Contributor spocky

i dont kwon if it is possible according to licenses and other things, but it would be really great, if there was an option to burn light scribe label directly after burning data, also there should be some templates to choose

Currently you can only set Super by itself from the System -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts dialog. It is possible to set, but you have to start gconf-editor from the command line. In gconf-editor -> / -> apps -> metacity -> window_keybindings you have to manually type the combination, instead of pressing the desired key combination.

http://i.volia.piccy.info/i2/a3/a0/23d7f9c7146c98c02228d8a71d7a.png

Now is Menu organization in UbuntuStudio chaotic, 'all' applications are in one huuuge Menu (Sound&Video). This should be done better.

My suggestion: When install UbuntuStudio it replaces Menu Applications > Sound&Video with Applications > UbuntuStudio where are placed sub menus:
"System" (Alsa, UbuntuStudio Controls, Envy24, etc);
"Server" (Jack, PulseAudio and related apps);
"Audio Player" (Xmms, Audacious, etc);
"Video Player" (Vlc, Totem, Xine, etc);
"MIDI" (Sequencers, Seq24, RosenGarden, BEAST, etc);
"Synthesizer" (ZynAddSubFx, Qsynth, etc);
"Mixer & EQ" (AlsaMixer, EchoMixer, etc);
"Audio Edit" (Ardour, Audacity, Snd, etc.);
"Video Edit" (Kino, Avidemux, etc);
"Burn & Rip" (K3B, Brasero, Grip, etc);

"Multimedia & 3D" (Blender, PureData, etc.)

Well, need discussion for more detailing structure...

The most basic thing you expect from an operating system is that it is stable, secure and responsive. Linux is about absolute control. Unfortunately, under some circumstances, Ubuntu can lose responsiveness. But this can be fixed! Here is how:

1) Ask the community to write small test programs that abuse the operating system maximally. These should be programs that hogs specific system resources: CPU, threads, disk space, RAM, network, UI, etc. Some really bad behaving programs.

2) Implement a resource management system. With this you should be able to control exactly how much of any given resource any single program should be able to hog. For example, you could set so that by default, no single program use more than 90% of CPU, RAM or disk space.

3) Use the abusive test programs to test the resource management. By tweaking and testing this system and it's default settings, the Ubuntu desktop should eventually become immune to bad behaving programs and be responsive under all conditions! At least, that would be a nice goal to thrive towards...

I think this kind advances, on the basics, is what all Ubuntu users would like to see. The more pedestrian users would like a super reliable desktop. The tweakers would like full control of resources.

Ubuntu (as of Gutsy) can not mount and read multisession cd/dvd's written in Nero or windows, or even by Brasero or K3B(Ubuntu apps).

This is such a serious bug. If a user (be he/her novice or advanced) can not access the cd / dvd he needs on his/her computer, then its an issue of paramount importance.

if i have 1GB or 2GB of ram, it would be really nice, if i could choose an option at the beginning of liveCD - "load all files to RAM" - this way i wouldnt have to listen to loud CD, also system should work much more better and faster

is it possible to implement?

After having read The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment (http://contentconsumer.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/is-ubuntu-useable-enough-for-m y-girlfriend/), I was amazed by the fact that we don't prioritize basic operations.

Therefore, we should list use cases for all main user activities in Ubuntu and to give them an importance.

We then should do UAT tests on users that are NOT Ubuntu users to see if Ubuntu makes sense to them.

This will be our big win on the way to desktop user acceptance.

Does anybody else find this odd? I mean, it looks like they confused < with >. It's like writing 8 > 10. It freaks me out a bit, frankly.

Could < and > (vertical versions) be switched somehow? Or at least given the option to switch them?

If someone knows why they made it this way, please explain it to me. :) And check out my other ideas, please, if you liked this one.

I propose to hide the folder in nautilus, when not in super-user mode.

On every partition ubuntu creates a "lost+found" folder for the purpose of recovering broken files during disk-checks, which happens very rarely. Nautilus won't let you browse the folder unless you are logged in as super-user. So all in all it's pretty useless (and actually quite confusing!) to the everyday user.

Update: thanks for comments. It seems that making "lost+found" a hidden folder by default would be a good solution to this problem. Continue voting :-)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/SzerencsefiaGTKIdea?ac tion=AttachFile&do=get&target=Caramel.png

Check that. Its an emmerald theme and it rocks!.

I know it is easy to install audio and videocodecs in Ubuntu just installing Gstreamer* -packages or simply installing ubuntu-restricted-extras but...

For newbie installing Gstreamer -packeges by step to step is very hard and on other hand there is users like me, who never installs ubuntu-restricted-extras becouse it installs a lot of more than just multimediacodecs. I personally hate msttcorefonts and don't use Sun Java (IcedTea is open, and works better). I also prefer use Gnash becouse Adobe Flash usually means only problems. So for users like me there is no an easy way to install multimediasupport ”by one click”.

