http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com guidelines and check if your idea has been posted already! ]]> en-us Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12479/
I worry with everyone clambering for this mythical theme and with time running out before 8.10 ships, what will end up happening is Ubuntu will ship with the same old problematic brown and orange theme that is so hated by a lot of people.

There is a solution though...

The Dust theme
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/DustTheme

The Dust theme has gotten a lot of praises on Digg and is easily as sexy as anything I've personally seen for Linux (and I'm not usually a fan of dark themes), bust most promising of all... is actually possible with the current technology we have at our disposal.

It's time to be bold! Stop defaulting to the same brown and orange and make a big bold change. Embrace Dust.

Yes you will get a few idiots who will say it's too like Vista just because it's black, but ignore them people. The wider tech community will praise Ubuntu for finally ditching its dorky themes and becoming sophisticated and sexy. New users will be eager to try out this Ubuntu thing they have heard so much about.







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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12479/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/13/ Ability to download only changed bits of files and use much less bandwidth.
Scope and Use Cases:
Ann has slow internet connection. She sees that there are 150MB of updates and decides not to update at all leaving her with vulnerable and buggy system.
Implementation Plan:
Adopt it from Debian?

Previously discussed here, but still not implemented: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=409916

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Bug #21837 : [Information on this bug will be retrieved soon]
Blueprint apt-sync: [Information on this blueprint will be retrieved soon]
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]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/13/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9190/
You should be able to pick a color of your own likening so that you can choose blue, green, yellow, white, orange, black, gray, purple, teal, pink or whatever you like.

Check this awesome artwork that I made!
* http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/317/coloredthemeyz9.png
* http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/7682/colortheme2ls1.png
* Steel
* Rainbow


From idea #9139 (merged):

Currently the theming is all over the place and changing one place does not affect any other. Although that kind of tweakability is great, most users just want different default colors. (pink, blue, brown, black)

What we should be having:
A: wallpaper - changes every release
B: color-theme - human (easily configurable by user!)
C: splash-canvas - human (we need to create this)
D: gtk-engine - clearlooks with B as default colors
E: kde-engine - oxygen with B as default colors
F: icon-theme - tango with color-filter using B

From these we could generate:
- grub-config using A, B
- bootsplash using A, B, C
- gdm-theme using A, B, C, D, F
- kdm-theme using A, B, C, E, F
- gnome-splash using B, C, F
- kde-splash using B, C, F

This way the most important customization people want, COLORS, will affect everything and keep it all one-look-one-feel. From boot to desktop.

Secondly, the art guys can create new engines, splash-canvas and wallpapers. All the specific appearance settings should be hidden under some 'advanced' button. By default, people change their 'engine', 'icon-theme' or 'colors' .. and this should affect everything from boot-to-finish.

Off course we need some magic unlock-button that turns your settings into system defaults.


I think it's also important to use the color scheme.

If this becomes a feature, any user could have a pink/red/black/blue Ubuntu just by changing the color pallete at the preferences window.

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]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9190/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/10065/
Saving passwords in plain text is wrong! The Gnome keyring is a perfect replacement for this insecure method and should be used.

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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/214/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/64/ packagekit gets more and more attraction, i don't think that i have to explain it here, someone who knows this page knows also packagekit and its possibilities i.e. share package discribtions & news, openoffice.org can use it for the installation from additional packages/art; automatic printer driver download from lsb-site and so on...

more here:
http://packagekit.org/
and a really hot presentation from fosdem08:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/public/introduction-to-packagekit.pdf



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]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/64/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9759/
(Note: This idea is different to #368 - excessive ram usage as this is an idea for a specific issue)

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]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9759/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9456/
I don't know if there are any hindrances to using images or animations of higher resolutions than what is currently used (for machines that supports it), but I really think Ubuntu can do better here.

This may be an unimportant improvement compared to many other ideas here, but it should be a very quick and easy fix, and it will really help when you try to convince regular folks to make the switch (a graphically stunning desktop is _so_ important when you show it to occasional users!).

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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9456/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9762/ "Disable the unused bluetooth interface with the following command:
hciconfig hci0 down; rmmod hci_usb"

I think it would be nice to have a way to turn off/on bluetooth graphically using bluetooth applet.

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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9762/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9269/ And most importantly, talk to Mozilla about relaying your Firefox 3 repository download data to them.
More info here: http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord

Let's help open source achieve another great victory!

RE to developer: You would have counted downloads, not users...

