Contributor qaaq

As of now, if one wants to add/edit a menu item, one has to right-click on the gnome menu title bar, select to edit the menu, and then navigate through another hierarchy. It would be much simpler to add an option to "edit this item" or "add a new menu item" through right-click when you are navigating the menu normally.

edit: Also moving items in menu just by drag and drop.

I think that GNOME is more slower than K Desktop Environment

Create a binary container for SOME gui programs (obviously not bin utils or the like) that would mimic osx's binary blobs. These blobs hide complexity from the user since _everything_ necessary to run the program is contained within the blob. Also, it could be managed by synaptic at install time so as not to duplicate libs etc.
Clicking on the blob would just start the main program within the blob. The blob could be something as simple as an ext2 image, or something more complex (something encrypted/compressed/signed).

Pros:
instantly portable binaries (firefox, pidgin, etc)
cleaner filesystem
more intuitive for noobies

Cons:
If there was no container manager there could be multiple copies of libraries used by different programs.

This bloat, while not optimal, is of course mitigated by the fact that disk space is such a commodity that the pros outweigh the cons for most users.

NOTE: this is NOT an apt replacement it is JUST a binary container format.
and shared libs could still be shared either through links or apt updating multiple copies of the libs. while this is a little more accounting for apt the win for the end user is worth it.

If it makes it clearer just think of it like a Java Jar container for linux binaries.

To avoid releasing versions with bugs.
OK, we can say intrepid will be out for october. We dont know when will be windows 7 released. And what?
If you could choose between a bugged version on october or a more robust version on december/january; what would you choose?

Let's say you have an application(non-gui) or a command that you want to run at boot (before a user logs in). There should be an easy way to make this happen. For non-blocking applications(daemons), it would just fire and forget. If it is a blocking application (one that holds the terminal until it terminates), it wraps it into a daemon.

Example: I have a virtual machine (in VirtualBox) that runs a Windows-only server application. I access this VM when I need to through RDP (rdesktop), but I want to run this VM when my machine boots.

Another example: Alice just installed a service that does not come with an init script, and must run this service when the machine boots. She would really like an easy way to start this service without having to write her own init script.

Another example: Bob has a bash script that continually checks for updates for something and downloads new updates. He's not always logged in, or someone else is using the machine. But he wants the newest version to be there when he's ready for it.

something like the easy installation menu in dream linux 3 which lets you install common packages like skype, ubuntu-restricted-extras and others.

Instead of having two seperate installs have it support both without choosing different ISO downloads or allow us to choose during set-up.

For example: i was just showing off my new install of Hardy (beta, obviously) to a windows user. I moused over a copy of Greensleeves (in mp3 format) on my desktop, and it started to play. I listened to it for 10 seconds or so, and then double-clicked it, expecting it to continue playback from 10 seconds into the track. However, it didn't, and i was thrown back to the beginning of the song.

I know it's only a small thing, but I can imagine it being fairly easy to implement, although i have no programming skills myself to do it. If it can't be enabled across all media players, then someone could at least get it working in the default install program, for example, rhythmbox.

Ubuntu need a processes manager that will load quickly and thus be preloaded in memory to use it when I need it quickly, an process manager who always respond well light and have their "sleep" in the code to enable him to run in real time without harming the functioning of the machine to use it
That for me is essential because sometimes some software tilts and I have to wait forever to react, windows and even though it has many times the system becomes unstable be solved very quickly with the manager processes that possesses.
Ubuntu have one, but it doesn't meet this features
(preload, speed, reaction, response and high priority, etc)
It would be perfect to kill the process or lower the priority to be able to continue working normally while ending "freezes"
In ubuntu we can not act quickly drift which results in inefficient that can be solved easily in this way

Intro
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rpms abound some web sites, and it is easy for a new user to end up downloading them of debs, it is also probable there won't be .debs available where .rpms are.

Changes to nautilus-gnome
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* Associate .rpm with gdebi

Changes to gdebi
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* If the file is an rpm prompt the user "Are you sure this is the only available binary package? / Are you sure there is no equivalent .deb file?"
* If user says "yes, I am sure" proceed.
* If alien is not installed, prompt the user if he wants to install it, if the user wants to install alien, install and proceed.
* Call alien to process the rpm file.

