Contributor ryanhaigh

The new Hardy has maken it fast, but I think it can be made even faster. There are many things ubuntu boot unnecessarily
for example, I do not use evolution or sheduler. still, with default installation, it wakes up, eating a bit of memory. So i usually turn it off. similarly the task sheduler..the all take up memory, furthe slowing it down..also, it drinks time when booting.

So I think you want to be asked of when installing Ubuntu- How You're gonna use it...do you want these all softwares in startup and so...or some standard install profiles which make a blend of these features...

1)small tree browser in the left pane( like the one in windows explorer, its convenient for quickly browsing the hierarchy'). The tree like structure in the "detailed" view on the right pane is very close to what i am talking abt. but, it needs to be on the left side with smaller icons so that it can fit into a smaller left pane.

2) Tabbed browsing instead of opening multiple windows

3) responsiveness, nautilus needs to render much faster that it currently does. Since the file explorer is one of the most frequently used app, ppl get easy frustrated when it doesn't work as expected.

4) There should be an option to apply a view setting (icons,details,etc) system wide( for all folders in the system) , that is, not remembering view setting for each folder and using a global view setting.

5) Dragging an entity should make it transparent. If not done, this tends to cover up the entity on which you are dropping it on. If transparency is not achievable due to some limitation in X server, show only the outline while dragging.

6) The shorcuts in the left pane, when right clicked should have context menu similar to that of a normal folder.

It is impossible to delete file from mounted NTFS partition. Files are kept in .[user_name]-Trash folder and cant be deleted from linux system. I need to log into windows and remove trash folder. It's very annoying.

Hello,
in gdm or kdm I think make numlock on by default is a very good thing


thanks

I think the nautilus CD/DVD Burner is a very good burning application, and very easy to use. But it suffers from feature lack. So please, take in consideration the following requests :
* add an erase option
* Dissolve serpentine into nautilus to create audio CD
* add an horizontal histogram to show the size of the compilation compare to disk capacity.
* fix progress bar when writing a disk image to HDD.
* fix possibility to write image disk from audio CD.

thanks a lot

I really hope for a day in which Nautilus, Konqueror and Thunar would have a good interface for making up your own symlinks, if you ask symbolic links are a very useful unix feature, specially if you are running out of space in one partition, make lending space easier, and some times you do need duplicated versions of the same folder in different places.

Just a "symlink" command in the "new" submenu would work, you can make it only work with folders if you want. Symlinks are SO useful, still in the GUI era, take a look at icon themes, for example.

Archives are opening in applications like File Roller. Why? When you thing about you realize that archive is nothing less than special type of folder (and folder is special type of file with defined structure dependent on filesystem). But archives can be presented as compressed folders and opens in same windows as regular folders. Why do we need to confuse user with different windows?

Working with archives will be easy as in Midnight Commander or in Total Commander or in Windows XP. And if it will be implemented like VFS (zip://path/archive.zip/subdirectory/file) or as kernel driver it will be easier due to be transparent to any application.

Update: If gvfs is not possible, mounting the archive could be another possible way to implement this.

Archive managers should be used only for creating archives with non common attributes, e.g. encrypted, splitted to multiple volumes (to fit DVD, CD, ZIP drive, Floppy)...

Note: When you try to drag big file out from the archive from File Roller you need to wait to fully uncompress file before releasing mouse button (once it started to uncompress it). It's bad and very annoying.

(Idea copied from: http://chabada.sk/better-desktop/)

Sometimes it's unconfortable when you're searching some files (for example when compiling and installing a program) and when you are "inside" the folder in the file manager, you want to compile. You need the terminal.

So, you need to reach the folder and reach that folder typing all the way to do it, and it's very tedious when the program name is too long.

I suggest that in the menu (File menu) it would appear an item called "Open Terminal in this folder" or simply "Open terminal".

There are two primary media players out there. The iPod and the Zune. The iPod works in Linux. The Zune does not. If the Zune software were able to run in Linux via WINE, then us thousands of Zune owners would be able to get rid of Windows for good.

