ubuntu release names. Jaunty Jackelope is a pretty decent name, but perhaps the community can come up with a better options.

There's lots of good animals in "K" (Koala, Kiwi, Kangaroo...lots of Aussie representatives) but adjectives are a bit sparse, so this is a great time to start such a space.

"Add/Remove" brings back horrifying memories of the slow, useless "Add/Remove Programs" from windows.

While the "Add" would ordinarily suggest that the user can easily add programs, this was not the case in windows. In fact, I never used "Add/Remove Programs" to add a program in windows.

So I suggest something like "Get/Remove". Get is a much more accurate term because it actually downloads all the programs you tell it to.

If you work at OpenOffice with a width screen monitor, you waste a lot of space unused on the left and right side of the paper.
An example: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/OpenOffice.org_Writer.png

Of course is it possibel to organise the toolbar vertical, but than
1. all drop down menus change to an icon and
2. there is not enough space to show all icons.

Sure it is possible to unlock the toolbar and control the position as well as the dimension, but than the toolbar is not fixed with the OpenOffice window. If I take the window to an othter desktop, the toolbar didn't follow.

So it would be nice, if you can change the width of toolbar if she is vertical, to use the space on an width sreen monitor more effective.

Hopefully you get what I mean, because my English is very poor, so it is possible that you misunderstand me.

Thank you very much!

For years Flash was the only way to embed multimedia in a website. Microsoft is now trying to enter the market with Silverlight. The Open Source Community should do the same. An open standard needs to be developed for embedding multimedia into websites, so both content providers and users aren't locked into one vendor.

is an option of nautilus scripts so u must add them to intrepid ibex, please!!!

We need to change the default screensaver. The problem with the current screensaver is that the first time you meet it is when the screen suddenly turns black during the installation. That is very confusing for most users, as the first thought always is that the installation has crashed.

I suggest a screensaver that helps brand Ubuntu, like for example the "Floating Ubuntu" screensaver. It could also be a textbased screensaver that could run on older machines witch doesn't support 3D.

Hi just purchased a dvd with Ubuntu8.04 [U8.04] on it. Installed it on dual boot sys with XP and Sabayon-Linux, the U dvd gave one option to either use entire Hard-drive or do a manual set-up, I chose entire hard-drive and expected it to later ask me how I wish to partition the HDD and then install the U8.04. Alas, no! The U8.04 was installed over he entire hdd thereby losing evrything I had. So I am now trying to re-install evrything and then U8.04..
Beware, this may be specific to the dvd I got with the magazine Linux Forum LXFDVD107 July2008,or that U8.04 installer only gives you the ltd option.
Why cant all the distros agree on a single installer, which can allow one to load diff distro's on top of the kernel? is this a naive question? I am new to Linux.

currently when you fill out the "Title" for a new idea brainstorm will search and show "Possible duplicates" of the idea.

I suggest to split the action of submitting a new idea into three steps similar to submitting a bug in bugs.launchpad.net

enter the Title of your idea ... click create
brainstorm will show "Possible duplicates"
if not amongst the Possible duplicates you can create your own idea

By doing this the process of submitting duplicates becomes a additional check people/submitter _have_ to go through before posting new ideas

I think that Ubuntu replace the Gnome Desktop in Ibex with a version of Microsoft Bob...it could be called Ubuntu Bob and feature all the award winning functionality and help that is provided by the completely awesome Microsoft Bob.


JUST KIDDING! Okay, seriously...I think that there needs to be a category here on Brainstorm for Humor. Like someone suggesting Microsoft Bob replace the Gnome Desktop in Ibex. Or someone suggesting that Ubuntu should really get into the hardware/software/mobile phone business. Just a place for those of us who want to make a suggestion that we know has no chance of ever being implemented without it negatively affecting our count. The category could be humor and maybe the best at the end of each development cycle receives a free t-shirt or something. I just think that it would be a very fun way to get a good laugh while thinking about serious ways to improve our favorite OS.

