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The idea is making the LiveCD enough to update the Ubuntu on a computer with Ubuntu installed with an earlier version - like with a LiveCD (running from it) with Ubuntu 8.10, being able to update the Ubuntu 8.04 or earlier installed there, with an effort of without touching on any configuration or personal document we may have (like into 'system' home folders like '~/Desktop/' or '~/Documents/')

Some people used to reformat the ext3 partitions to install the newer Ubuntu version from fresh instead of updating it from the repositories or offline DVDs, and this method would be useful, since the update would be running from the CD, not from the partition you're updating...


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Elimination and eliminate configuration files and reinstall it should solve the problem.

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The icons inside the Gnome Panel should follow a location sequence (and if it's edge aligned, or center aligned, or part of an icon group), whatever the screen resolution is...

I think Gnome Panel will keep on being great when stopping, after a week, on leaving the clock in the left edge, and the Gnome menu in the right edge...

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The screen resolutions could be grouped as:
. 5x4:
640x512
1280x1024
. 4x3:
640x480
1280x960
. 8x5:
800x500
1280x800
. 5x3:
800x480
1024x600
. 16x9:
800x450
1600x900

or:
. 1280x
800 (8x5)
960 (4x3)
1024 (5x4)



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It was very frustrating. The old method was much more intuitive - where you click to zoom into the general area and it remains locked while you then select the exact location you want.

Can we return to the previous model or at least fix this horrible method. It is (just about) OK with a mouse but useless for laptops.

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No attachments. ]]> Sun, 07-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12856/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12831/ I think Linux needs such an easy tool... or easier...
Eclipse, netbeans and so on exists for Linux, but i think they are difficult and newbie programmers or mid-programmer cannot develop programs..

Have you ever developed a database application with eclipse from scratch ? it is so difficult..

The biggest point behind Windows's success i think,
1- easiness... according to dos and mac,
2- Easy program developing/writing...

So, to have a good/simple ide for Linux/Ubuntu would be very nice...

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Explanation: everybody knows we can have multiple workspaces on Linux, but the icons at the desktop are the same on all workspaces.

The idea would be providing as choice the possibility on having different desktop directories for each workspace.

No surprising would be about so many skilled Linux users seems to enjoy and waiting for long time this important usability idea.

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CONFIG_MMC_UNSAFE_RESUME=y

which makes it possible to place /home on the SDHC card. On Ubuntu I must replace the ubuntu kernel with my own kernel to avoid breakage with suspend/hibernate. Could it be possible to include this parameter in the 8.10 kernel?

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My Idea is to make the administrator able to remotely specify what programs a given user (or group) can use, which web-sites they may (not) access, whether or not they may read/edit certain files/directory's and whether or not they have internet access.

I know some of these restrictions could make the desktop less esthetically pleasing (getting an error message every time you try to open a program.) But I think this can be worked on. Like making the user only see the programs he has access to, hiding files the user don't have access to, and not showing the internet browser when the internet access is not present.

These restrictions could (should?) be accessible from the add user window.

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add archive xx.zip, xx.tgz, xx.rar ..directly, just as in winrar

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Just a thought if I had a phone number on my phone and on my computer I could figure out how the data is stored on the phone. Then match up the right phone number with the right name. Once that is done the application could push all my contacts on to the cell phone in the language it recognizes. Maybe.

It would be great if you could just plug the phone in and the computer automatically ask you if you would like to sync, push, or pull.

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I think this might be useful not only for web designers, developers, but also for simple users that may keep them electronic books in HTML format, or README, INSTALL files.
Let's face it a lot of documentation can be stored in HTML.

Thanks guys!

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encrypt directly...

and ability to decrypt it with pass...easily..


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Why don't disable screen saver when power settings turn off the screen? it would make ubuntu more "green" because it won't use the CPu or the GPU for processing drawing for the screensaver.

As always comments are accepted

If you want take a look to my others idea

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In Sweden we have two very worrying laws coming up.

1. The "FRA-law" that gives the Swedish security police the right to wiretapp and datamine ALL international data traveling through Sweden.
2. The "Logging-law". Telco operators will be obliged to collect all information about their users whereabouts and keep that information for a year.

We have to work towards the aim: Security by default - and I'm not talking about the system, but to protect our datastreams from being wiretapped.

Me personally think that PKI is the solution to use here whereever possible. IF a session to/from a Ubuntu-system could be read in clear text the user/administrator should be aware of it.

Postfix is important here, Dovecot as well - all emails should be send over encrypted channels by default.

Mark Shuttleworth with his huge knowledge in Digital Certificates (He sold Thawte remember) would be of great help here.

I would like to see Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu leverage an infrastructure and create services to provide their community with a good, PKI-based solution.

Privacy matters

Sincerely
Niklas Andersson, Swedish TechWorld Open Source

Edit: I've made a proposition of a real-world-implementation of a very viable way to solve the email issue at a user-level.

See http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/12858/

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Well, i can imagine most of you when reading this seems to be about on sticking here some Debian or Ubuntu tutorial links about it, but mostly are too complicated or messy, specially when the process of making .deb files is not much more than packaging some non-executable documents.

The easier ways i found on making .deb were:

1. using alien over .tar.gz tarballs (but it lacks on very important 'control' information for the databases, like dependencies, description, etc.)

2. using a .sh with plenty of 'echo' and 'ar' commands, but it can create corrupt .deb files, and so incompatible with gdebi, dpkg and so on...

My idea would be being able to create a .deb file from a tool like FileRoller, but of course all suggestions and reccomendations of new tools i may not know are hugelly welcome! =)

(in meanwhile, i'm getting stuck into creating tarballs, and expanding them with 'tar -zxvf tarball.tar.gz -C /')




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