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Delphi was a de facto for windows, once in time..
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...

what about this suggestion?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGXYLdZEf2c

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.

UBUDSL is a great utility to easy configure your ADSL internet conection.
http://www.ubudsl.com/en/start.php

Linpus Linux on Aspire One comes with a kernel configured with

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?

It would be nice to have more control over normal/lower level user.

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.

right click a folder xx,
on right click menu,
add archive xx.zip, xx.tgz, xx.rar ..directly, just as in winrar

actually mid files cant be played in totem nor any other music players, i have to use timidity to do that, i know what you must be thinking: "you have timidity, what are you asking for", the problem is that timidity is console, and a graphical interface to do this is neede, so we need codecs for this, maybe gstreamer need to add this codec to its pack.

I don't have a fancy phone, but it does have a usb cord. All I would want is the ability to pull contacts off my phone or put contacts on the phone from my evolution contact list.

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.

I was wondering if there is any solution based upon the firefox engine (but not only, I'm not sure how this can be done), to show thumbnails of HTM, HTML, SHTML files,
most probably as the SVG files can be previewed in thumbnails.
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!

On any folder/directory,
right click,
encrypt directly...

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

Hi all,
Power settings can turn off the screen for saving energy and turn it on when mouse is moved or a mouse/keyboard button is pressed.
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

In Sweden, as well as in the US, as far as I understood there are now new legislation coming up that seriously compromises the privacy of the users.

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.

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Since start using Ubuntu, i started to got curious on how can i make my own .deb files.

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 /')

Would be interesting existing tools for recovering deleted files (recovering after emptying them from trashcan), for all filesystem formats available, like ext2/3, hfsplus, fat16/32, ntfs, nfs, xfs, zfs, reiserfs, etc. - these kind of tools are easily available on other operative systems...

.htaccess is a file that contains "directives" telling the Apache server how to behave under certain circumstances. It's the file that tells the server how to handle "404 not found" errors, whether to requre a password for certain directories and files, etc, etc. there are many, many ways these directives are useful and necessary. It provides basic "doorman security" to a website. If it is written badly i.e. contains mistakes, the results can be serious.

It would be useful to have a wizzard to walk the developer thru the creating/maintenence of this file. It could live on the server in a (password protected!) directory, or be a local application that creates the .htaccess file to be uploaded. It could also include an .htpasswd generator.

There are masses of Web developers out there, but transfering their skills to desktop applications used to be hard, since different programming languages and completely different interface patterns needed to be learned. Using any Web technology in a desktop application consisted of awkward hacks at getting Mozilla to live in GTK using GTKMozEmbed, which was usually harder to get right than simply learning the alternatives.

These days it is as easy to put a web page into an application as it is to put a button, thanks to WebKit (which has spurred Mozilla to make a less hacky embeddable version). This creates a massive opportunity for getting new applications developed, since Web developers can make a desktop application using all of their current knowledge by doing it all in a WebKit widget. This allows their applications to use synchronous method calls, local storage and resources as well as remote, desktop integration, massive speed increases, no need for servers and all of the administration, cost and security overhead that entails, and so on.

The problems currently facing adoption of this are twofold. Firstly, operating systems like Ubuntu haven't sorted out their WebKit and associated bindings and widget packages yet, making distro-agnostic installation using PackageKit useless, which would be essential when trying to attract developers used to simply publishing to a URL.

Secondly knowledge of these technologies needs to be spread to those communities which it may interest. This would need to come after the package situation has stabilised, and would probably require a few interesting demos to be written. People with one foot in the free desktop camp and one foot in the Web development camp would also be needed for spreading the word.

If successful such an effort could provide a wave of cross-platform applications with the advantages of both Web 2.0 technology and desktop technology. Hopefully the View Source nature of the Web would mean a lot of the new creations would be released as Free Software too :)

Add package licensing info to the binary deb file or to the repo control file so:

1. License info can be queried without installing
2. Make auditing an existing Ubuntu install easier.

RPM already has this functionality (one of the reasons why Moblin.org switched to RedHat)

Similar to idea #10978, but includes a larger concept.

When I first install an Ubuntu machine, I invariably go through synaptic and pick a number of packages to add to my install. By and large, I pick the same few each time.

Wouldn't it be useful if Canonical could review the logs from the repositories to see which packages are being downloaded most often when deciding what software should be installed by default, and which to leave in the cloud till the user asks for it?

what about this suggestion as well?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPM7MLz7JeA

Who is also not tired about the ms-windows-like desktop icon arrangement, from left edge up to down? MacOS and BeOS has different desktop icon arrangements, and even more 5 combinations are possible as well.

This feature is available on ReactOS since some years, i'd love to see at Gnome as well! =)

(See below for an English translation)

Cuando joven, mi padre trabajaba vendiendo y dando servicio a maquinaria pesada Caterpillar. Una vez fueron a una granja a demostrar una retroexcavadora, y ésta se quedó atascada en el lodo. Coincidencialmente, un equipo de venta de la John Deer estaba en otra granja cercana demostrando una retroexcavadora similar. De inmediato la llevaron al sitio donde estaba la Caterpillar y la “rescataron”. Adivinen qué empresa hizo dos ventas ese mismo día.

Mi propuesta es que se incluyan en el LiveCD herramientas como testdisk, ntfsprogs, clamav y otras, que le permitan a un usuario avanzado recuperar datos o sistemas Güindous completos. Por lo general, luego de experimentar el poder de GNU/Linux, mis “clientes” se deciden por probar Ubuntu.

[English]
When he was young, my father used to work selling and servicing Caterpillar heavy machinery. Once, they went to a farm to demonstrate a back hoe, and it got stuck in the mud. Coincidentially, a John Deer sales team was in a nearby farm demonstrating a simmilar back hoe. They inmediatelly took it to the first farm and “rescued” the Caterpillar back hoe from the mud. Guess who made two sales that same day.

My proposal is to include in the LiveCD tools such as testdisk, ntfsprogs, clamav and others, that would allow an advanced user to recover data or whole Windoze systems. Generally, after my “customers” experience the power of GNU/Linux, they decide to give it a try.