Contributor mribecky

I think its cool to display system messages at start up instead of just showing a progress bar ,
like what we have in this image .

http://www.zdnet.com.au/shared/images/news/ubuntu/bootscreen.gif

I am definitely a perfect example of what every person out there wants in a desktop, this is the reason Ubuntu should specifically implement the theme I want for default, I don't like the current theme to be the default but one with more black for selection and white for the rest.

The theme I am talking about will obviously please everyone, a lot of users go away to other OSes after noticing I don't like the default theme.

Change the theme to use square corners instead of round corners.

Square corners are nicer.
Round corners are ugly.

Bug #1
Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace.
This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix.

Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry.

Steps to repeat:

1. Visit a local PC store.

What happens:
2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed.
3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed.

What should happen:
1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu.
2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all.
3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes.

I created a new Guest account, then I stripped it of all user privileges.

Then I found out, that it could access all MY private data files in MY home directory.

Please fix it so that other users cannot read the home directories of other people. This is a breech of privacy.

Summary: provide the options to turn on (1) context menus on button release, (2) autoscrolling.


I suggest that the user be given the OPTION to revert to a more Windows-like mouse behaviour. I understand that there are users who are accustomed to the Linux way, but some people have just made the switch and have a lot of other new things to get used to besides some queer things his (or her) mouse does.


1.) The action associated with the click of a mouse should begin not on the press, but on the press-and-release. For example, I press the right button to open a context menu, and while pressing it, I move the mouse a little to the right. What happens? When I release the right mouse button, I've already chosen some item of said menu.

It's rather disconcerting, especially in video players. Try right-clicking in Totem, pressing and releasing the mouse button in quick succession. It pauses the video, because you inadvertently press pause/resume. Install SMplayer, though, and try it there. That program emulates Windows behaviour, and for a good reason. I think there should be the option to make this system-wide.


2.) There is the action of the middle button. In Windows, when I pressed a middle button amidst text, I could quickly scroll the document up or down by moving the mouse away from the place where the click originated, and it kept scrolling until I released the button. In Linux, when I try to do it, at best, nothing happens, and at worst, a piece of text I selected somewhere gets inserted. That IS a nasty surprise, isn't it? I miss the ability to quickly scroll to the bottom of a document, although the quick copy-and-paste is, admittedly, rather handy once you get used to it.

Firefox gives the option to turn on "Autosrolling" (in Preferences > Advanced), as this functionality is apparently called. So it's convenient enough that there is a hack to simulate this functionality in a single program. I think this hack should be made system-wide.


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Make RSS news feeds for ubuntu web sites. For example, ubuntu.ru, brainstorm.ubuntu.com.

Ban those corporate asshats from Microsoft and Apple from visiting Brainstorm.
They are uncreative and come here to take our ideas.

Like in Vista, they were like: "Thanks to the ground-breaking and security revolutionizing work of Microsoft Research, we are proud to present to you User Account Control (UAC)!". They even patented it.
I am like what? We've had sudo for 28 years!

Then they're like "We offer you Microsoft Research latest innovation the Windows PowerShell, a scriptable command-line shell!"
And I am like, yeah we've had that too. We've had bourne shell since 1977!

Then they're like "Microsoft Research presents you our latest innovation; Server Core will let you administer Windows Server 2008 directly from the command-line instead of from the graphical user interface!".
Hello? We've had that since the 60's.

I've installed Ubuntu. It seems good, but when I wanted to connect my mobile phone I found drivers only for Windows and Mac on disc with drivers. When I wanted to connect my camera, I also found only drivers for Windows and Mac. I bought WiFi adapter but I found drivers only for windows!

If I want to install google desktop, I get simple version only with search, but windows and mac have complete version.

I suggest to make it so that user installing Ubuntu has the same ability like Windows and Mac users.

Currently, Ubuntu cannot autorun CDs with Windows software using wine (by clicking 'Run' in the dialog window) when Wine is installed (error occurs). It should be as easy as in Windows. Autorunning Windows CDs should work also in Ubuntu.

In some cases user mutes sound. In present every music player still plays music, but no one can hear it. Better will be pause music playback until user unmutes sound. Advantage is that user wouldn't miss a song :-).

I found this on this webpage http://chabada.sk/better-desktop/ and wasnt sure if it were given attention.
so i have posted it over here.

in my opinion , this feature would be very handy and could also be unchecked from the control panel.

When the computer is obviously doing very little else, or when the user is not interacting (like in screen saver mode), it should be possible to have the computer compile the most used libraries (or better yet, the libraries that would benefit the user most from being compiled) from source. This process would be interrupted if necessary, and continued when the computer is idle again. This would over time lead to a fully optimized system.

This would obviously depend on that the source was delivered with the binaries and that the compilation could be somewhat automated for this purpose.

When an update is available the info bubble pops up and to install new update you need to click on the systray icon. I think that it would be much better to just click on the bubble, because its bigger and its more intuitive than clicking on the icon when the bubble is poped up.

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 is an irrational convention which is inconsistent with the purpose of the Edit menu. The Edit menu is for edit operations, such as cut, paste, select, undo, redo, etc. "Preferences" has no business being there. It should go under Tools or Options, or even Help or File, but definitely not under Edit.

The standard argument that we are "editing" the preferences does not hold water. Sure, any change a user makes could roughly be called an "edit", but the Edit menu should be reserved for operations relevant to document content, not application configuration.

I think that the Ubuntu Installer of the live CD should ask if the user want to install Grub or not. For example a couple of years ago, Red Hat provided that option. You could choose to install grub or if you didn't want to, you could copy an executable file in a floppy disk and when you boot your system with the floppy in the floppy drive, Linux started to run. If you boot the system without the floppy, Linux didn't start.

So, I think this could be very useful for users who use Ubuntu and Windows in dual boot but who don't want to touch the MBR.
The executable file (to make ubuntu boot) could be copied in a CD or a pen drive.

I'm sorry for mistakes and my bad english.

Every new ubuntu version should have its own theme to improve their identity. For the moment, we can't recognize a ubuntu version by looking the desktop. This should be the case, at least for each LTS versions. LTS should have radical changes to the default theme, and small changes for versions between 2 LTS ones.

I would like to be able to update more stuff without have to restart the computer.

Preferably, I would like to be able to upgrade the kernel, Xorg, device drivers, etc without have to restart the computer.

Clicking top left application icon in metacity could close the window.

See: http://bayimg.com/JAjAaAaBD

For complete customization, the button "show desktop" could be a small thumbnail of the image of the screen instead of a default image.