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That's when i noticed that the compiz animation for opening windows actually increases the time for a program to start.

I tried reducing the duration of that certain animation from 200 to only 50 and now it feels like my system is much faster and responsive just because i saved that half a second here and there.

My point is the default animation durations for compiz should be shorter to give the impression of a more responsive operating system. But that doesn't mean it should be disabled, because compiz animations never fail to impress people.

The animations for closing windows can be left longer to act as eyecandy because it affects the overall responsiveness less.



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more here:
http://packagekit.org/
and a really hot presentation from fosdem08:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/public/introduction-to-packagekit.pdf



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]]> Fri, 09-Jan-2009 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/64/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/16936/ C++ 0x is the next generation C/C++ language (please note, C# is actually technically not considered to be part of the series).

Whilst the language hasn't been finalised yet, it is now considered to be a late draft, and should be finalised next year. I propose that we already start adding support for C++ 0x to GCC, so that developers can begin learning it, and experimenting with it. This way full support would be available shortly after the language is finalised, and with a working C++ 0x compiler, bugs in the language will become apparent sooner before the language is finalised.

If we wait (AGAIN), everyone except linux (again) will have full support. C++ 0x adds significant programming improvements including multi-threading natively (so that multi-threading is no longer OS specific, and dependant on foreign libraries), Regular expressions (these can offer MAJOR programming benefit, we need seperate libs to do that currently) and smart pointers (which will make a massive difference in security and reliability of code). In other words, it corrects MAJOR shortcomings in c++/C.

As C++ 0x is an improvement on top of C++, the foundations are laid, some extra functionality simply needs to be laid on top.

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When unpacking these the progress bar will first go to 50% (unpacked the readme-file) and then stay at 50% until the other (big) file is unpacked.

I think file-roller progress bar should move as the unpacking traverses all the different files. This way you get a much better indication of progress.

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These are a few examples of where I think it would be particularly useful:
- firefox, especially with flash on several pages at once
- video decoding
- image processing (including eog as well as gimp)

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http://code.google.com/p/giver/

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It would be nice to have a little app like Giver (although I despise the bloat and overhead of mono) for transferring files between machines on a local network.

This is something I haven't found on Windows yet that would make Ubuntu a million times easier in small offices. No headaches about thumb-drives, setting up shared folders, figuring out how to connect to shared folders, burning to CDs, etc...just drag and drop from one user to another.

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I think, why make this change?? It's nice for me, but a lot of people don't like this, so make a program like growl for osx, this is the link to the project:
http://growl.info/

...and some screenshot:
http://growl.info/screenshots.php

...OR... ask to user what kind of notification use.. it's the best way, for me :)


HAPPY XMAS AT ALL :)

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I tried Ganttproject, Planner and OpenWork bench. They are not as easy to use (a waste of time) as MS project.

I think the OpenOffice.org project is the best challenger. Imagine interactions with other components and the next PIM component.
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/programme/wednesday_186.pdf


Management project is a real part of office software (MS project is a part of MS Office...)

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This visual reminder will help users to recognise the program desired quickly.

I have found that the icons for the programs, that are available in Add/Remove, are sometimes not enough to identify the application



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Although this works ok, the progress effect is very ugly because the bar moves in huge increments and then stops for an undetermined time until it moves again. Besides not being beautiful, this provides no information to the user about the time remaining for the boot or shutdown process.

I suggest that the usplash progressbar be time-based, pretty much like the progressbar in MacOSX.

Since the booting and shutdown times do not change drastically from session to session, we could save the time the computer spent to boot and to shutdown, and use it to guide the progressbar the next time. This would provide a beautiful and smooth animation of the progressbar, and an accurate remaining time, increasing the usability.

This can be already implemented using the current usplash code without modifications whatsoever, and a working solution is already available.

Please check it here:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=93386

Ubuntu PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~usplash-smooth/+archive

Ubuntu WIKI:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UsplashSmooth


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Same with editing the menus. While the menu editor is open the menu could be edited also by dragging icons around the menu and from the desktop.

another instance would be to allow someone to drag different elements onto the theme manager. Dragging a tar.gz would install the theme. Dragging a wall paper sized photo would set it as the wallpaper for that theme. Same with fonts, icons and other bits.

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Check my mockup of before and after.

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Microsoft has this, only in Ubuntu 's case, it would be based upon user submissions and thus much better updated

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More specific:
ctrl + back, ctrl + next, ctrl + up should open a new tab.
ctrl + double clicking on a map should open a new tab


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