Contributor soyelmatu

Ubuntu should have a firewall installed in the default system and also include a simple to use program to administer it, very similar in approach to Fedora/CentOS.

One irritating thing about Ubuntu (I guess Linux in general) is the small inconsistencies. Take the way you switch tabs. In some places (like Firefox), you use Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab to switch to the next/previous tab, which in my mind is quite logical. But then in other places (like Nautilu's properties dialog) you can't do that. Instead you have to use Ctrl+PgUp/PgDwn, which I think is quite confusing for new users. Also, in the aforementioned properties dialog this is very impractical because if you get to the tab "Open With" or "Notes", the Ctrl+PgUp/PgDwn key combo stops working! In yet other places (like gEdit) none of the above key combos work! There you have to use Alt+1/2/3/etc.!

That means that there are at least three different ways of changing tabs in the default applications of Ubuntu! In my view that is not acceptable! I don't mind there being different ways to switch tabs, as long as they all work in all apps. This is the case in Firefox, where you can use any of the key combos mentioned above to switch tabs. I would like at least the most known of these key combos (Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab) to work across all apps in Ubuntu. Please! :)

[PS: I'm not sure if this should be in Accessibility or Look and Feel. If it's placed in the wrong category, I hope an admin will move it for me. Thanks!]

Pidgin is running at me the whole day. But when I use the browser or any other application that is open Pidgin hidden behind. Its difficult to describe.
Trillian solve this problem a better way. There is the Messenger above the screen. The right (or left) side is reserved for the Messenger and other windows remain beside. I guess Trillian call it docking. It expand automatically when the messenger window is at the edge of the desktop.
It would be nice if such a plug-in would be created for Pidgin.
I know that i can make the window always above other window. But thats its not the point. I like it more the "Trillian way".

Incidentally I love Ubuntu also without

It should be good if it can be possible to have some shadow behind the desktop icon with a choosable color and choosable alpha channel.
The reason for this feature is to have better visibility with some wallpaper that have region that seems to hide icons.
With this feature the icons should always be in good contrast and fast reachable.

I tried to make an example but I'm not good with graphics program so if someone could make an example , it will be nice.

Replace the awfull NWF by GTK. (like NeoOffice with Cocoa) NWF is often unstable and inconsitent. A clean GTK version will also run on multiple plattforms like OSX or Win32! In addition it might be more portable for mobile devices like OpenMoko based ones.

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

Support for Zoomable User Interface (ZUI), as a different way of having virtual desktops.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_User_Interface

This could be implemented as a compiz-fusion plugin.
Compiz-fusion already has a plugin for zooming in while still being able to use the input (mouse/keyboard), but none for zooming out. This would be extremely useful in low-res devices (the eeepc for example).

Having a way to "set zoom level to fit selected window" (maximize it) Would make this easier to use. Just zoom out, overview your virtual desktop and zoom in on what you want to work on next.

I don't mean this suggestion to be a duplicate of http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/388/ "Multitouch support and zoomable interface". That idea mixes two notions: multitouch and zoomable user interface. While both are a good idea multitouch support will be limited by hardware support and by Apple's patents on the subject.

Multi access for application to the soundcard.

Watching youtube movies in firefox and play music on xmms.
If your playing music on xmms and open the firefox with 3 tabs on youtube, ubuntu will crash and do a restart.

Thanks also for all the nice work on ubuntu.

Ideas which are done (or work in progress) should have the voting arrows removed or replaced with a tick for done(or working symbol).

That makes it immediately obvious to people the idea is being actively worked on, or is going to be, at which point, voting no longer has any influence on the idea anymore anyway.

The status of projects isn't obvious enough, so doing this will make it more obvious, and make more sense overall.

It would be nice if include by adding a new tab for it.:
- temperature (cpu, hdd, chipsets),
- memory (with manufacture model?)
- graphics card (model, memory)
- chipsets (processor, cores, lan, wifi)
- ... others?

a lot of times, text is not copied. even if i cut, the selected text disapears in firefox and isn't pasteable in pidgin. sometimes the clipboard is an older version, if i paste.

Now i don't see any informations when my archive has ben extracted.

From #5352 (merged):

When you are extracting an archive in File Roller you get a progress bar with a little box that moves to the left and to the write. The problem is that this gives no indication of how long the file will take to uncompress. I know that in Windows there is a progress bar the moves depending on how much of the file has been uncompressed. You can also check this manually by comparing the size of the uncompressing file to the total size that it should be once completed.

When you click "Save as" menu item in gnome application a dialog windows appears and you naturally start typing new name but that field doesn't have focus and you have to click it. It would be perfect to give focus to the name field automatically.

The Open Graphics Project is a clear case of a group that wants to make "just works" completely openly designed hardware targeted to the same Free Software users that Canonical appeals to with Ubuntu. At the minimum, people from Canonical should get loosely involved with projects like this, just as they are commonly involved in mailing lists for various free software projects. Unfortunately, because hardware costs so much to make, open hardware projects are very slow-moving. If Canonical were to get more directly involved with these projects, that would be beneficial for everyone.

What's about an resources saving desktop for Ubuntu.

The RAM consumption should be less than 50 MByte, so that you can run it on 128 MByte systems.

So i can use very old hardware with Ubuntu.

What do you think about that?

Bernhard

If my laptop that I use as a virtual network client does not support the server's resolution, the desktop should be shrunk. Having scrollbars on a desktop is a horrible user experience.

I think it's more and more a forgotten art to programming efficiently. I mean with effiecient, less RAM consumption, less CPU Power and less storage consumption.

I wish to establish this as a paradigma how to programming applications for Ubuntu.

The discussion is open.

Bernhard

I run Ubuntu since Breezy and logically, I upgrade it every 6 months (on the same computer). Unfortunately, after each upgrade, I got things not working any more (out of the box).
Sometimes, it's the soundcard who was working before and doesn't work anymore. Sometimes, it's the wifi. Sometimes, it's my scanner...And I'm working around every 6 months...
Stability is one of the great advantages of Linux vs Windows.
Please, try to improve it between versions, for long term users.

Files inside repository should have extra emblems showing if they're modified or added until last commit. Also extra menu items for committing, reverting, viewing history, merging, branching, pulling, pushing should appear when browsing inside project directory.

(Like in Tortoise SVN for Windows)

This could also be done for Subversion, CVS, Mercurial and others.

The gtk open file dialog is a pain to use...

-> No thumbnails for images
-> No many way to sort the files
-> No way to cut and paste files...
-> and it's very slow when opening a directory with many files