Contributor travis

As a user I want to be able to listen to audio or watch videos with the least amount of setup. I would like to have a single interface (Codec Manager) that lists all of the most common audio and video formats and shows me if I am missing the necessary codec for playback.

Use Case: Enable MP3 playback.
Precondition: MP3s are not currently playable.
1. User logs into the system.
2. User opens the Codec Manager.
3. System displays a list of common audio/video formats.
4. User selects MP3s.
5. System displays some info about MP3s.
6. System displays a list of available codecs.
7. User selects a codec and clicks Apply.
8. System downloads and installs the selected codec.
9. System informs the user when completed.

Other possible features:
- Display a list of audio/video types that are missing codecs.
- An auto-setup function, that grabs the recommended codec for all formats.

Audio and Video formats that should be supported:

Audio:
- MP3
- OGG
- AAC
- FLAC
- Real Audio

Video:
- MP4

[....]

Ubuntu has a 24bit color depth by default.

It would be great if it gets a 32 bit color video display which would render better graphics, better video playback and might also help game lovers to run games better on linux.

I always feel video playback is where window$ takes a upper hand over ubuntu... Please fix this.

I'd like to see a right-click-and-drag option: you right-click an icon, and after dragging and releasing out pops a context menu with 'create link here', 'move here' and 'copy here'. It's very useful, and one of the few things I like about Windows XP that Ubuntu doesn't have.

What I would like to see from Canonical is an Ubuntu Home Server similar to that of Microsoft's Home Server solution with ease of setup and use as well as the ability to back up workstations on a small network like WHS (Windows Home Server) does. But without the 10 client limitation that WHS server currently has, as well as the ability to easily securely and remotely connect for multimedia content use while working from a remote location. It should be streamlined and easy to setup, maintain and implement both on the server and client(s) side of Ubuntu.
Thank you.

One irritating thing about Ubuntu (I guess Linux in general) is the small inconsistencies. Take the way you switch tabs. In some places (like Firefox), you use Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab to switch to the next/previous tab, which in my mind is quite logical. But then in other places (like Nautilu's properties dialog) you can't do that. Instead you have to use Ctrl+PgUp/PgDwn, which I think is quite confusing for new users. Also, in the aforementioned properties dialog this is very impractical because if you get to the tab "Open With" or "Notes", the Ctrl+PgUp/PgDwn key combo stops working! In yet other places (like gEdit) none of the above key combos work! There you have to use Alt+1/2/3/etc.!

That means that there are at least three different ways of changing tabs in the default applications of Ubuntu! In my view that is not acceptable! I don't mind there being different ways to switch tabs, as long as they all work in all apps. This is the case in Firefox, where you can use any of the key combos mentioned above to switch tabs. I would like at least the most known of these key combos (Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab) to work across all apps in Ubuntu. Please! :)

[PS: I'm not sure if this should be in Accessibility or Look and Feel. If it's placed in the wrong category, I hope an admin will move it for me. Thanks!]

In same cases user mutes sound. In present every music player still plays music, but no one can hear it. Better will be pause music playback until user unmutes sound. Advantage is that user wouldn't miss a song :-).

I found this on this webpage http://chabada.sk/better-desktop/ and wasnt sure if it were given attention.
so i have posted it over here.

in my opinion , this feature would be very handy and could also be unchecked from the control panel.

People who switched would not be made to feel guilty or dirty about using that key. They could be made and sold very cheaply and increase evangelism.

Also, that key should be supported by default:
idea #2490: Support the windows key
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/2490/

i made a poll in a german ubuntu forum with the result, that the most people think, that disk partitioning is a main barrier for pc beginners:

http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/151633/

disk partitioning should be made easier in live cd mode. there are still a lot of things a beginner can be made confused and insecure with: create free space, dualboot, not to delete windows, filesystem names and so on...

I know, that i gave no precice idea, what to do (sorry), but make it easier for beginners!

I know it is easy to install audio and videocodecs in Ubuntu just installing Gstreamer* -packages or simply installing ubuntu-restricted-extras but...

For newbie installing Gstreamer -packeges by step to step is very hard and on other hand there is users like me, who never installs ubuntu-restricted-extras becouse it installs a lot of more than just multimediacodecs. I personally hate msttcorefonts and don't use Sun Java (IcedTea is open, and works better). I also prefer use Gnash becouse Adobe Flash usually means only problems. So for users like me there is no an easy way to install multimediasupport ”by one click”.

All what is needed is some simple metapackage to install audio and videocodecs to play most used multimediaformats. Like ubuntu-restricted-extras without flash, java or windows-fonts. Needed formats are:

- MP3
- OGG
- AAC
- FLAC
- Real Audio
- WMA

- MP4
- WMV
- XVID
- DIVX
- Quicktime
- Real Video
- 3GP

...and so much more as possible. Idea #316 ”Codec Manager” sound good too, but I think metapackage would work better.

And also, why do my mouse settings get reset when I change video drivers?

I have an AGP Radeon 9600XT 256MB, and every time I change resolution it doesn't take effect until I restart. And it strangely keeps reverting from 1600x1200 to 1280x1024. My second monitor settings never seem to work correctly either.

I know this issue is specific to at least ATI drivers, but it might just be Radeon-specific or at worst I guess it might just be me.

Although Ubuntu promotes respins, they are not integrated with the download-page.

Nor is there official brainstorming about possible respins.
We need a group of people responsible for defining market-segments (perhaps doing some research), suggesting alternative default applications and perhaps alternative themes.

You should be able to select these official respins on the ubuntu-download-page. Perhaps together with a ubuntu-live-dvd where you can select the flavour during installation?

When adding a user you should be able to select the respin and have not-current-installed software automatically installed. All software not part of that respin, should be unchecked from the menu by default for that user.

Typical usefull ubuntu respins:

Ubuntu-Kids (edubuntu)
Ubuntu-Senior (optimized for my grandma)
Ubuntu-Developer (optimized for developpers)
Ubuntu-Kiosk (optimized for kiosk usage)
Ubuntu-Office (optimized for office usage)
Ubuntu-Artist (media and art production)
Ubuntu-Science (for universities)
Ubuntu-Media (mythbuntu)
Ubuntu-Server (already exists)

Strict rule should be that they only setup different default packages and different /etc/skel (default user options)

On each comment there should be an indicator as to how the user voted on that idea. Maybe the comment "decoration" could change color - red for minus, green for plus, and the standard brownish color if the user hasn't voted?

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.

upon installation, it should automatically recognize if the user have a windows partitition and preserve it, creating a bual boot and mounting the ntfs disks in a standard place (/media/windows_hda...)

I can see entering it in the first time (maybe), but I don't think it's necessary to ask for it after every reboot. I keep all of my music on a separate NTFS drive, and it basically makes all media players that have a built-in media library useless because the library gets reset unless I open the drivers before launching the app, resulting in a very painful re-cataloging process.

Would be really great. I am aware, that there are few people who really need this, but the majority does not. See at: http://capsoff.org/

To avoid problems or give user more choice the following option should be included in installation:

Instaling Bootloader:

(1) Grub (MBR) -> NTLDR
(2) NTLDR (MBR) -> GRUB

(A PACHED grub installed on a windows partition !!!)

This could avoid many problems to users who are in the middle of booting war.
Since windows rewrite mbr without asking, it causes some headaches to some people to get linux working...
Lets just leave him greed and dont push people around...

Ubuntu already supports mounting the NTFS file system(Which windows NT and later uses). It would be awesome to have a tool to search and import all my pictures, documents and other stuff(or a particular extension or file name) without having to manually find all the files and move them over.