Contributor unrealfighter

Personal configuration in the first session.

Example 1:
Do you have Wi-Fi or Blutooth?
If don't use it, the system or script will be remove configuration to Grub or in the session initial make boot more fast.

Example 2:
Do you have HP printing?

Others configuration:
Splash Screen; PC or Lap Top; Questions about boot; initial programs that will be running in start; update System, configure ubuntu drives and codecs restrict, and many other configuration.

It wold be access in the Sistem/Administration when is will be necessary.

Easy way for user to select a system mode which changes the system Speed, Power Saving, Security, Handicap Mode, and System Resources.
This could be done as button on the panel.

1. Create system modes which change system settings to optimum settings and services, toggled though taskbar icon.
2. examples of system modes: server, desktop, kiosk, airplane, low power, gaming, wifi hotspot (lowpower sercurity), desktop no network, desktop no internet, desktop lockdown.
3. GUI/Wizard to alow users to create their own custom system modes.
4. option to autochange system mode on a schedule or extended system idle.

-- Your in a meeding switch to "No interruptions mode".
-- Your at a Cyber Cafe, select Hot Spot mode (low power plus Security.).
-- Your on an Air Plane, select Flight mode (disable wifi, bluetooth, low power mode).
-- Your at work, select work mode (disable automatic sleep, turn on locking of screensaver, turn on email notification.).
-- Your at Conference, create and select mode "Speech or Presentation mode" to hide or declutter desktop, disable email and im notifications, change resolution, disable desktop effects, disable screensaver.
-- Your leaving work; select mode which will logout or lock computer, turn on restrictive firewall, apply system updates and then disable ethernet/wifi card and go to low power/shutdown/hibernate.
-- Your babysitting kids, select kid safe mode (kiosk plus option to set time limit, big icons.).
-- Your grandparents using your system, select mode to decrease resolution and increase font size to make everything bigger on the screen, and turn on big icons.
-- Your handicap friend using your system, select handicap mode (turns on Assistive Technologies, big icons, increase font size).
-- You install a system in a shared public space (Library, Lounge, or Cafe) which may have kids, handicap, visually impaired or other people you may wish to change the mode for.

Instead of just calculating the number for best idea contributor, maybe change it to #th best contributor, including in the number of votes and comments the user has placed.

I'm sure i am not against my idea! ;)

There is a logic for this in my opinion:

1 - Improve usability, stability and speed for Firefox users in Ubuntu. Beta 5 has some big issues.

2 - This also would help the Mozilla dev team because there would be thousand of users using RC1 instead of Beta5.

3 - The "Beta" can confuse some users.


So, what do you think?

Every week Brainstorm could choose an idea (not necessarily the most popular idea) that is innovative, different or has a fresh perspective and give it some special recognition.

The idea could be marked with a bright light bulb icon and/or appear at the top of the page in its category.

I suggest that the repositories are updated to include HPLIP 2.8.5, since only 2.8.2 is available. The more up to date drivers support more devices and work better than the old ones, and this would help people installing ubuntu with an HP printer that isn't supported on 2.8.2.

I see lots of ideas that really shouldn't go here in Brainstorm.

-Things like 'add feature X for program Y', which I may even agree with, but should be posted as a feature request in Launchpad.

-Things that are too obvious, or unspecific, like 'make Ubuntu even more awesome'.

-Bug reports or just plain whining where, after you read it, nothing has actually been proposed.

Some of them are ideas I can't really disagree with, so it would be unfair just to -1 them. Writing a comment to explain what you've read about is too time consuming, since there really are lots of them. I think the following prevention measures should be taken:

When the user clicks "submit your idea", he gets a form just like now, only above it there is a quick howto, explaining how a brainstorm idea should be (don't ask for upstream features, ask specific things).

The form itself is split in three sections:

-rationale (what the situation is now).
-proposal (one-line description of your idea).
-further details (in-deep description of your idea, if you think one line is not enough space.

Sections 1 and 3 can be left blank, but section 2 is mandatory.

Right now,ubuntu versions have funny codenames like Gutsy Gibbon,Hardy Heron,etc.

They sound great in English,but many users are not english-speaking(Here in Romania many people that I converted to Ubuntu love it,but they don't know a word in English)

I think it would be a great thing if each language had it's "translation" of the english codename.

Maybe we could involve the Ubuntu LoCo in this project.