Contributor pjhayward

As Gutsy already has compiz-fusion as standard Window-Manager it is frequently troublesome to disable it (when starting a game, a Java-App or saving battery-life). Including the compiz-fusion-tray-icon would provide a simple ui to allow the user to disable it temporarily and additionally a quick way to change settings.

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2007/08/26/compiz-fusion-tray-icon/

Make it easy to join a Ubuntu Workstation to a Active Directory Domain. Like Windows does for instance.

Orange Brown theme should not be the only one included
There should be color themes based on all the basic
colors e.g. blue theme, yellow theme, red theme, black theme
green theme.

The integration with gnome-art would be nice, a lot of people use it to customize their desktop.

It can be some nice add :)

a lot of times, text is not copied. even if i cut, the selected text disapears in firefox and isn't pasteable in pidgin. sometimes the clipboard is an older version, if i paste.

It seems baffling to me that with the explosion of cheap sub-US$400 Linux machines from the likes of Everex, WalMart, Asus Eee, Shuttle, etc, that none of these ship with Ubuntu installed, but rather go with sad alternatives like gOS or Mandriva or something. Despite the fact that Ubuntu is the most popular Linux OS and far more capable. Many millions of these cheap machines are going to ship this year and would be a huge opportunity to get Ubuntu into the hands of the masses. Plus I think it would be a big selling point for the marketers to be able to slap an Ubuntu sticker on these machines.

It is often lamented that Ubuntu is not pre-installed on more machines, that the hassles of installation and configuration are principle blockers to mass adoption. And yet here are a bunch of opportunities lost to marginal or no-name distros.

I think Canonical needs to make more of an effort to reach out to these companies as it did with Dell and partner with them to make Ubuntu the free OS of choice on budget PCs.

In the meantime, at the very least, Ubuntu needs to supply super-easy (as in one-click) customized installs that can go onto specific machines like the Eee PC and configure all of the hardware at least as well as the stock setup.

1)small tree browser in the left pane( like the one in windows explorer, its convenient for quickly browsing the hierarchy'). The tree like structure in the "detailed" view on the right pane is very close to what i am talking abt. but, it needs to be on the left side with smaller icons so that it can fit into a smaller left pane.

2) Tabbed browsing instead of opening multiple windows

3) responsiveness, nautilus needs to render much faster that it currently does. Since the file explorer is one of the most frequently used app, ppl get easy frustrated when it doesn't work as expected.

4) There should be an option to apply a view setting (icons,details,etc) system wide( for all folders in the system) , that is, not remembering view setting for each folder and using a global view setting.

5) Dragging an entity should make it transparent. If not done, this tends to cover up the entity on which you are dropping it on. If transparency is not achievable due to some limitation in X server, show only the outline while dragging.

6) The shorcuts in the left pane, when right clicked should have context menu similar to that of a normal folder.

The default fonts in linux are ugly especially with LCD monitors.The Windows Vista have beautiful Segoe UI font for LCDs. It will be great to create new linux font for universal use.

Hello,
in gdm or kdm I think make numlock on by default is a very good thing


thanks

7-Zip is open source software. Source code is under the GNU LGPL license. it is nice to install it default.

1. Install 7zip with other copression methodes like zip, tar, gzip

2. It automatically integrated with file-roller. So no need any other gui program or user don't want to know complex comand lines for compressing their data in 7zip.

When a folder is shared, the icon stays the same in nautilus. There is an icon that can be added to the folder to show that it is shared, but this icon should be automatically added so users know what folders are shared.

It would also be nice to have an option in the rightclick menu to "unshare"

Whenever users plan to buy new hardware for their ubuntu machines, they first have to search the web to find informations about kernel/driver support or incompatibility issues.

It would be really helpful if a sticker on the outside of the box of a scanner/printer/usb-dvb-tuner/mp3(ogg)-player/digicam/... simply said "works with ubuntu" or "designed for GNU/Linux" to guarantee that the product runs "out of the box" with Ubuntu or other Linux distributions.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkomen/155060941/
http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/88743/next/

Edit (2008-03-04): This project seems to be on the road already: http://www.ubuntu.com/partners/hardwareprogramme

Most of the planet uses the Metric System. So why does the system default to imperial units? Make A4 the default paper size for printing, only two countries don't use it. Most people don't know what inches are so cm or mm should be the default.

For us tech types, the terms 'mount' and 'unmount' make sense. Not so for average users. "Remove USB Drive" or "Remove USB device" would be easier for non-techies to understand.


From #6549 (merged):

For most of people reading this, "unmount volume" makes perfect sense, but for most "humans" using Ubuntu, Unmount volume isn't a clear action.

My GF had to call me because she didn't know how to remove her pen drive safely. (she said later she suspected it would be that "unmount volume", but she was unsure whether after clicking there, all her data would be deleted).

Other suggestions :
Disconnect drive (3)
Disconnect drive (umount) (2)
Prepare for removal (1)
Remove drive (1)

After the installation of ubuntu there should be a script witch will optimize the linux kernel for each individual computer so that we get high speed and responsiveness!
just like arch linux

Very often the firewall blocks some of my network communcation and it takes me hours to realise that. Some kind of popup or notification would help the user.

To set your system sounds, you need to go to "System" -> "Preferences" -> "Sounds" and set all of them manually. How about a universal sound "theme"?

Canonical should convince Adobe to make their products for Linux.
I came across few petitions on the Internet, but that obviously had no effect.

With the right vision and marketing plan to increase market share, maybe Canonical could convince Adobe to make the native Linux version of their software.

Right now, with 2% market share overall, it is not a lucrative niche for commercial (very expensive software).
On the other side, many windows users are reluctant to switch to Ubuntu Linux because they can not use Adobe products (among other windows applications).

Finding way to join the corporative interests and the customer needs and wishes is the key to success.

Here in Australia Microsoft allocates a student as a Microsoft representative at every major University and gives them a free Xbox at the end of the year.

We should contact every university's main computing club and allocate a Ubuntu rep (without pay). It would look great on their resume, all CD's and demo materials are sent to them, and some ubuntu gear could be sent to them as thanks. (maybe just a T-shirt or something).

At our uni we had a linux rep, however, he had no focus, and we had no idea what to make of it. Lets get dedicated reps in there, so that the often held linux install days work better.

It would not take any programmers off their duties, and we could simply post a list of universities on the ubuntu frontpage for people to send applications to, if their university hasn't been allocated one yet.

Lets get the word across. Its no good offering to hand out CD's online if people haven't heard of ubuntu, this would give people a chance to tell people why ubuntu

Right now when an application is installed in Synaptic, all the dependencies of the application are automatically installed. However, when the same application is uninstalled, only the application itself is uninstalled by Synaptic; all the dependencies of the application that were automatically installed by Synaptic are left intact.

The only way to remove the automatically installed dependencies is to run sudo apt-get autoremove from the command line.

Synaptic should provide an option to remove the automatically installed dependencies that were installed with an application when that application is being uninstalled using Synaptic.

Having a user drop to the command line to achieve this is not acceptable especially for new users.