Contributor mprince

Epiphany 2.24 becomes very mature and contains most of the features in firefox , yet its footprint is considerably smaller than Firefox.

So for Xubuntu 9.04, is it the time to replace Firefox with epiphany?

I'd like to be able to change my nickname here on brainstorm. Whilst it is possible for me to create another username, it would cause me to lose track of my already posted ideas.

Its not that I hate my brainstorm nickname (which I kinda do), its just I'd rather use my real name instead.

And there may be others who want to do the same!

One of the great things about the Ubuntu community, is that it is truly global. Unfortunately because of that, there are language barriers to cross. I came across one idea (267) but couldn't understand it, since I didn't speak the submitters language. Sadly, some people voted the idea down, just because they didn't speak it. Likewise, non English speakers can't read my ideas. We should be able to read and vote on each others ideas without the added frustration of the language barrier. The translate tool is at: http://translate.google.com/translate_tools

Una de las mejores cosas de la comunidad Ubuntu, es que es verdaderamente mundial. Lamentablemente, debido a que, existen barreras lingüísticas para cruzar. Me encontré con una idea (267), pero no podía entenderlo, ya que no hablan el idioma peticionarios. Lamentablemente, algunas personas votaron por la idea, simplemente porque no lo hablan. Del mismo modo, no Inglés oradores no pueden leer mis ideas. Deberíamos ser capaces de leer y votar en las ideas de los demás, sin el añadido frustración de la barrera del idioma. La herramienta se traduce en: http://translate.google.com/translate_tools

واحدة من اشياء عظيمة عن اوبونتو المجتمع ، هو انه عالمي حقا. وللأسف وبسبب ذلك ، وهناك لعبور الحواجز اللغويه. جئت عبر فكرة واحدة (267) ولكنه لا يستطيع ان يفهم انه ، وبما انني لا يتكلم اللغة في تقديم تقاريرها. ومن المحزن ان بعض الناس صوتت فكرة اسفل ، لمجرد أنهم لا يتكلمون. وبالمثل ، غير الناطقين باللغه الانكليزيه لا يمكن ان تقرأ أفكاري. ينبغي ان نكون قادرين على القراءة والتصويت على كل الافكار دون غيرها وأضاف الاحباط من حاجز اللغة. وقد ترجم هو اداة في : http://translate.google.com/translate_tools

I hate to say it but Dell's Ideastorm is better than Brainstorm. Ideastorm provides statistics, a far wider range of categories, more options to organize ideas and comments and is better at promoting cooperation and communication between users. Ideastorm also has html enabled so you can add pics and things....

As you can see on Brainstorm, there is need for some kind of introduction of a new user to Ubuntu. On the one hand, this should include everything from setting up one's system to using each single app. On the other hand, this should in no way annoy experienced users, while probably helping them out if they need it.
Other requirements are internationalisation (translation into the user's language), friendliness and ease to use. This could be enhanced by reacting to the user's system (i.e. which apps are installed and how are they configured) and the user's actions (f.e. which programs are running, which one is active), but this is not needed for basic functionality.


Gnome already has a help system that can be found in "System -> Help". But in no way is it complete or even truly helpful.
Instead, I propose a "Ubuntu Assistant" which, when clicked, shows helpful messages. These range from common problems and their solution (like installing ndiswrapper, extra codecs) to general introductions (f.e. the Linux directory structure, the sudo concept), links to articles and howtos on the internet, and even the manpages and the app's own help.
On first start, the assistant pops up an introduction and explanation of this help system, also mentioning how it can be uninstalled. An experienced user can now disable the assistant (f.e. by uninstalling it) while a new user has a place where he/she can find help if needed.
After this message, the assistant does not pop up by its own, but only when clicked and then it shows helpful tips, if possible based on what programs are running. Example: A new user has just opened Evolution. He doesn't know how to use it, so he opens the assistant. He can read now follow links to articles about Email, Evolution, Cryptography etc.
If the assistant can detect which packages are installed, the included articles could also inform the user if he has to install new packages (if they aren't installed) or direct him to the correct app. Example: The user reads about Emailing, and because Thunderbird is installed and Evolution is not, the assistant directs him to the Thunderbird help.
Also, the assistant should feature a search for all the questions the user has that are independent of the running apps.



