Contributor nixeagle

At the moment it's possible to manage traditional wired and WiFi connections using Network Manager. To connect via a modem, a 3G/GPRS card, over bluetooth to a cell phone or via USB to another device requires that the user installs extra packages, and does a fair amount of configuration that isn't found in Network Manager.

A single unified tool should be provided which allows the user to connect to a network (or internet) via any supported method. It would also be useful to provide an extension to this tool to manage firewall rules and network connection sharing.

More support for more wireless chipsets out of the box and "Windows style" ease of set up.

I have spent may a day trying to configure wireless cards on Ubuntu, often without much luck!

Please also deliver more support for what they are both wireless PCI cards and USB, as it is currently very low base of drivers for such devices

It would be great if users could attach money to Brainstorm ideas. Its all good and well to post hundreds of ideas, but as things go, ideas which are posted first may not be the best ideas, but will climb to the top fastest (and will stay there, because people will vote for them on most popular).

Lets make it possible for people to donate $5 or so to their own ideas. Sure nobody may implement it, or the patch may not be accepted but it opens things up a lot more. Nobody loses either.

For those who think that this will turn linux coders into people who only code for money are wrong. There have been many bounties in the past, and they have not wiped out the many developers (me inclusive) who code as a hobby. Even with the gnome bounties in place, I still continued coding my application at the time for instance.


Anyway, at the end of the day, its not hard to implement, and it will do nothing but speed up development for highly wanted features (and maybe even organisations like gnome could use the money on spreading word about linux, or improving their hardware support).

When minimizing Evolution it should be placed in the systray as icon. An email client is opened the whole session in most cases and since evolution informs via the tray icon about new mails a task bar entry is not needed.

For many, this guide (http://www.howtoforge.com/the_perfect_desktop_ubuntu_gutsy_gibbon) contains all of the steps to getting a usable desktop. This is mostly proprietary, non-free software that adds to the experience and is currently hard to

At install (or some EASY option post install) it should be single clicks away to add:

1) mediabuntu and/or full codec packs
2) MS true type fonts
3) Adobe Reader or other similar software
4) Sun Java
5) NTFS config tools
6) realplayer
7) etc,

Synaptics is great, however
- it would need a much improved graphics
- it would need to be more responsive, especially at start
- it should be a bit more user-friendly

That could happen after installation of ubuntu does not have an internet connection, I find it very annoying not to have software that reads divx and mp3. We could install VideoLan default or Gstreamer plug-in

Stop Mr. Faulfinder, Remmy with his joy-killer anti brainstorming posts like this one:

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http://www.gnome.org/

This is and Gnome Project issue. Not a Canonical or Ubuntu one.
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It sucks! This is brainstorming!