http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com guidelines and check if your idea has been posted already! ]]> en-us Fri, 09-Jan-2009 00:00:00 UTC Fri, 09-Jan-2009 00:00:00 UTC QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/16481/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPgxoGMaaR0 at 0:23
http://mac.elated.com/wp-content/uploads/leopard-finder-coverflow.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/rmansfield/assets/misc/coverflow.jpg
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/finder.html

functionality:
1. This would be very useful when we see picture, with a simple double click we could set them to full screen.
2. Quick-View of a movie as you can see in the video.
3. you can click through multi-page documents as you can see in the video.

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I have worked alot to set up my desktop. I have spent hours to find additional repos and packages to set my system as I like it. Now someone saw my system and he said that he wants the same.

The solution:
We should have an application which takes crucial informations like extra repos, installed packages and prepares an install script which will install on the other machine the same stuff.

The advantage:
Like this we could give ideas to the beginners how to customize their desktops, and they can share their ideas with each other.

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Right now, I have several audio programs installed, but not all players are on the list.

This is valid FOR ANY TYPE OF FILE, be that an image editor, CD burner, or office document.


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The user would have a daemon that when detects the conection of a USB device it will look for a backup synchronization folder. If the device has got one of these, this program would copy the new content of the hard-disk folder to the backup disk.

My idea is like having an *repository* with a copy in a pendrive. Thus, making the updates to the backup device in a seamless way.

Some improvements of this software could be: adding support for encryption, adding support for commit to the hard drive, setting folder size limits, viewing which files has been changed.

It would be very interesting for people that has got important data in their hard-drives.

With the popularity of the pendrives (it's easy to have some of 16GB), and the needed of "backuping" data, this software could be a seriosly advantage for Ubuntu.

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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 09-Jan-2009 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/16519/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/16153/ just released and it would be great if there was better Ubuntu/linux integration. Songbird is a media player that uses the Mozilla XUL platform so is highly extendible, cross-platform and completely themable (which unlike other players allows the interface to be completely modified, not just re-coloured). The beauty of songbird is that similar to firefox, any integration work can be done entirely as extensions, and doesn't require hacking away at the main code.

Some example integration work that could be done is:
- Dbus support (advertise song changes and actions via dbus
- Pidgin plugin to advertise current song played (uses DBUS)
- Library importing/exporting from Rhythmbox/banshee
- Override dialogs to comply better with Gnome HIG and a ubuntu specific songbird theme
- Package songbird...
- Sharing playlist's between rhythmbox/banshee.

Update: Ars Technica has posted a good review on it, and they believe it fixes all the major problems they experienced in the betas

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Example of what I purpose:
Bob has 4 windows open, firefox, pidgin, nautilus and gedit. He opened firefox first, pidgin second, nautilus third and gedit last.
Now Bob is viewing the firefox window, he wants to switch to the nautilus window, since he opened it third, he presses ALT+TAB+e, now he wants to go to the pidgin window, so he presses ALT+TAB+w because he opened it second, after typing a message he returns to the firefox window by pressing ALT+TAB+q.

(Please note: The "short-cut" keys in the example are for example purposes only. I do not know what the best combinations for such a thing should be, I leave that open.)

As you can see, you can use "short-cut" keys to navigate directly to the window you want.

Now why is this a good thing?

Well lets take a look at the current situation:
Bob has 4 windows open, firefox, pidgin, nautilus and gedit. He opened firefox first, pidgin second, naultilus third and gedit last.
Bob is currently viewing the firefox window, he presses ALT+TAB once to switch to pidgin window, after typing a short message, he presses ALT+TAB+TAB to get to the nautilus window, after opening then closing a text file he presses ALT+TAB+TAB+TAB to get to the gedit window, after writing some code in, he wants to go back to fire fox, so he presses ALT+TAB+TAB+TAB to get to firefox, then he wants to go to back to pidgin,so pressed ALT+TAB+TAB+TAB!

