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/15824/
I know that in many cases the package can be recompiled to ARM code but, some packages only has binary content (not the source code) so, ARM version would have treat them.

The majority of packages are free software, but I don't think Canonical crew compile every package to ARM code (it's a titanic task). Think in how many packages Ubuntu has got joining "multiverse", "universe", "restricted" and "main" categories. Thus, many current linux-comercial software is written for x86 processors.

For that reason, this could be a posible "easy" solution.

The way to do it could be a a operation-translation process (tranlating on-the-fly a bunch of x86 instructions to ARM) using a emulation layer, or use a x86 explicit virtual machine on ARM hardware (Qemu).

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So, my idea is very clear. I want to eject my CD, but system is completely deadlocked. What to do? Of course hold Power for 4 secs and reboot.

Here comes my idea. There should be something like "emergency tray eject". it would allow user to quickly eject a tray even if it is used on the moment. Of course it shouldn't be like I accidentally press it and my iso, almost burned, goes to wastebin.

There could be a small, but not annoying protection form this sort of thing like holding eject button for one second and then press it three times. it would be very useful.

btw. if there is something like this already implemented, can someone tell me how to enable it?

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Obviously, it would be better to use a more friendly email provider (such as Gmail). However, as Hotmail is a very popular email system and it is not easy to migrate an email account it is urgent solving this trough an update build in colaboration with Mozilla, so users could check and write any email provider using Ubuntu.

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i tried to use it in intrepid ibex with this repositories and install the galaxium subversion to see how it runs, but it crashed, but how come i am going to report this bug if this msn client is not supported by ubuntu:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/galaxium/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/galaxium/ubuntu hardy main

so please add it, it is very useful, for those who doesn't know it, you can find screen shots and more in this web site:

http://code.google.com/p/galaxium/

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I am a poweruser in Windows environment, and all my hard disk are configured in AHCI or RAID0 mode (for better performance).

It is impossible to install any distribution of Linux.

Why do not integrate this common driver in the installation ?

Sorry for my bad english.

Johann.

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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.


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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 :(

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"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.]]"

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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.

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It would be nice to have a distribution focused on Digital TV and Radio, VDR, video media playback, etc. with Ubuntu philosophy behind it.

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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?

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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).

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sudo su -

yeah...

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"Your ideas for Ubuntu interests us."

It should be:

"Your ideas for Ubuntu interest us."

Just a heads-up.

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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.

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