http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com guidelines and check if your idea has been posted already! ]]> en-us Tue, 14-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC Tue, 14-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/1/ Ideally, the user should be able to run a graphic software which would ask what the user wants to backup and where (tape/usb key/remote).
Then the same tool would be able to restore the backup.

It would be useful for both backups and migration from a computer to another.

Update : See duplicates ideas which contain even more great ideas about that idea.

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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

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These settings, however, could be used by the system as well, in a two-way arrangement. For example:

* A user can tell the system to turn off or tone down notifications when their status is set to "Busy"

* A user can tell the system that when a 3G network card is being used then their location should be set to "On the train"

* Power saving settings can be told to become more extreme when the user sets their status to "Away"

* If a screensaver comes on then status can be set to Idle or Away, and vice versa

* If the screen is locked then status can be set to Away

* The system could choose a network setup based on the current "Location" and could set a "Location" when known Wifi networks are discovered

There are far more possibilities than I can think of, but the presence system of this could be done with Telepathy. Since Telepathy is accessed over DBus it wouldn't be too difficult to integrate some of this functionality.

This is a very preference based idea, so should have a suitable default state and configuration tool.

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For me, this is far preferable to the minute performance gain gotten by mounting the device in buffered mode. You're very unlikely to be using such devices for anything except data storage/retreival, in which case mounting synchronously is a major benefit. Expecting new users (or those used to Windows XP's behaviour) to know you have to right-click, 'unmount', before removing the drive is not a good idea, as well as just being unnecessary if the device is mounted synchronously. It's also irritating for people like me who know you need to do it, but either occasionally forget or don't want to bother.

Mount the thing synchronously by default. This is what Windows XP does, and it allows you to just remove the drive after any file transfers have finished. Yes, problems will occur if you remove it durung a file transfer, but that's gonna happen in ANY mount mode. It's far more obvious to the user that this will cause a problem than removal of the drive before unmounting. Also stop displaying that 'unsafe device removal' message for devices mounted synchronously.

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A single unified tool should be provided which allows the user to connect to a network (or internet) via any supported method. It would also be useful to provide an extension to this tool to manage firewall rules and network connection sharing.

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]]> Tue, 14-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/4/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/42/ A default WinXP installation beats Ubuntu's boot up time by far!! That shouldn't be allowed fellas!!

I therefore propose to the development team (both Ubuntu and by extension Gnome)to work on the improvement of boot up times in Ubuntu systems.

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]]> Tue, 14-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/57/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/80/
- Merge 'Screensaver', 'Screen Resolution' and 'Screens and Graphics'.
- Merge 'Network', 'Network Proxy' and 'Network Tools'.
- Merge 'Update Manager, Synaptic Package Manager, Software Sources'.
- Merge 'Encryption and Keyrings', 'Authorizations', 'Keyring Manager'.


Below are all settings I can visit via the System menu. This is just way too much.


-- Preferences --
Universal Access
About Me
Appearance
Bluetooth
Default Printer
Encryption and Keyrings
Keyboard
Keyboard Shortcuts
Main Menu
Mouse
Network Proxy
PalmOS Devices (I don't have one)
Power Management
Preferred Applications
Remote Desktop
Removable Drives and Media
SCIM Input Method Setup (What is this?)
Screen Resolution
Screensaver
Search and Index (Why can't I disable the tracker here?)
Sessions
Sound
System Settings
Windows

-- Administration --
Authorizations (for what?)
Hardware Drivers
Keyring Manager (for what?)
Language Support
Login Window
Network
Network Tools
Printing
Screens and Graphics
Services
Shared Folders
Software Sources
Synaptic Package Manager (imagine a new user: wtf is Synaptic?)
System Log
System Monitor
Time and Date
Update Manager
Users and Groups

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These (LVM & MD) should be incorporated into the live installer (Ubiquity) and further there should be an easy option for having a separate root (/) and home (/home) partition on installation.

There are a few significant benefits to this, not least of which is the ability to easily reinstall the OS (or install a different derivative or even different distro) without losing the valuable data in /home.

Other benefits include resilience (from MD), easy partition resizing (from LVM), and better space management, making it so that a full /home partition does not affect the system as a whole (as / would not be full).

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]]> Tue, 14-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/34/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/40/
Some problematic hardware can be used with more or less work if helping information is available together with the hardware compatabillity data.

The hardware database can be found at http://hwdb.ubuntu.com/

From idea #47: The data should then be available in a format that is simple for users to browse on-line when considering new hardware.

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This will NOT remove Mono or any of the applications from the Ubuntu repositories, just the default Desktop CD. (Although removing them from the CD may mean they don't need to be in Main anymore)

This affects two applications included by default: tomboy and f-spot. Tomboy can be replaced by either sticky notes or zim and f-spot by gthumb.

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]]> Tue, 14-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/110/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/28/
And I think, this is a very important point for lots of people.

**Suggestions from duplicate idea 397 work on that idea :

1) Clean up the Opensync and SyncML plugin packages to work properly with Evolution by default.

2) Set up an official Ubuntu SyncML server for Ubuntu users.

3) Possibly clean up open source SyncML clients for the different mobile platforms.

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Ubuntu broke this common practice and links /bin/sh to dash.

This breaks A LOT of 3rd party apps, and causes A LOT of unneccessary trouble and support incidents.

If Ubuntu wants to promote dash, it should change all shell scripts to include a dash shebang. But it should NOT mess with the default /bin/sh link.

DON'T say "it's the script writer's fault when he uses /bin/sh and requires bash". We all know that. Nevertheless, a serious distro should not mess around with things that have become common practice even if wrongly so.

The end result of the current situation is that many things mysteriously work "everywhere but on Ubuntu".

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dash/+bug/61463
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dash/+bug/71887
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dash/+bug/141481

Examples of bugs caused by this:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dash/+bug/92189
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dash/+bug/105634
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dash/+bug/71887
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dash/+bug/135863
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dash/+bug/128730

Examples of 3rd party apps that break: ATI installer, VMware, Xen, Mathematica, NX Server, MKS, NVC


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]]> Tue, 14-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/2225/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/111/ It´s call Quick Look, and allows you to view the contents of a file without open its default application.
This is great when you have a folder with different types of files (JPG, MPG, DOC) and you want see the content of the files quickly without open many applications (Eog, Totem, OpenOffice Writer in this case)
You can look how this work in Mac OS X on here, here and here.

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]]> Tue, 14-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/111/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/1295/
Lets make it possible for people to donate $5 or so to their own ideas. Sure nobody may implement it, or the patch may not be accepted but it opens things up a lot more. Nobody loses either.

For those who think that this will turn linux coders into people who only code for money are wrong. There have been many bounties in the past, and they have not wiped out the many developers (me inclusive) who code as a hobby. Even with the gnome bounties in place, I still continued coding my application at the time for instance.


Anyway, at the end of the day, its not hard to implement, and it will do nothing but speed up development for highly wanted features (and maybe even organisations like gnome could use the money on spreading word about linux, or improving their hardware support).

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