Contributor shadowfirebird

It would be nice to see who is voting for or against an idea here, so that we can ask why.

The voting feature is being abused at the moment, as its a feature that everyone sees the first thing, and are click-happy. It would be better if we were allowed to vote only when we also comment.

I tried several versions of linux software and they all screamed that it did the same as windows.
I stopped using them for one very important reason: they all worked in there conservative non-tolerant linux way.
The day it works like windows I will use it.
-I want to install programs like windows
-I want tot use the filemanager like windows
-I want program names with normal names and not cryptic linuxnames only meant for linux insiders.
-I want the windows-like interface and all the things I usually do with windows.

Every windows user wants to work like he or she did with windows.
If Ubuntu does this, all these people will go and work with Ubuntu
Until then : nada
I just don't understand why nobody in the Linux world does see this what every windows user knows.
To me it feels that nobody in linux world wants to see this fact.
Very very strange.
Make it like windows and everyone will adopt Ubuntu

Unlike Epiphnay, Firefox is not a real GNOME application, even with the enhanced native look which has been introduced by Firefox 3.0.

Epiphany is a very simple browser, more conforming to the spirit of GNOME, which lacks a lot of the features of Firefox. However, I think most people will probably not need Firefox' extra features and plugins. Those who do need Firefox could easily download it when Epiphany becomes the default webbrowser included out-of-the-box in Ubuntu. Ubuntu should aim for consistency, and Epiphany certainly is a better candidate than Firefox if consistency is the goal.

Epiphany currently uses the Gecko-engine for rendering, but will probably feature WebKit - http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/WebKit - soon. WebKit would probably do a better job than Gecko.

Because somehow Ubuntu brainstorm says the Blueprint URL I gave isn't valid, I give it here in the text: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/epiphany-default-browser

I'm sure this one will drop like a rock, but I had to say it.

Every time I tell a friend about GIMP there is almost always some amount of snickering going on.

When I start my photo editor, I don't want to be reminded of leather clad sex slaves. Do you?

Have a KDE interface for "inkscape".

Currently Inkscape is dependant on libcairo, libcairomm, libglib, libglibmm. libgnomevfs, libgtk2, libgtkmm...

P.s.: please make an exception from the usual "k + $name" rule and don't call it "kinkscape" :)

As well as have a category on the side panel where you can see ideas that are about to die.

This will give unpopular ideas a last chance to be seen before being removed altogether.

Putting the number at -10 makes it so that a slightly negative number won't hurt it and it has a chance to come back.

When ideas are at -7 they should be put on the "about to die" list and people can either save them from dying or push them on over the edge.

This is a great way for the community to get rid of spam posts too.

Ideas that are already below -10 at time of implementation should be artificially bumped up to -7 so they get a fair shake before taking the plunge into deletion.

Some ideas might be able to make better impressions if they are written better. Deleting them will free up others to re-submit the idea without being discouraged by a similar but poorly written post.

Dead ideas should be visible to the original poster, but invisible to others.

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Because the Text is very long here a short summery:
In my opinion it is senseless, that there is so much competition inside of open source. There are many projects which are very similar and I think that cronical and the ubuntu foundation as the developer of one of the most popular Linux distributions should plead for the support of communication between the open source projects to give open source a more efficient structure.
Inside of open source there should be no competition, microsoft is enough, and I think if the open source developers would work more efficient together they can produce a very beautiful Linux desktop in the future.
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First of all I really love the idea of Open Source. It is much simpler to communicate with the developers, submit own ideas(e.g. Brainstorm), or to help active, to form his own desktop. Because of this close relationship to the user, I feel much more involved to this project and feels in duty bound to give something back. So I produced an icon theme and submitted some ideas.
It is great to have the freedom to start something new and that there are possibilitys to find people who helps you, but I also think it would be very helpful for open source to make a new structure for more productivity.

I do not understand why there are done so many things twice or more?
When I would look at Open Source like at a company there are so much things which could be done more efficient.

1.Why so many applications of the same categorie. For example the IDEs. There are many IDEs for different programming languages, but either they are complicated (anjuta), have no standard gui builder (eclipse), or are very unstable (mono on my ubuntu desktop). I think it would be more productive if all this IDE developers would work together to build one simple IDE which includes many programming languages and an easy to use gui builder. I know Kdevelop tries that, but I hate the unclear interface structure of many KDE Applications like Kdevelop. I would prefer something more like mono.
A category which also must be mentioned are media players. I do not try to count all the open source media players because there are to much. On a wikipedia side I found a list with ca. 30 audio and video players, but I think there are much more. I know a small assortment should be there, but company's like microsoft or apple has just one media player, Linux not countable. When the developers of some similar media players would work together it would be much more efficient, and would open up so much new possibilitys for the Linux desktop.

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Arrange awards for the most best idea with most number of
votes maybe: set a mark like
5,000+ or 10,000+ or 15k or 25k utmost 50k votes
Reward the contributor,idea maker,with some goodies(ubuntu
mugs,t shirt or a whopping prize of laptop preloaded with
Ubuntu)
discuss this topic in Ubuntu conference.also an invitation
to conference.

upon installation, it should automatically recognize if the user have a windows partitition and preserve it, creating a bual boot and mounting the ntfs disks in a standard place (/media/windows_hda...)

This is the one thing that has held back the progress of Linux on the desktop for all these years. It is high time that we investigate alternate ways of implementing GTK on top of a windowing system that runs at Ring 0 so that desktop responsiveness does not suck so badly as it does now.

There are a lot of windows apps like firefox, blender ,pidgin ...etc in ubuntu installer cd. Those apps are not needed most of the users coz they are not more interest on windows.
Removing those apps make more space on ubuntu installer cd and use those space for including more necessary applications.

Ubuntu needs more easter eggs, for example an embedded Rick Roll video which plays on loop indefinitely on a certain keystroke

In a common desktop environment, it's pretty useless and kills usability of logging (punishing the user for their mistake).

All details and solution are in the bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pam/+bug/138654/

When you try to save an image with the gimp it looks like to propose all the file formats of the universe and I have to scroll down for JPEG. This is quite obscure and unnecessary.

I think most user need only the basic formats and the rest should be an option or a separate package.

Have a page with the names of people who approved a certain idea. The user can opt to be anonymous through changing his profile options, and the page may look like this:

49 anonymous approvers.
95 other users approved this idea:
Names, Go, Here, verb3k, etc.

I don't know why ubuntu developers insist that this package remains there, but it's totally a bad idea to have such a package in an official repository, knowing that ubuntu is admitted in homes with children and offices of workers where such things are highly prohibited.

It should be faster! (Use of indexing maybe?)

one click - selects a file
double click - opens a file
triple click - edits a file

for example "ubuntu.png"

First click selects the file.
Second click opens the file with gthumb or something else.
Thrid click will open gimp or any other tool.


Greetings
Sparky

Add a "send Mark Shuttleworth on another trip to outer space" button to the ubuntu desktop. All this button will then do is open a paypal page in mozilla so you can donate your hard earned cash to send marky on another trip to space. At least this could be included in universe!