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In Firefox, it isn't possible to copy images. In the Windows version, you can right click on an image, select copy, and then paste it into your OpenOffice document. On Ubuntu, you have to save the image somewhere, and then import it into your OpenOffice document. I'm not sure if this is just Ubuntu, or the whole GNU/Linux version of Firefox. I do know, though, that it is possible in Konqueror!

Make a guest account that people can login to, and check mail, surf web.

Every time the guest account logs out, its purged so next user who login is a clean fresh account.

Mac OS X has this;
* http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html#system

It should be possible to install a package with e.g. gdebi while synaptic is open. It's a shame! In the moment it isn't possible. :(

Personal configuration in the first session.

Example 1:
Do you have Wi-Fi or Blutooth?
If don't use it, the system or script will be remove configuration to Grub or in the session initial make boot more fast.

Example 2:
Do you have HP printing?

Others configuration:
Splash Screen; PC or Lap Top; Questions about boot; initial programs that will be running in start; update System, configure ubuntu drives and codecs restrict, and many other configuration.

It wold be access in the Sistem/Administration when is will be necessary.

The calender applet in the gnome panel should support sunbird and other calendars.

I propose a new usability guideline:

* Show always an error message if something does not work

Backends must bequeath error messages to their frontends. (Exception handling)
Also error messages should be translated to other languages.

If I connect my computer with the network, it doesn't work and I don't know why, I'm disappointed. If I want to start an application and it doesn't, I'll want see the reason.

If someone tells me "I can't start my application", I want to know the reason to help this person.

Easy error messages like "You hadn't connect your computer with a network" or "This application isn't anymore installed" do help any user too. For difficult problems ("Your hardware with ID x is defect. Technical Notes:") you can call someone, who can read your error message.

There should be a option to send software errors to a bug database (launchpad). (e.g. syntax errors in python application, error in communication between frontend and backend can only be a bug and no user blame)

Another example: "No plugins found" in Quod Libet. Why?

A separate partition for /home has been proposed for a long time in the forums. It implies some risks, though, so based on disk size Ubiquity should estimate the amount of space that should be left for / or whether a separate partition should be made at all. Then...

-The first time an user installs Ubuntu, he is given the option to set a separate /home. This option is selected by default, with a size for each partition based on a sane guess:

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7958/firstinstallaro2.png

-Of course, he can just choose not to set a separate /home. This option will be selected by default if the results of the system test suggest that's the best thing to do.

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/6498/firstinstallbfs6.png

-Manual install is also possible. Selecting it greys out everything related to separate /home, since it's implied that the user doesn't want to be guided.

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7976/firstinstallcvc2.png

-If the user set a separate /home, the next time he installs Ubuntu a new option appears and is selected by default, prompting to use the existing /home partition. All other options are still available, though.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9034/secondinstalliq1.png

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Enable Nautilus to use tabs.

Nautilus is Ubuntu's default file management software. There is no reason why you should need to open countless Nautilus windows to manage your files. It is time to bring tabs from your web browser to your file browser.

downloads should go to $HOME/Downloads. XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR should be set to "$HOME/Downloads" instead of "$HOME/Desktop" in the file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs.

This Downloads folder should be the default download location for firefox and this folder should be bookmarked in nautilus by xdg-user-dirs-gtk (like Music,Videos,Pictures and Documents).

RATIONALE :
* less cluttered desktop and/or homedir
* still easy to access your downloads

By design, we can currently never move away from our current filesystem layout to newer, user-friendly layouts, because every script currently has hardcoded interpretor paths coded in them (such as #!/bin/sh). Which means, if we want to change the name of /bin later, we can't or all scripts will break.

To fix this problem, we should allow the use of environmental variables with #!, ie. something like:
#!/$(BASEDIR_SYSTEM_BIN)/sh

Combined with extending the XDG base directory standard, we would have the infrastructure in place to finally allow users to change the layout of their file system to be more user-friendly, without forcing them to suffer the wrath of broken scripts.

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.

At least a small set of css2 and 3.
The advantages are convergence, standardization and (with a small set) simplicity.

When I start the Ubuntu LiveCD and my keyboard or mouse isn't detected that is very annoying. We cannot expect people to know shortcut keys to start a mouse, or how to turn the on-screen keyboard on.

No Keyboard, but mouse: start on-screen keyboard
No Mouse, but keyboard: enable numlock keys as mouse, alert user of how to turn on and off

If both are not detected we don't have any good options but we can still tell them that we haven't detected a keyboard or mouse.

"Wine is not emulator"
then why when selecting wich program to run .exe file there is selection "wine Windows Emulator"
(Sorry my english :)

Im not sure how hard this would be, but wouldn't it be nice if 64 bit ubuntu would also support 32 bit apps? then if there's only a 32 bit debian pakage available, you could still run it on the 64 bit ubuntu without having to compile the application from source I also noticed that even on the live cds the 64 bit ubuntu ran much faster

User directories on ubuntu are easily a mess at the moment. They need more standardisation and more sense to remain clean. If you go to terminal/bash you may discover that your directory looks something like:


/home/auzy/Documents
/home/auzy/.Azureus (Hidden)
/home/auzy/.gnome2 (Hidden)
/home/auzy/Desktop
/home/auzy/.bashrc2 (Hidden)
/home/auzy/readme.rtf
/home/auzy/.Trash (Hidden)
/home/auzy/iffy.rtf
/home/auzy/delete me.rtf
/home/auzy/argggggg.c
/home/auzy/fgdhgfdhd.txt
/home/auzy/Music
/home/auzy/.ooffice (Hidden)
/home/auzy/friendsassignment.c
/home/auzy/friendsassignmentCopy.c
etc.


While you may note that anything with . is hidden normally, what if someone wants to delete the settings for a program? They need to manually unhide it, and sort through the dozens of directories in the home directory to find it. The problems with this is that:

a) Its messy, and certainly not a clean solution
b) Users cannot easily access their settings.
c) Everyones home directory is normally trashed with hundreds of other files, making it difficult to navigate.

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I think more Windows users would try out Ubuntu if they could just double click an .exe file instead of going into a command prompt, browsing to the folder and then typing "wine *.exe" to install the program.

I like how Ubuntu adds shortcuts on the desktop and the "start menu" after you install the program making it easy to run but installing Windows software needs to be easier.

I want an easy GUI for adding desktop widgets like wheather, cpu, notice, pictures, flowers, decorations, animals, chat, mail-alert, diary etc. to my desktop. :D

when i was looking for sound converter, i found about 6 positions in synaptic

it would be great if i could turn on "moore info" and inside this window i will se some screenshots, reviews, maybe some videos etc

there is a great functionality in some package manager - user rating, more info about packages would be very good especially for new users

from the other side, every user should be able to write review,, add screenshotss etc very easily

this could be made with special option in menu - review this software (just like translate this program, report bug etc) - this would show a dialog with fields to fill - this way, community could rate each software very precisely

this data should be also available from web

imagine this:

user has just removed windows, and now he is looking for svg editor

he just opens package manager - chooses category "graphics" -> "svg editor" and he is able to browse through the catalog, watch some screenshots and videos, and finally choose which software is the best for him

there is ksnapshot, krecordmydesktop and other usefull apps for implemeting this

Currently I can't right click on an app and have it run as root. Instead I have to open up terminal and type sudo /app/path/exe which it then asks me for the root password. It should not be needed. That is not intuitive. Windows can do this, so should linux. Sure windows doesn't have a command line gui, but it doesn't need it because I can right click on command prompt, run as administrator, fill in the password and then I got the access I need.