Contributor ruvenss

There are many games in Ubuntu repositories. Have you ever played with a friend (not on the Internet)?. Incorporating a "plug-in" in instant messaging services (aMSN, Pidgin, Kopete ...), and adapt many small games to play with the person with whom chatting. This would mean changing the messaging experience on Linux.
Try playing with a friend to "ktron" or "frozen bubble" and you will understand me.
There are many mini games manufactured, but we must make them more accessible and useful (casual) to be played. The vast number of games that are in repositories can get more value for Ubuntu. If these are advertised with instant messaging, because all we usually ignore and forget it(it is better to play with friends). Let's give it a utility using them to enhance the experience of instant messaging. Let's take all those games!. (There are more than 250!).

This idea come to me when I saw a friend using Keynote on his Mac, he can present his powerpoint presentation to an other guy online, it's just great and I think it will be useful for professional users.
In the case of Ubuntu, the possibility to present a open office presentation can be so great !

I've a webcam and a TV Tuner...

Each time i boot the TV Tuner is /dev/video0 (or /dev/video1)
and the webcam is /dev/video1 (or /dev/video0)

RANDOMLY!!

It's a pain (i've to fix amsn and mplayer each time...)
As a workaround i've tune by hand the udev's files to fix them...
It could be useful to have a GUI to do this automatically

Synchronizing between computers is currently impossible. I have a laptop and a desktop , and despite attempts with rsync, unison, ifolder, even with using ftp drives (which is not easy) I am unable to move files. this is beyond the simple networking problems, i want folders to synchronize. mainly just documents/homework. If i could go beyond that, to actually incorporated program files, such as firefox extensions, great. but the fact that I, after 2 months of trying, cannot find a way to have easily access/store files on 2 machines makes it very hard to solely use ubuntu.

Please do not doubt my faith though, as I have actually converted 7ppl!!! to date. 4 in my frat, 2 out, and my girl!

Is it possible to add a graphical tool to join easier a NFS server?

It would be able to :
- install nfs-common automatically
- create a new default directory (i.e /media/nfs) or by a manual choice
- set ip address of NFS server
- submit previous datas to /etc/fstab
- mount NFS file system, (like sudo mount -a)
- (optionally) seek for all nfs servers on local network

I think than nautilus-connect-server is good place to add this stuff.

Easy, template based, switching of wireless and ethernet networks, where ever you are, based on previous, one time setup, connections.

1. After connecting to a network, automatically create a template for this
2. Make it possible to normally get connected to the best available network (Ethernet first, strongest wireless network within the templates, strongest available wireless network)
3. Make it possible to accept automatic switching between wireless networks (as long as part of the templates), based on the signal strength
4. Make it possible to automatically disable wireless connections, when an ethernet connection is available (security)
5. Make it possible to have sub-templates to distinguish different networks. Let's say you plug in your laptop to different wired networks, with different settings (proxy servers, dhcp, static, ....). Autodetect those different networks and switch to the right sub-template.
6. Make it possible to set different types of settings per template as well, like proxy servers, time servers, smtp servers, ...
7. Make it possible to build up a vpn connection automatically after connecting to a network

This would be great to have.

It would be great to be able to configure two interfaces with Network Manager or anything else and share the internet from one to another (NAT).

For example if I have cable and wireless, I could be able to share my cable internet and act like an access point.
Or on the other way if I have wireless networking but my friends haven't it would be nice it I could share my network with them thought ethernet.

Based on idea 5321, by Eldmannen (about removing yahoo).

We should remove ebay from the default installed searches, because:
- It reduces competition with other auction sites.
- Recently there was a uproar about changes in ebay which make in some case make it unfair. I agree!
- Ebay VERY heavily pushes Paypal, which is acknowledged by many to be very dodgy. A lot of people know someone who has been screwed by ebay. And here in aus, I had to upgrade my account because they had a bug which prevented me accessing my money (which is very unprofessional). The freenet Project owner was also screwed by ebay (and it demonstrated they don't research at all claims made against customers), and another friend of mine was charged 2x the amount he was supposed to be receiving because someone used a stolen credit card against him (so seems they profit from illegal credit cards).
- If ebay was a bank, they would have a 24/7 riot outside their building by customers who were screwed.
- Ebay doesn't exactly listen to feedback. If are a typical large company, where you have no way of providing feedback (if you scream at them over the phone, maybe they will let you speak to a manager). But they clearly dont care much (no forums).

Its to our advantage to promote competition within the auction sites. More competition means lower costs for us, and better payment methods. We should try to encourage the development of a world wide auction site that is more consumer/seller friendly, that actually promotes active feedback and improvement.

There is nothing stopping a patch being applied to the firefox code to prevent ebay being a default search engine (and it shouldn't be hard to do).

Broadcom wireless drivers are still common - see Lenovo V100 laptops etc, and having to fight with NDISwrapper or the terrible bcmxxxx driver is a terrible block for new users.

Ubuntu should now have the clout to get these companies to open up specs, especially for legacy hardware (as I believe the newer broadcoms work reasonably).

There should be an easy way to create via GUI network profiles - where network address, various log-ins, shares, printer, TOR, firewall and proxy settings etc etc are all linked together into profiles - for me e.g. "Home", "Work", "Cafe", "church" etc.

There are scripted ways to do this, but via GUI would be wonderful.

WLAN is still not stable. Sometimes a can login, the other day it just won't. I can connect the cable and disconnect and stuff like that. I just does not work reliable.

A simple right click menu on a printer on your ubuntu computer for "Sharing Properties" which would allow you to choose whether or not to share on a wired/wireless network and its limitations.

In Firefox, it isn't possible to copy images. In the Windows version, you can right click on an image, select copy, and then paste it into your OpenOffice document. On Ubuntu, you have to save the image somewhere, and then import it into your OpenOffice document. I'm not sure if this is just Ubuntu, or the whole GNU/Linux version of Firefox. I do know, though, that it is possible in Konqueror!

Currently samba sharing is (in my opinion) broken, since you can't share your folders through the GUI. Instead, you have to resort to the CLI in order to create a samba user which pretty much defeats the whole purpose of a GUI.

My proposal is to modify the samba share dialogue so that it allows to create samba users:

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Ubuntu 8.04 will ship with the old Mono version 1.2.6. But there is already the new stable version 1.9. So why include an old one?

Please add scientific libraries (root, etc.) to the repository, if it is possible.

I can't find any support for this recent card.
Appear to be the same chipset from "Pinnacle 250i"

In the news page for the new Ubuntu training there is a typo in the shop.canonical.com address , please fix it

Like kde does with "Kde everywhere",these are images taken from places,people etc.they post these images on kde-look
in a section.yes i also want to see Ubuntu everywhere images later but first Make ubuntu a buzzword,promote ubuntu all over the world M$ does it,well ubuntu hoardings,billboards,
sponsor events and major happenings like Olympics(too much?)
but don't be pessimistic about future,TV ads etc.
Finally some Getty images.!!!! wow is dead long live ubuntu and ubuntuers (whatever)

Hello,

I propose to add many links (like gnome-look.org) in the theme configurator of Gnome, in a new tab, because within that, a newbie have no idea how to add and download others themes.

I think that can add a effort to the way for no searching in search engines many many things...

bye