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Edit: Ouch, please ignore this idea, it was posted from a misconception, sorry.

Create your own style. Like it do Mac OS or Windows. Windows have this http://blog.artnn.ru/images_2007/windows_vista_aero.jpg
http://www.myvistathemes.com/vista-themes/indigo_for_windows_vista.png
Mac OS have X
http://www.thg.ru/technews/images/mac_os_x_leopard_stacks-171007.jpg
http://www.cnet.com.au/i/g/40091741/sc003.jpg
http://www.mac.co.ua/images/indexdesktop20060807.jpg
Don't look like any Linux. Create your own style of visual effects, panels, buttons, animation, etc.
Make that Ubuntu looks like WOW!!!!! It's really important for new users. It's really pleasure when your operation system make you pleasantly and surprise you for the skilled users of ubuntu.
MAKE IT!!!!!

May be you say:
Ubuntu already has its own style.
It is that brown theme everyone complains about.

I answer:
But Ubuntu looks like any other Linux!!!!!!
It's not Individually!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Theme is theme!Individuality is Individuality!!!!!
Because you may looks all effects of Ubuntu in other Linux too. And themes of course. I may use your favourite brown theme in Mandriva for example. I mean it's not cool... See the gnome-look.org. How many themes like MAC or WINDOWS???????
What for to imitate?

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Every time you open firefox, and try to type in a url, focus shifts to the google search. If I wanted Google for my homepage, I'd make it my homepage. Some people might say that instead of getting rid of it, there should be a change in the way focus works. I disagree. When I go to Google, I like to have focus shift to the search, but when I go to my homepage/release notes, I want to be able to immediately start typing the url of the page I'm going to, instead of typing half of it while the page loads and the other half in google. Also, if you're going to have google on the homepage, at least have it link to results that give you access to image results too.

now safari the apple's browser is ported to windows but it wont work in ubuntu.make it possible to run inside ubuntu,because
* its good looking than firefox,current firefox 3 beta is buggy and cant match safari.
* apple says its faster than most of the browsers.
* more options to browse web than firefox.
* improved compatability with quicktime and apples app's
* i feel best looking browser in the world
* flock in repo's

In Linux Mint, when the mouse hovers over a sound file in Nautilus for more than 3 or 4 seconds, it starts playing the file without opening any other program, like a media player!

As soon as the mouse leaves the file, it stops.

This is an amazingly convenient feature which I would love to see in Ubuntu!

Please create and Ubuntu Service Pack (SP1, SP2, etc) like MS Windows.

If the user have to install Ubuntu, and there are a lot of updates, it will be easier to download an Ubuntu Service Pack (SP) with all the new updates, fixed bugs, etc.

Also it is very helpful for an IT team when they have to install or reinstall Ubuntu into several machines.

Regards

Felix

Some popular software that affect user appeal of the system must be stable in new releases of ubuntu.

In particular i refer to flashpluginonfree that was stable in Gutsy but not in Hardy and it cause a lot of crash in firefox.
I think that the problem is caused by pulseaudio and firfox beta installed by default.
The plugin is used to navigate in YouTube and a lot of popular site with an evident discouragement.
This could have negative feedback in particular for new users.
This little but important bug bring users turn back to windows and not to migrate to ubuntu.

Please correct this bug and don't let this happen anymore!

There's no option in the Brainstorm profile settings to specify my gender, therefore why does it say "His ideas", "Ideas he promoted", etc. on the contributor page of everybody?

I suggest either swapping he for they and his for their, or rephrasing the text to remove the pronouns.

E-Gnome is the best windows manager hybrid ever! you can even iconify the desktop.

With having a main startup application list, also have a tab or a section or some way in the sessions settings where you can add an application to run only once on your next restart, instead of on every restart.

Hello, long since used ubuntu and one thing I was always angry, we can only run a synaptic at the same time, I can not be in add / remove programs and installing something in a terminal with apt-get at the same time. My idea is to run more than one synaptic at the same time.

