Contributor pepperpupper

Gnome 2.24 is shipping with some very nice abstract wallpapers - and they all support transparency. Since the wallpaper background is transparent, the wallpaper simply overlays the background with the colors or gradient that you choose in the Appearance Preferences. Because of this, you can change the color or gradient to come up with a virtually endless amount of customizable backgrounds with only a single wallpaper.

The background used in Hardy Heron uses a built-in gradient that can't be changed. It is a radial gradient, which is nice, but I think it would be worth setting a default vertical gradient through background colors instead of building it into the wallpaper itself. It would allow users to easily change the look and color, without changing the default wallpaper.

I could not find an SVG of the final Hardy wallpaper, but I did find a pre-final SVG to use as an example.

http://picasaweb.google.com/NeWhoa/UbuntuWallpaperTest#5241728256127146242
http://picasaweb.google.com/NeWhoa/UbuntuWallpaperTest#5240883619919731634
http://picasaweb.google.com/NeWhoa/UbuntuWallpaperTest#5240884247169236178
http://picasaweb.google.com/NeWhoa/UbuntuWallpaperTest#5240592925259351618
http://picasaweb.google.com/NeWhoa/UbuntuWallpaperTest#5240884245798795122
http://picasaweb.google.com/NeWhoa/UbuntuWallpaperTest#5240592866199452866
http://picasaweb.google.com/NeWhoa/UbuntuWallpaperTest#5240591952653605122

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If I click on evolution in the panel and I have evolution already open, the program loads from scratch and I end up with two evolution windows open. When I click on evolution again, it should focus on my existing evolution window, there's no need for two to ever be open.
Same goes for pidgin.
Rythmbox already has this feature.

However, for other apps like firefox, it is useful to be able to open multiple windows, so it should be left the way it is.

The default media player is called Totem Movie Player right? In the panel and the window heading it has this title, but in nautilus [when you right click for open-with] and the applications menu it is simply called 'Movie Player'.

It would be less confusing if the name was standardised across ubuntu

please include the Google chrome browser in the package repositories if it is released.

Currently, the rt73 wireless driver is the best way in Ubuntu to get your Ralink RT73 card work. But it isn't supported by Network Manager, it doesn't show avaible networks, while Serialmonkey's own network manager tool (RutilT) works perfectly.

it's a bit annoying the available screen resolutions appearing as complete mess: 4x3, 5x4, 8x5, 5x3 and 16x9, all mixed, and providing us sickful experiences about weird aspect ratios...

The screen resolutions could be grouped as:
. 5x4:
640x512
1280x1024
. 4x3:
640x480
1280x960
. 8x5:
800x500
1280x800
. 5x3:
800x480
1024x600
. 16x9:
800x450
1600x900

or:
. 1280x
800 (8x5)
960 (4x3)
1024 (5x4)

When I double-click on a ICC profile (.icc or .icm file) it says; "There is no application installed for this file type".

ICC profiles are for color calibration to get accurate natural colors.

It should ask me "Do you wish to activate this ICC profile?" this would make it much easier to use, install and setup.

Mockup dialog

When I double-click on a .ttf (font file) it says "There is no application installed for this file type".

It should give me a quick preview of the font which displays all letters and numbers in different sizes. E.g the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".

And offer me an easy way to install the fonts.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/65/Kfontview.png

This would make Ubuntu more attractive. Especially to professional users such as publishers, designers and artists.

I'm studying for the RHCE exam, so I use Red Hat besides of Ubuntu, Something that I love from Red Hat is that every time you use a Administrative tool and you get authorization to use it a icon appears in the notification area, it leaves after some time or you can just give a right click and select "forget this authorization".

It would be nice have the same in Ubuntu with gksu and that stuff

People who switched would not be made to feel guilty or dirty about using that key. They could be made and sold very cheaply and increase evangelism.

Also, that key should be supported by default:
idea #2490: Support the windows key
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2490/

actually mid files cant be played in totem nor any other music players, i have to use timidity to do that, i know what you must be thinking: "you have timidity, what are you asking for", the problem is that timidity is console, and a graphical interface to do this is neede, so we need codecs for this, maybe gstreamer need to add this codec to its pack.

While doing important things that require no interruption, such as playing my heavily modified and challenging version of ketm, it can pop up, taking the keyboard focus off of the game - which is a quite annoying thing.

A lot of people would like to know what's the best video card or audio card or whatever for Ubuntu. Of course, Ubuntu is supposed to work well with many different pieces of hardware. But sometimes it doesn't. Hardy x64 NVIDIA video has proved to be a case in point for me.

Right now, I just want to know what I need to buy in order to make it work, and I'm not finding that. Theory aside, I would like to know the hardware configurations that have been used extensively, with a variety of programs.

Make a JavaScript command-line interface interpreter that you can invoke via a shell script.

#!/usr/bin/javascript

Then you can use JavaScript (which is becoming increasingly popular) in shell scripts.

Protect system files and System packages from removal or deletion.reportedly I got error in
synaptic about broken packages I wanted to fix so committed a removal of packages while I thought it will remove only two broken packages it started removing ubuntu system core packages by which it runs the system I was stunned and buried in the CLI when system rebooted,it removed all the packages from system around 250+ packages.i installed some unofficial packages and system broke.Please fix this issue as soon as possible

(See below for an English translation)

Cuando joven, mi padre trabajaba vendiendo y dando servicio a maquinaria pesada Caterpillar. Una vez fueron a una granja a demostrar una retroexcavadora, y ésta se quedó atascada en el lodo. Coincidencialmente, un equipo de venta de la John Deer estaba en otra granja cercana demostrando una retroexcavadora similar. De inmediato la llevaron al sitio donde estaba la Caterpillar y la “rescataron”. Adivinen qué empresa hizo dos ventas ese mismo día.

Mi propuesta es que se incluyan en el LiveCD herramientas como testdisk, ntfsprogs, clamav y otras, que le permitan a un usuario avanzado recuperar datos o sistemas Güindous completos. Por lo general, luego de experimentar el poder de GNU/Linux, mis “clientes” se deciden por probar Ubuntu.

[English]
When he was young, my father used to work selling and servicing Caterpillar heavy machinery. Once, they went to a farm to demonstrate a back hoe, and it got stuck in the mud. Coincidentially, a John Deer sales team was in a nearby farm demonstrating a simmilar back hoe. They inmediatelly took it to the first farm and “rescued” the Caterpillar back hoe from the mud. Guess who made two sales that same day.

My proposal is to include in the LiveCD tools such as testdisk, ntfsprogs, clamav and others, that would allow an advanced user to recover data or whole Windoze systems. Generally, after my “customers” experience the power of GNU/Linux, they decide to give it a try.

UBUDSL is a great utility to easy configure your ADSL internet conection.
http://www.ubudsl.com/en/start.php

UCK is a great tool to customize your own ubuntu live cd
http://uck.sourceforge.net/

http://reconstructor.aperantis.com/

Reconstructor is a great tool to modify theme of your own ubuntu live cd

All big mouse cursor themes are currently completely useless because they obscure all tooltips. Sometimes partially (only first few letters) sometimes fully.

This simple idea is to make tooltips position configurable (or automatically configured) depending on the mouse cursor theme.

It is a wrong assumption of all tooltips that mouse cursor has 16x16 size. With ever growing monitor resolution even the 64x64 mouse cursor size soon will not be enough.