Contributor rs3york

make a GAME ON UBUNTU logo for games qualified to be run
inside ubuntu pc's.it will some how boast games and a trend
for linux gamers and help spread linux gaming to new levels.
might sound foolish but certainly rewards can be enticing.

Working with OpenOffice is like going back 10 years in time to microsoft office 97. OpenOffice's theme is terrible.
2 solutions:
*office 2007 support in wine
*a theme for openoffice, now it seams like there is no theme for openoffice

Every time I install and reinstall Ubuntu on a system (which is somewhat frequently), the first thing I always do when booting up is change the panels. Basically I make it a bit more like Windows (my personal preference). I know, I know, groan all you want. But here's what I do, and here's what I suspect many others do:

* Delete the entire top panel.

* Delete the Applications/Places/System widget and put in the simple Ubuntu "start" widget (saves a TON of screen real estate)

* Put the clock in the lower right of the screen (showing time with AM/PM only, no date)

* Put the volume control slider to the left of the clock

* Move the 'active windows' applet to the bottom as well.

* Move some of the other applets (system tray, etc) to the bottom.

Basically I just want to end up with one panel on the bottom, with my "start" menu, my window list, then my tray icons/volume/clock. Tada!

I know it's kind of a "one-off" and not terribly hard to do after installing, but I think it'd be pretty sweet to just have an option, or an advanced option, on installation, that would basically be like a radio button or something and would say

"Choose your desktop style:"

( ) Gnome classic
This style will have two panels, a gigantic start menu, with places, and a system menu, plus it will show the date on your clock. Also, when you run programs and maximize them, now you have a panel at the top, a menu on your windows, and another panel at the bottom.

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Some ideas need to be generic, but some are so jokingly generic or obvious, it doesn't help developers at all. One example is the oldskool idea "Better hardware support".

Well, Everything in the hardware category is a dupe of that. It got over 1000 votes, yet it does not help developers at all, is obvious, and it cannot be fulfilled. "Better webcam support" is a tad more specific, at least people can mention exactly which webcams they are having issues with. Better would be to say "support UVB webcams out of the box".

Any comments in "Better hardware support" will be so broad, it wont help target specific hardware

There must be a way to stop this sillyness. Ideas marked as requiring more info or obvious should notify the author, and close the idea. Otherwise we end up with unattainable ideas, that get us nowhere, and dent future development.Mods should have the last say so the system wont be abused.


Otherwise next idea I post should be "Make ubuntu more user friendly". Yeah, that will get me to most popular ever. But it shouldn't!

Ubuntu’s goal is to be the most popular desktop OS for humans. But new versions of Ubuntu, like most Linux distros, are still marketed towards Linux geeks. They’re concerned with technology, trumpeting version numbers and drowning out the actual things you can do with their software.

We’re picking on Ubuntu specifically because it has higher goals than most distros - it’s Linux for human beings, not Linux for hackers. Unfortunately, the release announcements have forgotten what humans care primarily about: themselves.

http://blog.gobanquet.com/index.php/why-ubuntu-804-needs-better-marketing/

That website seems to be down, but here is the cached version on google:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:B1jvt3wvqC0J:blog.gobanquet.com/index.php/ why-ubuntu-804-needs-better-marketing/

I found it very frustrating when I first got into Ubuntu, and was looking around at the Packages to install, that I had to have the installation CD in my computer. Especially since it was a laptop and I didn't have my CD Drive in.

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.

Medibuntu is now available for all Ubuntu 'family' except "Hardy Heron". Should be also available there.

I would be great if Ubuntu set up a team of volunteers that are willing to help newbies get started.(I know this already exists in the form of the forums/irc/mailing lists etc but this is different). It would be something like this. Noob goes to Ubuntu site because he has a problem or a question and sees the voluntary tech support page. He then applies for having his own tutor for getting started with Ubuntu. Then a tutor is assigned from the already available pool of volunteers. After the tutor is assigned the contact info is given to the noob. Then they could go and chat trough irc to get to know each other and to answer all of the noobs question. Also the volunteer could help out configuring the noobs system using vnc or something like that. I think it would make some people more comfortable and it would show the power of the free software community. This only meant to compliment the other already existing forms of voluntary tech support.

With low-latency audio Ubuntu could professionally be used as Digital Audio Workstations (DAW), it would be good for audio professionals to accomplish recording, editing and processing of audio and multimedia, such as in music production.

This would make Ubuntu an appealing choice for professional audio artists.

The 'Ubuntu Code of Conduct' has too much programmers slang. It should be addressed also to 'Humans' who don't know what is 'frozen system' or 'upstream community'.

http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct

What I would like to see is a tool that can update the X configuration by using the same inf files that are used for windows to configure your monitor mode lines.

In case the detection doesn't work too great (like mine) whatever the reason, you have to specify the modelines in xorg.conf. Try to get that done by a newb or even novice! You either have to dig through the xorg log file which may have them somewhere or you have to get them from the windows monitor driver files. It is all unfriendly manual labor. Bulletproof-X may get you into graphics mode but 640x400 ain't that much fun.

This can be partially resolved by downloading the monitor driver file, have it read in by the screen setup tool et voila, the next step is selecting one of the supported resolutions which will work guaranteed (given the right inf file). It is a text file after all. Read it in, update xorg.conf and xrandr and you are set.

Hello,
UBUNTU has been superlative in putting LINUX into a average user's desktop.
But when it comes to installing applications, it is confusing to a great extent. It is definitely great to have open source applications, but it leaves a user totally confused as to which application to use. For example, for a simple audio player there are about 10-12 applications each having a specialty feature missing in the rest.
That leaves a user ...
I believe UBUNTU should set up a platform of preferred applications for each category with a default blessed application and:
1. Either urging the open-source developers to offer their application as a plugin to this blessed application.
2. Or offering a mechanism to use it as a plugin to their blessed application.
This has been a successful approach adopted by Mozilla Firefox and Eclipse.
That way a user will at least be assured that a blessed application meets the UBUNTU standards. The extensions/plugins can be at his discretion.
That will instill confidence in an UBUNTU user.
Thanks

7.10: gives 'out of range' on my 1024x768 lcd screen
8.04: my linksys wireless is very, very slow

It's good te make inovations, but do not forget the basics of a distro.

What's the big blunder on 8.10? No color? No usb? No mouse?

Symphony OS is an Ubuntu-derived distro with a unique desktop environment. It's still in beta stage, but with some help from the Ubuntu project, it could become very usable.

Here are some links on it:
http://www.symphonyos.com/
http://www.symphonyos.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_OS

I propose that Symphony OS become an official Ubunutu distro alongside Xubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu, and all it's packages become installable from Ubuntu repos, so that users of the other desktops can simply do a "apt-get install mezzo-desktop" to easily install it.