Contributor vexorian

We all want that it would work like in Windows. When USB device is safely removed, the light turns off.

As far as I understand "Unmount" is not "Safely remove" because it does not disconnect USB devices and I have no idea how to do that in Linux.

There must be an option to unmount or disconnect flash drives, mp3 etc.

I think you should put a lot of effort to come up with some documentation supporting novice programmers to use existing frameworks in an optimal way to support Ubuntu.

Questions that could arose in their minds when they want to do a program for Ubuntu:

-> How do I access stock icons from my prog?
-> How do I use Notifications?
-> How to include File dialogs?
-> How do I use the common permission-dialog?
-> How can I use dbus?
-> How do I come from code to actual program used by mass
-> How do I ensuer it can be used not only by gnome or kde or whatever...?
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I guess this would lead to more fresh programms but also in a more consistent appearence over all of them. Of course a single point of entry should be used for most spread programming languages

Happy for your reactions...

First of all, make compiz settings manager a default package in Ubuntu and put all the key bindings as one plug in.
under that again subdivide screen edges, mouse bindings and keyboard bindings.

I've got two monitors, and right now if I use the wallpaper settings in gnome it stretches the wallpaper across the two monitors. It does this even for the default ubuntu wallpaper. This can look really bad depending on the image. In order to get around this I had to get two wallpaper images and join them into one large one with the GIMP and set that as my wallpaper.

There should be a way in gnome to set a different wallpaper for each monitor.

==== Merged with ideas of a similar scope: Different wallpapers on different workspace ===

Many workspaces option in Linux allows you to separate your work, why not allow users to have different wallpapers on each workspace. This allows for easier identification of which workspace you are on.
When used with compiz-fusion you can rapidly switch between your workspaces and the different wallapaper will allow you to quickly recognise what desktop you are on.

Currently this is natively available in KDE but not in Gnome. In Gnome you can't even let Compiz take over the wallpaper control because Nautilus doesn't allow for transparent backgrounds.

Other solutions like Wallpapoz are slow and when switching between desktops it takes too long to switch WP.

People who use wubi install to try the system would benefit from a tool that would make it easy to migrate the install to a native (partition) install.

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com
https://store.ubuntu.com
apt://wine

Notice the one that doesn't work.

Edit: Odd, but http doesn't work either?
http://somesiteubuntu.com
Edit: Can't link to brainstorm? Odd rule...

I think some of the screenshots on www.ubuntu.com are outdated.

For example, the menu screenshot on this page: http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu is not the menu we see in 8.04.

Also, some text is outdated as well. For example, this page: http://www.ubuntu.com/products/WhatIsUbuntu/kubuntu says "KDE version 3.5.5 is the current stable release".

There are lots of other examples on the website. I think to use up-to-date screenshots is very important. They would give new users a better and more accurate impression of Ubuntu compared with old screenshots.

Essentially, what I mean is change the search functionality to a filtering functionality such that if you choose to look through results by Sections, Status, Origin, etc, filtering would occur within that subset of packages.

Use case: I am attempting to find a supported general purpose IDE within the Development section, as I'm tired of IDEs that continuously crash on me because they're not, well, very supported.

today on some forum i got a question that a person don't have broadband and he is a novice and wants to install some softwares and codecs now the problem is on packages.ubuntu.com he gets each package with all dependencies but still it becomes very uneasy task for him to take all dependencies home from near by cyber cafe so ... if there may be some additional reposatory for fully installable packages which don't need any further dependencies to satisfy.
or may be the current status of one's computers installed packages can be uploaded and then depending upon it site automatically tells me what are the packages i need to satisfy dependencies and all the dependencies can be downloaded as a single zip file that would be more easier for people not having internet at their home..

take a look at this
http://nonetdebs.unixpod.com/
Ubuntu should also include this type of feature

Hi, I noticed something, when I install an update for firefox 3 on the repos, a notification appears in the tray telling me to restart firefox.

I think that at least the apps in the repos that have the ubuntu supported logo and are GUI apps. Should have their packages modified so when you install them for the first time this sort of notification would appear explaining how to access the new application.

It is more ubuntu-like, easier to implement and (IMO) less annoying than the usual suggestion to highlight the new menu entries.

Include forkbomb protection in ubuntu by default. May use limits.conf for this. (limit for number of processes per user)

You have this protection if you get this when executing a forkbomb:
bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

Most Internet users in Russia and specifically over 80% of internet users in Moscow and St.Petersburg connect to the Internet via PPTP VPN connection (for example, users of largest Moscow providers Corbina Telecom and NetByNet Holding). Since the package network-manager-pptp, which allows PPTP connection configuration, is not included in the default installation, they need to connect the Internet under Windows or other operating system, download the package, resolve the dependencies manually and install it under Linux. This makes it vertually impossible for an average Internet user to switch to Linux after using Windows on home PC, and that's why the ISPs do not provide support for Linux.

