Contributor travis

I think this probably classifies as an Office type app rather than games even though it is for football.

We have a little football pool for family & friends every year. Up 'til a couple years ago they used to have to fill out a grid in pen with everybody's picks and it took a LONG time and was prone to human error and penmanship problems. I'm not much into football but it seemed to be a good job for a PC so I've been handling the pool for the past couple years.

I found some software that handles it, but it is padded with a bunch of stuff nobody needs, I have to edit (simplify) the reports to suit our purposes and it seems like it would be a relatively easy application to write. If only I was a programmer. Seems like a simple, small database thing. A couple of features would make it extremely nice to use.

Here's the outline.
Beginning of season - enter team names and 2 or 3-letter team abbreviation (for printing in the grid). Enter weekly contests for the season (i.e. week 1 A vs. B, X vs Y - week 2 A vs Y, B vs X, etc.)
Weekly contest data is used to generate a report (pick sheet) for that week.

During season - Enter participants names, enter each participants picks by clicking Home vs Visitor down the list for that week.
After all participants picks are made, it prints a summary report (recap sheet) showing a list of participants and their picks on a grid.
That's pretty much it.

Extra features would be:
Generates a simple "Pick Sheet" web page so folks could make their picks on the net and when they hit "submit" it sends an email to the manager (i.e. me) to enter into the software.
Online picks could be directly imported into the program via email rather than have to enter each pick individually.
After picks are made, the recap sheets can be generated in both HTML (to be uploaded to a web page for viewing) and maybe RTF and/or PDF to be emailed to participants so they can print their own and follow along as the games progress.

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Would like to see online ubuntu documentation in pdf or ebook form so that I can save to disk

One day I'd like to see the feature where you can change the point at which your file browser takes its thumbnail, so if a really terrible thumbnail comes up you can change it.

Heron is needed to be "Hardy".
But with this tight release schedule, I have my concerns on that.
Beside the excellent work of the developers, too many bugs will be open until 24. April.
As suggestion:
Release Hardy on 24. April and on 5. June 8.04.1 as Hard-LTS.

In this way, early adopters can use hardy on time and LTS
users get a polished version a little bit later.

7.04 dropped PowerPC as a supported architecture after a decision by the technical board. It is now only a community supported port. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCReview for more info.

There are still lots of PowerPC users and there is an active section on the forums. However the going is a bit tough. Gutsy required quite a few work arounds to boot the install CD, and there are plenty of long standing PowerPC specific bugs.

It would be great for powerpc to be supported again. Perhaps canonical could hire a PowerPC dev, or a ports dev.

Yes, i know about songbird, i know about amarok, i know about gtk-pod, i know many people don't want DRM in Ubuntu. But if you have a perfectly working iTunes in Ubuntu you will draw more users. Put it in the partner repos, just like Parallels. You can always display a warning about DRM and propietary software when you choose to install it.

So you make a bad idea that everyone hates.
After awhile it clogs up your "my ideas" page
plus there is no reason to waste space on the servers.

It would be nice to see Ubuntu integrate global mouse gestures. Of course these would be optional and configurable, but in my opinion mouse gestures greatly improve productivity, and Ubuntu could pioneer their implementation in an out-of-the-box OS, putting it that much further ahead of Windows and Mac.

I am so tired of having gray menus, gray background, gray buttons etc in the Human theme. Let´s use bright white against black/darkgray text, that makes good contrast and makes the experience bright for all new people coming into Ubuntu.
And a great idea would be, at the same time, to take away the borders of windows since they just take up space for no good reson, cluttering up the desktop experience. Less is more.

I firmly believe there is no reason why Ubuntu can't work together with a company like Apple. I would love to see some of apple's proprietary software ported to Linux. A more user friendly way of accessing Apple hardware would be nice too. The idea behind such a merger would be the idea of kicking Microsoft when it's down. With how poorly Vista is doing, now is the time to team up with all of Microsoft's rivals and kick Microsoft off it's high horse.

Most of the planet uses the Metric System. So why does the system default to imperial units? Make A4 the default paper size for printing, only two countries don't use it. Most people don't know what inches are so cm or mm should be the default.

Wanda should "speak" in a baloon-type window. LOL

Simply put:
Add RealPlayer for Linux to the multiverse repository, and prompt people (at least those from the USA) to install it when they go to play MP3s, AACs, or RealMedia files.

More Info:
Many people desire out-of-the-box, or seemingly out-of-the-box playback of MP3s, AAC (mpeg4 audio), and (sometimes) RealMedia audio and video files. Currently Ubuntu offers seemingly out-of-the-box support for MP3s by offering to install MP3 codecs that are open source but may violate patent laws in the US.
Suse has an easy solution to this: bundling RealPlayer. It supports the above-mentioned formats. Rather than bundling RealPlayer, Ubuntu should offer to install it from the multiverse. This would require that RealPlayer be added to the multiverse (Helix Player is insufficient because it does not support the proprietary formats.)

I recently installed Ubuntu again and I came to a scary conclusion after installation! Some folders appeared in my /home folder? I did not ask for them to be there

Is this an attempt to imitate Windows? There, too, I see strange folders in the 'My Documents' folder. Is this an attempt to make windows users 'feel at home' in Ubuntu?

Personally, I know very few people who actually use these folders.

What I'm trying to say is, maybe we should stick to our own standards and ideas rather than trying to lure Windows users over by imitating them?

While requesting features to the open source community which consist mainly of free workers, we may often forget to say how much we like Ubuntu and look like costumers requesting.

So you can say thank you to the thousands of developers and users who gave their time by voting for this article :)

Brainstorm should offer support to marking an idea as a duplicate of another and delete the one with the lowest score or merge them.

OK, as far as I like Ubuntu, I don't like what it's doing to the command line. It's not a special graphical distro like Fedora or Mandriva is. It's Debian with a few thing slapped on top. I'm not saying that's bad, I'm just stating the truth. Ubuntu is Debian made friendly. And Debian uses the command line heavily. And I think things like compiling software should be in the help. It will really help newbies to become more technical.