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PulseAudio's been really buggy for me, and I couldn't hear anything after install.

This is the tutorial that fixed everything for me: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789578

Couldn't the Ubuntu team at least apply some of those things pre-done in 8.10 or something?

Some ideas for Banshee:

- Display artist image in Music Library (the picture could be automatically downloaded from Last.fm, for example, or set by the user using a filename pattern). Mockup:

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/7417/bansheemockupnj5.png

- Option to sort albums by year.

- Command to refresh the library.

- Support for replaygain [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_Gain ].

The network manager prompts for password while accessing keyring to connect to wireless networks.. This is avoidable by some workarounds, but still doesn't work when automatic logon is enabled

Also in cases when wireless AP is down for sometime, it doesnt seem to connect back automatically when AP is *visible* again.

There should be an easier method of deleting old kernels and their grub menu entries. Currently, the update script adds all kernel images in /boot into menu.lst no matter how old. Some administration app or a feature in Update Manager should allow one to delete old kernel images and their menu entries (if the images are removed prior to the script running then its an easy fix). All but the current kernel should be removed, allowing for a stable kernel entry and the new kernel (in case there is some kind of conflict with the newly installed kernel).

The only way to do so currently is the manually delete the kernel image and related file, then edit the grub menu list to delete the old entries.

When using Windows you can rename your pendrive really easy thru My Computer. Ubuntu should allow the user to do the same.

There is an article about this here[1] but the user shouldn't have to open a terminal to accomplish such a basic task.

[1] - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive

It has become obvious that Grub2 needs some extra programming help, as Grub-legacy will no longer be adding new features and the end of Grub2 is nowhere in sight. Canonical should allocate 1 or 2 programmers for a few months to help complete grub2 quickly, so that X86 support might be complete in time for Interpid Ipex.

One could argue that the boot loader is the most important part of the operating system, because if it doesn't work properly (which it hasn't been for some of us), it can prevent every OS from working on the computer. We should treat it with respect, and help them. Despite grubs importance, programmers generally enjoy working on more exciting projects like Gnome or KDE, which is one reason why development is slow.

Grub2 fixes a lot of previous brainstorm ideas including many booting issues (like mine), so completion would close a lot of bugs, whilst also making Ubuntu more user friendly because Grub2 deals with booting issues better.

Voting for this ensures that Canonical allocates some developers to the Grub2 project, which would be a big win for both Ubuntu and linux in general!

Planned Features for Grub 2
* Rescue mode saves unbootable cases. Stage 1.5 was eliminated.
* Dynamic loading of modules in order to extend itself at the run time rather than at the build time.
* Graphical interface.
* Fix design mistakes in GRUB Legacy, which could not be solved for backward-compatibility, such as the way of numbering partitions.
* Scripting support, such as conditionals, loops, variables and functions.
* Cross-platform installation which allows for installing GRUB from a different architecture.
* Internationalization. This includes support for non-ASCII character code, message catalogs like gettext, fonts, graphics console, and so on.
* Portability for various architectures.
* Modular, hierarchical, object-oriented framework for file systems, files, devices, drives, terminals, commands, partition tables and OS loaders.

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try opening a really huge directory full of images that is sorted by modification date, nautilus acts crazy for like a minute before it could load up all the thumbnails. images get thrown around in every direction as it loads more and more images and tries to load their thumbnails of various sizes at the same time..

i think nautilus should load the full list of files from the directory first and fully sorts them before it starts to load the thumbnails..

Hello everyone!

I am using hardy heron 8.04 with user-compiled ipw3945 driver for my wireless network card, because default iwl3945 doesn't work with my university's network. But so far I've seen, ipw3945 has more features than iwl3945:
1.) better scan sensitivity
2.) works with wireless networks that require 802.1X authentication
3.) excellent power saving features (using ipw3945 over iwl3945 increases my laptop battery life by cca 45 minutes)
4.) ipw3945 is open source driver and not proprietary (although jockey-gtk detects it as proprietary) - sources that I have include GPLv2/BSD licence

Right-mouse-click in nautilus should have an option to create a private secure encrypted folder (for example in your home dir or on your usb stick). All files and folders in this special folder should be automatically encrypted and still be usable like normal files (after providing a strong pass-phrase to unlock the folder).

In this way people/organizations/companies/governments who want to secure their usb sticks don't have to buy expensive usb sticks but can use average cheap usb sticks.

Hi guys!
packagekit gets more and more attraction, i don't think that i have to explain it here, someone who knows this page knows also packagekit and its possibilities i.e. share package discribtions & news, openoffice.org can use it for the installation from additional packages/art; automatic printer driver download from lsb-site and so on...

more here:
http://packagekit.org/
and a really hot presentation from fosdem08:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/public/introduction-to-packagekit.pdf

We need to change the default screensaver. The problem with the current screensaver is that the first time you meet it is when the screen suddenly turns black during the installation. That is very confusing for most users, as the first thought always is that the installation has crashed.

