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Well, i think some of you may have some headache on loosing time about the our so beloved '~/Desktop' folder - the problem were some very creative coders started to translate the 'Desktop' into each language 'Desktop' translations.

Well, i confess, even being portuguese, i installed the english localization for avoiding such problems - and i think i were right on choosing english.

When i were explain to a friend of how copying or moving files to the Desktop from the Terminal, nothing appeared there - just guess why....

I even got more scared when i saw, for example, the Desktop folder in castillian spanish has accents and spaces - i got completelly shocked...

My suggestion is the Desktop folder being always named Desktop, and if some people likes folders with translated names with accents and spaces, please make a filesystem link of them...

I neither tried about how does localization works with menu key combinations, like ctrl+a, ctrl+s, ctrl+q, etc. - I remember for example, the ms-windows localized versions about menu key combinations are completelly messy.

It would be good if will be themes for children and old people with big visible fonts and icons in both Ubuntu and Kubuntu.

If you add somehow most simplified panel and and menu view for most important things like web browsing and gaming, we will not need think how to configure it.

Ubuntu is linux for human beings, it means for everybody. None of linux distributions has this feature, let Ubuntu be the first who has it.

Addition: 1. Big cursor with big clicable area setting
2. Disabled keyboard repeating? When one presses a key, reaction might not be good to enter only one letter - it's not useful.
3. Big fonts, big icons and widow decorations.
( 4. A RADICAL idea: home directory set as the desktop - $DESKTOP=~ - all files of old man or child are on desktop, and there is no need to click on 'home' icon)

On modern hardware the only reason swap is really needed is for suspending to disk so separate swap partition is complete waste.

It would be great to modify uswsusp (using kexec for example) to be able to use swap file on any regular partition to perform suspend2disk: 2.6 kernal already allow usage of dynamically allocated file on any partition as a swap file.

This improvement would also help to fix other suspend related issues and will make easier ubuntu-on-usb version.

Most of us have winkeys in keyboard and many use it.
Make this keyboard layouts default,
because it will not affect people without winkeys.

For songs which have more than two singers or more (lot of musics have more
than one singer), it would be interesting to add a new field called 'artist 2'
for example and the possibility to add a third one if there is more singers.

Actually, the library is badly organized because I have a lot of "X featuring
Y" or "X / Y" in the artist list. This proposition implies that the song will
appear in the both singers' songs list.

Thanks for your attention.

I've posted it on the Gnome Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552280

"Linux for human beings" is not good anymore.

Ubuntu is big enough to start being promoted to the people who doesn't even know what is Linux. We should choose a new slogan without the "Linux" word.

And what about something who can be easily translated to many languages?

Gimp is a great graphics editor we all know. Congratulations to all developpers!

My Idea:
- Adding a Selection for "Using Gimp in one Window"

IMPORTANT
- That should NOT be default, but an option, which doesn't go in trouble for users liking this multi window management with its advantages!

I guess that more than 20% of the gimp users where really happy for this important feature. I know that Gimpshop and other Plugins are available, but this couldn't be the end solution. Gimp should bring this "little" feature with it in future! Thanks!

It seems that the current 32 bit editions of Ubuntu can only take advantage of 3GB (sometimes a little more) of physical memory. Desktops and gaming rigs using 6 and 8 GB of RAM are ubiquitous now. More RAM support please!!
It seems that this is related to the Linux kernel. However, some apps are not yet ready for 64 bit support. The kernel should be more flexible for people still in the 32bit editions.

Show on Boot Splash screen "Ubuntu X64 edition" (or something like that) on 64 bit Ubuntu installations. (Kinda like XP 64 Bit boot screen) I think it would look cool and there isn't really a easy way to tell if its a 64 bit install. I think it would be a nice little touch for us 64 bit users, Thanks.

When you discover an idea which addresses a concept of current interest the poster has the option of voting for an idea which will get no new attention or creating a new idea as a duplicate of the same topic.

