Contributor randall29

Hello i was wondering,
if Skype could be added to the add/remove, witch is a great way of installing programs, easy and quick. but there just needs to be added this program. There has been made an staple Linux version of it, so it shoulden be so hard to add it.

to you who dont know it is the home site here www.skype.com

Its a danish ip telephonic and chat program, witch was one of the first of its kind when it was made.

and of course am i my self from Denmark,

From The danish Linux lover millo :-)

Touch sensitive LCD wall - very Human Interactive (both hands).
see
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4239227.html?page=1

Is Ubuntu interested in projects like this?

If so, here's an idea.
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Step beyond hardware licensing
of conventional accessories, attachments, devices, etc. (don't drop it - keep it - but build on it)

Consider Partnerships , and
partnerships with new hardware that is totally new - hasn't reached consumer market yet.

Whether its providing a software platform, assisting with drivers, interfacing, advanced applications programs for end users, or
drumming up some sponsorship, advertising to Ubuntu users for donations (or any other form of support) - there are bound to be some ways to get involved.

This might involve teaming up with Debian and its other variants.

Solicit approaches from (potential) hardware manufacturers on the Ubuntu web site. They maybe inventors, new startups, or established manufacturers with a new product line.
Ubuntu could "Help" new products come into the world.

The "attitude" of Ubuntu may be an advantage in this activity.


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With the release of Hardy there was a bug present in the wubi windows installer. If the application is executed from the cd, the installation would freeze. Instead of posting a workaround (by copying wubi on the harddrive and pointing it to the ubuntu cd), why not reimage the cds iso files therefor avoiding new users frustrations when giving ubuntu a spin? New users aren't going to check the known bug problems or consult the forums.

Ofcourse the dev team can't do that for everything since they have probably already mass produced the cds for shipping, but it would be damn easy to just reupload the fixed iso files on the web, thus saving a lot of explanations to the person you are trying to convince that linux is better than anything else while it's scares the new user away with errors.

The Ubuntu live CD installer should ask the user to install the Ubuntu restricted package, so that the user is always is starting with all needed extra software.

* Sorry my English :) *

DRI is supposed to be supported for my radeon x700 but it's broken in xorg 7.3 with the available DRM/DRI modules.

“ATI RADEON X550/X700 Series “, RV410, 5657
“ATI RADEON X550/X700 Series Secondary “, RV410, 5677

I tried xorg 7.4 in a live CD environment and was able to get DRI working right away. There are probably other people with these issues who are wondering why DRI isn't working on chipsets that are supposed to be supported. Interestingly, xorg 7.3 also does not detect my widescreen display and displayconfig-gtk has been removed from the menus.

Providing some .deb packages for xorg 7.4 (even in an out-of-the-way repository that has to be manually disabled) that will work with ubuntu-desktop would be very useful for people like me.

it's exactly like http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5873/ only i'm talking about putting the monitor to sleep..

This is an idea that, if it would be implemented, should be optional at first and be tested through and through. It's quite experimental in my eyes. I'm not even sure if this idea can be executed at all.

When you use a system it will always become fuller and fuller. Although Linux doesn't suffer as much from this as Windows, it can still make things harder to find and influence the performance( a lot). A way to solve this is to regularly clean your system by removing all unused applications and manually search the whole system for files that were left behind. Sometimes the --purge option when removing software still leaves stuff behind and let alone compilated programs.

What I suggest is to create temporally views of the whole system as it should be. Every once in a while the system will return to that state with the exception of the user data, leaving alone the configuration but also deleting all unnecessary configuration files. In a more advanced stadium applications could be adapted to work together with this system and update their view files automatically so the user doesn't have to create a view every time he updates the computer or installs something new and it will probably include less unnecessary files and be able to handle already existing configuration better. This way a user can easily restore his system very easily reducing the need for backup applications and if the program would be a little bit extended and get support for GNOME's lock-down editor it could also be used in labs.

A view ideas behind the technique that could be used to do this. I'm not sure if what I say actually makes sense, but I'll try to let it.

I think it would be the best if a basic image/view of the whole system would be delivered when the system is installed. At least this image should be kept to allow the user to restore his/her system easier to the original state. Here you've probably got a question. Because, when you would keep all files, your system would be twice as large as normal, _at_least_. And we don't want that. I've got three ideas how to solve this:
1. Create a central mirror where the files are stored. There are two options here: a mirror owned by the user or a mirror from Ubuntu/Canonical. The latter has some huge downsides: you'll have to upload all files to the server, which won't make your ISP happy. And it would cost an enormous amount of space at the server.