Ubuntu should track which software is installed on the computers by users and this popular software should be part of the default system.

Popularity should not be measured by which items are left unchanged and unused in the repository how it is currently done, but what users choose to install and use.

I would expect that users are installing:
Browser plugins,
Video codecs,
Games,
Emulators and Productivity suite's.
If these are popular, they should be part of the Ubuntu system, so that after installation for most users a fully working system is available. This information should also be provided to the developers of derived systems, so that they can benefit from this information.

There might be problems with software repositories, accepting license agreements and putting GPL software as well as proprietary on the same CD. Those issues should be resolved as much as possible by trying to provide convenience to the user.

For example if proprietary flash plugin cannot be distributed in the cd and requires accepting a license, so the Ubuntu installer should propose to accept this license and download/install the plugin from a disk.

Of course trialware should not be part of the default installation.

This is direct negation of this idea:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/8505/
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Many comments said it would be better if we would not be able to vote for our ideas.
believe it or not, but I wanted to post that long time ago, just thought it's not the best idea. Now I see that there are lot of people that agree with me.
I usually don't vote for my idea at the get go, but do vote after some time when it's still on 0 or even on -1.
I still have not voted on some of my ideas, and I voted one of my ideas down (fully consciously).
And that 1 vote really doesn't make a difference if idea is bad it's still bad it just have 1 plus vote and 50 minus votes.
BTW: I didn't voted for this idea

It could be easier to launch (like xfce) an application or browse a directory by using the mouse (right click) rather than to go the the main menu.

My girlfriend had a really hard time giving her presentation to her class mates in college and if M$ save formats were default that would not have happened.

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.

One of the things I love about Ubuntu is that it keeps the desktop very clean, as opposed to Windows which uses the desktop as a dump truck, resulting in useless clutter.

Unfortunately, Ubuntu's desktop does contain icons for each partition and external hard drive. Worse, there isn't an obvious way to remove them from the desktop. These icons are more than useless considering the same volumes can be easily accessed in the "Places" menu.

The icons can be hidden by a simple edit to the gconf settings:
http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2007/10/25/hide-partition-icons-from-your-ubuntu- desktop (remove the space in the URL)

I, and likely many others, would prefer this setting by default.

Priority: Low
Realisation: hard
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I was reading the openBSD site and what surprised me is that they accuse Linux developers of non-cooperation.
So Ubuntu should be the firs to "lend an helping hand".
If Ubuntu made debian user friendly it can make BSD also.
This could get the exchanging of ideas between this two on higher level and could lead to better not only BSD but also Linux. I mean they are both Unix based OS, how hard could it be??

(even I think this idea is a bit weird but it could get the proverbial ball rolling)

Who can see anything in icon view?

it violates privacy.

At least make it possible to disable it

There are all sort of features, enabled by default, that violate the users privacy:

recent files histories,
browser histories and cache not being cleaned at shutdown,
password saving features,
tracker and indexing services that even index file contents,
etc, etc,...

The problem with these is that they are scattered all over the system, so you can never tell when you have found them all. Some are even impossible to turn of with my skills.

It would make much more sense if the attitude would be to have features that violate privacy disabled by default, and enabled by request. This would be a much better attitude towards the user, giving them clarity into their privacy. It would make me feel much better if i had the feeling that developers would only have features like that turned on when im very concious of the decisions i make. Right now, i find it impossible to try and create a safe environment to work in, because it's all scattered. In my opinion, most of those features are quite unuseful anyways. Who was really waiting in great expectation for recent documents to come to linux???

There are also privacy enchancing features which could maybe be on by default if they have no drawbacks, like encrypted swap etc.

In any case, there should be very clear documentation on what the privacy status is of an operating system, with for example an extensive list of all the features that possibly violate privacy.

Clarity is asked for. How many people know what it means to have a journalling file system in therms of privacy. Does that mean that shred will not erase all sensitive data? , etc, etc...