Written by tchalvakspam the 7 Jan 09 at 03:07.

Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #17089 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

<i>Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #17089 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution.</i><br /> Thanks!

Written by tchalvakspam the 4 Nov 08 at 20:17.

Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #15251 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

<i>Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #15251 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution.</i><br /> Thanks!

Written by tchalvakspam the 14 Jan 09 at 19:54.

Don't block posting solutions within a small space of time when the solution poster is the same as the problem poster.

Don't block posting solutions within a small space of time when the solution poster is the same as the problem poster.

Written by tchalvakspam the 14 Jan 09 at 19:57.

If hitting the under-5-minute limit just posts back to the submission page with the text data intact and an added "you cannot post another solution in under 5 minutes" message, then no data loss will result, and a user can simply keep a tab/window open for the necessary amount of time.

If hitting the under-5-minute limit just posts back to the submission page with the text data intact and an added "you cannot post another solution in under 5 minutes" message, then no data loss will result, and a user can simply keep a tab/window open for the necessary amount of time.

Written by tchalvakspam the 14 Jan 09 at 18:03.

Let users pre-flag ideas into certain categories.

To start, a new idea could display a list of flags for viewers to click: [In development | Implemented | Valid | Needs More Info| ... ]

Thus, if an idea needs more information or to be explained more completely, or needs cleanup somehow, initially viewing users could flag the idea as "needs more info" a certain number of times and it could automatically be categorized into the invalid ideas section until the original poster made the idea more clear.

On the other hand, if the majority of initial viewers flagged the idea "in development", that idea would be brought to the attention of the moderators, who would do the final categorizing of the idea, into "in development" if they aggreed with the user-moderating majority, or elsewhere if they disagreed.

Moderators would then still have the final say on categorizations, but the majority of the analysis would already be done with them, by a user-moderator base appropriately large enough to match the idea-submitter base.

Let users pre-flag ideas into certain categories. To start, a new idea could display a list of flags for viewers to click: [In development | Implemented | Valid | Needs More Info| ... ] Thus, if an idea needs more information or to be explained more completely, or needs cleanup somehow, initially viewing users could flag the idea as "needs more info" a certain number of times and it could automatically be categorized into the invalid ideas section until the original poster made the idea more clear. On the other hand, if the majority of initial viewers flagged the idea "in development", that idea would be brought to the attention of the moderators, who would do the final categorizing of the idea, into "in development" if they aggreed with the user-moderating majority, or elsewhere if they disagreed. Moderators would then still have the final say on categorizations, but the majority of the analysis would already be done with them, by a user-moderator base appropriately large enough to match the idea-submitter base.

Written by tchalvakspam the 14 Jan 09 at 18:06.

Similar to the "Allow preliminary user flagging of ideas", with the additional caveat that instead of just any brainstorm user being able to do the preliminary flagging/moderating, only users with a certain number of ideas that have been moderated as good to act as preliminary moderators for other users' ideas.

Similar to the "Allow preliminary user flagging of ideas", with the additional caveat that instead of just any brainstorm user being able to do the preliminary flagging/moderating, only users with a certain number of ideas that have been moderated as good to act as preliminary moderators for other users' ideas.

Written by tchalvakspam the 4 Nov 08 at 18:55.

Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #15244 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

<i>Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #15244 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution.</i><br /> Thanks!

Written by tchalvakspam the 14 Jan 09 at 17:15.

Allow users to change the nesting of the places menu and put recent documents, bookmarks, or both at the end of the places menu instead of being nested within it.

Allow users to change the nesting of the places menu and put recent documents, bookmarks, or both at the end of the places menu instead of being nested within it.

Written by tchalvakspam the 14 Jan 09 at 17:18.

If the places menu could be detached from the Applications menu, it might be able to be more easily placed in a location where it could become second-nature to be accessed. At the same time it should be given an icon to make it immediately recognizable as opposed to the text "Places", which doesn't register to the mind as easily.

If the places menu could be detached from the Applications menu, it might be able to be more easily placed in a location where it could become second-nature to be accessed. At the same time it should be given an icon to make it immediately recognizable as opposed to the text "Places", which doesn't register to the mind as easily.

Written by maitchy the 14 Jan 10 at 21:07.

Finding documents (etc) can be a complicated business, yet it is something we often need to do. I suggest adding a new two-dimensional arrangement to find what you want quickly and intuitively. It would be as well as the detachable "Places" menu (but I guess it could all go down the bottom of that if it could be made to fit?).

It would comprise the present bookmarked folders/places vertically, with the most recent files relating to each place horizontally after the place. If there are more than (maybe) 2 in any place up to (say) 8 could be abbreviated (an icon followed by as many characters of the name as possible, followed by "...", or perhaps a description like "97 photos from Nikon @26-Dec"), with their full names and dates shown when the mouse is over them. There should also be an extra 3 rows, for: (OpenOffice) documents, for websites, and one for recent files meeting a selected criterion (a drop-down list with tag names and common file types - or names of applications). Lastly, there should be a link to take you to more advanced searches.