There are some fork Ubuntu-based Russian distributions such as Runtu (www.runtu.org) that include the package by default, but I think it would be better it it was included in the mainstream Ubuntu release.

MakeHuman is a great program for creating realistic human figures in 3D and allows for photo-realistic rendering through aqsis. Currently a Mandriva package exists on the website, but no Ubuntu package and I was quite surprised to see that it wasn't in any of the repositories.

This is the deal: I like to use compiz because:
- Its desktop switching method is different from metacity's so it won't crash some Wine app that loves to crash otherwise.
- Its shadows and transparency for inactive windows makes my desktop look very nice.

But I really dislike that although there are three or four ways to do desktop switching, all of them are almost the same in that they use 'cool' animations. What's bad about the animations? In the best case scenario they make me lose time, and in the worst (if my CPU is in use for example), make my computer lag horribly.

It already has four ways to do desktop switching, so how about adding one that allows me to just use gnome panel's desktop switcher like the way metacity does? You know, you click the page and it is changed instantly, no animation involved. Wouldn't that be nice?

Please print F1 for more then one second. A lot of windows will be open. Who does need so much windows with the same content? There should be only one window.

If I want to choose an icon, I can browse easily through the proposed icons from Gnome (default directory).

If I want to choose another icon (a generic one for a folder or a Surf place) I can browse trough all my hard disk drive BUT :

- I can only choose a folder, the icons doesn't appear in the browse window :-(
- There's a lot of directory which contains icons, and it's really difficult to know where to find you favourite icon :-(
- When you've found your icon, you still have to choose wich size applies to you (multiple choice for pixel size)

It will be very very appreciated if browsing icon could be more intuitive ! :-)

I don't know if displaying all of the icons on my hard disk will be possible, but I'm sure that it can be possible to display a panel which contains the icons in ALL the subdirectories of /usr/share/icons for example.

we need this for big files, and is important to do the upload in a 'different window', so if you click in a link in the same page while uploading, the upload continue in progress.
the browser will open a new window with the response of the server for the upload when its done.
or may be just disable links until its done or cancel the upload, so you not break the flow of the site

include it in generic progress bars for kde4 would be great too.

The applications, places,admin set up makes sense the more learn about Ubuntu...kinda.

Why should a new user have to go snooping around like Indiana Jones to find all the options to locate new software. Why not just put all the options as a sub menu of add/remove...?

It is a wonderful CD/DVD image manipulator for Linux similar to DAEMON Tools, Power Iso, Magic Iso etc.Maybe more...

the homepage and screenshot:
http://www.acetoneiso.netsons.org/index.php

The .deb file is available for hardy from here
http://www.acetoneiso.netsons.org/viewpage.php?page_id=2

These are AcetoneISO's Features:

- Mount automatically ISO, MDF, NRG, BIN, NRG without the need to insert admin password!
- A nice display which shows current images mounted and possibility to click on it to quickly reopen mounted image
- Convert 2 ISO all image types:
*.bin *.mdf *.nrg *.img *.daa *.dmg *.cdi *.b5i *.bwi *.pdi and much more
- Extract images content to a folder:
*.bin *.mdf *.nrg *.img *.daa *.dmg *.cdi *.b5i *.bwi *.pdi and much more
- Play a DVD Movie Image with Kaffeine / VLC / SMplayer with auto-cover download from Amazon
- Generate an ISO from a Folder or CD/DVD
- Check MD5 file of an image and/or generate it to a text file
- Encrypt / Decrypt an image
- Split / Merge image in X megabyte
- Compress with High Ratio an image in 7z format
- Rip a PSX cd to *.bin to make it work with epsxe/psx emulators
- Restore a lost CUE file of *.bin *.img
- Convert Mac OS *.dmg to a mountable image
- El-Torito support to create ISO bootable Cd

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So, after analyzing this: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/9637/ and seeing how some people really like codecs for proprietary formats, I think I must say this:

- Remix's codec licensing(tax) should be optional (Refer to the other brainstorm's link)
- As a matter of fact the same goes for flash and adobe reader.
- Now that canonical licenses codecs in remix, I think there should be a way to order online or purchase a download of a desktop ubuntu CD that comes with those codecs installed and legally licensed, so if some people really think it is important to have their codecs preinstalled they could put money where their mouth was. The condition for this not to be evil would be that the codecs were the only difference between these both variations of the desktop ubuntus. The OS would still be free whatsoever, but if people want to license codecs, they would be able to. In other words, they are actually purchasing the codecs, the ubuntu installation is a freebie that comes with that purchase.