All what is needed is some simple metapackage to install audio and videocodecs to play most used multimediaformats. Like ubuntu-restricted-extras without flash, java or windows-fonts. Needed formats are:

- MP3
- OGG
- AAC
- FLAC
- Real Audio
- WMA

- MP4
- WMV
- XVID
- DIVX
- Quicktime
- Real Video
- 3GP

...and so much more as possible. Idea #316 ”Codec Manager” sound good too, but I think metapackage would work better.

Progress bars are a nice idea, but they become pretty meaningless when they fill up, empty, fill up again, and so on since different tasks are running. Similarly, it is difficult to use a single progress bar to cover many tasks.

A nice progress bar implementation was used on the Amiga (and probably elsewhere) where there are two progress bars, one at the top for the current task and one underneath for the total task.

It would be nice to see a GTK/QT widget made which implements thi behaviour with a simple API and GNOME and KDE encouraging its use in applications where long-running, complex things are being done (like installing, for example).

The calculator has a limit. For example, it cannot give an approximation to 175! while it is only 174 multiplications. I remember that Windows XP's calculator could do any calculation (but warned when a long calculation time was expected).

It could be dangerous for my stats... but I need to mention that...

In real world 90% of PCs are using Windows, nowadays fewer people use it because of vista, but Windows XP is dangerous..

This idea propose to create a place where the people can tell us, "What things are using, and likes about windows". There, we can see the real things that the people wants, things that Ubuntu does, o doesn't do.

"The Windows eXPeriencie". People like things that are more easy to do, and more beautiful to see in Windows, these things We know, but not all things, simply things that we don't think.

Remember, don´t kill me, be "open", open your mind and remember it, UBUNTU is for human people, then, is neccessary that Ubuntu be easy and intuitive like Windows is for donkeys.

Easy like Windows XP (never Vista XD), beautiful like Apple, someday..it will be Ubuntu.

PD: Ubuntu have things better that Windows, but the people have to say what things they like them, because the people don't know what things have o no Ubuntu and GNU/Linux.

Make a clear distinction between audio cd and mp3 disc as users from windows background want to burn mp3 disc that are capable to be played on most of the popular and usual mp3 player like home cd player, car audio etc.Brasero and other Gnome or kde based (k3b) burning applications doesn’t have yet have the dialog to burn Mp3 disc made me confused, later found that mp3 is special data disc with only mp3 files. But video disc burning feature isn’t supported yet,i don’t know about legal stuff, but Nero does in Linux and most of applications in windows even free wares offer to video disc with automated conversion of video format keeping things neat. I don’t need separate video convertor to burn video disc (cd/dvd)
Burn Mp3 disc should be integrated into audio players like exaile, listen, Rhythm box etc in ubuntu also in applications like brasero, gnomebaker.Ace K3b should make it clear dialog box to burn mp3 disc just as we choose data cd/dvd we should be able to choose mp3 disc.

My Requests are:

1) Add support for burning Mp3 discs – that can be played on most of the audio players check for some standard or compatibility, Easy way to burn Mp3 disc meaning there should be a wizard or dialog that shows Burn Mp3 disc rather than just saying burn audio cd, specially we need to have burn mp3 dialog which only allows mp3 files to be added to project.

2) Better documentation is required as users in ubuntu and Linux get frustrated with lack of documentation, there are no screenshots even when it’s required.

3) Support at least in future ability to burn video disc. Maybe with menus and dialogs that shows each part of movie with screenshots. Most of the commercial and some free wares allow this feature.

4) Allow me to erase contents of cd/dvd rewritable media without need to start brasero.

5) Info tool that can generate and give important information about the disc inserted and drive my system has, its features.

6) Visual notification of successful burned project and failed too. Also a sound will make an extra slice out of brasero.

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A nice graphical warning when your RAID fails would be really, really nice. Not like now:

cat /proc/mdstat

It's interesting to see what people say.

right click on file - click on convert and then choose to what convert
rtf-odt,pdf, ...
png - simple setting - jpg, bmp, ...
mp3 - simple settings /bitrate/ - ogg, mp3, ...
movie - simple setting - ogm, h264, ...

No secret: a lot of developers out there don't want to bother making .deb or .rpm files because they consider it a waste of time.

My latest Ubuntu convert actually gave up Ubuntu because he's a habitual downloader and not many websites provide .deb files for installation on an Ubuntu machine.

Actually, habitual downloading completely destroyed the ability of anybody to even have pleasure in using Windows on his computer before I got him to try Ubuntu. Apparently, if you have too many items in the All Programs menu on XP, your computer freezes for like 15-30 minutes. I said: I'll give you a month of follow-ups for free if I don't have to fix Windows. While it would be better if he didn't download every app on the face of the planet, that's what he wants to do, even if it's just every Linux app on the face of the planet.

I really doubt this guy is the only habitual downloader out there.

In any case, offering to make .deb files for everyone that may want to offer a .deb would not only catch more of the habitual-downloader market, but help build greater brand ubiquity for Ubuntu.

For applications downloadable from a website, in which Ubuntu provided this service, there could be an image stating "Debian file provided by Ubuntu" or something similar. So not only would Ubuntu be providing a service for developers and improving the state of 3rd-party software distribution for all debian systems, these services could possibly be traded for free marketing.