Contributor sebastien.worms

There is no free and PROFESSIONAL project management software on Linux (and on Windows too).

I tried Ganttproject, Planner and OpenWork bench. They are not as easy to use (a waste of time) as MS project.

I think the OpenOffice.org project is the best challenger. Imagine interactions with other components and the next PIM component.
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/programme/wednesday_186.pdf


Management project is a real part of office software (MS project is a part of MS Office...)

If Ubuntu is just installed on a computer that also has another operating system installed, a question should be asked in the boot loader to set the preferred boot OS.

This question is only asked during the first boot and thereafter the OS selected by the user should become the default.

There also should be an option in the Grub menu to change this setting (e.g. the user selected Windows in the past because (s)he was uncertain, but as (s)he likes Ubuntu very much, (s)he wants to change this default)

Enable the ability to set the order of the network configurations so that one has precedence over the other. This is a case where you have 2 gateways because you got 2 network connections but want one to take precedence over the other for accessing the Internet. But if one goes down, then it can automatically use the second one. And because they are not on the same level, you don't get into a situation where the 2 network connections try to map each other out and end up flooding the entire network.

This should be able to work with as many network connections as possible. A home pc could have 3 or more while a laptop typically has 2, one wired and one wireless.

To put it simply, just show me a list of all the network connections and allow me to set their order in terms of which one is used. Don't make it any more complex then that, it doesn't need to be.

God damn this is annoying. :P

When I delete files off a flash drive, I have to hit ctrl+h, to see the hidden .Trash folder that shows up. Yes, it's good to have a trash bin for your desktop, but not a bloody flash drive!

Give us an option for disabling trash in removable media / certain partitions!

In order to rename (relabel) a USB drive in Ubuntu, one must revert to the command line. Most other graphical Operating Systems allow the user to rename USB drives from the GUI. This support should be added to Gnome.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive

Thanks!
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Kristian Erik Hermansen

Gnome needs a thumbnail clean-up tool or process similar to the Thumbnail Maintenance tool in Comix 4.0.1 to remove all thumbnail files for files that no longer exist or have moved.

After 2 years of using Ubuntu I was able to free up ~500mb of space in removing old thumbnails from ~600Mb down to less than 100Mb.

This could be a tool or an automatic process triggered by file operations.

If you check the sound options there are to many options to chose, this has to be a expert modus.
It would be nice if you go to the sound options that you see a nice Pulse Audio mixer and have a tab with options for the system sounds.
Now is everything to complex and the soundsystem doesn't work for everybody (see bugs on launchpad).
The sound system on Ubuntu is to buggy at the moment so it need improvements.

The Update Manger works really well but I think the GUI could do with a redesign. I think its fair to say the vast majority of users see an update is available and just hit install.

However once the update has started downloading, I often find my self wondering about the details of what I have just started installing. Especially if I see they are security updates as I wonder if my system has been exposed to the vulnerability.

What would be really good is if the update descriptions were available once the install has started. This would mean making the download dialogue non modal or possibly integrating it in to the main Update Manager window.

One thing that surprised me once I was testing the alpha 2 of Ubuntu 9.04, was that it included OpenOffice.org 2.4 - What?!?! It's an alpha! it should be bleeding edge and include the latest software! (correction: yeah, alpha is not about bleeding edge software, it's about bleeding edge OS)
Even sister (daughter?) distros like Super Ubuntu and so already include it!

I really hope we get OO.org 3 in the final version!

it is just about making a window list applet with no text, It would not require compositing to work, so we can really personalize our desktop, it is sad that the only beautiful window dock that i have ever seen, it is the one in mac, but this could change.
i was thinking about adding a new option to window list applet: "no text" but it will not work because as any windows dock, you have short-cuts which you can click and launch programs and then they stay in the dock when minimized.
Actually we can do this:
http://fc85.deviantart.com/fs26/f/2008/183/e/1/Intrepid_Ibex_Concept_by_Tomrade .png
(at the top of the image: it is just a gnome-panel with bigger icons, it will be exactly as you see on the screen-shot, of course you will be able to change its size)
at the bottom we got a window list applet but it will be simpler if we just got a window dock applet on the gnome-panel as you can see at the top of the screen-shot, where we can minimize programs on it too, on the same shortcut.
it will work as any other gnome-panel applet, like icons in a panel but with a dock function.

-->> icons animation: highlight icons on mouse-over, as launchers in a gnome-panel, as simple as that

Rename Preferences and Administration in Settings menu to some more clear one. Like:

Preferences --> Personal settings
Administration --> System management

This could clear things out on new users.

When you browse Nautilus in Tree and/or List Views there is no visual indication whether a directory has any sub directories or not without clicking on a little triangle first. And then you get that really ridiculous "(Empty)" text if there no subs ...