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For example, the menu screenshot on this page: http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu is not the menu we see in 8.04.

Also, some text is outdated as well. For example, this page: http://www.ubuntu.com/products/WhatIsUbuntu/kubuntu says "KDE version 3.5.5 is the current stable release".

There are lots of other examples on the website. I think to use up-to-date screenshots is very important. They would give new users a better and more accurate impression of Ubuntu compared with old screenshots.

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]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/120/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8143/
One could argue that the boot loader is the most important part of the operating system, because if it doesn't work properly (which it hasn't been for some of us), it can prevent every OS from working on the computer. We should treat it with respect, and help them. Despite grubs importance, programmers generally enjoy working on more exciting projects like Gnome or KDE, which is one reason why development is slow.

Grub2 fixes a lot of previous brainstorm ideas including many booting issues (like mine), so completion would close a lot of bugs, whilst also making Ubuntu more user friendly because Grub2 deals with booting issues better.

Voting for this ensures that Canonical allocates some developers to the Grub2 project, which would be a big win for both Ubuntu and linux in general!

Planned Features for Grub 2
* Rescue mode saves unbootable cases. Stage 1.5 was eliminated.
* Dynamic loading of modules in order to extend itself at the run time rather than at the build time.
* Graphical interface.
* Fix design mistakes in GRUB Legacy, which could not be solved for backward-compatibility, such as the way of numbering partitions.
* Scripting support, such as conditionals, loops, variables and functions.
* Cross-platform installation which allows for installing GRUB from a different architecture.
* Internationalization. This includes support for non-ASCII character code, message catalogs like gettext, fonts, graphics console, and so on.
* Portability for various architectures.
* Modular, hierarchical, object-oriented framework for file systems, files, devices, drives, terminals, commands, partition tables and OS loaders.
* Real memory management, to make GNU GRUB more extensible.

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There are loads of Ideas e.g. on gnome-look.org about improving the panel and especially the menu. It looks like a lot of people don't like the situation right now.

It would be nice to have some discussion, how gnome-panel could be improved.

Please notice, this is not about changing the panel into a dock, but about extending its funktionallity and look and feel while keeping what we already have, and works well.

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]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8008/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/7390/
The Novell guys took the lead already: http://software.opensuse.org/

When Hardy Heron was released, the Ubuntu servers became overloaded with thousands of people trying to download it. Downloading rates of repositories and updates were so slow that some people had to leave the computer on at night only to find connection errors the next morning.

However, if Canonical had promoted the BitTorrent downloads, this wouldn't have happened. Everyone would have got a copy of Ubuntu without slowing the repository servers and producing a Denial-of-Service effect.

Moreover, BitTorrent has many advantages over direct downloads. For instance, the more people downloading at the same time, the more sources and lesser the wait. In addition, it ensures file integrity because it uses hash functions, that is, files cannot be corrupted (modified). Not to mention that transfers can be resumed if the connection is broken.

Therefore, BitTorrent downloading should be included in the Get Ubuntu page ( http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download ) with a succinct but clear explanation on how to use them.

The fact that this idea hasn't been implemented --despite all the votes in favour-- clearly shows a neglect and reluctance from Canonical decision-makers to do what is best for the community. The worst thing is that they aren't giving an explanation. I hope good ideas in this site don't come to die here in a puzzle of bureaucracy :(

The reason Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution is because developers listen to people. Let's keep that "humanity towards others" alive.

Download Desktop CD: http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/ubuntu-8.04.1-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

Download Desktop Alternate CD: http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/ubuntu-8.04.1-alternate-i386.iso.torrent

You can find all the torrents here: http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/

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]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/7390/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8307/
FAT volumes are particularly problematic, especially if they are not cleanly unmounted.

I have just triaged a bug on Launchpad with exactly this issue, and it is just something that seems to crop up again-and-again-and-again-and-again etc.

We should have a notification pop-up which gives information to the user when they insert a volume that has errors. The notification pop-up should tell them that the volume is read only, and should offer advice for the user to fix it.

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Currently,in the Hardy Heron Beta the Pidgin version is 2.3. A new version has been released,2.4.1,wich solves many problem,for example the file transfer send/recieve problem on the yahoo protocol.

I suggest upgrading pidgin to the latest version,because there are many improvements ;-)

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I eventually found out how to remove it as a repository source.

It should not be set as default, or perhaps, if it isn't there, Synaptic should go and look on the internet. Which it doesn't.

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