Contributor mtrausch

I use quite a few wine applications, to test web pages in Windows-Specific web browsers such as netscape for windows, for instance. ;-)

I'd like to tag the browser icons on my gnome desktop with a label indicating "this is a wine application". So what would be more appropriate than the inclined little red wine glass, aka as the default wine icon. Sadly, there is no wine icon in the default collection of launcher emblems. So please add one to this default collection. It would make the emblems much more useful immediately (to me, that is).

Currently update-manager is only able to automatically install security updates, but for most users it may be handy to get everything updated for there stable release without interrupting them. It would save me some calls from people asking me what that icon is doing in there system tray.

Hello,

id, best known for DOOM and QUAKE, has supported linux in the past.

Their upcoming new engine idtech5 will be multi-platform, supporting mac, ps3, windows and xbox360. They stated that this engine will make it possible to use the almost same codebase and compile it for each of the mentioned platforms. The ps3 and mac do not support directx, so this new engine must use opengl, like the former id games did.

They have not mentioned linux, so it is not clear if it will be supported.

Dear Ubuntu, Canonical and Mr Shuttleworth,
please appeal to id and ask them to support linux and (K/X)Ubuntu. Support them, if this becomes necessary (i.e. Linux binary through apt/synaptic). Make the ubuntu desktop a richer experience for all kinds of pc users.

Bye, Martin

I just want to say that I stopped using Ubuntu because I couldn't find a decent video editor that met my needs.

As was put in this post about a multimedia suite: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3162

"Is there a really solid OSS video editor for the home video enthusiast? This is what I see with many OSS video editors: Cinelerra is overkill and it lacks the ability to capture DV video. Kino and Diva are just to basic. Pitivi just combines clips, Kdenlive is still very buggy (in beta) also, getting firewire to work is also a real pain for video editing applications too. "

I do video as a part of my job and am (or at least was) very passionate about open source. I tried every open source editor out there. I searched for months. None fit the bill. I found all of the above problems to be absolutely true (especially for Kdenlive. It crashed every thirty seconds).

I think video editors are one place where the standard open source philosophy of having one program do only one thing doesn't work. A video editor needs to to tons of things to work well.

If there were a video editor for Linux that was to Final Cut and Premiere what GIMP is to Photoshop and Open Office is to MS Office, I would probably return to Linux.

Fedora is currently working on improving the startup experience by implementing Plymouth:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBetterStartup

By doing this, transition from Grub to GDM (or KDM or whatever) would be done almost instantly. Plymouth will use a graphical boot mode with a fallback method to text for those computers that don't have hardware support.

gnome-system-monitor provides a cleaner interface than Windows "Task Manager", and provides many useful features including list of processes running, memory and network usage, etc.

This functionality should be more accessible by key binding it by default to CTRL-ALT-DELETE as Windows does--as this is more familiar to users coming from Windows. The current key binding for CTRL-ALT-DELETE brings up the shutdown/logout options, which is already accessible as a desktop button, which is redundant for a relatively less used function.

gnome-system-monitor is an idle interface for monitoring the system and killing processes without using the terminal and provides an interface for doing this that most are already familiar with. Changing it's key binding would make it's functionality much more accessible.

Developers need easy access to a _official_ developer package. They are free to choose but there should be a standard way to (gnome) development in Ubuntu. And it needs to be official. New developers should now that there is a easy way to start developing for gnome in Ubuntu. Supported and well documented.

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").

When downloading Ubuntu server edition,there is a checkmark to wheter we want the alternate cd or not.

From what I know so far,the difference between an normal and alternate cd is that the normal cd acts as a live cd with a GUI installer,and the alternate one acts as a command-line installer.

As Ubuntu server edition is command-line only,I see no logic to offer an "alternate cd".

my idea is simple but i know you will like it, it is all about to replace those old default backgrounds that comes with ubuntu by default and change them all for new ones;
Now it is the time to do that, and as we know, so why not a complete new background collection! and for me the best place to find backgrounds comes from http://www.deviantart.com/ if you don't know it go to that page please, it is spectacular!!!

I think that we must have a GUI for ipv6 configuration.
Other distributions like Fedora or OpenSUSE, OSX and even MS Vista already have it. IPv4 is dying, ISP's are beginning to distribute IPv6 adresses for 2~3 years and DNS root servers have recently switch to v6 too.
Ubuntu should be ready for the Internet of today and tomorrow and integrate IPv6 (fixed, dhcpv6, RA, ...) in the GNOME 'Network Settings' (and the same in KDE) as soon as possible.