Contributor sajmon_phoenix

It is quite unprofessional to see a text style boot every file system check. Include this step in the graphical ubuntu bar progression and add an one line information to notice the user why the boot is longer.

I'd like to explain the emblems I got in use right now, mostly thanks to the tango generator icon theme, and how this method should be the gnome standard and really a default for the human theme.

What emblems to include
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It's simple, when you click the applications menu, you'd see icons like "office", "development", "sound and video" (aka multimedia) , the first good thing about the emblems made by tango generator is that it uses those icons as emblems. So, for folders you can really categorize them correctly.

Another great emblem is the "star" tango emblem, firefox, gmail all are starting to use these stars to mark the more special things , a little star emblem helps me determine what things are priority, much better than such clock emblem.

So, the list of emblems to include would be:
special (the star icon)
trash/dump (This uses a mini trash icon)
multimedia (icon currently in use by sound and video category in applications)
development (The menu one, for example in tango it is a construction helmet)

art (The one used by "graphics" category in the menu)
office (idem)

system/gear (Again, from the menu, optional, but I found it useful)

download/web (I guess the one from the menu works)
fun (A smiley)
danger (A bomb icon probably)
urgent (I guess some people would want to use this instead of starred)
money (A human themed $$ sign could work)


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I don't know if this is possible, but it would be cool if there was a program that could enable me to set a list of programs to be present in memory from the system start. I know that this would make system startup much longer, but if you use like 6 pieces of software all the time during work like me it would make starting them up way faster.

You could make a list from the installed programs like:
- OpenOffice
- Gimp
- Audacious
- Doplhin
- Firefox
- Thunderbird

It would show the available memory and how much this would take away from it.

I imagine this by not starting the actual programs at startup (that is possible in other ways), but to make them start up extremely fast by loading most of them in memory (if you have 2GB RAM, you can spare some of it to this). If you close the program, it would dissapear, but would still be present in memory and if you click on it's icon it would appear instantly...

Ok so im not sure if this is the right place for this..but im just thinking out loud.

a device that will let your torrents downloading but yu can switch off your pc! torrents carry on downloading. External USB hard drives are available freely these days. So maybe something in buntu that will let the juice flow from the USB to the hard drive after the pc has been switched off.

Maybe an option in the shutdown menu..."torrents"...which shuts down everything else but gives the cpu like 3% power consumption compared to normal...

...oh and this has "green" written all over it!

Bragging rights over Windows and Macs? check!!!

Now alternative install looks like 80's windows installer whic looks like s**t!
Even Windows 95 installer looks at least twice prettier than ubuntu installer! Just make it look itty pitty better

(sorry my english :)