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When I just tried to change the file permissions to a folder I did Rightclick > Properties > Permissions and clicked some checkboxes. I then clicked the button saying "save permissions to file" (or something like it, I have my system in Dutch).

After clicking exit and reopening through Rightclick > Properties > Permissions nothing had changed.

This is really annoying since I now have to go into command line, google the commands etc. Takes me another half an hour off my working time/flow.

You might say "Just learn the codes", but I don't want to. A computer should do what I want, not the other way around. And I think 99% of the people using computers agrees with me.

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From your comments I understand it should work this way but that it is a bug. I would love to report it, but I have no clue how.. If somebody could help me here or it yourself..?

Add/remove only lets you install the *most popular* applications in the repositories, whereas Synaptic gives access to *all* software in the repositories.

On opening Add/remove, a popup screen should appear that explains the difference between Add/remove and Synaptic.

In the current situation, many beginners are confused by this.

Its about consistency. If they're all Ubuntu they should be on the same website isn't it?. (All family on the same house maybe :-)? )
Would be nice that Xubuntu website was something like www.ubuntu.com/xubuntu and the same to kubuntu, more integration, it is a way to give the user the feeling that they're all the same distribution.

My Idea is about usability and design.
This Idea is related to: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/11717/
All a will suggest can be done with simple (but not quite fast) customization.
In my opinion kubuntu look and feel should be simple, elegant, professional.

My suggestion:
Default: http://dolphin.kde.org/
Suggested:
1)http://img397.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dolphinmv8.png
2)http://img175.imageshack.us/my.php?image=toolbarpm0.png

This is just an usability principle: keep things simple. Just show what is needed. Would be nice to see this everywhere in kde apps.
Apple knows this: http://media.arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.media/finder-sidebar.png
I'm daring to suggest a few configuration options to do this:
1) (MAYBE) Hide main toolbar and show it only when needed by clicking on the ''Menu Bar'' Button at the end of location bar.

2) LOCK by default all toolbars because it look very consistent, and its not needed unless you're editing them.

3) Only Icons View. No text is needed, if you want to know about a button, its enough to hover it and read the description.

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I know this can be done by simple customization, BUT the default konqueror is not really focused on Web browsing and is not very simple:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2315/2191754391_c09b92fdfb.jpg

My proposal is this:

http://img371.imageshack.us/my.php?image=konquerorlayoutua3.png

1) Eliminate ''UP'' button now that konqueror is not being used for file managing is not needed anymore.

2) Eliminate ''Enter Key'' shaped button at the end of location bar. It is not needed either.

3) (MAYBE) Hide main toolbar and show it only when needed by clicking on the ''Menu Bar'' Button at the end of location bar.

4) LOCK by default all toolbars because it look very consistent.

5) This option does not exist except for Opera Web Browser but would be fine if ''Reload'' and ''Stop'' buttons were merged into one.

Network Manager 0.7: Don't name network connections "auto eth0". May you'll find a better default name.

The desktop cube will be integrated during the google summer of code into KDE 4.2, which apparently will pe base of (K)Ubuntu 9.04.
I would like to see the desktop cube by default then - it is one of the eye candies that are really useful/good (and btw: a thing Windows and OSX does NOT have, at least noct within the standard OS).

With a "delete file" option, office programs like Evince, Gnumeric, AbiWord and OpenOffice applications would gain noticeable functionality, allowing users to delete the files he/she is currently viewing, without the need of switching back to file manager, finding the location of the file and deleting it there.

Some image viewers allow users deleting the image file currently being displayed.

This feature in office applications would greatly save the time of users dealing with too many documents simultaneously.

In the Gnome environment, when loging out it seems like you have to use the mouse to select one of the log out options ie. log out, shut down, and suspend.

Users should be able to use the arrow keys on the keyboard to navigate to the desired option and press enter to select the option.

This would give it a more professional feel and may be quicker and more preferable to some users.

The current blueprint for Kubuntu Intrepid indicates that where analogous KDE 4 packages aren't stable, their KDE 3.5 equivalents will be used instead. I submit however that it should at least be considered that Kubuntu Intrepid be shipped with KOffice 2, Amarok 2, K3B 2, and KTorrent 2 if any package is near production release (i.e, a Release Candidate has been released, or the last Beta before Release Candidacy). I think that these packages offer a greater KDE4 experience than their KDE 3.5 counterparts and users would generally appreciate it moreso if they were included.

Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 was released with Firefox 3 still in beta, and this was done with the confidence that the production release would soon follow. What was key here was the trust in the Mozilla developers to deliver, and I think it would go a ways to show that same trust to KDE developers if Kubuntu is to finally receive the first-class support Intrepid apparently is to be blessed with.

Moreover, Intrepid is not a LTS release; support for it ends six months after release. The possible repercussions for including the packages shouldn't be as alarming as the inclusion of beta software in a LTS release.

Although Ubuntu, Kubunutu, and Xubuntu all say what they are on their respective websites, there is no official explanation of the differences and comparison with screenshots. I just helped out another user who was confused about the difference and i remember being confused myself when i first tried out Ubuntu. Having a page like this could help out new users very much.