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My suggestion:

- Hide the information about duplicates for all ideas

UNTIL

- When enough users have submitted "this idea is a duplicate of X", make it a duplicate of that idea and show this.

This way, all users will help to mark ideas as duplicate.

Easy and effective!

This could be extended to resorting ideas into new categories and mark them as "already implemented".

This would reduce confusion. I didn't even think Ubuntu had a key combo for that menu for the longest time. Turns out it's alt+F1. Two keys? Having to span the keyboard with your hand? Fail.

This idea isn't 'windows-like' or 'mac-like'; it's behavior expected from every 'human being' that's used a computer via the keyboard before.

If you have a really good reason to be different, do so. As far as I'm aware, not using super for the Apps menu does not.

...and if you're using super as a modifier, you will have pressed another key before letting up on it. That would be the only potentially sensible opposition I can think of for this. All the people that use alt+F1 now will be grateful, once they figure it out.

This kind of menu bar is very practical. Why have a menu on every window when you're only using one at a time? It saves screen space especially on notebooks and Eeepcs! And it could be provide as an option for users, like an applet for gnome panel (so using it will be your choice)!

This is dynamic menu, it will be different for every window - example: If you are using firefox, the menu will be from firefox, next when you click on pidgin or gimp window, the menu will have the options from main pidgin or gimp window etc.. So besides more open windows, you are using one at a time only!

And if there is no open window, it will be the normal gnome menu (for launching applications).

I'd love to see this option become part of Gnome! Thank You

Please visit this link for more info and screenshots
before any voting!

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/global_menu

Right now there are too many brainstorms to be sifted through and made sense of, spreading the votes of any reasonable person too thin.

Brainstorm should select a group of moderators to filter out ideas that are not feasible, not ideas, bug reports, or poorly worded before they are able to be voted on by the general registered user populace.

It will make Brainstorm less cluttered and allow people to decide on a few well-crafted and feasible brainstorms instead of having to make sense of the mess of 10s of thousands of brainstorms that have no hope of ever coming to fruition ("Include all proprietary codecs by default," "Make Ubuntu better," "Fix this upstream Gnome problem").

It's the worst player in all linux-dom, and it's the one that always comes default for all file formats, even file formats it doesn't support.

Votes should use Ratio (DIVISION) of total rather than Net (SUBTRACTION)

The current vote statistic only shows the net number of votes.
It does not show the total number of votes, or the ratio between yes/no.

Current Situation :-
An idea could have 2010 yes, and 2000 no for the idea, and it gets 10 as a result.

Some ideas may be "not wanted" but are not a "bad" idea, because they have "no/few negative impacts".

e.g. I want option for a red theme for my desktop.
It doesn't matter how many people Do Not want it, because it is very little inconvenience to them if it is made "available" for those that Do want it.

But the vote statistic would give the wrong impression about the idea for;
a) how many people are interested in the idea (total)
b) the adverse effects from implementing the idea on those that don't want it.
c) the advantages for those that do want it.

When an idea has next to no adverse impact on those that do not want it (they do not have to help work towards its development or use it when it is finished), then it would be fair for those that "do not want it" to not be able to "cancel" the vote of those that do.

So rather than "cancelling" votes (because of SUBTRACTION), it is better to understand the ratio (DIVISION).
So it would then be possible to make some (rough) assumptions about the number of people who are likely to make use of the idea when it is ready.


