Contributor rawsausage

In the nearing Intrepid release, Firefox display an EULA to the user the first time it is started.

This raises a number of concerns:
- the EULA refusal doesn't prevent the user in any way from using Firefox, therefore EULA's is just noise added to the user experience.
- the EULA agreement would make firefox a non-free application which should be moved to multiverse.
- refusing the EULA would (legally) leave the user without a browser in the default install.
- EULA approval on first start would make firefox less usable when using the Live CD.

So far the options are the following:

- Keeping firefox as it is, even with the EULA.
- Switch to Epiphany as the default webbrowser.
- Adopt IceWeasel from debian (which is firefox, with logo and brand replaced)

You can find the full discussion here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/269656

*** If you'd like to vote for keeping firefox as it is, vote this idea. ***

if you preferer to adopt IceWeasel vote this idea:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13201/

if you prefer to adopt Epiphany vote this idea:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/13202/

Please put the Iceweasel package in Ubuntu repositories.

Most of you might be aware of the copyright issues which Mozilla had with Debian. This made the debian team to repackage Firefox removing all the copyrighted material in Firefox as IceWeasel.

I believe the Ubuntu philosophy and the Debian "Social Contract" are mostly similar. Hence all the issues Debian had with Firefox must be the same with Ubuntu.

Hence, I think the package Iceweasel must atleast be present in the ubuntu repositories so that people who want to use it as a matter of principle can do so. It should not be much work since Debian is maintaining that package anyway. We can just use their package as we do for most of the other packages.

The original idea is below to prevent confusion, but as of hearing this:
http://practical-tech.com/operating-system/mozilla-to-remove-firefox-eula/
I am abandoning this idea; it may be closed. Good day.


It recently became apparent that Mozilla is going to let us
A. Require users to agree to a EULA or
B. Lose their brand.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjcxOA

I say the latter is preferable-- and I think we should immediately take advantage of this newfound freedom: starting with the GUI layout-- because things shouldn't have to be so frigging complicated. As an example, my firefox window layout is such:

------------------------------------
[title bar]
[menu bar] (back) (forward) (refresh) (+tab) (stop) [Awesome Bar]
[tab bar if tabs > 1]
[content]
------------------------------------

This places the most often used part of the awesome bar right in the top-center of my screen, and because the default layout is so redundant, I lose very little convenience. The Awesome Bar performs search for me, it stores bookmarks, it shows security, and tabs show when a page is loading. To mind, the only functionality I lose with this layout is the display of link destinations in the status bar when I hover over them (I don't have a status bar, recall) -- and that's something I can easily live without, it's just a right click +p away.

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These are sometimes more amusing than the most popular. ;)

Remember back in the day on Windows 3.1 how you could, at the click of a button, have all open windows the same size on the screen? Why did they drop that? Everyone has at one point had two windows open that they wanted to see at the same time and had to carefully drag them to the appropriate size to see both. I don't see this as a high priority but it would be cool if there were some "auto arrange" options for existing frames that could be accessed with the right-click menu. It would save a lot of time.

I would like to have a real working and installable client from the repositories. Finished with the "UTN-First-hardware" issue and the not reliable keyboard-issue.

Many ideas posted here suggest that Ubuntu should look and|or feel like WindowsXP|Vista|OSX arguing that if so more Windows|OSX users would switch to Ubuntu. Often the suggested methods to achieve this are simplifying and|or even modifying Ubuntu in such a way that functionality, customization or adaptation get removed or limited. I don't think that this is the direction the Ubuntu development should follow. Because:

1. Creating a fool-proof system too often results in creating a systems for fools only. I personally think that Vista is the best example for this. By trying to make Vista more secure they made Vista more annoying. Starting to protect the system and the user's files from the user himself brought the system one step closer to foolproofness but also tends to be most irritating to the rest of us. Also by making everything as easy as possible alternatives, customization possibilities and adaptation are often eradicated.
2. By imitating Windows you most likely will attract Windows users. They will work with Ubuntu for a while then change back to Windows because you can't work on Ubuntu like on Windows and it also doesn't behave like Windows.

Windows and OSX might have some nice|useful features. And most of them are implemented into Gnome|KDE by now. So I think that we should stop with copying but start creating. Of course useful features should still be made available to Linux but the creation of new features should be more important. And by implementing new features, copied or created, functionality, customization and adaptation should never be limited. Also if it means that that particular feature might not be that "easy" to handle. e.g. providing a simpler GUI for apt is okay but replacing the package manager with a setup.exe like system would limit functionality.

Ubuntu should attract users with innovation, stability and possibility and not by providing "just an alternative". Constantly coping from Windows|OSX also demonstrates a certain inferiority. And Linux|Ubuntu are no more inferior. We slowly but surely caught up by now, so now we should start to overtake.

I don't want Ubuntu to be like Windows or OSX!
I want Windows and OSX to be like Ubuntu!