I suggest a screensaver that helps brand Ubuntu, like for example the "Floating Ubuntu" screensaver. It could also be a textbased screensaver that could run on older machines witch doesn't support 3D.

One of the things included in Hardy was ufw (Uncomplicated firewall wall), but everything has to be done via CLI. There is a very nice GUI frontend being developed for it and it would be nice if it is bundled as a default package.

Links to the project:
https://launchpad.net/gui-ufw
http://gufw.tuxfamily.org/index.html

Transmission at the moment isn't advanced enough as the other BT clients.
First, it lacks the function of moving the torrent data after it's complete. What if I want to move the data I've downloaded and keep on seeding it?
Second, it doesn't manage queues properly. It doesn't work with multiple trackers either. If the tracker allows you to download only one torrent at a time, Transmission is likely to stay idle after you downloaded the first torrent in your queue instead of proceeding to the next one.

It would be more convenient if a user could sort ideas accordingly to their tags and search ideas with a certain tag.

When some applications are hard occupied disk with I/O then Gnome not response for mouse, keyboard and we must wait...

It couldn't be worse! We cannot kill this process because cannot open terminal or system monitor.

This situation is very irritating.

Intel provides onboard video although most people asking support for nvdia and ati cards and they have envy that can configure the card and drivers it will search.but intel motherboards are very popular,onboard video is not configured correctly so to correct this we need frontend,common to all intel based motherboards like starting from 845gvsr,mine to latest x48.additionally it will help users to configure/correct screen resolution problems.
there are manuals to configure xorg and also installing intel945 drivers issue.but i doubt messing up system,so it will be great help.
alternatively if this is not possible gui to intel 945.it can be default or
in repository because most of the people want it to be default

The point here is that Drivers manager should not only download restricted drivers, but it should solve all hardware-related issues where possible. I mean, it should recognize your hardware and download all the drivers available in the repos for you - when the drivers needed aren't on the install CD.

There are the usual sound options, there is alsamixer, there is pulseaudio, there are codecs for sound in specific programs etc.
It would be better to have ONE place to configure everything,which has to do with sound.

The development of Ubuntu 9.04 or whatever version comes after Intrepid Ibex should focus on streamlining and putting together Ubuntu as a whole. Redundancies should be removed and Ubuntu should be slimmed down. This would make Ubuntu faster and smaller.

I'm not saying remove GNOME or anything or even to just fix the UI, I'm saying dig deep into Ubuntu's code that's between the Linux kernel and the Desktop Environment and streamline that into one cohesive whole that is small, fast, efficient, and stable.

Instead of focusing on adding new features, just update the current software (current as of the release of Intrepid Ibex) and streamline it. This way, it won't be another Hardy full of incomplete betas and pre-releases. 9.04 should focus on stability, speed, and being small and fast. Look at what Apple is doing with Snow Leopard. They added the features in Leopard and now they're streamlining them in Snow Leopard. I'm not saying copy Apple by any means. I'm saying they've got a good idea and we can do it to, and take it two steps further. That's what we should be doing. Having our own ideas as well as taking the ideas of other companies two or three steps forward for ourselves.

2009.04.??
Ubuntu 9.04: Streamlined Release.

Early, when first computers arrive, it be equipped with monochrome text display, green or gray symbols on black background. The big advantages is it was eye-friendly (because no extra light energy put to the eye) and no matter of refresh rate (again saving your eyes).
Nowadays, when GUI is most-displayed environment, at Microsoft's hand (or no?) the white background brings to standard de-facto. The reason was "the documents in MSWord looks same as on paper, WYSIWYG or so). But no one worry about people's eyes.
Super-bright displays also burn out our eyes.
The solution is turn back to black background, and using white only when preview docs before printing.
Many years I try to set this color sheme on both Windows and then Ubuntu. But always were elements which out-of-control of colors, when programmers use 'black' color instead of 'current scheme symbol's color.
Another example out-of-control items is baloon tooltips in Ubuntu, address & search lines in Firefox, and many more.
A great advantage is 'invert' function of Compiz. It fixes all! But photos looks terrible...
I suggest that developers of Ubuntu must include at least one TESTED dark scheme in distro.
Thanks a lot!

(I added) Important note: 'dark' theme is not gray, but almost black. Absolutely need that *every* letter of text must be more bright than it's background. Including input boxes on web pages, balloon messages, comments displayed when mouse stay on picture.