Contributor spocky

pidgin works differently in xp and ubuntu in XP it does auto login but in ubuntu it doesnt please correct this.

When you ship Ubuntu with Firefox by default you should spend considerable time to generate also default bookmarks that comes with Ubuntu.

If Tags, Descriptions, RSS (maybe by preinstalled Sage extension) and all the possibilities now in FF3 are fully used I think you will
*) support novice users finding their way in Ubuntu and all the default programs that come with it
*) get more volunteers for (actively) supporting Ubuntu

Cheers
Martin

A research team from CMU came up with a way to repair photos by patching missing/dodgy sections with similar ones from other photos.

I propose we build it into our photo tools so that users are able to automatically fix their pictures in a natural looking way automatically. Granted they may end up with a few foreign trees in the photo, or the shoes might not match at the end, but users would not be able to determine the real photo.

Neither OSX nor windows seems to do this yet, but it has many practical applications. More information is available here:
Scene Completion Using Millions of Photographs (Thanks Ubuwu for finding it)

There is a wide community of online artists capable of creating brilliant, unique artwork.

heading: Get your artwork on 10 million desktops

Ubuntu, the world's most popular Linux distribution, needs a new theme. The winner will appear in the default desktop of Ubuntu 8.10.

We're looking for original wallpapers, that match Ubuntu's color palette. You entry should also include a suggested combination of application, icon, and window themes. These can be existing themes, or your own original works - you only need to submit a wallpaper to win.

Work must be CC licensed, and be openable in either Inkscape or Gimp (rest of criteria continues)

Submit your works to DeviantArt and include the words [Ubuntu810].


Good luck!

cd/dvd roms come with a technology called "lightSCribe"... I would love to see this integrated into the operating system somehow.
There is a .deb file for it on the main lightscribe.com site but its for i386 not 64-bit...
There is a sdk available on their site so integrating this may be even easier..
Would be really nice to actually use this feature..

Thanks

I don't use Evolution and like the majority of people (especially 'normal' users) have no use for it at all. Yet it comes installed by default and even has one of only a few icons on the taskbar. I tried to uninstall it with 'aptitude uninstall evolutin' or something similar and it would have uninstalled loads of other stuff as well (if I remember right).

Either remove it completely from a default install (i.e. allow people who want it to add it on add/remove software) or make it easier to remove.

Hands aloft, who's still running a machine with 32-bit CPU? Make the 64-bit compile the focus, dump Gnome and make KDE rock solid.

Please, fix the fn Keys on Sony Vaio FE Series.

The FS series fixed but the FE series....

A mechanism should be included where one can select the different Fans installed (like PAPST 8412 N/....whatever) from a dropdown list.

Via retrieving information from a central Hardware DB the sensors-applet should automatically set the min-max range for the RPM

The network manager dialer is crap.

Please bundle GnomePPP or simillar application.

I think you should put a lot of effort to come up with some documentation supporting novice programmers to use existing frameworks in an optimal way to support Ubuntu.

Questions that could arose in their minds when they want to do a program for Ubuntu:

-> How do I access stock icons from my prog?
-> How do I use Notifications?
-> How to include File dialogs?
-> How do I use the common permission-dialog?
-> How can I use dbus?
-> How do I come from code to actual program used by mass
-> How do I ensuer it can be used not only by gnome or kde or whatever...?
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I guess this would lead to more fresh programms but also in a more consistent appearence over all of them. Of course a single point of entry should be used for most spread programming languages

Happy for your reactions...

This could be done by automatically reading the CPU vendor and typ and via a server retrieve the min and max temp.

Maybe the same could be done for NVidia GPUs ? But here I don't know if the exact type can be retrieved

Well, integrate a kind of mechanism (only if user agrees of course) that (lets when shutting down) a summary of CPU times (which prgram/process is using the CPU most time) will be submitted to you. (similar workflow like now in hwtest...)

In this way you know where improvements (performance, features) should go. you know the old rule:
90% of time only 10% of code is used while
10% of time the rest is used.

Benefit from this !

Please consider to make more and smaller packages for OpenOffice.

This could really benefit:
*) smaller updates
*) packages not only for whole programs (like writer, ...) but for functionalities.

Martin

ADD BITTORRENT OPTION ON THE MAIN DOWNLOAD PAGE!

The Novell guys took the lead already: http://software.opensuse.org/

When Hardy Heron was released, the Ubuntu servers became overloaded with thousands of people trying to download it. Downloading rates of repositories and updates were so slow that some people had to leave the computer on at night only to find connection errors the next morning.

However, if Canonical had promoted the BitTorrent downloads, this wouldn't have happened. Everyone would have got a copy of Ubuntu without slowing the repository servers and producing a Denial-of-Service effect.

Moreover, BitTorrent has many advantages over direct downloads. For instance, the more people downloading at the same time, the more sources and lesser the wait. In addition, it ensures file integrity because it uses hash functions, that is, files cannot be corrupted (modified). Not to mention that transfers can be resumed if the connection is broken.

Therefore, BitTorrent downloading should be included in the Get Ubuntu page ( http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download ) with a succinct but clear explanation on how to use them.

The fact that this idea hasn't been implemented --despite all the votes in favour-- clearly shows a neglect and reluctance from Canonical decision-makers to do what is best for the community. The worst thing is that they aren't giving an explanation. I hope good ideas in this site don't come to die here in a puzzle of bureaucracy :(

The reason Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distribution is because developers listen to people. Let's keep that "humanity towards others" alive.

Download Desktop CD: http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/ubuntu-8.04.1-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

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Ubuntu is based on various open source projects done by different people all over the world.
I think Ubuntu should define a minimum set of quality criterias and procedures(testing units) how source code can be tested against those criterias.
This way should have

> much more guided developers leading to
> bullet proofed pieces of software in Ubuntu and other Distributions
> Canonical/Ubuntu to become a synonym for quality

Whats your opinion about this?

what I think (with others in mind) will make ubuntu a serious contender in the desktop OS market.

I will be focusing on what will make ubuntu more stylish, user-friendly, & better in general

Even with some packages like ubuntu-restricted-extras there is some functionality only provided by "external" repositories like medibuntu/ google repo.

-> Add the most commonly used repositories in the installation by default.
I think you could add them, but not activate them. Doing so would mean only minimal effort by the users to have also those included...

Let's have a "reduce image size" option in the context menu for jpeg/tiff files. It should allow to convert multiple files. Ideally, there should be a default that will downsample images to 100k without asking any questions.

Currently the only way I know to do this is to open each file in gimp and change options there for each file.

Sync your music, videos and files to Ubuntu w/ out itunes... W/ the SDK coming for the iPhone, a Ubuntu OS app could be quite useful to those of us that LoVE the jesus phone, but would like to use it on the jesus OS :) Contacts sync, music sync, and videos as well.