Contributor skerit

The artwork should be present since grub screen appears until the default desktop is loaded, it should be clean, simple, beauty and easy to the eye... have you seen Mac OS X booting?

Well if you havent here are some videos:
1)Comparison UBUNTU - MAC OSX- WIN XP: http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=xf3vh91KIrY
2) MAC OS LEOPARD first boot:
http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=7vwGap1gSko

Pay attention to the smoothness of the booting and simplicity, the idea is not to make an apple port, the videos are just references I wouldn't like to Ubuntu had an spinning circle, I'd like to see human theme since I choose which OS to boot, for example.
UPDATE: here's a possible blueprint taken from another idea: http://ubuntuforums.org/g/images/430615/1_rhgb.png

I think it is very confusing that during installation, the screen suddenly becomes black. It would be much better if there would be at least a simple image, so that the screen does not look like the computer just crashed.

adobe flash has become ridiculously slow. it's perverse that i can play a dvd in full screen mode and that uses about 5% of my processor, while as a small flash window on youtube stutters. as well as this, there is of course no 64-bit version, or a version for sparc/powerpc under linux.

the solution is obvious--gnash must be developed. could canonical/ubuntu invest some development time in getting gnash working well? that would be great :)

I just looked online to see how much a Dell with Ubuntu preloaded was and then looked at the same laptop with windows. To my amazement, the Ubuntu laptop was not even the same price as the Windows one, it was MORE!!!

The laptop I looked at was the XPS M1330 and the Windows version was $999 - $100 savings = 899, while the Ubuntu version was still at $999. Even though the smart ones (us) know about the benefits of using ubuntu, whats the incentive to buy the open source Ubuntu over the well-known Windows platform.

Right now, Vista Home Premium is about a $100, so the fact that ubuntu is free, the same computer with Ubuntu should be ~$100 less than the Windows computer with home premium.

Gimp is a great graphics editor we all know. Congratulations to all developpers!

My Idea:
- Adding a Selection for "Using Gimp in one Window"

IMPORTANT
- That should NOT be default, but an option, which doesn't go in trouble for users liking this multi window management with its advantages!

I guess that more than 20% of the gimp users where really happy for this important feature. I know that Gimpshop and other Plugins are available, but this couldn't be the end solution. Gimp should bring this "little" feature with it in future! Thanks!

Why is the current default desktop background of Hardy the png version of an image whose svg version is smaller? We should be trying to use vector graphics instead of raster as much as possible.

We have dual-core, and quad-core processors now, how much are we taking advantage of this additional power. Also we could provide better development tools to take advantage of multi-core processors.

OSS should lead the way in parallel processing, not just playing catch-up. We still don't even take advantage of the fact that most modern processors are now 32/64 hybrid. OS X can run 32/64/PPC(Rosetta) architecture all on the same box. Yes it is difficult, but a discussion should be started on what kind of work could be done in this area.


http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20080318corp.htm?iid=pr1_releas epri_20080318r (Cred: jespdj)

Duplicates happen, and there are already quite a few examples of duplicates that have each accrued a fair number of votes (ie the original has 50 votes and the dupe 100).

This creates confusion for the user, should I vote for both ideas, the original, or the duplicate as it has more votes? This would obviously require some supervision, but a "propose merge" form for two very similar / identical ideas would help ensure that competition doesn't kill good ideas.

The merge process would also have to check to ensure that votes from the same person for each idea are not double counted, but I don't think this would be that hard to implement.

Example from idea 4292 :

One is suggesting to add MBR recovery option in Installation CD.http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1242/
One is suggesting that installer should never overwrite MBR.http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1957/
One is suggesting to have general application which can recover MBR.http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3985/

All these ideas should be merged and a single solution which seems to be good enough should be implemented.

I browse samba, nfs and ftp-shares daily in Nautilus, and i love the drag & drop between folders.

Sadly though i need to use another ftp-client to connect to my ssl-enabled ftp. It would be wonderful to use Nautilus to browse these too.

Nautilus = An all-in-one solution!

Upgrading a tainted system (with packages from outside the ubuntu repositories) can seriously cripple your system right now. It is recommended to uninstall the foreign programs before upgrading, but how many people know that? Here’s my idea for making upgrade never fail, and upgrade predictably.

- check the installed packages against the ubuntu repositories
- present the user with a list of apps / libs that couldn’t be found in the repos and propose to remove them beforehand (and try to install them back after the upgrade)
- remove the programs, and keep the list for after the upgrade (leave the configuration files on disk)
- upgrade the system
- try to install all programs on the list back from the new repositories (typically the new repositories have more programs and newer versions, so chances are some programs can be installed from the ubuntu repositories this time)
- in the end, present the list of programs that couldn’t be installed back to the user, so they know what happened (they have installed them from a different repo before, so they can do it again)

There’s probably much more to an upgrade than I make it seem, but I think this could make the upgrade problem free and more transparent to the user.

