http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com guidelines and check if your idea has been posted already! ]]> en-us Fri, 05-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC Fri, 05-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/7745/
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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.

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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!

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

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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 05-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8609/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8096/ 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.


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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.

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- 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_bradwjensen.jpg

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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.

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]]> Fri, 05-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8250/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8728/
I do wish however that ith ad more features. The first of which is code folding.

Plain and simple.

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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 05-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8728/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/6419/ 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.

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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.

-You may want to install different file systems(fs) on each partition. One file system may be used to install other OS like Windows, Solaris, etc. Another fs may be used for software management while another one may be used to load big multimedia files faster or to keep your configuration files which are rarely deleted.

-You may give special permissions in the partition you want or use one as backup and deactivate it from external activities when are not using to protect your data.
"

After that the user will want to do partitions or if they don't they will at least know why not!

The installer should suggest a setup explaining it's usage:

"Partitions must have a name and a type:

Name - Type - Description
/ - Reiser - The / contains everything it is necessary to install the system.

/home - Reiser - This is where the users' personal data could be stored and managed.

/multimedia - xfs - This partition may hold music and video you rarely will delete but rather read frequently and other people could also see it.

Off course there is a device name and everything else, but first of all it should ask what to create and where to put it. Maybe the installer should not even ask where to put the partitions (like /dev/sda5...) because it's not so useful to know it if you are not an experienced user. But, off course, it should always follow an automatic behavior saving the user the work but always giving the option to know more.

It's enough for now. I appreciate your comments



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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?


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Square corners are nicer.
Round corners are ugly.

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I am sure this is not the only case of this and it would be a real convenience for compatibilities sake if we simply changed the default install to office formats.


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- tutorials / screencasts (compiz, openoffice, installing ubuntu, installing software...).
- lectures about ubuntu / linux.
- videos from / about ubuntu community.
- ...

There are allready some intersting solutions around, like http://unixtube.com, but may be some solution driven by the active ubuntu community could be a plus.

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And then they say "I tried to install Ubuntu but it's too complicated for me, so I prefer stay with Windows for the moment"...

(Sorry for my bad english)

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I refere to this project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin

And the goal is to make linux look like OS X

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Video of kinetic scrolling on an Open Moko: http://youtube.com/watch?v=k9eDkhHdNLI
Note: there would be an option to revert to the normal way.

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