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Making every app on your system compiled for 64-bit is an over-optimization that buys you nothing but bigger binaries. The fact is, as long as your CPU isn't pegged at 100%, making most apps faster isn't going to be noticed. Aside from a few exceptions like office apps and web browsers that can occasionally be compute-heavy enough to impact responsiveness, most apps spend most of their time completely idle, only responding to keypresses and mouse clicks for tiny fractions of a second, passing off most of the heavy work to the OS or X11. Gentoo takes this overboard by having one single system-wide setting so that cron (which uses no CPU time for itself but launches other things) is optimized as aggressively as Ruby or Firefox or bzip2 which really need it. Since Ubuntu distributes mostly in binary form, there's no reason why different packages couldn't be optimized for their usage, most things optimized for size.

Of course, an exception to the exception are things like Firefox that take plugins. Yes, Flash is evil because it's proprietary, but if you want complete Flash support, you have to use Adobe's plugin, and you can only do that with 32-bit browsers. As such, it would make a lot of sense to default to 32-bit binaries for Firefox and Konqueror. Still, they need more optimization (renderers and javascript interpreters, etc.), so perhaps there should be multiple packages, optimized for different architectures, but all 32-bit.

The one major hole in my analysis is that having a hybrid system actually COSTS you disk space because you have to have duplicates of all your libraries. I don't have a good solution to that other than to say that it's moot as long as you include 32-bit browsers, because you need them anyhow. And I think there's good reason to default to 32-bit Firefox.

BTW, statistically, optimizing for size may hurt your application's performance a tiny bit (but again, if your CPU is 99% idle, you can't tell), but it also has the potential to make other apps faster. If you near the limits of your memory, smaller apps will mean less swapping. Saving only one page doesn't help much, but saving dozens of pages per app can make a difference.

Hands aloft, who's still running a machine with 32-bit CPU? Make the 64-bit compile the focus, dump Gnome and make KDE rock solid.

Let's move on and forget those Fisher-prise Icons.
Let's move to glass-like, more elegant icons.
Let's use more transparent dialogs through GNOME-Compiz on default.

The name of idea speaks for itself. I hate to run everytime some scripts by hand to ensure proper working of my home router. Yeah, there are a lot of ways to do this automatically, but also there are many choices how to do this/how to work router later. Just make a simple wizard for that from which we can choose what can do and what cannot the router. Please :)

Temporary Petition to ban kostus_online for hating us poor Brainstormers. Please remove this petition when he is banned or the number of votes goes negative.
His work here:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3114/
Your comments about him here:

Your glorious acknowledgment of my original use of brainstorm here:

Well, I wrote my own ideas, I actually know what its all about. Everything else can stay. Maybe even display if there are any new comments. But the description can go. IMHO it's just a waste of space.

I haven't a clue which ideas I've read, so I'd like to be able to filter out the ones I've already seen.

Sometimes a picture shows what we are talking about better than words so allow us to post pictures in our ideas, like you can on Ideastorm.

oops. i just killed it. sorry bout that. you may remove this idea, because it looks like its dead. wasn't so good anyway...

Establish relationship with large computer hardware re-sellers to push Linux compatible hardware. I'm thinking that Newegg would be ideal.

Basically is would let Linux users know which hardware is supported and where to buy it.

Imagine a website where people can go and get a new wireless card or video card that will "Just Work".

Offer the possibility to translate some propositions for non english-speaking people. There are tons of users out there waiting to get their voice heard and other users willing to provide a translation to say french (I know I'd be willing to help), spanish, portuguese, italian, chinese or whatever. That feature would require moderation, sure, but it would also greatly improve the quality of the feedback.

Currently the Compiz-fusion cube has rough edges and isn't particularly nice to look at when being rotated at slow speeds. I think this would improve the look and feel of the cube dramatically and with today's computers, this shouldn't be much of an issue to render this effect. Disabled by default but able to be turned on if the user's computer can handle it.

Currently the Eclipse packages in Ubuntu lack heavily behind other distributions like lets say Fedora.
The packages in ubuntu are outdated and so are the eclipse language plugins like CDT or Pydev.

Properly supporting this top notch IDE should give new linux developers an easier start.

I just bought a new graphics card (8800 GT)and there seems to be problems with it being picked up automatically in ubuntu. It would be nice if that new X.org was finally implemented.

Provide an area that will show all pertinent system info in one place. Like in windows with my computer properties. Should show the flavor of ubuntu, the release, ram, swap, cpuinfo, battery (if any), kernel version, disk usage, etc.

Organize a web-based Debian Recognition/Appreciation Day every year. Doesn't have to be anything formal, but the Debian maintainers are a key factor to the huge success Ubuntu is experiencing these days and they deserve the props.

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

If you would donate a Dollar or more for a fully-featured but free and open source alternative to Adobe's Flash plugin, then vote "+" for this idea.

Please do NOT vote "-" if you would not donate a cent. Just leave it alone!

There is not negative dollar in real life either. We don't want to vote but count dollars here! Unfortunately, there is no facility for that in Brainstorm yet, so we have to do it that way. Please play along and don't sabotage it with "-" votes!

By the way, there is an idea to support donating money to ideas. Please support it!
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1295/

Make circular scrolling on touchpads a default option in Ubuntu.

Circular scrolling on touch pads compares favorably to mouse wheel scrolling.

Example: when scanning a large webpage for some piece of information, instead of a series of separate mouse wheel jerks to scroll across the page, a single, uninterrupted ("endless") movement can be used. Such circular finger movement can be from quite slow to very rapid, while changing up/down directions does not require you to lift your finger from the surface. This results in quicker visual searches with greater control.

Circular scrolling already works when using Synaptic touchpads with qsynaptics - but it would be great to have it supported for more touch pad models. By adding clever code, perhaps even those which do not support it natively?

Thanks for a great OS/distro.

I have the feeling many people give ideas a negative vote just because it's not related to any issue they have or it simply just doesn't interest them.

Wouldn't it be better to only allow positive votes? Would "smaller" ideas have a better chance to be heard if so and not be buried way down? Or is the negative vote essential to express the needs, opinions and hopes of the Ubuntu community?
I saw many digg like websites removing the negative vote again, and digg and reddit, the probably most known and biggest voting sites don't have the negative vote.

PLEASE comment! I would like to know how you think about it.