http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com guidelines and check if your idea has been posted already! ]]> en-us Mon, 01-Dec-2008 00:00:00 UTC Mon, 01-Dec-2008 00:00:00 UTC QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/10212/ 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 :-)

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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.

Additional idea - sometime later (don't vote on the basis of this - it's just a thought for the future.)
Maybe raise some funds to assist with projects.
No-strings attached donations.
Help young projects to;
Avoid loans.
Avoid angel investors with clawed feet.
Work for the greater good than just pure profit.

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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.

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* Sorry my English :) *

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“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.

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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.
2.Do store all the files on your harddisk, but do it in the way of some kind of Bazaar repository, so it isn't as big as keeping all files.
3.Keep offering the old .deb files and just keep a list of installed programs. The .deb files themselves know what files they supply, so their lists can be used to check for unnecessary files. This only leaves the problem for compiled programs and other possible files that will be deleted if just the .deb files would be used. I think the only solution would be to add those files manually with a nice GUI. All used programs are listened in a file with their dpkg name, version and repository.

I think 3 would be the best. This would also allow users to easier get back to their old version when an upgrade fails.

Of course the cleaning of a system should be done really careful and the user should be completely informed of all files that are going to be deleted and warned if it are important files or if it's mentioned in configuration files(should the entries also be deleted from those files?). The option to automatically restore shouldn't be easy to accidentally enable and the whole recovery thing shouldn't be enabled in the first place.

Any thoughts on this long idea?

NB: I got this idea while I was installing Radmin, maybe it can be of any use. Either as source of inspiration or as a source of code.

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]]> Mon, 01-Dec-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/10209/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9874/ 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.

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There is version 2.4.6 available.

Yet Ubuntu has 2.4.5 in the repositories.

Any thoughts on updating?

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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.

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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.

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Why is this? It does not make sense.

Add the use of scanner to default permission.

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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.

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]]> Mon, 01-Dec-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9275/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9263/ 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.

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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.

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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.



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