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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!

I think, a lot of people like to help with ubuntu development, but they don't know where to start. This includes not only programmers but also designers, music composers or just the normal ubuntu user.

So how about creating a website "howcanihelp.ubuntu.com" where everyone (except for C/C++ programmers ;-) ) can find out how to contribute?

Examples:
PHP Programmer -> help with Brainstorm Development, someproject.ubuntu.com needs a new Website, ...
Music Composer -> (don't know where this should link)
Graphic Artist -> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork
Foreign Language Native Speaker -> Translate Subtitles at screencasts.ubuntu.com,...
Beginner Ubuntu User -> (don't know if we find something for them :-) )
Advanced Ubuntu User -> Help people at IRC #ubuntu, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WikiToDo, join the Documentation Team...
Marketing Expert -> ...


and so on!

In both Compiz and Metacity it would be nice to have smoother windows movements. You realise this after you go back to the Mac for a while. It just gives you that nice feeling of a sturdy environment.

The human-murrine theme returned in a recent update to Hardy beta, but it was tweaked again and I like it less than the previous version.

Therefore, please make the previous version of the tweaked human-murrine theme available for download somewhere or, alternatively, revert the current version to the old one. The metallic one without the striped menu bar and with the orange glow when hovering over a button.
I love the way it looked, both polished and usable.

Certainly not everyone will agree it looks good, but at least enable the people who do to use it.

Make a Tamagotchi game, a virtual digital pet.

So when you start the game, you select the name for your pet, and you can choose a pet of your likening (I want a babyblue one that has big cute eyes, and cat ears and it should be furry lol).

So then you have to take care of it, else it dies and you loose.

So you must play with it, else its gets bored and depressed, but you shouldn't play with it too much, else it gets tired and sleepy.

Also, you cant just play with it, because then it becomes stupid, you don't want it to be dumb, so you much teach it stuff too.

You must not forget to feed it, else it gets hungry and cries, and if you don't feed it, it can die, because it will starve.

Maybe a new program to be added would be a "GarageBand" type program for Ubuntu like Apple have created. Instead of just like a track editor if its possible include loops and sample tracks with an intuitive GUI.

My idea is basically a copy of GarageBand but with features suited to Ubuntu. I dont know whether this is possible, just an idea.

I'm a musician, I'm afraid of putting ubuntu studio because first of all, I would rather have the same graphical installer that the regular ubuntu has, and second of all I'm afraid of putting it because I know that it does not support VST's out of the box and I would need to install wine and wineasio and what not for it.

I think other than the general multitrack sequencers, the linux world needs actual professional CROSS-PLATFORM sequencer, and support some of the standards for the virtual instruments that have been for quite some time. Also it would be nice if someone would make a unique Virtual Instruments host like for example GarageBand which has instruments that represent a real band.

Another annoyance would be Jack. While I've used Jack myself with my older sound card, I had to do quite a bit to get it running, and also I don't see the need to have Jack as a separate application. Something like Jack could be done just like ASIO, a driver/daemon (Not an application you have to run every time you need to go low level) for low latency sound production. For example in Windows in multiple applications I just setup the different stuff and that's it, every time I want to play something I just run the sequencer or just the VSTi plugin and I can play it with all my settings like I wanted..

Solutions - Talk with Steinberg or one of the big name companies to port their software and show them that linux is a viable solution for musicians.
Or like said above - Create cross platform software (Of course targeted at linux more than others).

Anyway, hope you can get that idea into work, it would be so excellent that Ubuntu will be my main operating system.

P.S: Great site :)

Sorry to mention Apple, but their website has a plethora of useful "how to" videos. Perhaps someone could create some videos. I understand that Apple spent a lot of money and time on their production, so the idea may be unreasonable for Ubuntu. Maybe some youtube videos could be collected after some kind of approval for usefulness.

Ubuntu installation disk i.e. LiveCD must have format hard disk option in the main menu to format HD completely. The installation process formats hard disk only if ubuntu is being installed in the system. So, if anyone wants to completely empty his/her hard disk it is not possible with ubuntu. Also, for software to be successful its rejection should be as easy as its acceptance!
wot is ur opinion?!!

Wot if u want to format the OS itself...u don't get any help on this from gparted!!!!
there should be some way of doing it.

Many users (including myself) are suffering from lack of sound due to the hda-intel driver, the bug is commonly found on Acer Aspire laptops as well as other laptops. So far there are no definite fixes and someone really needs to jump in and take a look at it.

I think it would be useful to be able to open multiple pdf files within the same viewer window. I know that I would use this feature a lot, because I like to multi-task, so I read multiple ebooks or whatever a the same time a lot... but yeah, it would also be cool if there were an option to view your tabbed documents side-by-side somehow for comparison purposes, Im sure that would come in handy sometimes...

but yeah, we have a tabbed text editor, and web browser, so why not a tabbed pdf viewer?

You clic on a shortcut on the desktop, it opens a sort of email program, and
you can send messages and files to the same program on the windows desktop.
Of course, You need an other program in windows to send messages to ubuntu.

It doesn't use the internet.
The goal of this is to make an easy bridge between the two
systems.

ps: you could use thunderbird to do this, but not for big files.

I had to generalize to keep the subject line short, however I'm noticing some very common trends on brainstorm as found on other internet forums (slashdot, digg, generic forums).