I tried several versions of linux software and they all screamed that it did the same as windows.
I stopped using them for one very important reason: they all worked in there conservative non-tolerant linux way.
The day it works like windows I will use it.
-I want to install programs like windows
-I want tot use the filemanager like windows
-I want program names with normal names and not cryptic linuxnames only meant for linux insiders.
-I want the windows-like interface and all the things I usually do with windows.

Every windows user wants to work like he or she did with windows.
If Ubuntu does this, all these people will go and work with Ubuntu
Until then : nada
I just don't understand why nobody in the Linux world does see this what every windows user knows.
To me it feels that nobody in linux world wants to see this fact.
Very very strange.
Make it like windows and everyone will adopt Ubuntu

I Like apt but there shoud be a way to install a programm like under Windows.

PCBsd have this already and is called PBI.

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.

The Gnome team is not in touch with the average user. They take the "tried and true" route on the development patch. KDE is far too bloated and unstable. Usability had not improved and easy of use remains stagnant on both end. Ubuntu seeks to make linux for human beings, but constantly relies on outside projects to provide that functionality. We need a middle ground interface that is powerful, element, and useful. I want to see new ideas and interfaces, not recycled ones. Gnome is Desktop 1.0 and its time to move the interface forward.

Related:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3207/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3444/

Openvz is a light-weight virtualization system for linux servers, based on a patched kernel.

Canonical already supports Ubuntu hosts inside openvz.

I think we should also have the OpenVz kernel in universe!

Making a great product design like Apple Macbook/Pro and adjusting ubuntu to that hardware so as to improve the performance of linux and ubuntu. Knowing in wich hardware is going to run that ubuntu would boost the performance.

Also some integrated goodies like webcams, graphic card, would be supported on that laptop.

Finally, the design product is also important to gain market, so it must be very well designed and should have a disctintive look (again look at MB/MBPro against Acer/HP/Packard Bell -like my laptop-, MB's looks very different to them).

Exaile is a music player aiming to be similar to KDE's Amarok, but for GTK+ and written in Python. It incorporates many of the cool things from Amarok (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm submission support, and optional iPod support via a plugin.
In addition, Exaile also includes a built-in SHOUTcast directory browser, tabbed playlists (so you can have more than one playlist open at a time), blacklisting of tracks (so they don't get scanned into your library), downloading of guitar tablature from fretplay.com, and submitting played tracks on your iPod to Last.fm.
http://www.exaile.org

But not with fuzzy things like "better" usability. Yet simply with better legacy applications support.

That's the secret to Microsoft's success. MS-DOS embraced and extended a lot of pre-existing applications from CP/M-86 (and maybe some other OS I can't recall). So MS-DOS hit the market with backwards support.

Who ever provides better backwards support for applications kills Microsoft. Apple could it, a BSD could do it, Haiku OS can chance that grail too, and Linux can absolutely do it.

I remember how may departments simply refused to upgrade to WinXP because some critical application had problems in WinXP. And that was in large organizations that pushed everybody to conform, like it or not. But! Some times there's just one critical app. that's not stable enough on WinXP and that's it.

Even back then, I thought to myself, if I told them, that I could give them a way to keep using the critical apps, they would switch in an instant.

Now let me admit two obvious problems with my idea:

First, APIs are a moving target. MS could change them. So you'd lose support for the very latest versions of MS apps. But that's all you'd lose. Only the very latest of MS apps.

Second, perfect backwards support isn't easy, Lindows tried it and where are they now? OK, so call me an optimist, but I think Lindows (a for profit company) failed, where open source can succeed. We can succeed in that turtle way that's slow but steady and just keeps getting better.

So imagine one day, all of those old applications from MS-DOS v0.1 to WinXP sp2, all run better on Linux then on Vista. Do you not believe that kills Microsoft?

Every time you run 'apt-get update' it fetches a repository file that is several megabytes large.
Often in vain.

It should fetch an checksum of the remote package list and then compare it against the local cached list to see if the checksums match. If they match, then there are no need fetch it in vain.

Look here: http://optimizationkit.org/ [PL]
or in english: http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/tools/OptimizationKit/doc_en.txt

This can be possible:
- schedule tasks CFS on the fly
- operations I/O CFQ

better optimalizations for some programs. Maybe Canonical could set some options using this tools. Maybe this help for speedup Ubuntu...