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Because right now Ubuntu doesn't boot from USB (e.g, on the Santa Rosa MacBook Pro)

http://tennessee.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?t=510030

related: http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=1230
Using load options 'USB'
Error: Not Found returned from legacy
Error: Not Found from LocateDevicePath
Error: Not Found from LocateDevicePath
Error: Not Found from LocateDevicePath

Apple Radar #5892269

"E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report."

→ This is very frequent problem and a lot of beginners dont'know why fix the problem/resolve it.
Just please look here: see - https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+faq/52 - this FAQ located/placed on Launchpad website and during 1 month there are already 15 "related questions", so that means this is very often problem.

It would be fine thing to have some automatic utility to fix this problem, but it will be enough to make this error message more user friendly (for now it's very misleading information).

Graphical GRUB with easy and advanced recover and backup system options


The Ubuntu GRUB would have extra options:
- Backup and recover of the system
- Access to the secondary kernel versions list
- Memory Test
- Recovery Mode.

See the Blueprint below

Blueprint
734 x 1024 px
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3076/2565372159_1fe09da5c6_b.jpg

1749 x 2441 px for download
Copy and paste the link in your browser to start the download, for viewing.
http://lh3.google.com/nq6.studio/R8m3O_x-smI/AAAAAAAAAZs/2ZU53X2YNWM/Grub-EN.jp g?imgdl=1

I developed a Blueprint of how all this would be, making possible the graphical visualization of my ideas. I'm sure that all of it is easy to implement, because the tools to realize these processes already exist.

With this we would have a more organized GRUB, and with options that a lay person would know how to deal with in case of a wrong configuration of the system, recovering it on accessing the essentials backup files of configuration. Or in a worse case, even the entire partition image, where the problem is unrecoverable even with the recovering of the system files.

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There are some scenarios where you need to add different permissions to different groups.

As workaround I have been able to do so by assigning one group to the owner and another group to the group. With the different permissions.

This has work so far, but it makes more sense for the owner to be a user instead of a group. Also you could need to use different permissions to more that two groups.

Hope this makes sense.

If you liked this idea, check out my other ideas.

One thing less to worry about. The OS should just run 64-bit and 32-bit apps happily alongside each other, with only those apps being 64-bit that really profit from it.

Today, the tty console (any console in Ctrl-F1 .. F6 and so on) don't work well with UTF-8 characters, so you can't type of see any international char (like accents).

Try typing any of the following characters in the console:

- Accented vocals: á é í ó ú
- Spanish ntilde: ñ
- Spanish punctuation symbols: ¡ ¿
- Euro symbols: € ¢

This problem is in Ubuntu since Hoary, at least.

In my opinion, Ubuntu must take care of the console, and not only of the graphical desktop.

Reward hardware manufacturers that create drivers for linux by promoting their products, this might encourage them to do so more often.

There is no possibility in the gui to synchronize for example every 15 minutes computertime and ntp-time. It would be nice to have an indication window for the two times and the possibility to synchronize the time instantly and get a response.

Many of the brainstorm ideas are interesting and reasonable but will never or at least not soon get on an actual agenda. I don't want to discuss the reasons for that, I just think it's a simple fact. So what about a section where ubuntu and/or brainstorm maintainers could respond to certain popular ideas, which they can think of focussing on? Popularity is one thing and important when thinking of community issues, but popularity is not neccessarily reasonable or practical. Could we try to strike a balance between those? Brainstorming is a creative impulse, but to actually achieve something you have to focus. We could make focussing more community oriented, otherwise I fear we could drown ourselves in too many ideas.

I professional trader in the currency market also have passed on Linux for the sake of reliability and stability, but to work to fall programs for Windows+wine because in Linux catastrophically there are no programs for the qualitative technical analysis and for internettrading in currency market Forex. The program analogue known MetaTrader4 from http: // www.metaquotes.net and then the army of traders will rush on Linux after NYSE is very necessary.

In these days more and more is done via the internet. More people are becoming mobile and people want to have access to their data from anywhere.
The prediction is that people will do all things at the internet in the future.
I suggest to make a system that offers the /home/user map via the internet. Providers can offer an account(or companies) which can be accessed at any computer supporting the protocol.
The idea is to modify gdm(and/or kdm) in such a way that when you start the computer you'll get a login screen which not only asks for your username and password, but also for the host and maybe another security thing to improve that.
The directory will be mounted over the internet.

Having login sound is nice, but sometimes we boot our laptop during the lecture or a meeting and we want it to be absolutely quiet.

There should be a volume control or just a "mute" button in GDM Login window.

JFS is a robust, modern filesystem that performs not only well over all kind of usage, but also with the least CPU time consumption.
By default, it already supports features that are still developed for ext4 (extents, online defrag) or still need to be manually activated for ext3 (B-tree-index, extended attributes).

Basically, it is a filesystem that 'Justs works', without the user having to worry about mount options and the like.