Contributor sciurus

When I am browsing through my pictures (which I do a lot since I do photography and I am trying to switch to Ubuntu), I look at them throught the Gnome-eye, I often turn them. However, I just look on and I see later that they the rotation of the image haven't been saved. Every time I rotate the image I need to click File > Save or Ctrl+S.

I want this to be an option to save automatically, so I can move on with my work and don't get hassled with little things like this.

I would just love to see the view of Mark Shuttleworth become true in that ubuntu becomes an OS for multimedia people (photgraphy, film, audio etc.) as well.

I've been trying to figure out the full capabilities of the X server for a while. Now that I've found out how to start a second X server locally, I am of the opinion that the startx command should take care of the display number for you unless specified otherwise.

open office content colour shouldn't follow colour theme.

I believe it's more natural for the officers application the white background since all them come from procedure made on real paper (in the most of the case it's white). But the office apps use the textbox colour for background and also for the letters, and it can give a bad aspect to default documents.

Originally, i was really against the idea of a dark theme, and maybe i'd still prefer it if Ubuntu would lighten up a little. I understand the organic theme completely, but please...this is an operating system. Anyways, all the dark themes i had seen really turned me off and even the best ones seemed to be loved by some and hated by others. If we're going to have a dark theme, lets have one that we can all agree on. When i saw the Intrepid alpha screenshot, like many others, i gagged a little.

How people interact with their computer is really essential to their satisfaction. This is why aside from features, the software's stability (minimizing annoying bugs), speed (clean code and making everything as efficient and responsive as possible), and interface (look and feel) are the three most important things that should be our focus and be kept at a high priority.
We should really work to increase usability: http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/08/01/free-software-usability

I have looked through all the artwork submissions for Intrepid, and of all of them, this is the one dark theme that i would actually like to use: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/Wall-light

I first saw it on this Digg submission: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Intrepid_Ibex_Mockup_Designs

Of course, i'm sure everyone will have input to make it even better. This isn't a final design, but vote for the concept so far!

P.S. Please Digg :) Thanks http://digg.com/linux_unix/Vote_for_a_beautiful_usable_Ubuntu

This is not my idea, is from willwill100 on DevianArt:

He/she make this mockup for Ubuntu and I think is one of the best ever created (my opinion).

He/she doesn't know that I publish his/her ideas here... But I think that if Ubuntu has this Look and Feel, Ubuntu will be better (or best :P)

http://willwill100.deviantart.com/art/Interpid-Ibex-Mockup-Part-1-93584571

As always, excuse my poor english.

There are some video streaming sites that I can only see if using this plugin, even with the restricted modules installed.

apt-get has had download-only for some time already, but it is hard to do selective updating through apt-get , it would be nice if update-manager had a check box or advanced option to do that. Basically, it would just download the packages without installing, it would be amazing just for dist-upgrades, but for your everyday updating it would also be helpful, some times, even though I would like unattended downloading, I don't want unattended installation, specially if the update is a new kernel version.

There should be no reason to include the /usr/games environment path on a server installation. This should not be in the $PATH by default, and serves no purpose other then to weaken security. Please correct me if I'm wrong in this.
I did check debian etch installation $PATH variable, and it does not have /usr/games in it.

Moving this to Server rather then security.

It is said that there should be no unsecure networks, but, they exist, they're all around, schools, job, etc!

so, why don´t let us connect to them?
I don´t like needing restart to windows to do it.

Leaving my acces point unsecure is an option, and the more options the OS has, the better it is.

currently it is only able to send files via bluetooth in default installation, but it is not able to receive files and bluetooth file sharing should be possible by default

We need easy to use converter for .tar,.gz2,which convert these archives to .deb packages that makes easy to install programs. Ubuntu new user will not get back to windows after 1
or 2 months after usage.

Many people ruin their boot loader after installing, and cannot boot Ubuntu (or any other OS). I think during the installation, Ubuntu should ask whether the user wants to create a boot floppy/cd/usb in case something goes wrong.

Slackware also has this.

Make gedit (the primary text editor in Ubuntu) be able to open any type of file.

When I try to open a binary file or a .png file or something, it whines and says;
* "gedit has not been able to detect the character coding.
Please check that you are not trying to open a binary file."

Well, I would like to be able to open a binary file.

Ubuntu 8.04 comes with the GCC compiler but without the 'build-essentials' metapackage.
This makes GCC useless; its not even possible to compile a simple "Hello world" program.

Either have GCC not installed by default or have the 'build-essential' metapackage installed by default so that GCC works.

When you plug a USB Flash Drive in, Ubuntu cleverly detects and mounts it for you. Lovely. However, when you disconnect it, Ubuntu can't unmount it. It stays displayed on your desktop as a mounted drive, but can't be accessed. If you reinsert the same drive, Ubuntu mounts it under a different name.

