Contributor yok-sudo

File sharing over the internet is always a real pain.
I which I could right click on a folder to share it on the internet, via FTP or WebDAV and to protect it with a password, and then say to my friend : "Download the photos of this WE on my FTP".
I don't want to set up a config file for another FTP Server or to install a module on Apche.

I would like an independant, live service for it, with one centralised admin interface ...


I've seen that some ideas have been put already here :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EasyFileSharing

Canonical should convince Adobe to make their products for Linux.
I came across few petitions on the Internet, but that obviously had no effect.

With the right vision and marketing plan to increase market share, maybe Canonical could convince Adobe to make the native Linux version of their software.

Right now, with 2% market share overall, it is not a lucrative niche for commercial (very expensive software).
On the other side, many windows users are reluctant to switch to Ubuntu Linux because they can not use Adobe products (among other windows applications).

Finding way to join the corporative interests and the customer needs and wishes is the key to success.

Apple's OS X operating system is universally acclaimed as the easiest operating system for the average user. This is not due to the attractiveness of the theme or the gel-like interface buttons, but to the universally consistent user interface. In OS X, every program follows a rigid set of interface rules that allow the design concepts of one program to match that of another, allowing new users to simply master one organization of features and use that information across the system. This consistency gives mac its characteristically out-of-the-way design and sense of thorough quality. By giving Ubuntu a similarly universal set of guidelines and enforcing them throughout the system, we can come much much closer to the dream of a universally accessible GNU/Linux system, add polish, and contribute to the greater Free Software movement. I guess what I'm envisioning is a much more strict and detailed version of the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.

Something nit-picky I've always hated about Archive Manager is the fact that I can't extract files to a folder or to my desktop by simply dragging and dropping them somewhere (like I can with a Windows box and any archiving program with a GUI, like Winzip or WinRAR).

Sure, I can click "Extract Files" and then browse through folders to find the path I want, but if I could drag and drop to extract from (and add to) archives, it would sure save me a lot of time. And possible save newbies a little frustration.

While the default Ubuntu theme in Gnome is OK, there is room for A LOT more refinement. I would like to see things like:

- Beautiful icons like those in OSX
- Cutting edge, highly readable fonts

I would especially like to see tremendous attention to detail paid to all kinds of small things, such as default icons, etc. Much of this may come in the form of enhancements to the default Gnome/KDE themes.

There is just something incredibly pleasing about the look of OSX, and Ubuntu deserves to look at least as good.

With the right input from top designers, this is possible.

example from duplicate idea 5581 :
http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs22/f/2007/321/2/f/Ubuntu_Theme_Mockup___Light_by_b radwjensen.jpg

It is important that Ubuntu is polished up to the little details.

LOOK AT THIS: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LittleDetails

Orange Brown theme should not be the only one included
There should be color themes based on all the basic
colors e.g. blue theme, yellow theme, red theme, black theme
green theme.

There is a wide community of online artists capable of creating brilliant, unique artwork.

heading: Get your artwork on 10 million desktops

Ubuntu, the world's most popular Linux distribution, needs a new theme. The winner will appear in the default desktop of Ubuntu 8.10.

We're looking for original wallpapers, that match Ubuntu's color palette. You entry should also include a suggested combination of application, icon, and window themes. These can be existing themes, or your own original works - you only need to submit a wallpaper to win.

Work must be CC licensed, and be openable in either Inkscape or Gimp (rest of criteria continues)

Submit your works to DeviantArt and include the words [Ubuntu810].


Good luck!

I can't say that I have seen a way to donate money to Ubuntu's development, but there definitely should bee a way too do so..

My idea is to have a button under "About Ubuntu" where you navigate to a web page were donation is possible.
Many Ubuntu fans who don't have time or skills to contribute in other ways would like this option.

Yesterday I posted how much I hate to modify /etc/fstab, and a solution. Today I'll post about another file that I just hate to edit, namely /boot/grub/menu.lst. As I often install and remove Linux distro's (Now I actually use VM's, because I'm using a Mac) for testing them, I often have to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst. On one computer, until a few days ago I still had an old SUSE entry from 5 months ago, since I don't like editing menu.lst and I was waiting for another occasion to edit it.

