http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com guidelines and check if your idea has been posted already! ]]> en-us Mon, 06-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC Mon, 06-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/5118/
The most effort is the upper case "ß". (There are only the lower case defined yet)

http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/

I've written my Diploma work with this Font and it looks great!

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We can do better. How about a world map that lets you click on your current location - or relative location?

To paraphrase user-interface guru and recent mozilla hire, Aza Raskin, whenever you ask a user to make a choice they don't care about, you fail as an interface designer. Me and probably 99.9% or the people who visit the Ubuntu download page don't care which specific server we download from. We just want our download. Give us a map, ask us to click on the part of the continent we're on, and leave the rest up to you.


REVISION:

Following our discussion below,

* we can use the user's IP to narrow the possibilities of which servers will best handle the request.

* possibly add an algorithm which takes into account both geographic proximity to user's ISP, as well as real-time server availability.

* returning a short list (of possibly three) servers which might best handle the request.

* naming the servers by city, state/province, country, and not by their (sometimes arcane) server names ...
continued ....

... as well as providing approximate distances from user's ISP. (see comments below)

* provide a localized map with pins on showing user's ISP, and (three?) suggested download servers.

* provide an option to list all available servers

* possibly get Google on board and/or developing a web widget ('universal mirror maps widget') what encapsulates all these features and ties in with the underlying mirroring system to be a truly portable solution for any organization hosting mirrored downloads.


finished product (example)---------

(with map on the side with pins for user's ISP and these three locations:)

* Altanta, Gerogia, USA (approx 23 miles)
* Denver, Colorado, USA (approx 258 miles)
* Sunnyvale, California, USA (approx 1648 miles)

click *here* to list all available servers
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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!

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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.

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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)

_ promote mentoring in general (the first step is usually pretty hard to do, you don't know where/how to begin)

_ promote links with the educations systems: a lot of teachers/professors are fond of Ubuntu/Open Source , I'm sure if they knew how to, they could make their students work on usefull projects for the open source community (better that a lot of projects we all did at school, that actually finish in the trash)

_ List to be continued !!!


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No attachments. ]]> Mon, 06-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9424/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9417/ 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?

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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

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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?


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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!

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

Sorry for my English ;)

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-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



This proposal embraces both #314 and #138. Therefore, I think all three should be merged.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.


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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.



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