"dont mark down before reading"
*****first we need ability to lock taskbar.why it moves here
and there.
check this http://i28.tinypic.com/etelj8.jpg
now "MS xp-windows" manage the taskbar very well we need very much thing or we can use mac osx like dock.AVN avant windows
navigation? or something.
gOS does this and looks preety cool.
http://i27.tinypic.com/23uv889.jpg
http://myblog.simonbassett.org/wp-content/gallery/linux/gos.jpg

but then also we need some tinkering to taskbar.
separate areas for startup,clock,quick launch like icons
and better way to manage minimized windows when they become
too many.

On Brainstorm we vote for things that cost developer time.

But the currency which we use to influence developers (our votes) costs nothing.

Since votes are not a scarce item, people are likely to vote +1 for things that are of little enough importance to them that they would never trade anything of value for. Also they may give a -1 to things that they don't really understand.

The idea is to only give each user, say, 4 new votes a day, but let them roll over. I believe this will cause users to spend their votes more carefully and give a lot more helpful comments and +0's.

It's kind of like Slashdot's moderation system. You only have so many mod points per day. This increases the value of modpoints so you give them out more carefully.

Yes I thought about people creating extra accounts. Consider though that is already the case. You can get more votes even on individual ideas TODAY by creating extra accounts.

While it would be nice to have them in GTK upstream, Ubuntu could be avantgarde here :)

A Python demo and moderated video can explain it much better than any more words here could:

Python-GTK
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=110623&action=view

Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PnXY4wjuH8

Ogg Theora on archive.org:
http://ia360931.us.archive.org/2/items/popup_scrollbar/popup_scrollbar_demo_v5a 2.ogv

Add the search features of Synaptic Package Manager to "Add/Remove..."

and or

Change the button from "Add/Remove..." to "Add/Remove/Find".


When you move your pointer it looks like this...

Add/Remove/Find > Add/Remove/Find
Synaptic Package Manager
Ect.
Ect.

I propose to remove the 'Stop' and 'Reload' buttons from Nautilus toolbar.
They're useful in a browser, but not in a file manager. Nobody uses them. They just clutter.

The good news is that Ubuntu has apparently become hugely popular. The bad news is that I have been downloading packages for the past 6 hours and the upgrade manager reports I have another 20 hours to go.

I have a very fast internet connection -- I was able to download the Hardy Alternate CD via bittorrent in a little under 45 minutes while I have been waiting. Unfortunately for me, the CD comes with only 250 of the 1400 packages I need upgraded. So here I wait.

I know its the big release day for Hardy, I know there are millions of people downloading it right now, I know we should feel lucky their servers aren't crashing.

Sorry, but I don't care about these excuses. I wanted to spend the day working on Hardy, not waiting for an upgrade to take place. As a consumer, I don't not accept excuses for this from eBay, Google, Bank of America, MSN, Amazon, NewEgg, etc.

Wake up Ubuntu! You're getting to be mainstream...time to invest in a world-class infrastructure.

It seems like some developer-egos going bonker at the Pidgin project, so Pidgin has been forked and Funpidgin was born.

The main reason was the removal of the possibility to resize the input area in the conversation window.

Because there is already a related bug(209553) entered at Ubuntu I suggest replacing Pidgin with Funpidgin.

http://funpidgin.sourceforge.net/content/the-funpidgin-team-welcomes-you

I think Ubuntu should have some sort of simple programming language (like BASIC on the old Apple IIs) so that people can write generic gui frontends to command line applications.

What I imagine is one or more simplistic templates, which non-expert Ubuntu users can customize to serve as a gui to various and diverse cli applications. Templates would have any number of input file selectors, to each of which could be assigned by the author a particular cli program. The template would also have check-boxes to which normal language could be written to correspond to command parameters (IE, more easily understandable than cli parameters like "-jumppad" "-toc" and "-T").

The template could be designed to include other common functions, like previewing or choosing a specific output location.

I have no idea how difficult this would be to implement, but if it could be done, I bet it would be exceedingly helpful to the community at large. Guis would pop up like mad if such a template/language could be made to work well.

If someone is using a dark theme with Ubuntu, he will probably see all the input boxes and buttons filled with dark colours. This should be fixed, not everybody uses the default light theme.

Change the african name “Ubuntu” to a different better name.
Give your proposition to a different, better, name to this system