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/80/
- Merge 'Screensaver', 'Screen Resolution' and 'Screens and Graphics'.
- Merge 'Network', 'Network Proxy' and 'Network Tools'.
- Merge 'Update Manager, Synaptic Package Manager, Software Sources'.
- Merge 'Encryption and Keyrings', 'Authorizations', 'Keyring Manager'.


Below are all settings I can visit via the System menu. This is just way too much.


-- Preferences --
Universal Access
About Me
Appearance
Bluetooth
Default Printer
Encryption and Keyrings
Keyboard
Keyboard Shortcuts
Main Menu
Mouse
Network Proxy
PalmOS Devices (I don't have one)
Power Management
Preferred Applications
Remote Desktop
Removable Drives and Media
SCIM Input Method Setup (What is this?)
Screen Resolution
Screensaver
Search and Index (Why can't I disable the tracker here?)
Sessions
Sound
System Settings
Windows

-- Administration --
Authorizations (for what?)
Hardware Drivers
Keyring Manager (for what?)
Language Support
Login Window
Network
Network Tools
Printing
Screens and Graphics
Services
Shared Folders
Software Sources
Synaptic Package Manager (imagine a new user: wtf is Synaptic?)
System Log
System Monitor
Time and Date
Update Manager
Users and Groups

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Bug #174277 : [Information on this bug will be retrieved soon]
Blueprint system-menu-cleanup: [Information on this blueprint will be retrieved soon]
Ubuntuforums.org thread #736475
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OpenOffice has a similar result, but GIMP will actually pull you over to workspace B when it comes up. That's kind of cool, but behavior is inconsistent between GIMP and OpenOffice or Eclipse.

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In Windows you can set your own network as default, and the computer won't connect with another network unless you want to make it happen.

When this option will be made available, your computer will always, no matter what networks are out there, connect with the right wireless network.



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Rest of the world should get nice font rendering by default, built in dvd playback support and so on, because they are savages and don't like democracy and freedom.

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1. When you right-click, instead of just saying "Paste", it should tell you explicitly what is on the clipboard. "Paste 'Here is some text in a ...'"

For non-text content, it might say something like "Paste image from Ubuntu Brainstorm - Mozil..."

2. There should be more than one Paste command, showing the last few things you copied, like a clipboard manager:

Cut
Copy
Paste "Submit the idea you wan..."
Paste "The Ubuntu community ha..."
Paste history                        >

Two or three is probably fine for most people. The top option will be the last thing you copied, so it will still behave like a typical cut and paste. The last "Paste history..." or something similar ("Clipboard history"?) would then pop-out a sub-menu with a much longer list. See the mock-up here.

3. It should be persistent even through reboots.

This way you don't have to worry about data loss through accidentally overwriting the clipboard or otherwise clearing it before you had a chance to paste something that was cut.

I've realized that when I'm doing a lot of things at once, my awareness of what's in the clipboard at any given moment makes me slightly persistently anxious, since I have to mentally keep track of whether I left something in this invisible area of the computer, remember what I put in it, and remember to paste things before overwriting them. :) This should be something that is handled by the computer, not by our brains. It should be impossible to lose data, and the data that's currently in the clipboard should be clearly visible, not left up to our own memory.

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No attachments. ]]> Sat, 22-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/14514/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/15083/ Preferences > About Me, you'll notice a place for all your personal information:

* A picture
* E-mail addresses
* Instant messaging accounts
* Physical addresses
* Web page
* Blog
* Calendar
* Professional information
* Password

It's probably completely empty. You've probably never visited there before. Why would you? It's not used for anything ....

About Me represents a great unused resource for the Gnome desktop. Evolution could access this information, setting up e-mail accounts for you as automatically as possible and supplying your calendar without extra work on your part. Pidgin/Empathy could use it to seed the initial accounts. Your picture could be set as an avatar if you like. More esoterically, gnome-blog could use this information and Nautilus could try to set up an FTP connection to your web page for upload.

Why isn't About Me used for anything? Security. Developers are correctly concerned that making About Me central to your personality will create a situation where rogue applications could use this information to exploit you or your accounts.

Why don't we store the information in Seahorse (it handles passwords and keyrings)? On Gnome first run, you could be asked for this personal information to populate About Me. Applications which want it will need to be authorized by the user in order to access Seahorse. Ekiga obviously needs this information. The game you downloaded doesn't. End of story? Am I missing something? Probably.

About Me could simplify a lot of things on the desktop. It was created with that in mind. What a shame it's not really useful for anything right now.

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I was also told about gparted which just showed me my drive and did nothing else :(

Tell me what you think, Thanks.

