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Merge Evince and Eog into a single application.  
Written by leandromartinez98 the 10 Sep 09 at 17:58. Related project: Evince Document Viewer. Not an idea

Evince and Eog are two programs to view files. Their difference is small in terms of looks. Evince can already open many figure files, but doesn't have the "Next" and "Previous" options and the zoom buttons. Adding these features to Evince would make Eog useless.
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Solution #1: Add the few missing functionalities to Evince
Written by leandromartinez98 the 10 Sep 09 at 17:58.

By adding the capability of openning multiple doccuments at once without openning multiple windows and adding a few buttons, Evince would do everything Eog does, thus making Eog useless.
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Solution #2: quick look
Written by yzarc the 11 Sep 09 at 13:53.
add "quick look" like feature to ubuntu.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovj06TNRCMc

sometimes we just wanna know what there is inside a file. it's half done here http://jordihp.deviantart.com/art/Gloobus-Preview-0-03-2-122054947
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Solution #3: Common GUI for all viewers and many backends for rendering files
Written by adisk the 16 Sep 09 at 16:01.
Common GUI for all viewers and
many different backends for rendering files.

GUI like evince.

Backends:
1. *.so libraries.
2. executables with control via pipe or socket.

See the 8 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 15 May 12 at 07:24) >>

To make Nautilus more attractive and close to future  
Written by amitrane.swd the 22 Feb 09 at 17:13. Related project: Nautilus. New
Upcoming DRI2 will really change the world of linux along with its compiz plugins, just making the window border of nautilus is not the work done. Why dont we make it little more attractive having some transparency and blur around its buttons and menu bar of nautilus; just leaving only the inside browser frame work non-transparent..
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Solution #1: Editting in gconf-editor
Written by amitrane.swd the 22 Feb 09 at 17:13.
Just like we can change some transparency setting in gconf-editor. likewise we can have some alteration done for this rather then having compiz-plugins. So we wont spend more processing and memory space for it.
Let get our nautilus more close to futuristic
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Solution #2: Open file -> Icon view
Written by Vanostaajen the 22 Feb 09 at 23:52.
Nautilus can have the blur and so on if you install the right theme. So that's not the problem.
The problem, in my opinion is the viewing options:

When I open a file (for example: a picture in gimp), I have to select the picture to preview it(yes there are little tiny icons at the left but they are way too small.).

So I propose that icon view is enabled when opening a file from within a program.
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Solution #3: Integration with gloobus
Written by BadChoice the 23 Feb 09 at 07:57.
Integrate nautilus with gloobus-preview so in a file chooser panel you can preview in fullsize the file you're ready to choose
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Solution #5: add +/- to easy selection of files
Written by yzarc the 4 Mar 09 at 12:46.
add +/- to easy selection of files, as in KDE. you can select several files using only the mouse if you want.

for who don't know how it is in KDE. when you pass the mouse cursor over the icons inside the file-browser, it shows a + that can be pressed to select this file and, once selected, it's shown a - to "unselection".
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Solution #6: Making ubuntu distro nautilus more attractive to be in race......
Written by amitrane.swd the 24 Mar 09 at 08:26.

See the 8 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 15 May 12 at 07:09) >>

sticker notes (post it) applet shoudn't disapear  
Written by yzarc the 22 Mar 08 at 21:32. Global category: Others. New
A very useful applet lost its utility since something made it auto hide every time we click on a empty area. there's no sense in "remember that I should remember anything". The expected behaviour of one sticker note is stay where I put unless that I move(hide / remove) it.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #5443
Written by yzarc the 22 Mar 08 at 21:32.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #5443 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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VLC Needs Saveable Equalizer Presets  
Written by ThatBum the 12 Mar 10 at 05:35. Related project: VLC media player. New
VLC has equalizer presents, sure. But if you make a custom equalizer setting and exit the program, and start it again, the setting is lost. This is annoying to people who have speakers that needs a certain universal equalization to sound their best. I know there's system-wide equalizers out there that have savable presets, but I still would like to see this feature in VLC.
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Solution #1: Make Subset Menu in Preset Dropdown in Adjustments and Effects
Written by ThatBum the 12 Mar 10 at 05:35.
I was thinking a Winamp-style approach to it. Have a button to save a preset somewhere in the Audio Effects tab in Adjustments and Effects.This opens a text field for naming the preset. The newly minted present could be in something like Preset -> Saved Presets -> "Name Here".

Deleting presets would either require a separate preset manager of some sort, or a right click menu to delete what was selected in Preset -> Saved Preset. This, as I understand, would requiring a restructuring of the dropdown UI in VLC, because dropdowns regard a right click as the same input as a left clock.

I suppose to modify a preset, you just load one, do the modification, and save it under the same name, after a confirmation.
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Solution #2: gtk interface to VLC
Written by yzarc the 14 Mar 10 at 10:25.
support the development of a gtk interface to vlc.
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Solution #3: Add a safe button vor audio and video Adjustment.
Written by AdlerHorst the 5 Apr 10 at 19:03.
I don't know why but every time i waching videos I have to change the color settings.(thats why i only use vlc vor watching video)

See the 5 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 12 Apr 12 at 07:53) >>

Move the min, max, close buttons back to the right in 10.04   forum
Written by readmanr the 6 Mar 10 at 21:00. Related project: Gnome. Won't implement
In Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 Alpha3 we have a new default theme, however the Minimise, Maximise and Close buttons have been moved from the top right, to the top left.
(see the image at the bottom)

This was a poor choice for the following reasons...