Especially via the comment system, we're rushing towards a scheme of developing "regulars" and people who dedicate themselves a bit too much to the preening of the system and micromanaging other peoples' ideas.
This is instead of simply allowing brainstorm to become an endless foundry for improvements.
Our comment format is starting to result in many people coming on trying to oppress ideas out of existence. No idea should have to suffer somebody's lack of sympathy or interest. It will eventually result in a gridlock of ideas as only the most mainstream will be promoted by cliques.

I don't know if this would require skilled moderation, applications for comment removal or if it would require an overall ***REDUCTION*** in functionality.

I myself have had people make the argument of:
o An idea not being valid because it could "take up mindshare" (which to me seems kind of vulgar in essence).
o Disagreement based on preference.
o Disagreement based on lack of endearment to the situation or criteria.
o Cited qualifications as a valid basis for reasoning.

This needs to be addressed lest we all be reduced to a mob of "citation needed" shouting snobs. I wouldn't be surprised if participation from both amateurs and professionals alike has been impacted by this sort of behavior if I'm encountering it now.

["I want my mom to feel welcome here"], but from what I've seen she'd be chased out by a bunch of neurotic self-appointed moderators.

Either way, we're headed for this on brainstorm and it would be foolish to think we're going to avoid the problem without trying.

I can't seem to find a way to open MS-Publisher files on Linux. Everything else works fine, i.e. Word documents, Excel documents and so on, but Linux seems to be missing the ability to open MS-Publisher files.

While the default Ubuntu theme in Gnome is OK, there is room for A LOT more refinement. I would like to see things like:

- Beautiful icons like those in OSX
- Cutting edge, highly readable fonts

I would especially like to see tremendous attention to detail paid to all kinds of small things, such as default icons, etc. Much of this may come in the form of enhancements to the default Gnome/KDE themes.

There is just something incredibly pleasing about the look of OSX, and Ubuntu deserves to look at least as good.

With the right input from top designers, this is possible.

example from duplicate idea 5581 :
http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs22/f/2007/321/2/f/Ubuntu_Theme_Mockup___Light_by_b radwjensen.jpg

I see so many impossible ideas listed on this website.

People want Canonical to "make Hardware manufacturers work with us"
They want Ubuntu to "get the games industry to make games for us"
We ask the devs to "stop a bunch of people arguing (like KDE/Gnome), and to work together to make an ueber-Desktop"

All mega ideas. All nice pie-in-the-sky ideas that I want too. All impossible.

So... since impossible ideas seem par for the course, I want my Operating System to go where no operating system has gone before:

I want Ubuntu to bring World Peace.

Come on Mark Shuttleworth - you went into outer space - you made a Debian system I can actually install, with a bunch of devs who aren't actually trying to kill each other because they disagree on what style of commenting to use in the source code - surely, surely... you can do this too??

I stuck this in marketing, because, if Ubuntu brought World Peace - everyone would want to download it. And I attached bug #1 for the same reason.

I really like gEdit, it's a simple app and abides by all gnome standards. Any changes in preferences are reflected in the editor.

I do wish however that ith ad more features. The first of which is code folding.

Plain and simple.

Have you ever had a folder inside of another folder in which you had some files? Now say you wanted to take the files in the innermost folder and move them up a level. You'd have to cut and paste all the contents and then remove that folder. So more visually it would go like this Folder 1 > Folder 2 > files. Then you want the files in Folder 2 to be placed in Folder 1. So the finished product would be Folder 1 > files. It's almost like un-taring a folder, in fact this could apply to compressed archives as well. You would right click a folder and "Explode" it's contents to the current location. It would save a lot of clicks whether you're unzipping/untaring a compressed archive or unpacking a folder. This has only happened a few times to me so I understand if this isn't worthy of being voted up. Just an idea I had.

Many people have trouble installing Ubuntu alone. I will list here some common problems people find and in the end I will propose some solutions.

Attitudes like: "If the user doesn't know how to partition he/she should ask for help from someone else more experienced" are not really the solution to attract new users (mainly people having their first Linux experience or without internet access).

Some problems:
1. One of the first things the partitioner does is to ask what kind of partition should be created. Well, more than 50% of the users would say: What is a partition ? (before even have to ask themselves "Why should I do it?").

2. People don't know they should create a "/" partition (does it sounds any intuitive at first glance ?)

3. People don't know why do they have to do it because "in te system X I don't need to do it ! Everything simply works out of the box". We should not think it as any natural concept.

Off course it has many more problems. Let us stop here and show some possibilities:

- An introductory screen with short and acurate information. One suggestion is:

First screen:
"Now you may choose to have your disk partitioned. This process can make your system more secure, responsive and easy to manage. "

Second Screen:
"Some advantages of partioning:
-Frequently people have their personal data (internet content, projects, documents under construction), system data (installed programs, configuration files, etc.) and some shared data (like music, video, documents, etc.). If you have more than one system you should use partitions to organize it. If you have only one system you may use partitions to separate the contents from each other. This technique permits, for example, one to erase the whole system data preserving your personal and shared data and allowing you to install a new system with your old content.

[....]

Release 8.04 (hardy) contains tools for checking and reporting hardware compatibility (System Tools → Hardware Testing).

This is good start. Thanks for it! However I am missing few important questions. Many people are begging for suspend/hibernate support and sound recording fixes. Following questions will help to determine problematic hardware.

Is suspend mode working?
Is hibernate working?
Is sound recording working?