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More specific:
ctrl + back, ctrl + next, ctrl + up should open a new tab.
ctrl + double clicking on a map should open a new tab


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Ubuntu should have something like that too. It could have some videos on how to get stuff done in Ubuntu like a video tour, the different ways of installing applications, configuring drivers, showing off Compiz Fusion etc, etc.

Why videos? Because it's visual. Watching a video is better and more fun than just reading a "how to", right?

Some simple video Ideas:

1. What is Ubuntu?

Well duh, explain Ubuntu and a brief story of our beloved Linux Distro.

2.What can I do with Ubuntu and how to be productive with it?

This video should show the basic desktop that ships with Ubuntu. It should discuss every (or almost every because there are a lot of them) application on the default menus and how to edit the menus.

3. Why multiple Workspaces instead of a single one?

This should help the new user understand the concept of "instead of having a multitude of windows opened on a single desktop, why don't I have multiple desktops with windows well organized across them instead"

4.Compiz Fusion:

How to set it up and how to use it in a productive way. This video should teach the new user how to use Expo, Window Picker, Desktop Cube/Cylinder/Sphere you know, the "stadard plugins" that almost every Compiz Fusion user uses etc.

5. How to install applications:

What is Synaptic and how to use it, what is APT, Installing packages from the Command Line, Add/Remove Programs or downloading apps from websites like getdeb.net etc.

6. Setting up Restricted Drivers: (Man we need to change the word "Restricted" to something more user friendly instead, like "Propieatry" which makes more sense to those who come from Windows and Mac).

Well, how to use their hardware drivers!

7. Explain how to use Gnome and tell the people about the flexibility of it and other User Interfaces (Desktop Environment is a scary word) and window managers like KDE, XFCE, LXDE the boxes etc.

Well these are a few ideas. You see! It would be great if Ubuntu changed the common Linux language and starts speaking normal english (and other normal languages) like we Human Beings do! Get it?

So, how to present these vids? I don't know! But they should be very slick. The dude or chick that speaks/appears in the videos should have a very cool voice/image, and he/she should not look or sound like a geek/nerd/dork. We need to get rid of the Linux stereotype, Linux is the coolest OS and we know that, so this dude or chick should be good looking/sounding.

If you guys have more video or presentation ideas post them on the comments section below.

If I have more video/presentation ideas I'll keep posting them here.

Remember keep it for Human Beings, ok?


--- Look what I found---
http://www.apple.com/mac/

Now, that's what I'm talking about!
We need to do this with Ubuntu, Apple really knows how to make their products look good! That's real marketing!!!

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When the update notification icon is clicked, an admin password entry dialog (using PolicyKit) with 3 buttons should appear: "Install all updates" (selected by default), "Select updates", "Cancel".

"Install all updates" silently (minimized to tray) installs all updates. (and silently notifies via tray when finished)

"Select updates" shows the current updater dialog. There should be an option to ignore this and all further updates for a package.

I know that there is an "Install all updates" entry in the context menu, but it is well hidden and not the default.



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Either remove it completely from a default install (i.e. allow people who want it to add it on add/remove software) or make it easier to remove.

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I'll also post it in the Gnome Bugzila.

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2) Everyone is smiling

The Samsung omnia smartphones (which are only 600mhz) already do this, and apparently it works quite well. Face recognition could then later be used in other libraries.

And this would make profile pictures and such closer to "one-touch". It also helps polish linux to the point it doesn't demand user for feedback to operate, instead it is able to identify in these cases when the photo is bad, and delay the photo until it is good.

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Every Ubuntu next-version is slowly that the precessor.

My PC is a:

AMD X2 5600
2Gb de RAM DDRII 667
160Gb SATAII Hard Drive 7200RPMS
MotherBoard is a Asus (don't remember the model, but it has 1 year max.)

Nvidia Geforce 8500GT

The systems boots up extremely low (like XP in a Sempron 2200) and compiz goes perfect but the flash movies on firefox are extremely slow.

I think Ubuntu is one of the best operating systems but performance is important. We are always telling how Vista is or XP but I think we have to look inside us and speaks about the performance.

Perhaps it's only to me, with my hardware... but XP or VISTA flyes on the same machine.


I hope my english was enough good to explain what I want to say.

Thanks a lot.

P.D.= I saw another posts speaking about performance at boot but I think the problem is the whole system (for me, of course).



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Therefore, It would be nice to have Wikipedia for Schools packaged for local installation.

http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-news/wikipedia-for-schools.htm

It would be possible to just package the HTML.

However, it would probably be better to convert it to the GNOME-Help format, so the database can be searched properly.

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