- If clicking at the top menu (File , View, Help etc) the close buttons are VERY Close, accidents can happen.
- There used to be a tiny dot in the top left, which had in its menu, Min, Max, Move, Always on Top, and Close (So why move the Min, Max, Close buttons to the left?
- Migrating Windows and Mac users will be used to having them at the right, which is a huge usability jump)

Changes like this should be an optional choice, while it is possible to manually edit the theme, it should not be the default for an LTS release.

Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha3
src: http://blog.daviey.com/blogroll/anything-but-the-buttons.html

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Solution #1: Move the Min, Max, Close buttons back to the Right for the 10.04 Release.
Written by readmanr the 6 Mar 10 at 21:00.
Move the buttons back over to the top right for the final Ubuntu 10.04 release.
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Solution #3: Mirror for the left
Written by Akerbos the 6 Mar 10 at 21:38.
I think it is most intuitive if the buttons are ordered the same in relation to the window center ("To close, click the outermost button"), so

Right: min-max-close

relates to

Left: close-max-min
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Solution #4: Why not have them on both sides?
Written by jeffd1830 the 7 Mar 10 at 08:56.
I think having the buttons on both sides would also be a viable option. I understand that this would detract visually from the simplicity, but maybe if the buttons were subdued until the mouse hovers over the bar?

(I feel less than confident about this solution, but thought it needed mentioning.)
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Solution #5: let's user choose,
Written by Long Lazuli the 7 Mar 10 at 11:34.
In xubuntu, user cas can choose where are the button on the titlebar.
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Solution #6: Drag & Drop
Written by la_serpe the 7 Mar 10 at 16:29.
It can be movable so the user could change it intuitively
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Solution #7: By default have it in right,but include option in theme, customize, to drag&Drop
Written by Vlad_Alfredov the 8 Mar 10 at 11:13.
Well the title pretty much says it...Default is to have it on right, but to include an option in "Change Desktop Background" >> Theme >> Customize, to move the buttons to a user defined position.
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Solution #8: make the default alignment theme-dependent
Written by marvo the 10 Mar 10 at 10:28.
There are some themes that look better when the buttons are placed on the left side (like Ambiance, Radiance and Gorilla) and there are some themes that look better with the buttons being on the right side (like Glider, Human, Clearlooks or SphereCrystal).

So i propose to set the default alignment depending on the chosen theme and make it easily switchable.

The current way to change the alignment of the buttons back to the right by typing
gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout "menu:minimize,maximize,close"
is a bit tedious.
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Solution #9: Put Close button in the corner
Written by Lex the 10 Mar 10 at 11:04.
Put Close button in the corner - depending on chosen solution will be left or right corner or window.
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Solution #11: Put close on right, min/max on left
Written by euxneks the 11 Mar 10 at 01:31.
I think that Minimize and Maximize are more similar to the menu anyway, so put them on the left, and put the close button on the right, this harkens back to the days of old Unix and I think would still allow the theme to stand out.
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Solution #13: More Windows-like behaviour
Written by i386dx the 14 Mar 10 at 12:50.
Move the Min, Max and Close-buttons back to the right.

Be able to close a window by double-clicking the window-icon at the left. This is much faster than clicking the icon and selecting 'Close' in the menu.
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Solution #14: Keep default left Minimize, Maximise/Resize & Close Buttons
Written by MoebusNet the 15 Mar 10 at 01:04.
Rationale: In VirtualBox without Guest Additions, the right-hand side of the desktop and the lower part of the desktop are not visible until you scroll. Having the above-mentioned buttons on the top-left side of the window by default makes them accessible when (not if) Guest Additions do not work/are unavailable or when scrolling for whatever reason does not work. This is especially true for development versions.

I _am_ in favor of choice, so this should be fairly easy for a user to change (preferably by GUI) to right, left or both.

Just my opinion.
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Solution #16: Leave the buttons on the right until 10.10
Written by neblogas the 16 Mar 10 at 15:58.
Because Mark said that in 10.10 the windows will have something new in the right side, but now, there is no need to change the buttons, and this is LTS release! in 10.10 when you will finish the new mysteriuos window features on the right then you can put the buttons on the left. As I said, there is no need now to change. Its an LTS release and the people and companies won't change until the next LTS, so there won't be for them new mysteriuos windows features on the right!
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Solution #17: Place a checkbox in the Appearance menu: Left / Right
Written by TrueSongMedia the 16 Mar 10 at 17:16.
Yes the button location can be changed via Terminal, but for the average user...the Terminal can be a bit scary. I think it would be appropriate to place a simple option in the Appearance Preferences window.

