http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com guidelines and check if your idea has been posted already! ]]> en-us Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9724/ If the warning dialogue is canceled by the user, then cancel all operations and regard the device as unmounted.

edit: Thanks to Auzy for finding the very good description of this in http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1515/ which was lost due to being incorrectly marked as a duplicate of something completely different.

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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/9724/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/6567/ I think, a certain amount of resources for keyboard and mouse should always be reserved, so that at least the system itself (for all apps this would be too much work) can nearly instantly ( less than 2 seconds, update mouse pointer at least every half a second) react to them. I think the cost in resources for this would be very tiny, since even very old computers had a smoothly running keyboard and mouse.

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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/6567/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/10037/ Therefore the "about Ubuntu" menu entry in "System" should show the currently running kernel version and the version of xorg.

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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/6679/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/6181/ In the selection field below, make a scrollbar for quicker scrolling.
Make the selection field typeable. Instead of scrolling through a long list i should be able to type something like "sweden" or "nebraska" or "gmt+3" and the computer should understand what timezone is meant.
Also do not set the clock, if no timezone was asked. Today, Wubi installations do not ask the timezone, but still set the clock. It makes no sense.

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Of course, this needs an upper limit. In case there is a lot of different repos i think, the maximum number of simultaneous downloads should be something like three or four.

edit: Several comments to this idea have said, that this is already implemented. At the minute i cannot verify or falsify that, but i tend to believe, they are right.

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It turns out, it means copying them to a place of your choice on the harddisk.

But it should also say that.

The term "album" is equally ambiguous and should be replaced with a description of what actually happens.

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edit: "all" means all, that are part of the standard setup.

edit2: As one reply to this already pointed out, you can find manpages in help. The problem with this is, you have to know the name of the program or file. You should be able to find them by topic.



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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/6805/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/5589/ I think, the biggest remaining weaknesses of modern linux systems are in the area of documentation. Lots of good ideas needed there.

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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/5589/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/6823/ Find a way to offer support for new hardware on all still supported versions of Ubuntu.

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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/6823/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/6514/ During a Wubi installation, there are no questions at all, which is great if it guesses right, but a nuisance otherwise.
So i would like a checkbox in Wubi, that, if checked, makes the installer ask me all the questions, that the standard installer asks.


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As a result of the bug, certain certificates, that were made during the past months are easier to hack, than one would expect. It is recommended, to replace them.

I know this from a newssite. It would be great if the updater itself would pop up a window to inform me about such a thing.

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No attachments. ]]> Fri, 21-Nov-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/8507/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/5655/ Afaik, there is some problem with the monkey audio license, so it will not be on the cd, but it would be nice to have it in the restricted codec packs.

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* View the scripts that are executed by init/upstart
* Add your own scripts or commands to init/upstart
( if it is the app, it should be able to ask for a line of text, save it as an executable text and then proceed)
* Remove scripts from init/upstart (with a warning, that you better know, what you are doing if you do that)

(init/upstart is the program, that runs scripts at startup)

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It would be good, to have another empty package update-necessities, that depends on everything, that has to be there after the update in order to have a smoothly running system, but that does not depend on anything else.
The ubuntu-desktop package would remain as the one that contains the complete standard installation.

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