The hierarchies visualization pattern is so well known that i wonder how Nautilus devs could overlook this one.

Removing triangle next to childless directories is the standard and intuitive way.

It's not a big deal but I think when you take a screen shot the screenshot should be named something useful such as the date, then the time.

For example today being December 26, 2008 and the time 21:11 the screenshot I take now should be named 2612082111.png not just "Screenshot.png". If you take several in a row for whatever reason you have to manually rename them (or I guess you could write a fancy script).

Today I was reorganizing a directory. I made some new sub-directories and reorganized the files.

When I was done, I wanted to make sure I didn't accidentally remove a file or duplicated a file. So I wanted to now if my new directory structure did hold the same amount of files as the original directory structure. If so, I'd remove the old structure, because both of them would contain the same files.

I looked at the properties of the old directory: 328 items.
I looked at the properties of the new directory: 354 items.

Looks like the new directory holds more files. So it looks like I duplicated some files. This isn't true, because a sub-directory's an item too. I made some new sub-directories, so that's why the amount of items differs.

A better way would be to display the following information:

Old directory:
- 316 files
- 12 sub-directories
- 328 items in total

New directory:
- 316 files
- 38 sub-directories
- 354 items in total

This'd give a better indication of the contents of a directory and it'd be way easier to compare them.

Now that OpenCL 1.0 is final, prioritising support would not only inspire developers to use linux, but also prove that we have the development toolkits, guts and motivation to compete against OSX Snow Leopard and Windows 7. If we don't support it rapidly, we will only fall further behind OSX, especially since it will give their developers extra time to utilise it properly (we shouldn't be waiting until its already popular). The faster we get this implemented, the quicker developers can use it, and the faster Ubuntu will be!

For those who don't know, OpenCL is a royalty-free standard for developers to program general purpose highly parallelised applications over GPU and CPU (combining their power even). Its more advanced then CUDA in that it combines CPU and GPU power and is accessible outside of Nvidia's video cards.

In summary, OpenCL is expected to become very popular with developers and users, and will make everything damned fast (especially considering we are already seeing video cards with 1600 processing threads, and Intel CPU's with 16 virtual CPU's will be out Q3 2009). If every program used OpenCL, processing power will seem almost infinite to end users.

Activision, Blizzard, AMD, Apple, ARM, Broadcom, Electronic Arts, IBM, Intel, Nokia, NVIDIA, Apple and Samsung are all on board. All major gaming companies, CPU and GPU manufacturers are on board. So yes, it will be a slaughter without support... ATI is dropping "close to metal", and as Nvidia will support OpenCL, CUDA will probably be depreciated slowly too (at the moment they are recommending CUDA only as a higher-level development platform).

What I would like to see with Ubuntu is added user friendliness on the interface and in general user functions. I am a person who use a computer to chat with my friends all around the world, talk to them, use multimedia applications, watch lot of movies and things like that.
There are lot of small things that makes an ordinary person think twice about switching to Ubuntu although it's a very good OS.
For instance lot of people use MSN Messenger around the world. In Ubuntu we can use aMSN as the closet thing to that. But We can't save custom emoticons on it. Pidgin is useless as it's just not up to the standards.

When watching movies through files like avi, I found it irritating that picture quality is not sharp as it's a bit "squarish" when watching full screen, which destroys the whole idea. I have installed VLC which is better than the other but the problem is still there.

I have used Ubuntu for a period of 6-8 months as a trial. I'm no expert on Linux but I came to like using Hardy Heron. But because of little things which makes it interesting, I had to go back to Windows and I'm using Vista Ultimate now.
For an average user, lot of technical stuff is not needed. Just need the simple things to run smoothly and look nice. I also thin it's high time Ubuntu drops it's "Brownish" outlook which is really not nice to look at now. One of the reasons people like Windows and Mac OS is because the eye catching colors. Ubuntu should improve on that.
Ubuntu is a GREAT OS to use... just need these finer points done.

Build a "system restore" equivalent for ubuntu

OO text editor is just wonderful (program is using CPU and memory about 48%), but when I have to make presentations, my CPU and memory are loaded up to 98%! For me it is very big problem. Because when I need to write my report, I have to wait till program (load up) all changes in text.

Replace "Overall quality of my ideas" label in "My Dashboard" with "Overall support for my ideas". "Overall popularity of my ideas" is another good candidate.

The number of votes does not necessary reflect the true quality of an idea. Ask Galileo, he'll tell you.

When tagging an idea it's not allowed to use commas and the list is space separated and alphabetically sorted. So after making 4 tags like

"Computer Human Interaction, Designing Interfaces, User Satisfation, Better Software"

it becomes just list of meaningless keywords

"Better Computer Design Human Interaction Interfaces Satisfation Software User"

Please allow commas to allow logical grouping of words to form proper tagging