Something like this:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/40647960/window_controls_position_gui.png
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Solution #18: Top Horizontial Bar moved the the Left or Right as Vertical Bar
Written by ichido the 17 Mar 10 at 17:53.
Move the Top Bar to the Right Side-Vertical Bar and the Bottom Bar would be on the Left Side Vertical.
This would allow for more Vertical Space.
The user would be able to Swap the Left Bar with the Right Bar and also the Size/Thickness of the Bars.
Applications could maintain the Top Bar or a Side or a Bottom bar for their Window.
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Solution #19: Replace the menubar with an icon
Written by Wiplash4 the 19 Mar 10 at 12:17.
Hello
I would like to add one idea: Replace the menubar (File, Edit, View, etc.), which can be found in every window, with an icon and put that icon into the titlebar. It worked out for my terminal.
Regards
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Solution #23: Merge Statusbar into titlebar
Written by Wiplash4 the 19 Mar 10 at 16:40.
I figured out that the status bar is only filled up to 1 / 4. Why not put those messages displayed in the status bar in the title bar?
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Solution #24: Modify all applications consistently
Written by a_pirard the 20 Mar 10 at 03:14.
Modify all applications to be consistent with Lucid : move all close buttons to the left, for example, OpenOffice document close, Firefox tab close, File Explorer side pane close, etc... etc...

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Solution #26: Instead of corner, make it POSSIBLE to place buttons in the MIDDLE.
Written by luojie-dune the 20 Mar 10 at 21:01.
Instead of corner, make it POSSIBLE to place buttons in the MIDDLE.

I knew there is no such a solution according to "ewmh".

But, I guess most people have their cursor in the middle of a window for most of the time they using it.
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Solution #27: For longer term, how about a window manager merge?
Written by LukeM33P the 25 Mar 10 at 01:13.
Compiz managers and decorators are already effective at options. Placing the Metacity and Kwin options in Emerald Decorator manager, which would be preinstalled, along with CCSM (or a custom replacement) would be the solution, with CCSM/replacement simplified to look like (in functionality and basic organization) the KDE settings manager, but using default schemes and such, of course.

For KDE users, alongside the CCSM/replacement, the interface would be integrated into the System Settings, just like the traditional settings.

The reason I propose this is because options, while not easy to find and configure (and why I propose the reorg) are very powerful. Setting up Metacity and KWin to show up as options and adding the appropriate settings, if necessary, seems to make sense (to me) as a long-term solution. The operating system needs to seem as encompassing as KDE or even more so, and combining these options so that the system is even more universal would be a step towards this.

An addition to the application of managing the system title bar like the KDE or GNOME dashboards would be similarly useful, and may be all of this potential solution that should be used. Default should stay in line with last-gen human theme, even if the colors and buttons look different.
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Solution #28: adopt the XFCE placement approach in Gnome appearence prefs
Written by 2cute4u the 25 Mar 10 at 03:37.
XFCE has for many years had a very easy convient way to configure the placment of titlebar buttons. See.http://www.xfce.org/documentation/4.2/manuals/xfwm4#wm-settings
It would not be too difficult to add somethng like this to gnome; that way everyone can be happy.
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Solution #29: Have the buttons on both sides AND hide them.
Written by MisterLinOx the 26 Mar 10 at 21:52.
Have the min, max, close buttons on both sides of the title bar, but hide them. The only time they should show is on mouseover of the bar, but depending on which side you mouseover decides which side the buttons show.

For example, cursor closer to the left side? Mouse over the top-left and the buttons will appear. Vice-versa for the right side.
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Solution #30: choice where in the Instalation
Written by emucosmos the 27 Mar 10 at 03:11.
make apear a messagebox in the begining of the instalation asking where do we want to have those buttons, coz personally I love the new mac style, but considering the ubuntu objectives, it's a good option to let the users choice.
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Solution #34: Let user chose on the First Run, after installation.
Written by darkham the 29 Mar 10 at 08:23.
Let user chose on the First Run, after installation.
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Solution #35: Press [middle-mouse-button] whilst the cursor is over the window border
Written by tomjb24 the 3 Apr 10 at 09:25.
Hover over the window border, click the middle mouse button, scroll to choose (close, minimise, maximise)
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Solution #36: Create Another Ubuntu. Call it "UbuntuRewind"
Written by rrnwexec the 3 Apr 10 at 20:26.
Create a version of Ubuntu for those who like the (standard) Ubuntu desktop's "look and feel" just the way it is. Solicit Mark's (SABDFL) endorsement.

Enjoy how growingly quaint it feels as time passes by!
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Solution #37: Make Mac Styled menu bar
Written by jase21 the 4 Apr 10 at 11:54.
Make Mac styled menu bar which is available in KDE. The current active windows menu appears on the bar. So no accidental closing of windows.

Or move the window control buttons to the right.
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Solution #38: Allow the option to be changed in installation slideshow and in minimal install
Written by Jon Monreal the 17 Apr 10 at 23:49.
Please note that this is not an idea for the imminent release of 10.04, but would be better included in the next update ISO.

Experienced users already know how to change the buttons back to the original location, so server installations shouldn't be so much of a problem.

