Contributor randall29

The next machine I'm going to get has a GB of RAM, and I don't see why I'm even going to need swap, so I'm going to set it up with none. What happens when I run out of RAM? I don't know, but I don't want an ugly partition table, and I'm not going to be doing that very often.

I understand that in any case swap will be used extensively, it should be its own partition for performance reasons. In my case, it won't be used extensively, so either it will be in with my other files on my root partition as in Windows and OSX, or it will not exist.

Ubuntu should use non-partitioned swap by default on any machine with 768 MB of RAM or more, and partitioned swap on any machine with less.

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)

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/

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.

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.

My idee is to rename Hardy Heron to Wicked Wireless. People instandly know what the can espect of Bugbuntu 8.04 Long Term Shit.

...or at least include it standard in the installation.
It's just such a better player, possibly the best out there, open source or otherwise. I think it would earn us serious brownie points from people who have been using Itunes/WinMediaPlayer/Winamp.

(Please don't vote this down if you haven't used Amorak and you simply like the standard player.)