Contributor shovelhead

Stop naming it "erase" in one half of the programms and "send to trash*" in the other half.

I use two foreign-language versions of ubuntu (German and French). To get rid of a file, I generally right-click and chose "erase" from the menu. This doesn't work half of the time, because the function is inexistant; they now call it "send to trash*".

The actual names in german and french are

- löschen // in den Müll verschieben

- effacer // envoyer à la poubelle

It makes life a lot more difficult and I stumble over that error every time, when I just want to erase a file and I just cant't find the erase function. I want to get rid of something; I don't want to move the trash around - I want it to dissappear - and I want a word for it - ONE WORD! - in the right-click menues.

please name that function "erase // löschen // efacer // ..." in every language and in every program - make it even a criteria for packages to make it into the repos. I am shure we all know, that there is a trash/dustbin and how it works.

* I do NOT know, how these two versions are called in english as I do NOT hava an english system at hand. You may call it "send to trash" or "move to dustbin" or "dump it in the symbol at the lowest, rightmost corner" or .... you got it!

complete support for midi...TIMIDY AND TUXGUITAR are not solution for musician...the suonds aren't good...i want a better support then windows i want play with guitar pro with a excellent bank of sounds better windows

I'm imagining a website that deals with third-party jobs and careers that specifically deals with Ubuntu.

This can be from setting up an Ubuntu server to becoming a full-time software architect developing a game on Ubuntu.

This doesn't not deal specifically as jobs for Canonical, although they could post there as well.

It would be more like a marketplace where a job could come in from all over the world, possibly specific to an area if physical contact is required.

Companies could set up job offers whenever needed and programmers could bid on the job. Or, in reverse, users could post their Ubuntu-related experience and companies could find potentially employees.

Why http://jobs.ubuntu.com? I've found a growing number of posts on http://ubuntuforums.org that deal with Ubuntu-related employment, but not every potential employee will be looking at that specific post in that specific sub-forum.

I have also personally been contacted by a local web development company because they needed someone to set up a LAMP server based on Ubuntu. They searched "Ubuntu" + "my home town" and my resume came up.

That worked out well, but this could be set up for jobs just as mentioned, but on a global scale.

What do you think?

Thinking: Intrepid + 2.

The project isn't focused enough on making people "add their little brick to the project".
We have to make it more easy, more visible, more accessible to get involved.
To the programmer and "non-programmer" (there is a lot to do that is not about programming, and there is certainly a loooot of people in that situation).


I'm sure there are so many people willing to contribute, but they don't know how to (true for almost all non-programmers), or they are afraid of getting involved in a 1000-hours project. Consequently, they don't contribute. Let's use this goodwill and energy more efficietly !


Linux/Ubuntu is really great at promoting its "products" , in a very competitive environment.
But the success of Linux/Ubuntu relies on two main points:
_ 1: having a high adoption rate
_ 2: having a vast community of people contributing


1: it's how we are going to make hardware vendors/software developpers make their product compatible with the OS we like :). It's also a way of sharing something we like. All this make this first point good and usefull (for Ubuntu / Linux / the Open Source world in general)

But Usually the focus is not enough on the 2nd point. But that 2nd point is what makes the project evolve, get better ... everything !


=> Ideas I have (I just want to give ideas, but I don't pretend they are 100% good, nor that these are the only ideas !) :

_ create a dedicated section in Ubuntu Brainstorm (that could be called "people involvment")

_ create a VISIBLE "to do list" of little tasks, that anybody could do (with a mentor attached), just to get them involved, and see how to contribute the project (like Wikipedia is really good at: any new comer can add a little "brick" to the project in 5 minutes)

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I wuold suggest to put the menubar (File, modify, view, etc.) together with the title of the window in the titlebar, on a single row.
The menubar can be aligned to the left and the title of the window can be right-aligned, eventually using different settings for the font.
The menubar will be shown only for active windows and it will put on a second row (as it is at the moment) if it doesn't fit on a single one (because the titlebar is too small to fit all the commands and the window title).

Screenshot:
I don't have the skills for making a mockup, but iTunes on Windows looks almost what i have in mind. In addition, i think that something like this was suggested during the Ubuntu 8.04 GTK Theme discussion.

Pros:
- Something distinguishing for our favorite OS, putting itself in the middle fo Vista's and Leopard's solutions
- Space-saving extremely useful with the diffusion of all these small devices and laptops....GNOME is still one of the most space wasting DE
- So on and so forth....can somebody who agrees continue for me?

Put Geogebra in the repositories

Description

GeoGebra is a free and multi-platform dynamic mathematics software for schools that joins geometry, algebra and calculus. It received several international awards including the European and German educational software awards.

http://www.geogebra.org

When we download updates (deb files), we are vulnerable to attacks.

Recent results published by cryptographers say:

"MD5 should no longer be used as a hash function for software integrity or code signing purposes."

http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/SoftIntCodeSign/
http://www.mscs.dal.ca/~selinger/md5collision/

We really don't want some malicious code installed on nice clean ubuntu systems, keylogging, spamming, ddos'ing etc. And just imagine how quick the malicious code will be spread with apt updates.

So let's not wait for this to happen. We need to find an alternative cryptographic function. SHA-1 is not perfect but harder to crack. Does anyone know anything better?

This is concerning the graphical and the text based installer.

It`s a bad habit introduces by microsoft. Do not ask questions in the middle of the installation after you did already started to copy things.