My idea is a push for Zune software to run in WINE. (Like Google Picasa runs in WINE)

I know this is not directly Ubuntu related, but the Microsoft Zune is a major media player and this will keep Zune owners from moving over to Linux (Ubuntu) as we do not want to brick our $200+ piece of equipment because it's useless if we cannot add/remove media to/from it.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=5741

That could happen after installation of ubuntu does not have an internet connection, I find it very annoying not to have software that reads divx and mp3. We could install VideoLan default or Gstreamer plug-in

The main advantage of windows system and software over linux is that there is usually no need to configure anything. You install it - it works. Without reading pages and pages of docs and writing strings and strings in config file. Works out of the box. This is a very important feature for any user-friendly desktop oriented system, and this way it's a very important feature of Ubuntu itself.

Many projects related to Ubuntu are using the Tango icon guidelines: GNOME, Gimp, F-spot, OpenOffice, Firefox 3... just to name a few.

Currently Ubuntu's default icon theme is Human, which in turn is not based on the Tango Guidelines. This means that applications are not integrated into the lock and feel of the whole system as well as they could. Also, Human is not 100% complete, so it still uses some Tangoish icons from GNOME. This leads to a mix of Human, Tango and Old-GNOME look.

Ubuntu should provide a minimal Tango-based theme which just replaces some of the very visible icons, like folders for example. For the rest, either the GNOME or Tango icon theme can be used as a fallback. This way, Ubuntu would keep a special branding but very much improve the overall visual consistency of the OS.

Whenever the kernel is updated, remember options such as noapic so the system will boot up after a reboot.

They might add GNU/Linux to the name, example:

Ubuntu GNU/Linux.

Sometimes Cononical refers to Ubuntu as Ubuntu Linux, and other people more...

Linux is only the kernel of the OS, the complete OS is named GNU/Linux.

Ubuntu as son of Debian GNU/Linux, must use GNU/Linux in its name.

It's GNU/Linux, dammit....

Right now photo managers, and music managers crawl the filesystem just like a desktop search engine, and then build their own database. Instead let the desktop search engine do this. Using tracker as a backend would allow users freedom to choose their frontend application, while at the same time keeping all media organized on the filesystem.

Summary:
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

Enable Nautilus to use tabs.

Nautilus is Ubuntu's default file management software. There is no reason why you should need to open countless Nautilus windows to manage your files. It is time to bring tabs from your web browser to your file browser.

As a user I want to be able to listen to audio or watch videos with the least amount of setup. I would like to have a single interface (Codec Manager) that lists all of the most common audio and video formats and shows me if I am missing the necessary codec for playback.

Use Case: Enable MP3 playback.
Precondition: MP3s are not currently playable.
1. User logs into the system.
2. User opens the Codec Manager.
3. System displays a list of common audio/video formats.
4. User selects MP3s.
5. System displays some info about MP3s.
6. System displays a list of available codecs.
7. User selects a codec and clicks Apply.
8. System downloads and installs the selected codec.
9. System informs the user when completed.

Other possible features:
- Display a list of audio/video types that are missing codecs.
- An auto-setup function, that grabs the recommended codec for all formats.

Audio and Video formats that should be supported:

Audio:
- MP3
- OGG
- AAC
- FLAC
- Real Audio

Video:
- MP4

[....]

At the moment, if someone wants to backup his documents or prepare a migration from a computer to another there isn't much more than file-roller to create a backup.
Ideally, the user should be able to run a graphic software which would ask what the user wants to backup and where (tape/usb key/remote).
Then the same tool would be able to restore the backup.

It would be useful for both backups and migration from a computer to another.

Update : See duplicates ideas which contain even more great ideas about that idea.

In todays computer systems the main bottleneck is not CPU but disk access which is several orders of magnitude slower than CPU and memory. In such circumstances the way to improve application performance is to prefetch data it needs from disk before it even requests it and it is the point of prefetching techniques. This speeds up boot and decreases the time needed to start programs. This replaces and it is faster than the currently used readahead.