If I want to change a system sound, or a mail notification sound in Evolution I have to use a WAV file. While this is no great problem it would be nice if I could also use ogg files as many of the sounds on gnome-look.org are provided in ogg format. In order to use them I have to convert them to WAV with audacity.

add support for atheros wifi drivers in ibex
Just released linux wifi open drivers by atheros should be included in next ibex version which focuses on better wifi.
http://madwifi.org/wiki/news/20080725/ath9k-atheros-unveils-free-linux-driver-f or
The ath9k driver includes supports for the following chipsets:

* AR5418+AR5133
* AR5416+AR5133
* AR5416+AR2133
* AR9160
* AR9280
* AR9281
These should be available in ibex as intrepid ibex concentrates on better wifi support.

Bring Uniform hardware support and Central HCL(for at least top ten distro).
there is already Linux hcl project but i don't know how well all distro understand making and supporting central HCL(Hardware database).
opensuse has hcl,fedora too maintains,bring some peace in Linux hardware handling,if top 5 or ten Linux distro can merge hardware database people will be glad to use any Linux distro without discomfort.talk with other distro(like opensuse,fedora,Mandriva,Pclinuxos etc) to make it single hardware database and help each other at least in making hardware compatible in all Linux distro
Of course Server hardware is different from desktop and laptop.but concentrate on Desktop/laptop first and separate desktop database with laptop hcl like opensuse is doing.
http://www.linux-drivers.org/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/index.php
http://www.ubuntuhcl.org/ (unofficial?)
http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ (Debian)
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/HCL
http://hcl.mandriva.com/
http://en.opensuse.org/Hardware
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/
https://hardware.redhat.com/
Gentoo hcl(?)
slackware hcl(?)
pclinuxos hcl(?)
sabayon hcl
foresight(?)
Arch,Ark,frugalware,dreamlinux(?),etc

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Imagine being able navigate through Ubuntu, without hands or voice. Eye tracking can take laziness to a new level! Just look where you want the cursor to be, and raise your eyebrows to click (blinking doesn't work to well). It could also help people who are paralyzed and can't speak.

Unfortunately, eye tracking requires expensive equipment. It would be neat if would work with one or more cheap webcams. Then there could be four point calibration between eye gaze and the screen.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2242757,00.asp

At around one thousand four hundred people in it 24/7, #ubuntu may be the most populous irc channel in the history of mankind. It's so noisy I don't see how anyone ever gets help. Most of the time people just get scared and go to #ubuntu-offtopic or something (guilty)... Without extraneous join/part hiding in pidgin, I'd never even bother with it.

More problems come when you go to try to figure out how it should be split.
I propose #ubuntu and #ubuntu-x64 for a start, and all of you probably have better ideas. Put 'em here. Also, I'd like to know if others observe this to be as much of a problem as I do.

Ubuntu has the largest support community on earth, and as it continues to grow, it's going to need to adapt its community structure to that growth. The longer we wait, the more people in need of help we scare off.

It is a good idea to power off USB Flash Drive (switch off drive light) after unmount.

I think that Ubuntu definitely should have a more seamless integration between the graphic environment and the core system. I don’t know much about these things, but there appears to be some issues between GUI and system permissions.

For instance, if I want to install an application that came with a .sh installation script, I have to start .sh file from a console. Why not implement a way to start it by double click of a mouse, like novice users would expect?
Or another example, when I want to for instance change ownership of a file by using a right-click menu in graphic interface (instead of console and chown) it gives me an error message that I don’t have sufficient privileges for that. So I have to use sudo Nautilus to start Nautilus in root mode to be able to change ownership over files. Wouldn’t it be so much easier and clearer if Ubuntu would simply ask for my root pass and make changes without having to run the whole Nautilus in sudo?

The image says it all:

http://www.kde-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=84583&file1=84583-1.pn g&file2=84583-2.png&file3=84583-3.png&name=New+sysinfo

However it should be nice to change the layout a bit, because its too vista-like, but the main idea is good. (from my perspective)

You should be able to mark any of your own ideas that currently have a zero or negative score as 'revoked' to close voting on that idea, and remove it from consideration. Being able to revoke your ideas will have at least three distinct benefits:

1) It would give users less ideas to vote on. Currently there's thousands of ideas. If we allow users to recall some of their ideas it would be a form of self-regulation, reducing the number of ideas eligible for voting, thereby helping us focus on the good ideas.

2) It would keep a user's score from plummeting indefinitely due to (possibly just one) bad ideas being submitted. Why should your score continue to tumble over the course of weeks and possibly months with people voting your bad idea down? If you concede it is a bad idea, you should be able to 'undo' your mistake.

3) Given the 'protection' afforded users in item 2 (above), users would not be afraid of submitting 'wild' or 'unconventional' ideas which might otherwise damage their overall score. Conventional brainstorming requires that ideas be received in a non-judgemental manner. - the purpose of which is to give people free range to fly any idea that they think might be worth considering. The community might benefit from some of these wilder, riskier ideas.

Maybe their should also be conditions on which ideas can be revoked. Maybe an idea can only be revoked within the first week of it's issue. Maybe only until it reaches a certain number of views or votes. Perhaps if an idea receives a certain number of up votes it cannot be revoked. Etc.

Revoked ideas can remain in the main listing, just with a special icon (similar to the lock icon for closed ideas) indicated it's revoked status. In your dashboard, any up / down votes that idea received will be removed from your score. Also, a new category 'revoked ideas' will list the total number of revoked ideas you have. Your revoked ideas will also remain listed under the 'my ideas' tab, with the aforementioned special icon.

Perhaps the process of revoking an idea will also give the user an opportunity to revise their original idea based on other user's comments.

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