(1) The user starts the installation.
(2) He is asked if he wants to install.
(3) Make as many hardware tests as you need.
(4) Now ask all needed questions.
(5) Install Ubuntu in one run. Tell the user he can no go away for perhaps X minutes.

Otherwise it`s annoying. Input answer, wait a bit, input answer, wait again over and over again. You can improve this!

When you install Ubuntu with other O.S. installed. You have the option "To Install in the free space contiguous", but if you don't defrag previusly the partiton, you would have problems with this option, beacuse you couldn´t make a partition with the real free space.

The solution is that you would chose the option "Make a defrag before you could choose make the partitions"

Sorry for my English ;)

I'd like a way to backup my entire system with all the settings and packages to a bootable ISO file. So that I can re-install or install on other computers.

A separate partition for /home has been proposed for a long time in the forums. It implies some risks, though, so based on disk size Ubiquity should estimate the amount of space that should be left for / or whether a separate partition should be made at all. Then...

-The first time an user installs Ubuntu, he is given the option to set a separate /home. This option is selected by default, with a size for each partition based on a sane guess:

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7958/firstinstallaro2.png

-Of course, he can just choose not to set a separate /home. This option will be selected by default if the results of the system test suggest that's the best thing to do.

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/6498/firstinstallbfs6.png

-Manual install is also possible. Selecting it greys out everything related to separate /home, since it's implied that the user doesn't want to be guided.

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7976/firstinstallcvc2.png

-If the user set a separate /home, the next time he installs Ubuntu a new option appears and is selected by default, prompting to use the existing /home partition. All other options are still available, though.

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/9034/secondinstalliq1.png

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It would make ubuntu much less intimidating for windows server admins if there was a gui which allowed configuation of common network services such as:

web
ssh
mail
database
vpn
dhcp
ldap
dns

Some of these are easier than others but I have seen very little work on this front and I think it will help win over windows admins.

At the moment it's not easy for schools to make the decision to migrate to Ubuntu because of the lack of support and knowledge. I think Canonical should come up with a package deal where they provide all services for a migration to our favourite OS, with a focus on schools and administrations (which are quite different from business clients).

This would surely provide a boost in popularity with kids and they would naturally be more enclined to use it on their own computers afterwards.

Doesnt make much sence not allowing to install older versions of a program the the version already installed... sometimes older versions work better , of course i can open sinaptic and completly remove the program and then try again , but why should i?

I saw this feature in a distribution called Pardus. When the installation is actually finished, the computer asks the user if he still remembers the password he set. If no, the user can reset the password again.

This seems to be very useful and gentle. I never actually forget my password, but I think many people do, especially as most of the Windows-users didn't have a password on Windows.

Ubuntu should include a way to add/remove fonts from a repository just like the add/remove program panel. When a user needs a new font, they could open up the window, and the program would download the latest repository fonts. The user could look through the fonts and choose which ones to install by simply checking a box and clicking "apply." A user could search for font keywords to find certain styles of fonts. For example, someone could search for keywords words "serif","sans serif","cursive", and the GUI would display fonts that match the search. This would be a killer tool for designers.

Furthermore, the GUI could be very helpful. When a user browses a font, a sample image of it could be automatically loaded so that the user can quickly find fonts that are appealing to them. A rating system or popularity gauge could be used so that the best fonts can be highlighted.

A tool like this would create inscentive for font designers to make their designs free/public. Credits could be given to designers in the font descriptions.

If we're serious about getting schools to switch to Edubuntu, I think we need to move it along a little more. The website still says Happy new year. o-o; We needs some strong features in it to make schools WANT to switch from Windows.

In a time when everything is going more and more digital the schools slowly start to follow. I think Ubuntu should be a frontrunner in digitalising school, let them realize that in order to get every kid a laptop with Windows they need to pay an awful lot of money for the licenses.
I suggest this: Create a program for Edubuntu that can be used to make homework. It synchronises with the server when a pupil is at school so it's automatically checked if he has done the homework. Needed information can be offered by Avahi.

Always, when I have to install or I reinstall Ubuntu, I have to spend the first hours to setup again all the programs. I mean, I have to reinstall all the packages. I have to edit the desktop look&feel. I have to introduce again all the network keys, etcetera...

Why not provide a tool that saves these configurations and then they can be imported in a fresh ubuntu installation?

(right now, I have to copy manually all the configuration files)

Case:

1) I install ubuntu on a new pc. Then I install my prefered software and I configure it. Then I edit the look&feel. Then I configure the wifi introducing some keys. Then I edit some nautilus configuration options, some tracker options, etc etc etc . (time spend XXXhours)

2) Afterwards, I save the configuration using the assistant.

3) I use that system for a long time.

4) After some time, I buy a new computer, and I install ubuntu on it.

5) I open the configuration assistant and I restore the settings. So, in some minutes I have 'my prefered packages and configuration' in my new machine.


By the way, the assistant must not save any configuration related with the hardware.

What I would like to see from Canonical is an Ubuntu Home Server similar to that of Microsoft's Home Server solution with ease of setup and use as well as the ability to back up workstations on a small network like WHS (Windows Home Server) does. But without the 10 client limitation that WHS server currently has, as well as the ability to easily securely and remotely connect for multimedia content use while working from a remote location. It should be streamlined and easy to setup, maintain and implement both on the server and client(s) side of Ubuntu.
Thank you.