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

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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.

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Currently would e.g. latest Gstreamer 0.10.7 multimedia plugins make me happy (changelog/improvements are huge), but they are not available for Ubuntu 7.10, but in Suse world you will get excellent services even for obsolete 2 years old version Suse 10.0 and you can search any packages you want and find them also for older Suse versions. Now that' what i call community repo...

If you now install 6 months old openSUSE 10.3 you will get premium support with newest, constantly updated/recompiled packages for lots of applications for quite some time. GetDeb is promissing project, but still far away from Packman - The real long term support :)

And not to mention Suse NVidia+ATI repo, Compiz repo, Banshee repo, Mozilla repo, Beagle repo, Wine and the list goes on... http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_YaST_Package_Repositories

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]]> Tue, 07-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/6710/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/6741/ 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.

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*office 2007 support in wine
*a theme for openoffice, now it seams like there is no theme for openoffice

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* 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.

( ) Redmond-inspired
Something a little simpler for the Windows refugees.

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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!

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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/

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

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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.

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No attachments. ]]> Tue, 07-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/1801/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/6441/ 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

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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?

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