Hopefully you can see how annoying all this "TABing" is, and will agree with me that having short cuts for the windows would a very good addition.

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Although this works ok, the progress effect is very ugly because the bar moves in huge increments and then stops for an undetermined time until it moves again. Besides not being beautiful, this provides no information to the user about the time remaining for the boot or shutdown process.

I suggest that the usplash progressbar be time-based, pretty much like the progressbar in MacOSX.

Since the booting and shutdown times do not change drastically from session to session, we could save the time the computer spent to boot and to shutdown, and use it to guide the progressbar the next time. This would provide a beautiful and smooth animation of the progressbar, and an accurate remaining time, increasing the usability.

This can be already implemented using the current usplash code without modifications whatsoever, and a working solution is already available.

Please check it here:
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=93386

Ubuntu PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~usplash-smooth/+archive

Ubuntu WIKI:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UsplashSmooth


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You will probably ask me how we can preserve the jackalope, so just forget that one! ;)



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Nautilus shows the file size when u highlight a single file but not for a folder and i think it may be useful if it showed the size for folders too.

edit: this should be an option for users who need it and people who are using laptops or slower machines may disable it to save processing power and battery power

Please tell me what you think.

Thank you.

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I think we should merge both activities
Martin

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The rule for logarithms of the form M∡𝜃 is this:
Ln(M∡𝜃)=Ln(M)+𝑖𝜃

The calculator should support complex numbers in cartesian and polar form.

Also, the calculator is currently unable to calculate the factorials of non integers. Please fix this with Euler's Gamma Function.

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The graphic should show planed release dates and end of life dates for each release.

Mark Shuttleworth has released a graphic on his blog:
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/146

It is not perfect, but something in that direction would be very nice.

It should be accessible all the time under a permalink url likde www.ubuntu.com/roadmap.

If you also could add some meta data in the web site for automatic parsing, would also be helpful :)

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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 09-Jan-2009 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12669/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/13577/ Team Reports should be promoted on it.

In many ways, the Ubuntu Planet has become the defacto news source for the community. While the planet is definitely enjoyable to read, content slips off the front page too quickly. The planet's focus is also quite different: "Planet Ubuntu is a window into the world, work and lives of Ubuntu developers and contributors." There is a lot of non-Ubuntu material that some readers may not be interested in. The Fridge on the other hand is only about the Ubuntu community. A lot of content on the planet should be on The Fridge.

While the Fridge is read widely, there is simply not enough content on it. Adding editors to it is not easy at the moment. The release of the LP SSO plugin should make it easy for community members to submit content.

There should also be several calendar feeds (the current one doesn't work with Google Calendar): one for IRC meetings, one for LoCo (real-life) meetings, one for Ubuntu-related events (anything major like an UbuCon). Editors who have access through LP should be able to add meetings as needed.

A feed of The Fridge should be on the main ubuntu.com site. Pre-made widgets should be available so bloggers can post a feed to their site. Placing a feed on the Firefox start page could also be beneficial.

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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 09-Jan-2009 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/13577/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/14487/ Maybe it's a option for a competition for a new look that also needs to be easy to work with.

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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 09-Jan-2009 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/14487/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/14699/ for example you could make the one without trash in it and then ad with every 10 files one thing more in the icon
this would really look very good and be helpful to see how much trash is in the trashcan....

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It's not just about id3-tags on mp3's but also documents, images, videos, etc.

I think this could be a great addition to Nautilus, and make the overall user experience a bit better.

Could be implemented either as a built in feature or as a plugin.


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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 09-Jan-2009 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/14601/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/14731/ The square icon looks out of place, and whenever I see it my first though isn't "oh look, fog" but rather "great!, why isn't my weather applet working" -- It looks more like an image isn't loading then a representation of the current weather.

Again, I understand that this is a very minor issue, but it should also be very minor to implement (provided others agree about the icon).

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