Contributor mysticmatrix

This might be a stroke of genius or an utter idiocy, you judge.

I seem to understand that the major shortcomings of wine are with the dlls because not all the libraries are emulated and not all are emulated seamlessly (no guilt whatsoever, I realize that the wine guys are doing their best).

So here is the idea.
When installing wine, or from the libraries configuration menu at a later time, there could be an "import original libraries" option, I choose it and I supply an original Windows cd/dvd that I have lying around (we probably all have a couple, even if we just use them as glass coasters).
Then wine runs trough the cd, borrows what it needs to run smooth with direcx and everything else and configures itself.
Final step, playing that damn brand new game or that damn cad application we need so desperately.

It would not exactly be the ideal solution to bug #1 but for somebody it would be way better than dual-booting.

Like it?

P.S. I do not even know if this would be completely legal, if not perhaps it could be implemented as a separate script.

As I can see in:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=pidgin
Intrepid has been already updated with Pidgin 2.5.0, but Hardy has not.

Ubuntu Hardy is going to be used and NOT upgraded to Intrepid by a lot of users because it has LTS, and it's a lot better and newbie-friendly than Dapper (also LTS).

So Ubuntu devs should stay in touch with the most used programs and update then in Hardy's repositories as soon as possible. Not in Backports, but in the official repositories.

Like Pidgin, that has a lot of new improvements in MSN Protocol and other stuff:
http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog

Some new releases most times don't increase a lot of things, but some do. Like aMule 2.2.2 (2.2.0 SVN in repo), emesene 1.0.1 (1.0 in repo), aMSN 0.97.2 (0.97 in repo) and Transmission 1.33 (1.06 in repo).

I know that devs have to do a lot of tests to check stability, but hey, I downloaded Pidgin 2.5 from getdeb.net and everything is working like a charm.

So please, update Pidgin to 2.5 in official repositories (and other popular programs too)!

:)

EDIT: sorry for writing "pigdin" instead of "pidgin" on title :(

To create a moving desktop background in Ubuntu (Like in Vista).

This idea is forfeited. I trust we all learned as much as I did. Have a good day.

"Theoretically, this should be less hit and miss than WINE, because osx is actually a decent, consistent operating system. [[I learned this was not true]] It may, however, require reimplementing quite a lot of code-- quartz, cocoa, carbon, mach, IOKit, what have you. [[dang straight it's a lot of code]]

Right now it's just looking like OSX may get to windows before we do, [[time to start trying harder as an evangelist]] and if it comes down to two awesome desktops and one has native apps and one doesn't, things could get ugly. As far as I'm concerned, this is the reason for GNUstep's existence. [[probably blasphemy there]]

At least get us a feasability report on this. [[Done.]]"

Advanced users of Ubuntu like to use the terminal for many tasks. Often these users leave a terminal open on the desktop, and must switch to it when they want to move from a graphical program to run a command. It's sometimes a hassle to have to find, click, type, click back...

I propose that a "Quick Terminal" be created. When the user hits a certain keyboard shortcut, the desktop fades and a terminal comes up with immediate keyboard focus. The user can then enter a command (or many) and then quickly jump back to the regular desktop. When the user returns to the terminal that is in the background, it remembers everything that has been typed before.

This would create a seamless transition from the normal GUI desktop into the terminal world. Having both the GUI and terminal tightly woven will allow advanced users to very quickly accomplish their tasks in the most efficient way possible.

The quick terminal could be integrated with stuff like Compiz so that the animation of going from desktop to terminal could be changed.

There is Kubuntu Xubuntu Edubuntu...
But is there a Mediabuntu yet?
It would be nice to have a distribution focused on Digital TV and Radio, VDR, video media playback, etc. with Ubuntu philosophy behind it.

There is a logic for this in my opinion:

1 - Improve usability, stability and speed for Firefox users in Ubuntu. Beta 5 has some big issues.

2 - This also would help the Mozilla dev team because there would be thousand of users using RC1 instead of Beta5.

3 - The "Beta" can confuse some users.


So, what do you think?

Both great programs, both open source.

It's not a real Ubuntu issue, but I still miss them, altough I last used them 3 years ago (when my primary system was Windows).

Maybe even a medicine man? you know like in microsoft word where the paperclip would ask you if you need any help. That would be cool, the medicine man could come out and be like...

sudo su -

yeah...

On the front page:

"Your ideas for Ubuntu interests us."

It should be:

"Your ideas for Ubuntu interest us."

Just a heads-up.

For those of us without ready access to the internet (yes, there are still some of us left!), and in an effort to avoid the countless how-to forum posts, most being slightly different to each other - why not include the NVidia and ATI/AMD proprietary drivers with each release?

95% of users (if not more) will immediately install these drivers, as the open source drivers suck for anything but the most basic use. The moment you try and play GLTron or Crack-Attack! the open source driver issues will be apparent.

As far as I know, Ubuntu and its derivatives do not proclaim to be 100% open source, and for the sake of ease of use, I think it would be a good idea to include these 2 drivers.