For absolute beginner users, the first slide in the installation slideshow could be one explaining the benefits of having the buttons on the left side and asking the user to choose what they could like to do.

In the minimal install, it would also be easy to add a simple option (most users using the minimal install are probably fairly experienced).

This would solve the real issue here: beginners possibly not using Ubuntu at all because it changes something.
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Solution #39: found an easy fix
Written by land_grab the 5 May 10 at 23:23.
I found this extremely easy fix how to move the min, max, and close buttons back to the right side.


http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13535/move-window-buttons-back-to-the-right-in-u buntu-10.04/

Even I was able to follow these directions and make it happen!
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Solution #40: To the right by default, but an option to move them to the left.
Written by turbolad the 5 Jul 10 at 15:42.
As per title. Buttons to the right by default, with an option to move to the left.

Don't forget to keep the little circle, which when clicked on, has options such as "Always On Top", "Move to Workspace Right" etc. These options should never be removed and I think the 3 buttons should be on the right by default, as most newbies are familiar with that setup.
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Solution #41: Put min, max, close buttons in a completely new position
Written by baretobareto the 3 Aug 10 at 20:31.


Fisrt of all, sorry for my English.

Why we really needs buttons to the right? Well theres no real difference between having your buttons on the left or on the right, its just a matter of have the enough time to get used to one position or another.
But what about if we have these button in a complete new position.
What about having min, max, close buttons on the right BUT in the lower side of the windows instead of the upper side.

If you think about it, when you open a document or a web-page, you need to scroll down to really knows if that document is what you are looking for. When a document is too long, you need to use the scroll down arrow. So your mouse-arrow will be closer to the lower right of the window instead of the upper side of the window.
If you want to look to a minimize window that you think it would be not useful anymore, you need to un-minimize this window. If the buttons are in the lower right of the window it will be needed much less movement of your hand to close it after un-minimize because the close button will be closer to the task bar.

As you see there are some reason to have buttons in the lower side of the window BUT I know there are others to have this buttons on others positions.

So, why not to put this buttons in a completely new position.
This could be a ubuntu-only-feature just like the recycle bin in the task bar is a ubuntu-only-feature.

See the 118 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 29 Mar 12 at 20:59) >>

Ubuntu ( GNOME ) has not tool to organize Desktop  
Written by OpenNingia the 5 Mar 09 at 13:14. Related project: Compiz. New
Stardock has released a desktop organizer tool that I found very useful, I think that doing something similar as a Compiz plugin would improve your desktop funcionality

reference:
http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/
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Solution #1: Add a Fences like Compiz plugin
Written by OpenNingia the 5 Mar 09 at 13:14.
Stardock has released a desktop organizer tool that I found very useful, I think that doing something similar as a Compiz plugin would improve your desktop funcionality

reference:
http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/
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Solution #2: Add a Fences like Gdesklet/Screenlet widget
Written by twocool the 5 Mar 09 at 17:11.
I think that it's more logic to implement this functionality as a widget.
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Solution #3: do not permit superposition of icons
Written by yzarc the 21 Mar 09 at 07:07.
do not permit superposition of icons. in gnome you can even hide a icon behind another on desktop. that is wrong and help to make the mess.
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Solution #4: smart position desktop icons
Written by neziric the 11 Jan 10 at 12:25.
right now if you move a cd icon somewhere on the desktop, next time you pop in the cd, desktop icon is placed where you put it last time.
the same happens with remote machine connections (places > connect to server)

please add automatic sorting of desktop icons.

gnome should sort desktop icons in columns, starting from top left to bottom left and then move towards the right screen side.

this behavior should be default one.

See the 6 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 16 Dec 11 at 12:13) >>

For the new theme: Ignore the impossible mockup, use the Dust theme  
Written by belovedmonster the 23 Aug 08 at 18:05. Global category: Look and Feel. Won't implement
Everyone by now has seen the world famous mockups of what Ubuntu apparently should look like. The problem is that what is shown in those mockups is not yet possible with the current way gnome works.

I worry with everyone clambering for this mythical theme and with time running out before 8.10 ships, what will end up happening is Ubuntu will ship with the same old problematic brown and orange theme that is so hated by a lot of people.

There is a solution though...

The Dust theme
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/DustTheme

The Dust theme has gotten a lot of praises on Digg and is easily as sexy as anything I've personally seen for Linux (and I'm not usually a fan of dark themes), bust most promising of all... is actually possible with the current technology we have at our disposal.

It's time to be bold! Stop defaulting to the same brown and orange and make a big bold change. Embrace Dust.

Yes you will get a few idiots who will say it's too like Vista just because it's black, but ignore them people. The wider tech community will praise Ubuntu for finally ditching its dorky themes and becoming sophisticated and sexy. New users will be eager to try out this Ubuntu thing they have heard so much about.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #12479
Written by belovedmonster the 23 Aug 08 at 18:05.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #12479 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!
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Solution #2: offer this theme and others too
Written by yzarc the 11 Feb 09 at 07:53.
offer this theme with some (few) other candidates in the next version of ubuntu, then make a poll to decide which one comes as default in the later release. So the people can try them before an abrupt changing. the debug process will be also speeded up.

some of these themes are cool in the screenshots but have issues. e.g. on dust the popup menu icons of openoffice 3 are rendered in high contrast mode, the color scheme can not be proper customized.