NULL VOTES Important;

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I believe it would be a good idea to redesign the file system hierarchy in Ubuntu in a way similar to GoboLinux . Especially as a newbie migrating from Windows or Mac OS X is used to "/Applications" or "C:\Program Files" respectively, not to things like "/usr/bin" and "/usr/share". See the GoboLinux website for more reasons for this idea.

one of the thing i like from gnome is the capability to hear a song by leaving the mouse pointer over one, i really would like to preview video clip frames by doing the same. :)

not all the video, becouse it need too much of the proccesor, but frames of it!

Urban Terror is a great game, that is based on the open source ioquake3, or GPL Quake 3 codebase. It's assets are not copyleft in any way, but it's a fun game, it's free, and the engine is open source. Can we add a repo that says "Spawn of Satan?".

It would also be nice to have Pidgin integration (like a plugin), so you could easily find your buddies online to play with.

Free Counterstrike setup with a buddy list of anyone on AOL, Yahoo, MSN, MySpace, Jabber, Gtalk, or ICQ?

On a free operating system with free open office?

I think people would go for that.

There's also code in the engine now to have real time speex VOIP with other gamers, like those ones on your buddy list. I'd love that.

Gnumeric is just lighter and better.

Make bluetooth access available when running a program in Wine... When you run a program in wine right now it does not allow the program to use bluetooth.
Example:
I have a thermostat that allows me to connect it to the computer so I can view the temps online or on my phone, however the connection to the computer is through bluetooth. No work around. Would be a great feature for several other programs.

In Ubuntu, we can read many file systems, like FAT flash drives, and we now have read-write access to NTFS filesystems on dual-boot systems.

When navigating a drive created by Windows, MacOS, or other operating systems, system files that would normally be hidden in Windows Explorer or on a Mac (Thumbs.db, desktop.ini, __MACOSX, Word temporary files) are still visible in Nautilus, cluttering up every directory.

You can delete the files, but they'll just come back as soon as the drive is opened on a native machine. You can hide them with .hidden convention, but this has to be done separately for each directory.

Instead, they should just be hidden in Nautilus, too, like they are on their native systems. They should behave exactly the same way as UNIX dotted hidden files, since they serve the same purpose.

In UNIX-based systems, hidden files ("dotfiles") are designated by dotted file names like ".something". These are not displayed when viewing files with Nautilus or using "ls", for instance, but can be viewed by enabling "Show Hidden Files" in the View menu or using "ls -A".

FAT and related filesystems have hidden files, too, which are treated by Windows tools exactly the same way. They are designated by a "Hidden" file attribute flag, though, not by their filename. Ubuntu should respect the "hiddenness" of the file, no matter what the filesystem.

Currently windows have three buttons: Minimize, Maximize/Restore, and Close. Many programs like Rhythmbox and Pidgin have an additional mode with unique functionality, either as an applet, as an icon in the "system tray" or in the "notification area".

Getting the app into this configuration differs from one program to the next, and developers often abuse the functionality of the Close or Minimize button, since no dedicated button exists for this:

* Gaim/Pidgin iconifies when you press the Close button.
* Skype iconifies when you press the Close button.
* Amule quits when you press Close, and can be configured to iconify when you press Minimize.
* Rhythmbox quits when you press Close.
* Gnome-RDP iconifies when you press Close.

It's a mess.

There should be a dedicated 4th button on the window for applications that support this mode, as there is in Windows. Applications that don't have this functionality will just have the standard 3 buttons, in the same way that fixed-size dialog boxes only have 1 button (they don't include the Maximize or Minimize buttons since they don't have this functionality).

I'm imagining something that looks like this.

All can be iconified or restored by clicking the icon in the notification area, which is apparently in the GNOME HIG, but this doesn't necessarily apply to other window managers.

The rounded borders is blurry with resolutions minor of 1024x768...

Jacques

When you click on a category, to see what ideas are in it, there is no indication of the statistics for that category. The only hint is the number of pages that are shown at the bottom.

It would be interesting to see the number of Ideas, comments, and votes, when you enter a category.
These could be displayed, where the main stats currently are displayed, either
a) instead of the main stats
b) beside (after) the main stats
c) below the main stats