All this would mean it is easy to see the latest files in each category, or simply click on the category (bookmarked place) name to go there. It should also allow us to see recent OpenOffice.org files - which don't show up in my "Recent files" list at present. It should be able to get bookmarks from mozilla and other browsers easily, and having access to all sorts of recent documents in one ergonomic place would make a lot of sense.

Finding documents (etc) can be a complicated business, yet it is something we often need to do. I suggest adding a new two-dimensional arrangement to find what you want quickly and intuitively. It would be as well as the detachable "Places" menu (but I guess it could all go down the bottom of that if it could be made to fit?). It would comprise the present bookmarked folders/places vertically, with the most recent files relating to each place horizontally after the place. If there are more than (maybe) 2 in any place up to (say) 8 could be abbreviated (an icon followed by as many characters of the name as possible, followed by "...", or perhaps a description like "97 photos from Nikon @26-Dec"), with their full names and dates shown when the mouse is over them. There should also be an extra 3 rows, for: (OpenOffice) documents, for websites, and one for recent files meeting a selected criterion (a drop-down list with tag names and common file types - or names of applications). Lastly, there should be a link to take you to more advanced searches. All this would mean it is easy to see the latest files in each category, or simply click on the category (bookmarked place) name to go there. It should also allow us to see recent OpenOffice.org files - which don't show up in my "Recent files" list at present. It should be able to get bookmarks from mozilla and other browsers easily, and having access to all sorts of recent documents in one ergonomic place would make a lot of sense.

Written by tchalvakspam the 23 Jan 09 at 21:23.

A simple numeric submit box, or a slider to change when the appropriate warnings occur during the discharge time.

A simple numeric submit box, or a slider to change when the appropriate warnings occur during the discharge time.

Written by tchalvakspam the 23 Jan 09 at 21:35.

Additionally clarifying the trigger times for "only display a battery icon when the battery power is critically low" option in power management would also help, as without knowing the time and definition of when the power management "critically low" triggers, it's hard to know whether the "critically low" warning would suffer from the same problem above.

Additionally clarifying the trigger times for "only display a battery icon when the battery power is critically low" option in power management would also help, as without knowing the time and definition of when the power management "critically low" triggers, it's hard to know whether the "critically low" warning would suffer from the same problem above.

Written by tchalvakspam the 15 Jan 09 at 02:12.

Presumably this option would be available in the same right-click menu as the "edge" hiding options in the right-click settings for the gnome panels.

This would also allow a single corner to be the trigger for two hidden panels and slide them both out at once.

Presumably this option would be available in the same right-click menu as the "edge" hiding options in the right-click settings for the gnome panels. This would also allow a single corner to be the trigger for two hidden panels and slide them both out at once.

Written by tchalvakspam the 14 Jan 09 at 19:29.

If you have a group of five windows that you want to be in a certain virtual desktop, you should be able to view all the currently open windows on your system as thumbnails (as with scale) or at least as icons (e.g. the firefox icon) and view the available virtual desktops, then you should be able to just click the target virtual desktop, click the five windows to put into it, and then click the virtual desktop again to put those windows into that virtual desktop.

If you have a group of five windows that you want to be in a certain virtual desktop, you should be able to view all the currently open windows on your system as thumbnails (as with scale) or at least as icons (e.g. the firefox icon) and view the available virtual desktops, then you should be able to just click the target virtual desktop, click the five windows to put into it, and then click the virtual desktop again to put those windows into that virtual desktop.

Written by tchalvakspam the 14 Jan 09 at 19:35.

There should be a mechanism to dedicate a certain virtual machine/operating system that's running to a virtual desktop, so for example your virtual machine running Windows could live in virtual desktop 2.

There should be a mechanism to dedicate a certain virtual machine/operating system that's running to a virtual desktop, so for example your virtual machine running Windows could live in virtual desktop 2.

Written by tchalvakspam the 14 Jan 09 at 19:43.

Devils-pie is an example of software that can be used to force automatic categorization of windows into chosen virtual desktops as they open. It takes quite a lot of configuration, though, and was prone to causing rather problematic bugs when I used it, so a simple solution to auto-categorize would be beneficial.

Devils-pie is an example of software that can be used to force automatic categorization of windows into chosen virtual desktops as they open. It takes quite a lot of configuration, though, and was prone to causing rather problematic bugs when I used it, so a simple solution to auto-categorize would be beneficial.

Written by tchalvakspam the 14 Jan 09 at 20:09.

Being able to view all application windows and all virtual desktops at once (think scale but with a section for the virtual desktops) would ease the process of keeping tasks separate.

Being able to view all application windows and all virtual desktops at once (think scale but with a section for the virtual desktops) would ease the process of keeping tasks separate.