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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.

it take long time to search and do other things
its like http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4714/ but it ticked as done and i can't vote

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

There is version 2.4.6 available.

Yet Ubuntu has 2.4.5 in the repositories.

Any thoughts on updating?

The new Ubuntu Netbook Remix looks really good. I think it would be great if there was a similar Media Centre Remix (or Entertainment Centre, Home Theatre, Multimedia or HTPC Remix, call it what you will).

The Netbook Remix interface looks much better suited to TVs than either the Ubuntu and Ubuntu Mobile interfaces, so could be a great starting point for a Media Centre Remix.

Ideally the Ubuntu Media Centre Remix would integrate remote control functionality, and include a range of multimedia software tweaked to be controlled via remote and displayed on a TV.
PVR, DVB-T, DVB-S support should also be included.

The Media Centre Remix would be easy for users to install (unlike a lot of existing HTPC and PVR software) and would give an ideal platform for multimedia developers to focus on.

Add the possibility to choose to remember the play position of a video before quitting so we can resume the video (or the DVD) from where we stopped the next time we open it.

When one starts Synaptics manager it takes a long time to be available for use (I am using 1.7GHz Dualcore/1GB RAM!!!).

After that we have to click on "Search" and then type what we want. But most of the time when starting Synaptic the first thing you want is to search for something.

So I suggest that "Search" should not depend on a click to show it's input text bar but rather it could show a large bar at the top with focus as it fires up, so we may start typing as soon as we see the program running.

After one search is complete it should focus the search box back so we search again without our tired mouse.

I checked my permissions in "Users and Groups" and noticed that I do have permission to use a dial-up modem to connect to the internet and access floppy and CD-ROM drives, but I do not have permission to use the scanner.

Why is this? It does not make sense.

Add the use of scanner to default permission.

I get tired when trying to change font to another...

I don't need all these arabian, chinese fonts... and fonts that didn't change font look.
Too much fonts that I will never use in the fonts list.

I want it like in windows - just a few!!! (10,15) unicode fonts for everybody with full support of national characters.

I think it would be usefull (and not complicated for programming) add an "Hide" button near the maximize unmaximize and close button in the top-right corner of Rhytmbox.
Or, instead of this make the close button not quit the program but only close the window letting the program run as it happens with Amarok.

A few days ago it happened to me again, standard updates with a kernel update, reboot and ... X is not coming up due to a mismatch with the GeForce drivers. For me it's just an annoyance, a few strokes on vi and it's working again. But I am sure a lot of users have a big problem when this happens.

Wouldn't it be better to install the new kernel for dependency reasons but keep the old grub setting. So the system will still boot the old kernel. The update tool can look after every regular update if all drivers with a kernel plugin match the new kernel version and if this is the case it can eventually modify grub so it will start the new kernel.

For the purists out there who have a 'clean' system with no 'strange' drivers on it. In their case there are no driver problems and the grub settings will be modified at once. So this solution won't hog up any extra CPU cycles on their systems.

Every application working with system, that wasn't well checked mustn't be included in repo. Crashed system gets a feeling of Ubuntu is bad and unprofessional system

I am trying to troubleshoot an issue I just experienced. I have repetitive messages where my router is sending out blank packets. Not important to my idea but a little bit of background. So I was thinking it would be nice if there was a way to filter out messages. Make it so we can filter out objects as well as what seems to amount to a search function. Also maybe make it additive, so multiple filters can be applied. The current filter may be sufficient if you know what you are looking for, but if you are looking for odd activity to figure out what the heck just happened, it is a little useless

Five Reasons:

1. Because we can sort the ideas by the number of views. Doing so will give the ideas a better chance to compare to other, increasing the *fairness* (actually round robing the ideas by the number of views).

2. Because we can see how popular an idea is by the ratio K/V, where K = number of clicks, V = number of views.

3. Because if an idea has 2000 views, 1560 clicks and zero votes we could ask it's author to rewrite it because maybe nobody is understanding it (just look at the numbers!).

4. Because an idea with 150 views and 143 votes is better than an idea with 4000 views and 450 votes.

5. Because if an idea has a flag for each user who had already seen it we could show each user only the ideas he/she has not seen yet by default.

One could add more to this, but I think It's enough to expose the big picture.