The prevention is simple - manually unmount the drive before you physically disconnect it.

The cure is also simple - use Terminal to do a 'sudo umount' to force an unmount of the 'rogue' drive.

However, this doesn't seem particularly intuitive to me. It would be vastly preferable for Ubuntu to recognise when the drive has been disconnected, and to force the unmount itself.

This is an attempt at a unification of:

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7081/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7390/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7649/
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7725/

I can't think, nor have I heard, of any showstopper reason for why BitTorrent shouldn't be used as the primary download method of Ubuntu respository packages. Although the specifics of the implementation of this idea will be different for ISOs and repositories, I feel they should be unified in the brainstorm because the goal is to allow the rapid, efficient, reliable, and available download of Ubuntu software.

Implementation Benefits

1) Speed. All Ubuntu downloads (ISO downloads, dist upgrades, regular system updates, and new application installs) will as a whole be faster. Generally torrent download speeds benefit from higher numbers of downloaders that seed, which Ubuntu users have demonstrated they are prone to do. BitTorrent is better able to absorb (and eventually use as an asset) large numbers of users attempting to download data at the same time, such as with the recent mad rush of Hardy downloaders/upgraders.

2) Efficiency. The BitTorrent protocol has proven to be one of the most efficient methods of distributing data amongst a large number of clients. It will harness the collective upstream of tens of thousands of Ubuntu users, from DSL and cable connections to the fastest of corporate connections.

3) Reliability. Checksums guarantee the integrity of BitTorrent downloads, so data corruption is much less likely to occur. Only the pieces that fail checksum are redownloaded, contributing to points 1 and 2.


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Gnome needs a revoultion. Ubuntu uses Gnome.
Canonical could help the Gnome3-developers e.g. with money, tips, pc-resources or something else to speed up the development and to create a better Gnome3-release.
(KDE4 has much more features than Gnome, it is faster and looks better (my oppinion). Also it uses the powerful Qt4 as widgetset that is better than GTK+ at time. Gnome is going to leave behind KDE)
[edit] I dont't say that any DE is better, but Gnome needs help and Ubuntu primary uses Gnome. KDE4 is a great DE without help from the Ubuntu developers. [/edit]
[Sorry for my English]

Kubuntu 8.04 was not LTS for obvious reason of switching from KDE3 to KDE4. But I think that 4.1 will be stable enough for LTS version.
I know that this is solely Kubuntu users problem, but don't forget on us.

OpenDesktop is site where you can customize / add new features, apps to your desktop. You can also pitch ideas for GNOME, KDE and XFce just as on Brainstorm. You can also pitch ideas for Ubuntu and Kubuntu. Both specialized sites are pretty dormant at the moment.
It's the closest thing to contacting with devs, a lot of users there are real devs of applications for GNOME, KDE and XFce.
Ideas that are proposed here should be proposed there also, especially those that propose better apps. The problem is that there idea pitching is not so simple as it is in Ubuntu Brainstorm.
Ubuntu brainstorm admin should contact the admin of OpenDesktop to ask if it is possible to unify Ubuntu art and Kubuntu art and somehow even include Ubuntu brainstorm into their site.

As you can see on Brainstorm, there is need for some kind of introduction of a new user to Ubuntu. On the one hand, this should include everything from setting up one's system to using each single app. On the other hand, this should in no way annoy experienced users, while probably helping them out if they need it.
Other requirements are internationalisation (translation into the user's language), friendliness and ease to use. This could be enhanced by reacting to the user's system (i.e. which apps are installed and how are they configured) and the user's actions (f.e. which programs are running, which one is active), but this is not needed for basic functionality.


Gnome already has a help system that can be found in "System -> Help". But in no way is it complete or even truly helpful.
Instead, I propose a "Ubuntu Assistant" which, when clicked, shows helpful messages. These range from common problems and their solution (like installing ndiswrapper, extra codecs) to general introductions (f.e. the Linux directory structure, the sudo concept), links to articles and howtos on the internet, and even the manpages and the app's own help.
On first start, the assistant pops up an introduction and explanation of this help system, also mentioning how it can be uninstalled. An experienced user can now disable the assistant (f.e. by uninstalling it) while a new user has a place where he/she can find help if needed.
After this message, the assistant does not pop up by its own, but only when clicked and then it shows helpful tips, if possible based on what programs are running. Example: A new user has just opened Evolution. He doesn't know how to use it, so he opens the assistant. He can read now follow links to articles about Email, Evolution, Cryptography etc.
If the assistant can detect which packages are installed, the included articles could also inform the user if he has to install new packages (if they aren't installed) or direct him to the correct app. Example: The user reads about Emailing, and because Thunderbird is installed and Evolution is not, the assistant directs him to the Thunderbird help.
Also, the assistant should feature a search for all the questions the user has that are independent of the running apps.



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