Contributor raovsem

We are catching up on usability in the Linux community, but we still have not reached the level of polish of Windows or Mac. Fonts, Icons, Menus, Color Schemes, Themes, Buttons, Tabs etc. are not friendly. Apple publishes a "Human Interface Guidelines" that dictate how a user should interact with a computer. Why doesn't Ubuntu get in touch with some psychologists and designers and develop a common interface approach, one that is different from Gnome or KDE, but still based on them. It would be nice for Ubuntu to have an "exclusive" font, or an "exclusive" menu system.

It would be great to have Ubuntu working out of the box on Apple's current line of laptops and desktops (MacBook, MacBook Pro, Mac Pro). Currently, installing Ubuntu on a Mac is an involved process and things like the wireless networking, touchpad, cpu fans, etc. never seem to work quite right.

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Thanks to DanRabbit here is the link to Elementary Project

http://www.elementary-project.com

In my opinion, Dan you and your crew should get involved with Ubuntu Artwork guys in order to this idea become true.



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We could take advantage of the Elementary Icons project, this project came as a response to Oxygen theme for KDE 4.

http://gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-pre1/73439-1.jpg

http://ddb.fiestapig.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/apr5-2.png

It only needs a little orange approach (in my opinion) ;-).

The current top linux distros according to distrowatch are:

1 Ubuntu
2 PCLinuxOS
3 openSUSE
4 Fedora
5 Mint

I think ubuntu could borrow some features of the other distros.

Mint for example is ubuntu with a couple of extra features. I think ubuntu should build the features in now that they have been tested elsewhere.

I recently switched to linux mint, I must say it is very nice and based on gutsy 7.10.

They use the red hat liberation fonts by default and OMG It looks amazing.


The default ubuntu fonts are painful to look at once you know how good it can look.


https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/

I think google gadgets should be in repositories because compiling is so dificult for newbies.
Now we can use this great application.

Here is the code and instructions:
http://code.google.com/p/google-gadgets-for-linux/wiki/HowToBuild

Most of the computer users use variety of web-based services:
gmail, google gmail contacts, google calendar, google notebooks, remember the milk, facebook, etc.

Instead of maintaining multiple points of entry for the online data, allow easy integration with web services.

Existing sync. points:
1. gmail integration with evolution.
2. google calendar integration with evolution (lacking - only the main calendar is integrated).
3. remember the milk applet for avant-windows-navigator.
4. conduit-project (conduit-project.org) - work in progress, missing functionality.
5. flickr integration - f-spot, picasa (?).
etc.

When an idea is duplicated at Brainstorming and finally merged with a previous one, votes should not be added directly, duplicated votes from the same user should be removed first.

I think we all agree in the great job that anonymous developers are doing with Ubuntu and many other related projects (Gnome, KDE, Compiz, X.org, Wine, AWN...).

I think it's good idea to recognise that effort creating a directory of developers/teams with brief personal description... nicknames, email, university/institution (if it applies), area of specialization and ongoing projects.

The best contributions, voted by community members, can be awarded by adding them to Ubuntu's Hall of Fame :)

This seems like an easy thing that would help out many people.

People who use wubi install to try the system would benefit from a tool that would make it easy to migrate the install to a native (partition) install.

After you log in through GDM, the startup sound usually plays before anything else starts, so sometimes you hear the sound even though the desktop is not yet ready i.e. you're still staring at the brown screen and the panels haven't come up yet.

Changing the time that sound is played to right after everything is ready would be a much more useful thing, it would actually indicate when you can use the computer.

From Squiggle in the comments (a much better idea):

Play a loopable sound (8 bar blues, etc) until loading is done then when things are loaded finish with another sound indicating all is ready to go. This is the sort of thing that games do well.

There is always room for improvement. I think it is time the Ubuntu installer evolved some more.

This is the new OpenSuSE 11.0 Graphical Installer:

http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=0x2008&image=opensuse_11i_1_lrg

http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=0x2008&image=opensuse_11i_2_lrg

http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=0x2008&image=opensuse_11i_3_lrg

http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=0x2008&image=opensuse_11i_4_lrg

http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=0x2008&image=opensuse_11i_5_lrg

http://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=0x2008&image=opensuse_11i_6_lrg

I've 2 distros installed on my laptop: Ubuntu Gutsy and Arch Linux! The feel with arch is that it's whippy. From the other side ubuntu is sluggish. Sure I know that my system is not so up to date (a 1.5 Ghz centrino 512 M Ram) but Arch work very well on it with the same services loaded as in ubuntu.

So I think Ubuntu can do something to improve performance.

Include Compiz Fusion Manager by default

Provide this warning with possibility to solve the problem.

cdroms are slow, don't allow to modify their content easily, they are weak and not as easy to carry as USB keys.

It would be great to provide Ubuntu as a liveUSB just as Mandriva does. We should be able to carry our distribution on any computer, manage our preferred settings (do I want binary drivers enabled ? what is my preferred resolution ?), etc.

The thing is not to make something transportable, but really a nomad system that could be used just the best way as it could on any computer.

When someone wants to unmount a volume and the mount point is used, he gets a message telling him that the volume can't be unmounted because an application uses it. The user has no idea which application is actually using it and can't remove the device.

I propose that the popup tells him which application(s) is(are) using the device and propose to terminate them (that list should be kept up to date when the app. dies).

In many cases, I can't configure my webcam or I have problems with the microphone. Now I can use my webcam but only with V4L2 and only 3 programas detect my webcam. It's a good idea can use my webcam in all programs as camorama.

More support for more wireless chipsets out of the box and "Windows style" ease of set up.

I have spent may a day trying to configure wireless cards on Ubuntu, often without much luck!

Please also deliver more support for what they are both wireless PCI cards and USB, as it is currently very low base of drivers for such devices