See the 64 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 13 Dec 11 at 07:12) >>

Login screen color meshes badly with non-brown wallpaper  
Written by firexq the 17 Jan 09 at 06:51. Related project: Gnome. New
When users change their wallpaper to a non-brown one, the screen color while it loads during login remains tan; this can look really, really bad. One logs in; a tan color displays; then a violent blue picture replaces it.

The availing solution is manually changing the default login-background (not the normal background) at /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default. If the user does not know where this is or how to edit it, the visual flaw remains.
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Solution #1: Automatically assess wallpaper, change default
Written by firexq the 17 Jan 09 at 06:51.
When the user imports a new wallpaper to Appearance Preferences, Ubuntu should quickly analyse it average color. When the user chooses the wallpaper and later logs in, that color should display while the wallpaper is loading.
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Solution #2: Fade into the desktop gradually
Written by loonyphoenix the 17 Jan 09 at 14:25.
Make a smooth transaction from login page directly to background, without any intermediate same-colour background.
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Solution #3: Preserve GDM wallpaper until Nautilus sets its own
Written by nightjarrr the 17 Jan 09 at 22:51.
I've found this wonderful solution in Launchpad. A small fix makes the GDM theme wallpaper remain visible until Nautilus takes over the desktop and displays its wallpaper. No intermediate color changes! Just one-moment change from one wallpaper to the other.

Kudos go to the author, Kristoffer Grönlund (https://launchpad.net/~kegie)

The fix proposal:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/278017

The fix is really simple. Two notes on it:
1. The gdm script is /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default on my system
2. GDM themes are located in /usr/share/gdm/themes.
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Solution #4: Fade out - Fade in
Written by ouipique the 19 Jan 09 at 13:36.
Make a smooth fade out from gdm to black, then a fade in from black to desktop
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Solution #5: Background changes to selected (blurred) user's background...
Written by Tom Mann the 19 Jan 09 at 16:19.
As a sexiness thing, I think when you enter your username and get to the password bit, the background should become a blurred version of the user's wallpaper (like looking through frosted glass). When the password is entered and log in occurs it should 'unfrost'. That would be tasty.
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Solution #6: Set the login screen color to black
Written by t4ggs the 3 Feb 09 at 23:36.
It may sound very simple, but it really works, i did it and i'm amazed of how good i resolve the problem...try it
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Solution #7: load the user's wallpaper (optionally)
Written by yzarc the 7 Feb 09 at 23:21.
after the user login was typed or select by face selector, fade-in the wallpaper of this user onto the background of the GDM while he type his password. make it as optionally for each user due privacy issues.

See the 5 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 13 Dec 11 at 07:12) >>

GIMP is out from Lucid Lynx.  
Written by hellmet the 20 Nov 09 at 18:49. Related project: GIMP Image Editor. Won't implement
GIMP is being taken off the default install due to "CD space" problems. However, it should remain easily accessible/installable.
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Solution #1: Replace GIMP in the menu, with icon to install.
Written by hellmet the 20 Nov 09 at 18:49.
Remove GIMP from the default install, but, replace the menu item with an item that will display information about GIMP and then ask if the user wants to go ahead and (fetch &) install it from the repos.

This way, GIMP is still visible, yet not on the CD, and is easily installable.
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Solution #2: not remove gimp
Written by Wilmer Toledo the 20 Nov 09 at 19:21.
easy, do not remove gimp from live CD, some users, like me, can't connect to Internet so easily
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Solution #3: Remove the help files
Written by Glennz the 20 Nov 09 at 20:46.
Removing the help files from gimp will already make the cd smaller.
I have heard from various people it would make the cd about 20 mb smaller just by removing gimp help files.
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Solution #4: Remove GIMP and let users install it as needed
Written by pwnedd the 21 Nov 09 at 10:41.
It's a great application and I use it a lot, but it's not for everyone. A simple photo-editor with things like rescaling and "remove red-eye" is probably enough for many people. Also, it's not too difficult to install GIMP once your system in installed :)
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Solution #5: give a simple paint app
Written by yzarc the 21 Nov 09 at 14:37.
Very often I just wanna draw an arrow over a map and write "the party is here!". Or just crop a picture.

And it's a pain to do it in gimp. It's like operate war tank to kill an ant. Please give us a simple image editor, no layers, no vectors, no Filters, etc. Try to remember the first time you opened the gimp. What do I do with all these windows and tools?



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Solution #6: Add an applications section to the installer
Written by tehalynn the 21 Nov 09 at 23:31.
When someone installs Ubuntu, they are shown an applications page with the following options:


1. Install all default applications. Some will need to be downloaded.
2. Install only default applications that do not need to be downloaded.
3. Select which applications to install.


Option 1 will install applications that are not on the CD, such as GIMP, by downloading and installing them when an internet connection is made.

Option 2 will install only applications on the CD. It should tell the user how to get them later if they change their mind.

