Contributor randall29

Well, it's most likely that Kubuntu Intrepid will ship with KDE4.1.
Maybe it would be useful to start working on an openoffice.org integration with Qt4, and some icons to match Oxygen theme.

Currently, Crystal icons look very out of place in KDE4, and using a KDE3 theme on its office suite breaks totally the visual coherence of the desktop.

I think it would be a great thing to have OpenOffice visually integrating nicely in KDE 4.

Actually, we can automount partitions on startup only by editing /etc/fstab by hand.

A beginner won't know what type of partition it is, what options to pass, or even what /dev/xxx his partition is.

A clean GUI for manipulating partitions could be adviseable.
It should be able to resize partitions, change their labels, automount them on startup, erase them (fast and full erase), and generally speaking configure them.

It could also be integrated with my other idea (tool to repair permissions: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7874/), so that you could repair permissions, scan (with fsck) your partitions, and manipulate them.

Currently, Compiz is pretty efficient. Lightweight in memory, kind of fast and smooth, really tunable to suit your personnal needs.

But in my opinion, it lacks 2 small things to really shine:
Firstly, an easy way to switch on/off anti aliasing, for old computers can't trigger this on, but on my desktop machine, anti aliasing is off, and the cube or window deformations are sometimes really strange.

Second point, stop the tearing effect. For the moment, a really nasty tearing effect appears when you move a window horizontally, it's even more flagrant with Wobbly windows enabled.

I think these two small improvements could really help Compiz Fusion to become a top notch window manager.

Excuse me for the typo in the title, it's, of course, a "TOOL" ;-)
I actually had a big problem last time I reinstalled: backuping my documents and files on a USB key, I reinstalled the OS.
But when I copied the whole thing on my new /home partition, every preferences folder had its permissions changed, so that no application would actually start.
I had to repair every single folder with its good permissions, which took me at least 3 hours.

Could we have a tool to repair the permissions all over the system, so that this kind of burden would be avoided (and it could probably speed up the system a little, if it repaired everything correctly)

As it was done for Kubuntu 7.10, I think it would be cool to create packages for the KDE 4.1 alphas and betas.
It would allow users to test the new features of KDE 4.1 way more easily.

Ok, I know it's not exactly an Ubuntu-related idea, but I think it's important.

Actually, when a user installs a program in Wine, only this user has the autorisation to access the program, meaning that if two or more persons want to access the software, they must share one user account, or install the program for each user, resulting in a lost of disk space (especially when it comes to Office or Photoshop).

I propose a installation mode, which should use sudo, and could create another fake C: drive somewhere in /, so that the programs can be installed for the whole system.
Of course, it should still be possible to install programs only for one user, with the actual way of installation.

Wine would then check in the user virtual C drive for programs, and PolicyKit could be used (if possible to integrate it in Wine) for launching system-wide programs.
Not in sudo mode, of course, just an authentication process (cause it's localized in the main directory tree).

Another solution could be to make the virtual C drives or some parts of it (like the folder containing the program) accessible to other users via an authentication process or a sharing thing.

I guess it would be great to separate different kind of updates: programs, librairies, core system (kernel/GNU utilities).

People could just look to their update-manager and see what programs will be updated (most of them don't care about the librairies, or they don't even know what library is what).

A short description should come with updates (but not the technical stuff that is already provided): like: this new version fixes the problem blahblah, or "This version brings support for feature X", etc...

In this way, people could really see what updates do to their system.
Combining this with idea "http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/234/" (Color coded updates) should be really useful to seek what updates are critical, and which part of the system they touch.

It would also be useful to track eventual regressions, if people understand what they installed ("look, my photos are all messed up, that could be because I installed that new version of F-Spot" - simple example, nothing against F-spot ;-) )
So briefly: updates should be separated in categories (Programs/Core System/Librairies), and color-coded to see which are critical and which are mainly bugfixex.

Currently, Evolution can only sync its Address Book with Pidgin.
Some people, however, only use Emesene, or Amsn, or other IM client that doesn't use a proprietary protocol. Evolution should be able to integrate nicely with these too.

Ubuntu should help upstream GNOME to work out this limitation.

Mac OS X Users have a online system (commercial) to upload photos, create blogs and other useful things, nonetheless syncing their macs together.

Ubuntu should maybe create a system like that (free source code, but could cost money), to upload your Cheese photos, publish your simple website, sync your Ubuntu computers from anywhere (like the back to my mac feature, bot for ubuntu).

It would be a great asset in making Ubuntu more popular in the enterprise world, and even to home users, and allow them to share more freely their personal data, instead of relying on different services like Flickr, Google or others.

This could be small at the beginning (I think the most useful feature would be the syncing), and expand month after month to become a real alternative to other hosting services.

EDIT: duplicate of idea 88: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/88/