Written by tchalvakspam the 14 Jan 09 at 20:19.

Virtual desktops are, as their name implies, virtual constructs, they're already dynamic, so adding to them should be a simple, one-click process, optimally as part of some of the virtual desktop-viewing options, like the desktop cube/desktop wall/expo/etc.

A more time-consuming method is available via the panel switcher app, but it does not allow the ease to encourage quick adding and subtracting of desktops as needs change and demand.

Virtual desktops are, as their name implies, virtual constructs, they're already dynamic, so adding to them should be a simple, one-click process, optimally as part of some of the virtual desktop-viewing options, like the desktop cube/desktop wall/expo/etc. A more time-consuming method is available via the panel switcher app, but it does not allow the ease to encourage quick adding and subtracting of desktops as needs change and demand.

Written by Craig73 the 14 Jan 09 at 22:05.

If I was to add a new idea - it perhaps might be to treat a desktop as a "folder or workspace" that remembers what documents and applications you had open, in what configuration. You can close it (and it closes all apps and documents) and open it and it re-opens all the same windows/documents exactly where you left it. More "task centric" working.

This folder possibly could be extended to be more of a workspace, to be not limited to the desktop space, allowing you to be able to zoom in and out on various parts depending if you are working on the document or want to zoom out and see the project calendar, etc.. This would make it possible more intuitive, and more adaptable to different sized work spaces.

If I was to add a new idea - it perhaps might be to treat a desktop as a "folder or workspace" that remembers what documents and applications you had open, in what configuration. You can close it (and it closes all apps and documents) and open it and it re-opens all the same windows/documents exactly where you left it. More "task centric" working. This folder possibly could be extended to be more of a workspace, to be not limited to the desktop space, allowing you to be able to zoom in and out on various parts depending if you are working on the document or want to zoom out and see the project calendar, etc.. This would make it possible more intuitive, and more adaptable to different sized work spaces.

Written by tchalvakspam the 14 Jan 09 at 23:20.

The concept of a limited virtual desktop space is thinking rooted in the real world. If virtual desktops were used as viewing windows onto an infinite plane instead, and simply dragging a window out of the current grid square and into the next one -created- a new virtual desktop, it would be like having infinite space in which to place the windows we want to use, instead of limited blocks that we have to add one-by-one, as it is currently.

By the same token, simply dragging all the windows out of a virtual desktop would allow that viewing-space into the unlimited plane to collapse after a time.

The concept of a limited virtual desktop space is thinking rooted in the real world. If virtual desktops were used as viewing windows onto an infinite plane instead, and simply dragging a window out of the current grid square and into the next one -created- a new virtual desktop, it would be like having infinite space in which to place the windows we want to use, instead of limited blocks that we have to add one-by-one, as it is currently. By the same token, simply dragging all the windows out of a virtual desktop would allow that viewing-space into the unlimited plane to collapse after a time.

Written by tchalvakspam the 15 Jan 09 at 00:15.

As the idea says, it could be toggled so that different sets of icons could sit live on different virtual desktops, instead of copying the same icons on each desktop.

As the idea says, it could be toggled so that different sets of icons could sit live on different virtual desktops, instead of copying the same icons on each desktop.

Written by tchalvakspam the 14 Jan 09 at 18:16.

Just carry the text from the title over into the text for the title of the problem in step 3.

Just carry the text from the title over into the text for the title of the problem in step 3.

Written by tchalvakspam the 14 Jan 09 at 18:17.

Collapse the size of the elements containing the search results down to the appropriate size to hold the results that it finds, instead of just keeping it a static sized box.

Collapse the size of the elements containing the search results down to the appropriate size to hold the results that it finds, instead of just keeping it a static sized box.

Written by tchalvakspam the 14 Jan 09 at 18:51.

While I understand the reasoning behind creating these separate steps for ideas, to give pause to users while creating ideas and filter out invalid ones, step 2 creates more work for the user without carrying over that work to the final idea. It is really just a search page with an algorithm that is usually pretty useless.

As such, it'd be better to have step 2 and 3 on the same page to avoid the duplication of effort that is otherwise caused.

This would let the first thing seen in that step be the search and the search results box, then when results were displayed, that box would collapse if the search was unable to find a match (showing the rest of the idea/solution writing step), and writing the rest of the idea could continue.

While I understand the reasoning behind creating these separate steps for ideas, to give pause to users while creating ideas and filter out invalid ones, step 2 creates more work for the user without carrying over that work to the final idea. It is really just a search page with an algorithm that is usually pretty useless. As such, it'd be better to have step 2 and 3 on the same page to avoid the duplication of effort that is otherwise caused. This would let the first thing seen in that step be the search and the search results box, then when results were displayed, that box would collapse if the search was unable to find a match (showing the rest of the idea/solution writing step), and writing the rest of the idea could continue.