Option 3 shows a page listing applications that will be installed. The user can exclude applications they do not want, and include ones they do. Here's a mockup of the general idea:



Only major applications need to be mentioned here. This is not a replacement for Ubuntu Software Center/Synaptic.
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Solution #7: Remove less useful stuff.
Written by Uncle TK the 22 Nov 09 at 12:11.
As for me GIMP is much more useful for common user than f.e. Bluez or Transmission and many other stuff. Maybe it's a good idea to reserve GIMP instead of them?
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Solution #8: first run
Written by nloewen the 23 Nov 09 at 05:02.
At the first boot of the system after install, a dialog box could pop up asking if the user would like some help setting up there system. It could go through users and what not as well as ask what the user would like to use there computer for. if they select something like photo editing or replacement for photo-shop, the program would select GIMP for install with a button to let them select a different program from the repository.
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Solution #9: Move from CD to DVD (USB) release
Written by Bobik-s the 23 Nov 09 at 11:36.
Lucid Lynx will be ready at 2010. Who cares about ancient CDs? Ubuntu distro should be DVD- or USB-based. Even if you remove GIMP the problem of 700Mb capacity is still unresolved.
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Solution #10: Offer Multiple ISO downloads
Written by fix98-win the 24 Nov 09 at 09:58.
CD-Rs come in packs more often than not.

Offer for download in ISO format a two disc system with just Ubuntu on the first disc and extra applications on the second disc. This would possibly be in addition to the standard one disc system.

This way, users can save both discs for when they need to reinstall software that came with the system, but are offline.

Besides, using two discs frees up space for more software to be included with ubuntu by default.

ps: Don't forget to give users a choice of which applications to install from the second disc.
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Solution #11: Use better compression algorithm for packages
Written by 10110111 the 25 Nov 09 at 13:53.
There should exist some better compression algorithms. Just use some of them instead of the one which is used now for packages.
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Solution #12: Atleast include it in the dvd
Written by shinjan the 25 Nov 09 at 14:33.
Gimp is a very useful package...it's not at all worth removal due to space problems. If not in the cd atleast include in the dvd version of ubuntu..
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Solution #13: OpenOffice
Written by argento the 25 Nov 09 at 15:43.
Just use OpenOffice Draw to do simple painting
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Solution #14: Remove every internet related application.
Written by Vladimir Hidalgo the 26 Nov 09 at 01:46.
This is a mix of previous solutions, but what I propose is to remove basically everything on "Internet" menu but Firefox.

Why?, because people that need those internet related apps do *have* internet to use them, therefore they can download & install them in an easy one-click install process like described in #1.

That is, to remove by default:

-Transmission
-Pidgin/Empathy/Ekiga
-Terminal Server Client
-Evolution
-Ubuntu One

I mean, common, those are needed only if you have Internet, so they can be pulled & installed on first use.

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Solution #15: Software Center should have a "recommended Software" section
Written by Umang the 26 Nov 09 at 12:59.
The software center should have a "Recommended Software" section where programs such as Thunderbird and GIMP are offered for downloading.

New users are flooded with too many packages to actually get a taste of the best FOSS can provide them. This section should be some sort of an exclusive section and only stable and very popular software should be included.
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Solution #17: Even windows comes with paint...
Written by vexorian the 26 Nov 09 at 14:30.
How am I going to do anything with the live CD when I need graphics? No, I don't want to tweak a photo...

At least include tuxpaint or something like that for god's sake.

I guess I would just have to switch to a distro with a functional live CD instead...
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Solution #18: Include KolourPaint instead of GIMP
Written by 8bit the 27 Nov 09 at 07:34.
The thing missing from Ubuntu is a simple, MS Paint-like program. These are nice in that they are easy to learn, run smoothly on low end system, lack clutter, have small install footprints, and open up seemingly instantly. KolourPaint is all of these:


Pros:

-The design is good. It doesn't feel cramped, it feels uniform and inviting, and most of the button icons are self-explainable. It basically looks like a prettier, shinier pre-Windows 7 MS Paint.
-It functions almost identically to MS Paint. A casual Windows user likely wouldn't be able to notice the difference, and the time it would take to transition would be minimal
-Start up time is fast
-All features that are in KolourPaint and not in MS Paint are pretty useful, and in no way get in the way of the MS Paint-like features.
-The undo history is huge. Where as MS Paint only allows 2 undos, I've gone back hundreds of actions and still haven't hit a wall
-Anything that's been changed from MS Paint has been changed for the better. Zoom is more powerful, the eraser has more brush sizes, the shape tools let you choose line thickness from within their tool box, and don't require you to switch to the line tool to choose line thickness.
-It's pretty stable. I had a weird hangup when using the zoom tool once, but I haven't been able to reproduce it since, and gPaint, on the other hand, crashes whenever I click on the 'fill' tool.
-As I mentioned, there are a couple of original tools- The connected lines tool, the color eraser tool, the freeform selection tool, but the most interesting addition is the Color Similarity tool which allows a user to set selection threshold for the fill tool. (and other tools, presumably) What this means is that you can have two, very similar colors, set this setting to something high, and then use the fill tool on one, and it will fill two. This is very useful, and is somewhat analogous to the magic wand tool/color select.
-Supports saving in a multitude of files.
-Supports editing in a multitude of files. (including XCF)
-Sort of has support for transparency (THIS IS AWESOME!)
-Only just over 2MB in size, as compared to GIMP's 14MB
-Everything is in one window. I quite like this.
-Free and open source. Uses the BSD license.
-It's being actively developed.

