http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com guidelines and check if your idea has been posted already! ]]> en-us Sun, 07-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC Sun, 07-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12723/
Everex also put on sale recently a desktop computer cheaper than a Windows Vista licence, which i considered a very interesting marketing idea (it seems to had a strong success on places like WalMart, for example). The site shop.canonical.com could bet on this as well.

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No attachments. ]]> Sun, 07-Sep-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12723/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12565/ 1) allow more widespread testing of gnash/gstreamer
2) allow gnash/gstreamer users to fall back on adobe flash if it fails

blurb:
while gnash is a good video player it fails with certain content. Most new user, and even existing users dont want to suffer a diminished web experienced by using gnash or gstreamer so stick to adobe, this will allow them to get the benefits of gnash/gstreamer without having to put up with the weaknesses of any one player.

valid flash players would include (others also avalible)
gstreamer - video only afaik
gnash - video and some games afaik
adobe flash 9 -buggy & high cpu usage
adobe flash 10-more temperamental w/ lower cpu usage

I think this is best implemented as something like mozpluger as that would make it avalible to all the webbrowsers i can think of. but i can also imagine it
being usable as a simple extension (like flashblock but with options for others) for firefox as firefox is the main ubuntu browser.

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A common complaint of Linux users is they aren't supported by ISPs. Often getting things setup and working is a night mare process of manual configuration.

In the Windows world it's normally a simpler case of running a little install program and it sets everything up for you. We need ISPs to start doing this for Linux users.

Consumer Linux won't fly if you can't get on-line quickly and easily.

http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/10091616/Work_With_ISPs_To_Provide_Internet_Connectivity_For_Linux_Users

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Zsnes
Mupen64plus
Dolphin
PCSX2

all in the repos. The all run well, and the games for Zsnes alone easily trump hundreds of Windows based games. It's frustrating to have to compile the source myself, or scrounge around for a .deb, particularly when all these emulators are fully open source.

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etc...

...and delete the examples folder

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If you actually think of it, you'll realize I am right. Why does OpenOffice.org have a splash screen, when no other application does? It would integrate into the mass of other applications well if a "Starting OpenOffice.org" panel item was created for a few seconds, just like all other applications.

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Some people would say that it does not matter because bad or duplicated ideas are lost among tons of other uninteresting ideas, and that's a useless effort to track them and remove them from the server. They remind me people who sweep the dust under the carpet, where nobody can see it, because they are too lazy to remove it properly. I agree that the Brainstorm tool is not completely convenient to do that, but you don't need a powerful vacuum cleaner to remove the dust. The problem is that it is still possible to keep Brainstorm clean, but it will be much more difficult to do so with 100000 ideas.

Only few of us seem to report duplicates, and that may be the problem. I have proposed duplicates for ideas with > 40 positive votes, which means that at least 40 people voted without checking if the idea has been already proposed. We are more than enough to tag all duplicates among the 12000 ideas, but we are not rewarded as "duplicate hunters". Why not adding a counter for the number of sucessfully reported duplicates in the dashboard, as well as a ranking, similar to the idea vote ranking? The point is just to add up a funny feature that can create a positive feedback --taking care of other's duplicates will automatically make people more aware of their own duplicates.

(apart from that, some of my duplicate proposals have probably vanished while the duplicate was obvious to me. In the opposite, quite a few non-related ideas have been tagged as duplicates. I sometimes have the feeling that Brainstorm admins don't want to spend any extra time dealing with duplicate matters, and make many mistakes in sorting among duplicate proposals. In my opinion, even if they don't really care, we should, because ideas proposed here can be of benefit to the whole free software community, and not only to Ubuntu).

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Obviously, this kind of interface is not precise enough to provide a detailed control, but could be quite useful in some fields. For instance, it would be a great option to control document viewers, multimedia players, multimedia centers, and it also has many applications in gaming.

As this technology is quite new, it could be a great way to provide an additional value that other operating systems do not offer. New users could be attracted by this technology, and experienced users could use it in the applications they develop.

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I'm sure i'm not the first one who ask about this but i would like to know if it would be feasible to do something like:

1º User does "dpkg -l > list.txt" and take that file to the computer with Internet (for example: at work place)

2º Then uses a browser at the package website to upload the file with the list of packages installed in its computer.

3º It selects the software which want to download

4º The site checks the dependencies needed with the packages list (list.txt) and download everything necessary.
It could also create a script to install all the downloaded packages in the user's computer.

Thank you and sorry if i'm repeatting something which someboby already talked about

PD. Sorry also about my english.




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"Linux is an open source alternative to Windows. This means it is completely free for anybody to use it in any way. It can do almost anything that you can do with windows. It cannot run windows software, but there are many free alternatives that do the same thing included with it. It comes with a word processor (That can handle .doc), a web browser, an email application, and many other utilities. It is also very easy to install new software, without the risk of viruses. In fact, there are virtually no viruses that can harm linux..."

This explanation is fairly unbiased, and all true, and provides a much more pleasing alternative. However, dell will not do write such a description because of the pressure of microsoft. We need to push dell to write the truth if linux is ever going to be common among everyday users.

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This would provide a mechanism for spammers to be identified quickly, whilst forcing spammers to resort to posting real comments, and hiding the spam within them (inefficient in the spamming world), signing up to thousands of accounts, and post using different account names (but, account creation uses a captcha stopping that), or dumping random words within it (which will make the messages immediately obvious they contain spam).

If we don't immediately get on top of the problem now, we will have no mechanism in place to protect against spam bots.

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He/she make this mockup for Ubuntu and I think is one of the best ever created (my opinion).

He/she doesn't know that I publish his/her ideas here... But I think that if Ubuntu has this Look and Feel, Ubuntu will be better (or best :P)

http://willwill100.deviantart.com/art/Interpid-Ibex-Mockup-Part-1-93584571

As always, excuse my poor english.

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Its about giving information, making easier things.
Example:

- When user tries to reproduce mp3 file:
offer 2 options, 1) convert to Ogg format and talk about advantages of this format, 2) download proprietary codecs

- Every media player should ask this to the user on first run and convert it too if needed.

This could be a solution with all the trouble with proprietary media files.

FEEL FREE TO SUGGEST ANY OTHER WAY TO GET TO THE SAME OBJECTIVE, USE FREE FORMATS.


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Also, Hi-Speed Internet file transfers. If you could easily move files at your maximum bandwidth easily with contacts from pidgin, many people would become more productive and faster.

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