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Jay as suggested somewhere is not African.

Jackal seems to be the only good name if we want to keep it to the African theme without resorting to Jackass.

Also the fact that Anubis (Egyptian god of embalming) had the head of a Jackal, makes it suitable for an LTS.

And what kind of a jackal should it be then?
Jolly, Joyful- too cheesy.
Jogging, Jumping- dose not fit the naming scheme too well.
Jazzy- basically a synonym for fancy or lively, and as a whole it sounds rather sophisticated.

Very few people use ekiga smartphone and removing
would free up space for more stuff like compiz
config settings manager.Some people see the compiz
videos on youtube and shouldn't have to download
an app to enable them.

I dont think Ekiga is used by many people, perhaps we should consider removing it from the cd in favour for other software or more drivers?

I made up a quickvote at the ubuntuforums to see if I was the only one not using Ekiga.

Check the thread posted here for information and discussion.

Ubuntu should have a video training CD that could be downloaded like the installer CD. Something similar like lynda.com has for windows and mac os.

It would be extremely useful for new users.

Google Gears is a technology (licenced under The BSD License) that allows websites to work offline, and later sync with the server when the computer (or website) is online again. It is only 2MB, and wont slow down system performance at all, cross platform, and already works in FF3. It also makes the use of websites such as Google documents much more usable for laptop users, so they no longer need open office.

Some websites it works with it natively are:
Google Docs
Google Reader
Google Calender (support is under development, but there are hacks to get it working now)
Remember The milk

In fact, with Greasemonkey, you can inject gears code in to allow offline use of websites like wikipedia too!

Technologies such as Google Gears and prism will not only allow us to become less dependant on installed programs (such as openoffice), but will soon be commonplace. People want to be able to use Google Docs as well as any other installed program, whilst not having to install it.

First off I understand more people use Gnome(Ubuntu) then KDE(Kubuntu). Please do not make this a flame war either!

With that being said with the push for more support for KDE i propose a Kubuntu section be added to brainstorm. That way those who explicitly use gnome dont have to sort through ideas of which may not concern them. EVERYONES HAPPY.

Plus it will help engage those of Kubuntu and not make them feel neglected.

It's just redundant. The Places Menu works just fine and all it needs is the Trash option to be the same.

This is just one step in cleanup and organization of Ubuntu's UI. Personally, I think it's a bit clunky at the moment, but that can be fixed.

Use Tracker in Synaptic to search for packages.

One thing that boggles my mind is why the Synaptic search is so unbearably slow. At the same time, the desktop searcher Tracker delivers results as quickly as you would expect.

Synaptic has a finite, and rather small amount of records to search through, that changes rather infrequently (again, in search engine context). It seems like the perfect candidate for using Tracker instead.

With Tracker in Synaptic a search for any string would probably take about 0.05 seconds. That is down from approx 5-6 seconds that it currently typically takes.

So again, use Tracker in Synaptic to seriously speed up the package searches!

A choice to install without all the applications and game bloat.

I dont want
- calculator
- tomboy
- all the games
- gimp
- open office
- ekiga
- evolution
- pidgin
- transmission
- movie player

well maybe i do want one or 2 of those apps. but hey, there is synaptic..

Just the OS and some admin tools, gedit, firefox, altho firefox could also be installed after 1st boot.

Basicbuntu

There is an important feature that Aptitude that Adept Manager, Apt-get, and Synaptic Manager does not have.

Let's say you install a package, and it brings in 10 more packages.

Later you want to uninstall that package but when you go to uninstall that package, it doesn't install all the other 10 packages.

If you use:
sudo aptitude install
Then it will record all its dependencies.

Uninstall it using Aptitude, and it will remove those extra packages, UNLESS it is in use by another app.

This is great for trying to save memory space and making your computer faster.

So next time you go to look at packages needed to be installed in Synaptic, memorize the package name and use Aptitude.

Get people involved with improving ubuntu from the beginning. Also include a brief intro to brainstorm as part of the process of loading ubuntu from the CD.

There are some fabulous high quality images at wikimedia commons, which I regularly use for wallpaper.

Why not add a button to the desktop background settings, that would download a random image from the 'high quality images' section, resize it, and set it as wallpaper? How about going further, and enabling it to run at startup, so every day you get new wallpaper?

Duncan

This may not concern Ubuntu as much but I'm finding it difficult to use Ubuntu for long periods of time with out flicking back to MS Windows for Photoshop.

I do a lot of web design and find that the Gimp doesn't have the features.

Any Way of doing it? (Wine's not that good with it)

On windows, the backspace key goes to the previous page in your history but on Ubuntu it doesn't. It was because of a bug I believe but it would be a help.

The Desktop is usually used as temporary workspace, with anything else being clutter and distraction.

Most of the time, the desktop is covered by active application windows, so anything that resides on the desktop is hard to reach.

Also - this is duplication of functionality - the places menu provides an easy access to drives, which is not obscured by the windows.

http://www.f-prot.com
This comes in as a requirement these days for two things. One is when mounting and using windows partitions, viruses could spread. The other is, VirtualBox can run a windows os, hence letting in viruses. F-Prot is a no hassle antivirus, free for single users. Updates regularly too.

Every time you open firefox, and try to type in a url, focus shifts to the google search. If I wanted Google for my homepage, I'd make it my homepage. Some people might say that instead of getting rid of it, there should be a change in the way focus works. I disagree. When I go to Google, I like to have focus shift to the search, but when I go to my homepage/release notes, I want to be able to immediately start typing the url of the page I'm going to, instead of typing half of it while the page loads and the other half in google. Also, if you're going to have google on the homepage, at least have it link to results that give you access to image results too.

On a regular Ubuntu installation, there is no reason you should type your password before installing applications through add/remove programs. It only contains applications that are in the Ubuntu repositories and are safe to install. It is not possible to remove essential parts of the system through it.

If a user has rights to install programs, they can do it anyway, asking them to type their password has no added value. Requiring a password here only trains users to type their password whenever a dialog pops up that asks for it. It should be reserved for situations where it is really necessary, like situations where you could harm your system by making changes.

Policykit allows to selectively set permissions for things like this. A password should not be needed for installing programs, to be cautious it could be kept required for removing applications.

I know Amarok works quite fine under Ubuntu because the necessary KDE libraries are installed but I would really love it if Amarok was properly integrated into Ubuntu...hence GNOME.

I applaud the efforts of the developers of Rhythmbox amongst other programs but I just think that Amarok is THE best candidate as music player of Linux distributions. Nothing comes near to its features and appearance. It is simply beautiful.

I don't know how one would go about it, but if the developers could work their magic and bring forth an Amarok that works in perfect harmony with Ubuntu, I think it would add to what is already a superb distro in Ubuntu.

Currently, things like opening an external browser via Amarok, or setting keyboard shortcuts- I notice that some options are missing...need to function by default. Maybe someone knows of better examples that warrant that Amarok should be integrated properly.

I think it could be a really interesting prospect.

Many people ruin their boot loader after installing, and cannot boot Ubuntu (or any other OS). I think during the installation, Ubuntu should ask whether the user wants to create a boot floppy/cd/usb in case something goes wrong.

Slackware also has this.