Cons:

-No layering support
-Very limited transparency support. While transparency itself is supported, translucency isn't, so you can't have an image with parts that are sort of transparent. It's either completely transparency, or completely opaque.
-No transparency for the tools. This seems obvious considering the above. You can't set transparency levels for, say, the paintbrush, for example.
-There's an uneven number of tools, meaning that there is a space where an icon could go which is empty. (Not a big deal at all.)
-The 'fill' tool isn't a paint bucket, so it may be confusing for a half a second, but the icon makes sense, and is more elegant than a paint bucket.
-The color picker icon looks like a safety pin to me, which was confusing at first.
-When you pull on the edge of the canvas to enlarge it, it doesn't resize in real time. Instead, it shows you a selection box sort of thing. (MS Paint does this in real time.) This is incredibly knit-picky. 99% of people wouldn't even notice this, I don't really care, some might even prefer it.
-Does not support saving in XCF format.
-It ate up my processor once, forcing me to restart my whole system, once. I've tried pretty hard, though, and I haven't been able to show the issue again. It's entirely possible it was another piece of software I was running. Other than that, it runs completely smooth.
-On a live CD 2MB can still be substantial, but it's definitely an improvement over 14.
-The color swatches bar takes up a little bit too much vertical space in my opinion. Why can't the color profile be on the right side, rather than above? There's all that extra horizontal space, afterall.

In conclusion, the cons are either extremely knit-picky, or exist in similar programs, such as gPaint and MS Paint, anyway. KolourPaint seems perfect for the live CD as a lightweight, Paint-like program. I highly recommend it.

GIMP, on the other hand, is just too large for Live CDs, too unweildly for casual users, and really easy to get for anyone who actually needs it.
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Solution #19: Ubuntu App Collections
Written by 8bit the 27 Nov 09 at 07:41.
Mozilla has a section of their Firefox add-ons site dedicated to Add-on Collections. These are collections of add-ons handpicked by developers for different uses, (Web developer, family, etc..) which can be downloaded and installed with a single click. Implement a similar section for full applications in the AppCenter. Have one for artists, one for web developers, one for gamers, etc...
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Solution #20: Solution #10 Revised.
Written by fix98-win the 29 Nov 09 at 09:39.
I think it might have been the double ISO thing that ruined it. Lemme try again.

Offer Ubuntu for download one one disk. This will save download time, and installation time.

Forget the second disk. I was trying to imply the second disk would be optional, or even nonexistent.

Why would anybody want to backup their software anyway? (sarcasm)
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Solution #21: Give a high-compressed archive and application
Written by Kwpolska the 29 Nov 09 at 13:37.
Add, like solution 1, small installer, like Firefox on Kubuntu 9.10, but he will decompress highly compressed archive (it can be archive in archive model) and make installer decompress DEB's in it and install it.
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Solution #22: Like Solution #19, but have it where any user can suggest applications
Written by aubre the 30 Nov 09 at 18:12.
Allow users to submit lists of applications that they like to have on their machines, have them assigned a "collection name" and then give users the option of either browsing the lists or searching for the list name (perhaps they already know the list they want to install).

An example is perhaps an academic lab manager has certain applications they install on each machine. They make a list, submit it to Ubuntu, and then as they install new machines they can simply input the name and all the packages they need will be pre-selected for them. Even better, an academic lab manager on the other side of the world can browse the list, find this pre-built list, and either use it unchanged or adapt it as a starting point of their own list.

There are text/CLI ways to do these things but it would be nice if it could be incorporated into the graphical install interface.
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Solution #23: Give OpenOffice-Draw an icon
Written by snadrus the 1 Dec 09 at 21:50.
It's already installed. It's a vector graphics program which usually better fits the "just sketch something" mindset since things you drew are layered instead of lost. Lets just see an icon for it.

Try it out from the command line: ooffice -draw
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Solution #24: Remove something other
Written by Softwayer the 2 Dec 09 at 13:45.
GIMP is a very useful program, and Ubuntu contains lots of less useful software. I think a very little number of people use Ekiga, Terminal Server client and remote desktop application. It is better to remove them and don't remove GIMP.
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Solution #25: Install Wine, the MS .net framework and use paint.net under Wine
Written by Pierre Chef the 3 Dec 09 at 16:04.
If only we could add a java layer!
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Solution #26: Gimp Light (a easy and not so messy Version of Gimp)
Written by account the 5 Dec 09 at 13:54.
The newest Gimp is a single-window-Application. The source is open. So I propose to take that source, delete all what is not really necessary and create by this way a simpler Version of Gimp. I call it Gimp-Light and I think it's a great idea. So peoples can accustoms the feel of Gimp, but without the messy feel of the normal Version of Gimp. If they needs more, they can install the regular Gimp. The Gimp-Light shouldn't have many functions - only basic ones for painting etc. This will reduce the weight of this application and can be shipped also in the CD-Version of Ubuntu without problems. A paint-application can stay also in the whole amount of the packages! What you think about my idea!?
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Solution #27: Ubuntu paint
Written by Glennz the 6 Dec 09 at 18:38.
Let Canonical develop an easy but usefull simple paint app.
Like gnome paint.
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Solution #28: Remove extra stuffs or compress less used with paq
Written by DrG the 7 Dec 09 at 08:36.
Remove some of the

