Contributor narfss

Would be Pretty cool to see these kind of effects in ubuntu, similar to water effects on the progress bars on aqua interface, I think it would be pretty nice this effect on the UBUNTU Loading progress bar

Some users post ideas by giving only the title of it without a description.

Even if the idea is brilliant, other users tend to demote it because there is not one word of explanation!


I think ideas without a description should be deleted.
Moreover, it shouldn't be possible to add an idea without a description. It is rather easy to implement.


Giving a few words of explanation doesn't require much effort.
Helping other Users and Developers to understand your idea is a matter of Your respect for the Ubuntu Community.

Thank You.

It should be "multimedia player" or "audio/video player" or "media player" (as mrdoob proposed).

Ubuntu should let experienced users decide what applications they want to install on their computers during installation. I like the way it is now - installing a default set of applications that work out of box. But, for some advanced users, Ubuntu should let them pick what applications they want. For example, I like using Thunderbird as my email client, Amarok for my music player, digiKam as my photo organizer, and VLC player as my default movie player. It would be nice if Ubuntu can put an 'Advanced Mode' of installation where the user can choose which applications they want to use by default and install them only (in this case it should skip installing Evolution, Rhythmbox, F-Spot and Totem). In addition, Ubuntu should let users decide right at the beginning if they want to install other restricted programs like flash, java, acrobat reader, etc. This saves a lot of time for the user installing these specific applications after finishing a base install.

The problems I see with the current situation:
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1. File fragmentation. On my two (not so old) installations 10% of the files in the readahead list consist of more than one fragment. Reading fragmented files is slower than reading files with only one fragment (no surprise).

2. The file list is sorted by start sectors but still those files could be stored all over the disk. Sequential reading is faster than random reading (no surprise either).

Looking at some numbers:
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Sequential read throughput of my hard disk (measured with hdparm): ~35 MB/sec
Total file size of files in /etc/readahead/boot: 66MB
Throughput of readahead (taking 12 seconds according to bootchart): 5.5MB/sec

Yes, that's not much more than ONE SEVENTH of an optimal (yet unrealistic) sequential read throughput which would lead to a reading time of two seconds.

Idea:
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Hdparm uses the space at the beginning of the disk to measure the throughput. No wonder as the closer you get to the beginning of a disk the lower the access time will be.

So the obvious conclusions are:

1. Keep ALL files in /etc/readahead/boot defragmented.

2. Move the files to the beginning of the disk/partition.

To show that this idea isn't totally stupid: the defragging tool Raxco PerfectDisk for Windows is doing exactly that and it really does improve boot time.

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Whenever i eject a dvd, a thumbdrive or disconnect a bluetooth phone or delete a directory that was opened in nautiuls, that nautilus window reverts to the $HOME directory.

Why?

That window should be destroyed instead. nothing is so special about my home directory to make me wanna go there whenever i finish using a removable device or delete a folder.

It would be great if the GNOME Games set is split into separate packages, as out of the 10 or so games I only actually want 2 or 3 which means I have to hide the rest with the menu editor.

in a tree becouse we'll know what to update:

1. for example:

>compiz
---compiz-core
---compiz-plugin
---compiz-gnome
>evolution
---evolution-data-center
---evolution-webcal
---evolution-plugin
>firefox
---firefox-3.0
---firefox-3.0-gnome-support
>security updates
---kernel

2. update manager should ask to confirm changes that also affect other programs

3. confirm recommended packages as dependencies like in synaptic package manager.

Update manager should be more intelligent in general!

I think this would be great for everybody, because OpenOffice 3.0 has A LOT of improvements that will help people that uses this kind of program constantly to migrate from MS Office to OpenOffice.
Support for MS Office 2007 documents and PDF editing are two good examples.

I know that Intrepid will be released in 15 days, but I think there aren't going to be a lot of crazy bugs to be fixed in "only" 15 days by developers if this program gets upgraded in Ubuntu repositories!

Think about that and let's do this now, instead of waiting more six months (Ubuntu 9.04) just to get this great program by default... you know, if more good programs comes by default, more the newbies and veterans will like!

The calculator has a limit. For example, it cannot give an approximation to 175! while it is only 174 multiplications. I remember that Windows XP's calculator could do any calculation (but warned when a long calculation time was expected).

After adding new repositories and clicking reload,Synaptic downloads lists from servers.And after that When I search for an application in synaptic it takes to much time to find me the package.Actually its looking into the list that was downloaded.

I think indexing the package name and description after reloading the package list can improve synaptic performance.

That is for people who start pidgin automatically on boot time and always have to close the buddy list when the system boots.

I'd like to be able to add menu items to the windows list icon so that users can quickly perform actions in an application without having to restore it when it is minimised. An example can be seen here.

Some examples of actions which might be added are:
For Evolution: add a Create new email action.
Media Players: Media playback control actions
Pidgin: Set status.

This lack of functionality is currently hacked around by using the notification area, but is not the correct way of doing it. It is however, the ONLY way to currently do it. By implementing this idea, we can clean up the notification area, and urgent notifications will become a lot more obvious, whilst also maintaining the same level of usability.

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.

It would be great to be able to configure two interfaces with Network Manager or anything else and share the internet from one to another (NAT).

For example if I have cable and wireless, I could be able to share my cable internet and act like an access point.
Or on the other way if I have wireless networking but my friends haven't it would be nice it I could share my network with them thought ethernet.

When I go to 'Wine configuration - Desktop integration', there is no simple way to use my current theming of Ubuntu.
I have only options of 'install theme' (it's a windows file? where I can get it?!) or manually set each item color, and each time when I change Ubuntu theming, I must again and again set each item in Wine manually.

I suggest to integrate Ubuntu theming in Wine. It looks not so hard.

When you generate charts with OpenOffice.org Calc, they have ugly jagged lines.
It would be better to use anti-aliasing to smoothen out the lines to make them more pretty.

Look at the ugly jagged blue lines.
* http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Dropout.png

Ubuntu would be a great choice for these notebooks that require an OS which responds fast, and boots quickly. However, at the moment it appears to be a struggle to get things working properly.

The sub-notebook market is growing rapidly, and I don't understand why Ubuntu is not _THE_ choice for most of these companies.

labs.ubuntu.com could be created in the style of labs.mozilla.com, and utilised in demonstrating and testing radically new ideas ('experiments') for the desktop.
I'm not suggesting that this replace launchpad in any way. It would simply serve as a gateway to completely new projects in order to reduce the amount of sifting through that is currently required on launchpad (each 'experiment' would have a brief description and a link to the launchpad project, similar to Mozilla Labs).
Some examples of projects that would benefit from this system are:
"Long Term Vision" theme - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Long_Term_Vision, https://launchpad.net/long-term-vision
"Epidermis" theme manager - https://launchpad.net/epidermis/
I'm sure that there are many more, which illustrates the need for the site.
I'd like to hear peoples feedback.

Ubuntu's bootloader is a stark black and white screen, filled with confusing options. It gives newbies a moment of indecision, as they try to figure out if they are supposed to choose something, and wonder why there are three or four Ubuntus listed. Then the timer finishes counting down (starting from 10), and the newb begins to feel like he's getting in over his head as his PC boots into Ubuntu.

Too much information up front, stark text-only display, painfully long countdown timer. What would be the alternative? Well, when a Fedora PC is booted up, the first thing the user sees is a graphical splash screen, and "Booting into Fedora (kernel version) in 4 seconds ... " The user can press a key to interrupt and select from kernel versions or alternative operating systems, or just let it boot into Fedora.

Can't we create our own attractive bootloader? Or, failing that, copy-and-paste Fedora's?