A few weeks ago, I bought this Mac. Of course, I installed Ubuntu on it. In order to boot Ubuntu, a special bootloader, named rEFIt, was required. Well, I installed rEFIt (which was very easy, but after all, it's a Mac we're talking about, right?), and what suprised me was that it didn't had a menu.lst or something similar. Instead, each time it boots, it automatically detects any OS'es present and creates a nice boot menu (I mean the graphical with icons for each OS kind of nice, not the MS-DOS like text boot menu kind of nice) with all OS'es on my Mac! Well, Ubuntu could use something like that. If you read my other post (Automatically mount present filesystems), you will see that it fits exactly into the same idea. Simply tell the patched Grub to automatically add ROOTDEV=/dev/blablablah to the boot param's. Easy as what, and yet another config file eliminated.

Many projects related to Ubuntu are using the Tango icon guidelines: GNOME, Gimp, F-spot, OpenOffice, Firefox 3... just to name a few.

Currently Ubuntu's default icon theme is Human, which in turn is not based on the Tango Guidelines. This means that applications are not integrated into the lock and feel of the whole system as well as they could. Also, Human is not 100% complete, so it still uses some Tangoish icons from GNOME. This leads to a mix of Human, Tango and Old-GNOME look.

Ubuntu should provide a minimal Tango-based theme which just replaces some of the very visible icons, like folders for example. For the rest, either the GNOME or Tango icon theme can be used as a fallback. This way, Ubuntu would keep a special branding but very much improve the overall visual consistency of the OS.

Too often I have to select images with cryptic file names from a file chooser. Because I can't see the images I typically have to open the folder I am browsing separately so I can find image I am looking for, remember the cryptic name, and return to the file dialogue to select the file I want.

This could be easier if their was an option to view thumbnails, or to at least preview the image.

At the moment it's possible to manage traditional wired and WiFi connections using Network Manager. To connect via a modem, a 3G/GPRS card, over bluetooth to a cell phone or via USB to another device requires that the user installs extra packages, and does a fair amount of configuration that isn't found in Network Manager.

A single unified tool should be provided which allows the user to connect to a network (or internet) via any supported method. It would also be useful to provide an extension to this tool to manage firewall rules and network connection sharing.

Suspend and hibernate still seems to be a big issue based on forum posts. Really focus on fixing it, even with proprietary drivers.

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average person needs wizards across the board...

get rid of this package manager crap and make it easy with a installer wizard.
i had a look at a few pages and didnt see this on the list and its so important to linux being successfull.... why is it so hard to make linux user friendly?

help wizards for all is my call...

if it was easier to use more people would use it...its improved but not enough...

In windows when us use firefox, we can use ietab for view IE pages (pages that only I can view in Internet Explorer). In ubuntu I install Ie with wine, but it's more great create a librarie for firefox for view IE pages.

I think that we must have a GUI for ipv6 configuration.
Other distributions like Fedora or OpenSUSE, OSX and even MS Vista already have it. IPv4 is dying, ISP's are beginning to distribute IPv6 adresses for 2~3 years and DNS root servers have recently switch to v6 too.
Ubuntu should be ready for the Internet of today and tomorrow and integrate IPv6 (fixed, dhcpv6, RA, ...) in the GNOME 'Network Settings' (and the same in KDE) as soon as possible.

Nautilus is curently very slow especially when opening folders containing many files and sub-folders.

It takes 10 seconds for example to display /usr/bin directory with Athlon XP 2500+ CPU and 512 MB RAM machine. Thunar does the action with no lag on the same configuration.

When sharing files out via Samba, Ubuntu requires users to re-enter their existing password into smbpasswd.

Currently, when a user changes their password with 'passwd' or a similar tool, their entered password is hashed into md5 or similar and then saved to /etc/shadow.

Its is easy to reconfigure pam so that passwords are also hashed to md4 in /etc/samba/smbpasswd

OS X already does this.