Games totalling > 3.0 MB
Backgrounds 9.5 MB ( replace high detailed ones with less detailed ( ie. more compressible to the sqashfs ) ,but eye candy ones.
Themes 1.4 MB - ( remove some ugly ones )
Sounds 3.1 MB - these can be replaced by symbolic format sound ( which takes very little space )
Screen Savers

And such similar items
( choose only a few of these items by voting )
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compress the less used one with paq8px
Example - in karmic , when Shoes.jpg was compressed with paq806 -6 the size was reduced to 802.3 kb from 1016 kb.
( lzma , which is used in the Karmic CD squashfs is not able to reduce the size )

For more informations on compression
http://www.maximumcompression.com/data/summary_sf.php
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To make space for GIMP or GIMPShop
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Solution #29: Make a highly compressed disk image.
Written by Faldegast the 7 Dec 09 at 10:02.
Rather then having a lot of .deb packages, the install CD should have a disk image that is just decompressed to the selected partition.

It should be possible to do a lot more compression on a disk image then on deb packages.

Also this should make install much faster.
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Solution #30: Make 'Ubuntu Studio' service
Written by DrG the 7 Dec 09 at 10:54.
A 'Ubuntu Studio' service - like openSuse Studio ( http://susestudio.com/ ).

Which allow users to customize their distro from top to bottom.
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Solution #31: Do not remove Gimp from LIVECD experience
Written by robang74 the 11 Dec 09 at 00:28.
Removing gimp means it would be not available in live-cd experience. I think people who want to try Ubuntu before installing it would appreciate an image editor like gimp.
Remove some help package instead which usually people download in their own language.
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Solution #32: Develop www.phofiltre-lx.org an include in in Lucid Lynx
Written by walo the 12 Dec 09 at 16:56.
¿Haven't you used photofiltre fow windows?

This is one of the best free and useful image tools i have ever used.
Photo filtre LX (http://www.photofiltre-lx.org/) was created to have this simple but really useful aplication under GNU/Linux. I think this develop needs to be released as soon as posible in order to replace GIMP or to have other SIMPLE image manipulation program.

It's going to ve developed using C++ and imagemagic library
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Solution #33: Recover some space by dropping Mono
Written by KiloByte the 12 Dec 09 at 18:51.
Gimp is one of more important programs, certainly more important than junk like Tomboy Notes, which takes >50MB -- _and_ there's a port of Tomboy to C++ called gnote. Replace it with that port, and there goes non-free Mono. The space savings would let us have Gimp and a bunch of other stuff.
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Solution #34: An additional CD to install GIMP, Inkspace and another applications
Written by tiagoscd the 16 Dec 09 at 10:41.
The additional CD with various popular applications.

This CD can be added as a repository and have an "special" option on Software Center.
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Solution #35: Use a more efficient compression algorithm
Written by dant1612 the 18 Dec 09 at 02:50.
use the xz utils package to compress the files instead, the author claims that it produces archives up to 30% smaller than gzip (although decompression speed would probably be sacrificed)

http://tukaani.org/xz/

(Its still in beta, but I've noticed quite a few GNU programs have started providing source packages in the .xz format)
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Solution #36: Use a lighter solution for simple things
Written by premamotion the 5 Jan 10 at 22:01.
Use a GIMP lighter solution/version for simple things (like crop, rotate..), and the user that need more options can install the full version of GIMP.
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Solution #37: Let the user compose their own CD from selectable components
Written by 10110111 the 7 Mar 10 at 13:08.
Make a program which would let the user select the needed packages (or use defaults like official Ubuntu compilation, Kubuntu, etc.), which then would be fetched from the repos and packed into a bootable CD/DVD image.
And leave the official CD as its maintainers want (including removal of some packages like GIMP).

Edit: hmm... it's sorta dup of #30...

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don't active wobbly plugin by default  
Written by yzarc the 12 Oct 08 at 20:07. Related project: Compiz. Implemented
I think wobbly is a plugin that can disturb who doesn't like it. it's too noticeable to be activated by default. tired eyes can get "injured" by the changes of resolution and distortion that take place and we are moving a window.
I agree that it's an applet that calls attention from potentially linux users, but it's unlike fades that make the use of the computer more smooth, it distracts you when you just want to move windows making you lose your focus.
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Selected solution (#1): Auto-generated solution of idea #14338
Written by yzarc the 12 Oct 08 at 20:07.
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