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Suspend and hibernate still seems to be a big issue based on forum posts. Really focus on fixing it, even with proprietary drivers.

This is what I want:

I want to be able to mark applications "Not Compiz compatible" so that Compiz shuts down when I launch a game or some other 3D-heavy application. This is something I want to improve stability and performance for such applications.

Duplicates happen, and there are already quite a few examples of duplicates that have each accrued a fair number of votes (ie the original has 50 votes and the dupe 100).

This creates confusion for the user, should I vote for both ideas, the original, or the duplicate as it has more votes? This would obviously require some supervision, but a "propose merge" form for two very similar / identical ideas would help ensure that competition doesn't kill good ideas.

The merge process would also have to check to ensure that votes from the same person for each idea are not double counted, but I don't think this would be that hard to implement.

Example from idea 4292 :

One is suggesting to add MBR recovery option in Installation CD.http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1242/
One is suggesting that installer should never overwrite MBR.http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1957/
One is suggesting to have general application which can recover MBR.http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3985/

All these ideas should be merged and a single solution which seems to be good enough should be implemented.

Everyone is familiar with Open Office’s office suite or Firefox/Mozzilla’s internet suite of Firefox and Thunderbird. Both suites have found homes in Linux and are a staple in many Linux distros.(IMHO) These two application suites have made Linux a viable OS in desktop computing. Yes, I do know other alternatives to OOO and FF are available and, competition is a good thing.

The time has now come for a multi-media Application Suite for the OSS community. Lets face it, Linux lacks many of the creative and multi-media tools that it needs to be a real desktop OS. Many new users to Ubuntu/ Linux just need a simple way to edit video, audio and pics. I know that many apps already exist for these needs but, most of these apps fall short and do not integrate with one another(IMHO).

Is there a really solid OSS video editor for the home video enthusiast? This is what I see with many OSS video editors: Cinelerra is overkill and it lacks the ability to capture DV video. Kino and Diva are just to basic. Pitivi just combines clips, Kdenlive is still very buggy (in beta) also, getting firewire to work is also a real pain for video editing applications too.

A simple to use video editor is much needed in the home user Ubuntu/ Linux desktop. While were talking about video Apps how about integrating a video editor with a separate DVD Video creation app? Is this starting to sound like iMovie and iDVD?

Image editing in Linux needs work too, Gimp is OK for simple editing but should combine a photo manager and needs some work with some of the core tools and its UI to make it easer for the home user. Once more, the Image app should be able to work with the video editing and DVD creation software.

If these apps were created and worked well, a natural side effect could be a push in the use of free or open source formats for media such as ogg. Having a multimedia application suite for creation that pushes open media formats such as OGG would be huge!

So the BIG question is how do you make money off developing this Application suite? Easy, all of these apps create multimedia files that either have hard copy equivalents or can be uploaded to sharing sites like youtube or flicker.

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I just noticed that an idea that I was looking at before disappeared and then realized that it had been marked a duplicate of another one and hidden. I'm all for collapsing good ideas, but in my opinion, the hidden duplicate was vastly more informative than the one that it was marked a duplicate of.

Don't arbitrarily throw away good ideas.

My suggestion is that a link to the hidden idea should appear as a comment under the winner. This way, people can still get to all of the useful information.

Some simple things such as bookmarks of my folders and mouse sensitivity settings should be recognised by the DE the user is using / migrated to. Some settings may be hard to migrate, such as keyboard shortcuts or amaroks/rythmboxs ratings , but the more simple settings shouldn't be too hard.

The free desktop enviorments shouldn't lock-in their users.

Make cinelerra available with apt-get.
Very cool non-linear video editor, the only one able to deal with the sound of JVC HDD media files!
OK it's maybe a codec problem, but all the other available non-linear video editors mess it up.

"Most Popular Ideas" is not necessarily the most useful search. It could be that these ideas have been around a long time, so have had more votes.

I would rename the current "Most Popular" to "Most Voted For" and make the "Most Popular" list report the order in (# of votes over time listed). This would allow very recent posts that are getting a lot of votes to appear at the top of the list.

Otherwise, the newer posts seem to slide into oblivion on the "Latest Ideas" search, regardless of actual user interest.

Yeah, 'MySQL, Apache, & PHP' installed by default for servers.