To fix this a previous idea which gets new votes should be automatically moved into the "most popular today" category.

OTOH if an idea can't garner more than 50 votes in a week or 100 votes in a month (even with this improved exposure model) it could be dropped into the "moldy oldie" category which could be ignored by the internal search routines unless specifically flagged. This would save significant server load during new idea posting.

While in the GUI you can use Cyrillic easily, it is not supported in the pure console (i.e. outside xorg). While for desktop users it is not too important, it is very important for servers where sometimes there is no xorg and the command line is the only way to deal with it. Sometimes files have names in Cyrillic so you need a way to deal with such files, for example, to copy them or delete without starting GUI.

Also because the most console applications, 'man' files and error messages are translated, they look well under Xorg terminal session, but show complete garbage in console outside Xorg. It's a pitty not to be able even understand what is the error and be unable even to read man files!

Social networking technologies are contributing to spread of ubuntu, but can we not exploit their potential even more?

# Start a youtube ubuntu account to host official videos and
link other good ubuntu videos thru that.
# I personally am not much into facebook/myspace, but I'm sure forming some groups and the like will help spread this even more among school students too, who probably are more tech savvy than their parents.
# flicker photo-tutorials?

I'm sure you can think of more. Please post those and link all these ideas up.

Nobody use Gobuntu
It costs too much money, time and developers, who better can move to the other versions of Ubuntu.

Now the website is stored as a html file and a folder containig auxiliary files as pictures, etc.. Please find a way to store all this data into one file. It is unnerving to take care of this folder.

It's all well and good to include the newest browser in Ubuntu Hardy, even when it's beta. Firefox 3 is aesthetic, fast, safe, and featureful, and undeniably a huge improvement over Firefox 2. However, I experience 5-10 crashes *per day* when visiting common sites like Gmail and Google Reader in Firefox. I'm sorry to have to say this, but for a "stability-centered" release I find this unacceptable and I doubt I'm the only one experiencing these crashes... can Ubuntu find some temporary solution to improve Firefox's stability for the time until Mozilla fixes FF3's stability problems?

EDIT: Other user comments have made it clear to me that this is actually not a widespread problem and might be Flash-related. Thanks for the feedback, guys.

This is not a development stuff. But something that can show off what open source can do. Include the open source movie BIG BUCK BUNNY ,which can be used to test video playback and advertise what open source tools like blender ,gimp,inkscape etc.. are capable of . It will be very small because its just 8 mins long and its very funny.

When I tag my MP3s with EasyTag and UTF-16 (ID3v2), Nautilus shows in the context menu in audio tab anything but not the right content of the tags.

I really have no clue why the second day of the week is marked by default as the first.

Maybe Canonical is blindly following any ISO standard, regardless of how logical, rational, or sensible it is, but that is no excuse for doing something this silly.

Kubuntu seems to "KDE Pure". Don't get me wrong, I like KDE and a lot of their applications, but when I boot up Kubuntu from a liveCD and I don't see Firefox or Thunderbird, two really big open source programs, I start to wonder.

It would be like having KOffice instead of OpenOffice, OpenOffice is recognized as THE open source office suite, whether the person is migrating from windows or mac, or even most other linux versions. KOffice may or may not be good, but people migrating over probably want OpenOffice.

People may not be familiar with Konqueror as a web browser, or they may know how they like to set Thunderbird up and not want to start using Kmail instead. Pigden/Gaim is probably more recognizable than Kopete.

I like KDE applications, like Amorak, Konqueror is a good file manager. I could go on, but the point is that Kubuntu with KDE could be a more pleasant experience if we add some more non-KDE applications.

Right now,ubuntu versions have funny codenames like Gutsy Gibbon,Hardy Heron,etc.

They sound great in English,but many users are not english-speaking(Here in Romania many people that I converted to Ubuntu love it,but they don't know a word in English)

I think it would be a great thing if each language had it's "translation" of the english codename.

Maybe we could involve the Ubuntu LoCo in this project.