http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com guidelines and check if your idea has been posted already! ]]> en-us Sat, 22-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC Sat, 22-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9904/ There are a lot of posts on forums looking for such software.

I could use the KDE version, but it requires the installation of a whole host of KDE apps which I do not need at all (even to run the other KDE apps that I use).

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In OS9 you could take a folder and drag it to the edge of your desktop where the folder would turn into a tab (named with the title of the folder) on the edge of the screen. When you click on the tab the folder would "Slide"(Although the animation is unnecessary) out and allow you to preform normal folder operations. When you clicked on anything other than the popped out folder it would turn back to a tab on the edge of the screen. These tabs could be dragged to any location on the edge of the screen. Even though there are multiple virtual desktops, I believe that this would be useful as long as someone does not drag the folder past the screen edge (which would cause it to drag on the next workspace). I seem to recall that you were even able to color code tabs. I have never encountered a more useful file manager addition as this and would love to see it replicated to make Ubuntu great.

I'm sorry i couldn't find an adequate screenshot of this feature, if u see it please reply with it.

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Currently in the "Random Ideas" selection, those ideas I have recorded a vote for are no longer displayed. Despite the large number of ideas now in the system, I have had the same idea crop up several times because I didn't want to vote on it. I wanted to abstain as it concerned a section of the OS that is irrelevant to me.

Another "problem" with Random Ideas is that continuity between ideas is lost. Later ideas often refer back to earlier ideas, modifying and restating a problem (just like this idea does). This is fine if the first idea you see is the "later" idea. The other way around you are only getting part of the picture.

So what I want is this...
1) The ability to record an abstain (zero) vote.
2) A list of ideas I have not voted for, latest first.

In an attempt to fend off the "abstaining does nothing" comments, The only reason I want the abstain vote is to record that fact that I have seen the idea, understand the idea, have made a decision about it, and no longer wish to see it again IN THIS MODE (and perhaps Random Ideas). In other modes (e.g. Latest comments) the idea would still appear, but the voting arrows would be greyed out.

Elements of this idea have been proposed before. I have read each of the ideas below (and all their comments) and believe them all to be related, but probably not true duplicates:

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/8273/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7139/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5810/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4322/


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-going to try login with root to see if there any changes-
thank you

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You should be able to pick a color of your own likening so that you can choose blue, green, yellow, white, orange, black, gray, purple, teal, pink or whatever you like.

Check this awesome artwork that I made!
* http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/317/coloredthemeyz9.png
* http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/7682/colortheme2ls1.png
* Steel
* Rainbow


From idea #9139 (merged):

Currently the theming is all over the place and changing one place does not affect any other. Although that kind of tweakability is great, most users just want different default colors. (pink, blue, brown, black)

What we should be having:
A: wallpaper - changes every release
B: color-theme - human (easily configurable by user!)
C: splash-canvas - human (we need to create this)
D: gtk-engine - clearlooks with B as default colors
E: kde-engine - oxygen with B as default colors
F: icon-theme - tango with color-filter using B

From these we could generate:
- grub-config using A, B
- bootsplash using A, B, C
- gdm-theme using A, B, C, D, F
- kdm-theme using A, B, C, E, F
- gnome-splash using B, C, F
- kde-splash using B, C, F

This way the most important customization people want, COLORS, will affect everything and keep it all one-look-one-feel. From boot to desktop.

Secondly, the art guys can create new engines, splash-canvas and wallpapers. All the specific appearance settings should be hidden under some 'advanced' button. By default, people change their 'engine', 'icon-theme' or 'colors' .. and this should affect everything from boot-to-finish.

Off course we need some magic unlock-button that turns your settings into system defaults.


I think it's also important to use the color scheme.

If this becomes a feature, any user could have a pink/red/black/blue Ubuntu just by changing the color pallete at the preferences window.

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Changing the time that sound is played to right after everything is ready would be a much more useful thing, it would actually indicate when you can use the computer.

From Squiggle in the comments (a much better idea):

Play a loopable sound (8 bar blues, etc) until loading is done then when things are loaded finish with another sound indicating all is ready to go. This is the sort of thing that games do well.

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Check http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/drivers/ or driverguide.com or windrivers.com for ideas or examples of how this would work.

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By being optional, this feature WOULD NOT affect similar languages since user can simply disable one of the languages selected. A good example that different languages wouldn`t affect each other is that many language are way too different from each other in its alphabet, such as, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Glingon or Elvish.

So if Firefox dictionary finds the word it should be correct cause Japanese characters won`t have similar in Russian and vice versa.

The other case would be to select multiple dictionaries of the same language.


http://ubuntuforums.org/picture.php?albumid=195&pictureid=633



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The author has released packages for up to feisty fawn, but hasn't provided any for gutsy or hardy. Can this utility be included in the ubuntu repositories.

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Upstream, the CeGCC team appear to prefer releasing their packages as i386 (RPM) binaries, as "The sources of CeGCC are also available, but they're big. We believe that those who want to build from source are probably the same people who will want to keep up to date, so they will not mind accessing our SVN source repository"

Given this, it would be especially useful to be able to just apt-get installl cegcc to get everything across easily. At the moment, the easiest option appears to be installing the RPMs using alien (howto here: http://jabasite.ej.am/blog/2007/12/31/installing-cegcc-on-ubuntu/ )

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No attachments. ]]> Sat, 22-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9164/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9166/ This comes in as a requirement these days for two things. One is when mounting and using windows partitions, viruses could spread. The other is, VirtualBox can run a windows os, hence letting in viruses. F-Prot is a no hassle antivirus, free for single users. Updates regularly too.

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will bring kind of an ironing experience.


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No attachments. ]]> Sat, 22-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9090/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9091/ I am using the German ubuntu and if I open the Systemüberwachung (system-monitor), there is no way finding out the name of that program for using it on the command line. It needed some time to find out it is the gnome-system-monitor.

So please just mention the cli-name somewhere, thx.

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Any comments would be apreciated

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