* "Services" is hard for me because there is no description about them.

* "Sessions" is also complicated i think. I can't understand some tabs as a new user.

* I want to add/remove programs to startup easy.

* my startup profiles must be transferred easily to my brothers' account.

I'm bored with dual-screen on GNU/Linux, it really has to have a graphic configuration, and better features.
I would like to move windows from a screen to another, but when I maximize I need it to be in a single screen.

Update: Xrandr GUI blog post by Bryce Harrington

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?

I have a music folder, and I put all my musics to it. When new music is added, I have to "re-import" my music folder for the musics to get added.

Would be great if Rhythmbox monitored my music folder for new files and automatically added them.

EDIT : There is a way to tell Rhythmbox to do it on the Settings menu - So the complete idea - Either do it by default or at the first run, when asking for the music library folder, have a checkbox for this feature.

I'd like to see the Ubuntu devs take on a micro sized Ubuntu version. With each new release, Ubuntu is getting fatter and fatter, needing more and more ram to install, or to run the LiveCD. I think some practice trying to ram an entire OS into an ISO that is less than 100MB might be good for them. Maybe reverse this bloat trend they've got going.

And yes, I'm aware of Xubuntu. And I hate it.

I was doing some important research, taking notes on gedit when Ubuntu completely crashed after trying to install wmv codecs.

Result - hours of work were lost :(

So my sugestion os to automatically save stuff that is written into Gedit, like it's already done on OpenOffice.

Currently, user information, such as contacts, email accounts, todo lists, calendar events, IM contacts, bookmarks, and whatever is scattered among various programs.
This is a problem, since, it doesn't allow for integration between separate elements of the desktop - for example - there is no way to create an appointment in evolution from an email in thunderbird, or to share IM information between skype and pidgin, etc.

suggested solution: create a standard, extensible database for each datatype, and store the information there, rather than by each program to itself.

it can be based on trackers, tagging, evolution PIM database, or a new infrastructure.

kde's nepomuk does something similar with metadata
http://nepomuk.kde.org

Sometimes, when I try to open firefox, I get this error

Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.

I propose to change that, including a button - "Close firefox now" :

Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process. [Close firefox now]

Many ideas on brainstorm are just bugs, and brainstorm is not for bugs, its for ideas. If you got a bug, go to launchpad. Obviously not everyone new to ubuntu knows that, so they post it here as an idea. There should be some warning, most likely when you're submitting a new idea, that that's the way it is.

In Ubuntu 8.04 a misbehaviour of Nautilus was introduced that mimicks the function of the shell command "cp" - unlike to any other file manager I am acquainted with Nautilus now destroys the creation date and time of a copied file and replaces it with the date and time of the moment it was being copied.

This leads to a lot of trouble to anyone who regularly copies files. Expecially users of digital cameras who are now forced to cumbersomly recover the lost information from the EXIF metadata inside the files, feel annoyed by this change.

I would appreciate the withdrawal of the "feature". Maybe it could be made optional? Possibly someone really needs this behaviour, but the vast majority of users probably would prefer the preservation of the creation date when copying a file.

In http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515777 the bug is described and there is a lengthy discussion about whether it is a bug or a feature.

A blog entry describes the surprise of an user: http://adventuresinswitching.blogspot.com/2008/05/file-modification-dates-chang ed-in.html

There is a source code patch at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=108968 - not really a help to everyone, I am afraid.

This is no duplicate of http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5133/ as the bug has in fact nothing to do with FAT32 file systems.