Because sometimes things don't sound like nearly as good an idea when you've thought on it a while. :-)

This is what I want:

I want to be able to mark applications "Not Compiz compatible" so that Compiz shuts down when I launch a game or some other 3D-heavy application. This is something I want to improve stability and performance for such applications.

I can't say that I have seen a way to donate money to Ubuntu's development, but there definitely should bee a way too do so..

My idea is to have a button under "About Ubuntu" where you navigate to a web page were donation is possible.
Many Ubuntu fans who don't have time or skills to contribute in other ways would like this option.

Sometimes it's unconfortable when you're searching some files (for example when compiling and installing a program) and when you are "inside" the folder in the file manager, you want to compile. You need the terminal.

So, you need to reach the folder and reach that folder typing all the way to do it, and it's very tedious when the program name is too long.

I suggest that in the menu (File menu) it would appear an item called "Open Terminal in this folder" or simply "Open terminal".

Better way to set monitor resolution and refresh rate. Majority of the new monitors are LCD type. User should be able to specify the native resolution and refresh rate during install.

Then Ubuntu/X must do WHATEVER it takes to stick to that resolution and refresh rate.

In case of multi-monitor setups, must be able to specify the configuration at time of installation.

Also, the login GUI must use same resolution as X. Why different resolutions?

Rant:
I have nVidia NVS440 card with Viewsonic VP2290b monitor. Video card must be set to 1920x1200 @13Hz or @41Hz refresh rate for each of it's four outputs. Desktop must be arranged in 2x2 matrix. Then monitor displays 3840x2400 @13Hz or @41Hz.

This worked very well in Ubuntu 6.06. Installed Ubuntu 7.04 and ended up with something like 800x480, even with nVidia binary drivers. Tweaked xorg.conf for weeks to get this to work. BulletProofX kept messing with my hand crafted xorg.conf file; which did work with 6.06. Eventually gave up and started using Windaz again :-( Will try again when frustration level has come down.

It's great that clicking on the clock brings up a calendar - but why Evolution's calendar?

The majority of people use a webmail service, so having a calendar that can sync with major web calendars (eg Google Calendar, Windows Live Calendar), that is easy to add and remove events to, to add alarms and notifications and to be able to do all of this without opening an email application would be fantastic, I think.

Thanks for the oppurtunity to be heard.

I've got two monitors, and right now if I use the wallpaper settings in gnome it stretches the wallpaper across the two monitors. It does this even for the default ubuntu wallpaper. This can look really bad depending on the image. In order to get around this I had to get two wallpaper images and join them into one large one with the GIMP and set that as my wallpaper.

There should be a way in gnome to set a different wallpaper for each monitor.

==== Merged with ideas of a similar scope: Different wallpapers on different workspace ===

Many workspaces option in Linux allows you to separate your work, why not allow users to have different wallpapers on each workspace. This allows for easier identification of which workspace you are on.
When used with compiz-fusion you can rapidly switch between your workspaces and the different wallapaper will allow you to quickly recognise what desktop you are on.

Currently this is natively available in KDE but not in Gnome. In Gnome you can't even let Compiz take over the wallpaper control because Nautilus doesn't allow for transparent backgrounds.

Other solutions like Wallpapoz are slow and when switching between desktops it takes too long to switch WP.

There are apparently a number of ways to choose the default application for a given file type. This should be more consistent. Ideally it should be possible when using the "Open with..." menu item to select an application from what is available under the Applications menu, rather than from the often limited list that is presented.

It is important that Ubuntu is polished up to the little details.

LOOK AT THIS: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LittleDetails

Currently it is very difficult to setup and control access to shared folders without editing conf files and reading detailed instructions on all the variables. I propose that sharing (specifically Samba) be given a well worked GUI and some real TLC to bring it up to standard with the experience on Windows or OS X.

For example, by default a share should be accessible as Read Only by anyone on the network without a username or password (guest access). While guest access should be turned on by default, it should also be easy to turn it off, and if desired to give guests read/write access to the folder.

You should also be able to specify local users who will have read/write access, and these local users should sync with smb users invisibly (ie: the user doesn't need to know that there are two password databases being used).

I propose the Properties window for a folder should contain a Sharing tab with all the options available to choose. I also propose a Shared Folders option in the Preferences menu should list the currently shared folders along with their settings, and provide a button to take you into the dialogue where you can set the options.