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To ensure that the files don't disappear immediately after being trashed ruining the safety margin, there could also be an option for files deleted to be locked for a certain time period, to ensure that files don't get deleted instantly. (such as where you delete a 500MB file when there is only 500mb of space, and then 1 minute after immediately install something).

In fact, it actually adds a greater level of trash safety, because files in the trash will persist as long as they can, as opposed to now where if you don't empty the trash, there may be 300gb of files in there, and the only easy option is deleting all of them unnecessarily. However, files could still be manually deleted

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I hate two things:

1. Printers
2. Backup

My dislike for printers and configuration is already targeted in Intrepid Ibex in the joint venture Ubuntu/Linux Foundation with OpenPrinting.

I would LOVE to see increased efforts around my second point: Backup.

I want a backup routine that is as seamless as anything else in Ubuntu. Perhaps something like Apples time machine.

Is it possible to make doing backup easy and fun?

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]]> Mon, 06-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/13944/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/14005/ 'yep this is a good idea, we'll seriously consider it'
or
'that is an awful idea, forget it!'
would suffice, so one can better tell if popular ideas have a realistic chance of getting picked up or not.

Some ideas already have this kind of feedback (or even more detailed) but I think a high number of positive votes should always warrant official feedback.

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Let me say this, every hardy review was complimenting ubuntu for the beautiful wallpaper. I personally loved it, and it was the first time the default ubuntu wallpaper actually made people interested in what OS I was running, I even kept variations of it for four months until just recently. Instead the beta ibex wallpaper is just ... well, I think plenty of criticism was told about it already, but I'll focus on my wish to see more wallpapers like hardy's one.

It would be very nice to let ubuntu always have an abstract wallpaper with a surrealistic painting of the version number's animal.

Ubuntu needs a personality, the idea to keep a brown-orange theme is a good one for this reason (as long as the theme looks good) cause we are not copying the competition. I really think that hardy's wallpaper was a step in a good direction and changing the direction now would be a bad idea.

Besides of the animal, I think the color choice for hardy's wallpaper was nice, with more live colors.

Some examples:
http://ubuntuarte.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/interpid_ibex_wallpaper_1_by_willwill100.png
http://ubuntuarte.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/la_cabra1600_06.png
http://gabuntu.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/wallpaper-para-intrepid-ibex/
also many examples here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/Desktop_Background_Submissions#Ibex%20-%20a_lecture_and_an_ibex
(not suggesting these wallpapers specifically but the main idea behind them)



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It would be less confusing if the name was standardised across ubuntu

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Synaptic and Apt-Get have a great feature whereby the tool estimates the download size and expected drive usage upon installation, however it doesn't compare that value against the actual free drive space on the system. It is perfectly possible to attempt to download 100MB worth of updates that will consume 200MB of disk space after installation (total 300MB) when you only have 50MB of actual disk space free.

A simple query of the drive and a message dialog advising that the downloads and/or installation cannot be completed due to lack of space would save many a new user from tearing their hair out when Apt-Get kicks up a stink about being unable to perform any other task (such as removing apps to make space) because it has an unfinished installation that needs to be sorted out first.


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Then you click 'check' and find that it *isn't.*

This makes about as much sense as clicking 'Start' in Windows when you want to shut down, and it would be nice if Update Manager didn't tell you that you were up to date until AFTER you click 'check'.

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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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(x) would be a user configurable time (could be set to 0 for users who do not prefer to have a dialog on restart) with the default time set to 3 seconds; (y) could be a function key or dialog button.

When the user opts for more options at reboot, they are presented with the grub list, allowing them to choose a different kernel, memtest, recovery modes or even a different operating system to reboot into. (this could be achieved presently by editing the default in /boot/grub/menu.lst to the user desired OS)

IF (upon more options) the user chooses to reboot into Ubuntu AND the user has set the computer to automatically log in at boot, THEN the user is presented with more options to choose from, ranging from safe graphics mode to different desktop environments (Gnome, KDE, etc).

If you feel this brainstorm needs -1, please let me know why. I appreciate it.



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I would wish that I could configure Ubuntu to avoid going into the screensaver, if a gamepad is in use.

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You can't even delete them without being sure because it might contain important data.

Freedesktop has issued a recommandation to solve this problem :
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s03.html

Implementing this would allow to easily reset your configuration to the default one without loosing any data. For Ubuntu beta testers or people that care about having the default config, it would be a big advantage. It would also solve a lot of upgrade problems that some people have and that cannot be reproduced because it's a particular preference migration bug.

The problem and its solution is described here for the GNOME desktop but it applies for any application : http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?184-cleaning-user-preferences-keeping-user-data


My suggestion is to make the FD.o recommandation an official Ubuntu recommandation, trying to lobby so applications in Ubuntu follow this spec, at least the one in main.

A suggestion for the GNOME desktop has also been issued :
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders

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]]> Mon, 06-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/6748/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/478/ I believe they deserve the same support from the project since Gnome and Kde are the most popular desktop manager out there.
It seems quite obvious to me, the project is very much focused on one and only distro, its first baby : ubuntu.
And it shows. Kubuntu web site looks quite poor and unprofessional compared to ubuntu. Most graphic choices like the kdm default theme (even if it's supposed to be a matter of taste) look, again, unprofessional. And finally the whole distro doesn't seem to have the same amount of attention when it comes to details (one example among others: the little thing on ubuntu warning the user about the existence of proprietary drivers for display which does not exist on kubuntu).
I've been told once, like a year ago, by an ubuntu dev that the situation is such because the project doesn't feel like fragmenting its market share.
Whatever is the official position of the project, I don't think you should do things half way.
The Kde project is itself in full evolution with Kde 4. It does deserve full support from ubuntu.

Thank you for reading.


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This seems to be very useful and gentle. I never actually forget my password, but I think many people do, especially as most of the Windows-users didn't have a password on Windows.

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