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(KDE4 has much more features than Gnome, it is faster and looks better (my oppinion). Also it uses the powerful Qt4 as widgetset that is better than GTK+ at time. Gnome is going to leave behind KDE)
[edit] I dont't say that any DE is better, but Gnome needs help and Ubuntu primary uses Gnome. KDE4 is a great DE without help from the Ubuntu developers. [/edit]
[Sorry for my English]

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I don´t say to make it default, no, that would probably slow things too much, just add that option, so we can turn it on...

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Make so that when you select "Cut" on a file, the icon becomes dimmed.
Because right now, there are no visual indication, so you don't know it worked.
In Windows there is a visual notification by the icon becoming dimmed.
In Ubuntu there is no visual notification, the icon does not become dimmed. This is confusing.

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]]> Mon, 06-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/4981/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/223/
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]]> Mon, 06-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/3956/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/2718/
It would be really helpful if a sticker on the outside of the box of a scanner/printer/usb-dvb-tuner/mp3(ogg)-player/digicam/... simply said "works with ubuntu" or "designed for GNU/Linux" to guarantee that the product runs "out of the box" with Ubuntu or other Linux distributions.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkomen/155060941/
http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/88743/next/

Edit (2008-03-04): This project seems to be on the road already: http://www.ubuntu.com/partners/hardwareprogramme


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It would also be nice to have an option in the rightclick menu to "unshare"

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When the user right clicks on an archive file like zip,rar,7z,etc, the options provided are :

1) Open with archive manager
2) Extract here

It would be nice to have the following menu option:
extract to

(b)

When opening an archive, file roller seems to read the entire archive in one go(or file roller is very slow in reading list of files in an archive). So, if the archive is really big, the user doesn't get to see the list of files & dir in it unless the entire archive hierarchy is fetched. I think WinRAR shows the list of stuff at the top level in the archive & reads the remaining archive hierarchy in background & the list shown in the UI is updated incrementally .

(c)

The File roller UI for creating archives by right clicking on folders is too simple and needs some more options like:

1) Delete files after archiving
2) options for selecting compression level
3) options for splitting archive across multiple files
4) password protection

Again Win RAR has a good UI for this

(d) There could be a context menu option for adding selected file(s)/folders(s) to an existing archive. Something like 'Add to archive'

(e) There could be one click archive creation shortcuts in the context menu. For e.g clicking on the folder with name 'backup' gives you options like 'Create backup.rar / backup.7z, backup.tar, backup.tar.gz, backup.tar.bz2,etc'.
File-roller could then have a UI to change the default compression parameters for each of these shortcuts.


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2) Tabbed browsing instead of opening multiple windows

3) responsiveness, nautilus needs to render much faster that it currently does. Since the file explorer is one of the most frequently used app, ppl get easy frustrated when it doesn't work as expected.

4) There should be an option to apply a view setting (icons,details,etc) system wide( for all folders in the system) , that is, not remembering view setting for each folder and using a global view setting.

5) Dragging an entity should make it transparent. If not done, this tends to cover up the entity on which you are dropping it on. If transparency is not achievable due to some limitation in X server, show only the outline while dragging.

6) The shorcuts in the left pane, when right clicked should have context menu similar to that of a normal folder.

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]]> Mon, 06-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/3521/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/164/ The developers aren't decided to code webcam support, but having this in Pidgin is very needed.

Or why not code this plugin for emesene? But you can only use the MSN protocol at the moment!

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Nautilus is Ubuntu's default file management software. There is no reason why you should need to open countless Nautilus windows to manage your files. It is time to bring tabs from your web browser to your file browser.

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]]> Mon, 06-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/90/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/42/ A default WinXP installation beats Ubuntu's boot up time by far!! That shouldn't be allowed fellas!!

I therefore propose to the development team (both Ubuntu and by extension Gnome)to work on the improvement of boot up times in Ubuntu systems.

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]]> Mon, 06-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/42/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/80/
- Merge 'Screensaver', 'Screen Resolution' and 'Screens and Graphics'.
- Merge 'Network', 'Network Proxy' and 'Network Tools'.
- Merge 'Update Manager, Synaptic Package Manager, Software Sources'.
- Merge 'Encryption and Keyrings', 'Authorizations', 'Keyring Manager'.


Below are all settings I can visit via the System menu. This is just way too much.


-- Preferences --
Universal Access
About Me
Appearance
Bluetooth
Default Printer
Encryption and Keyrings
Keyboard
Keyboard Shortcuts
Main Menu
Mouse
Network Proxy
PalmOS Devices (I don't have one)
Power Management
Preferred Applications
Remote Desktop
Removable Drives and Media
SCIM Input Method Setup (What is this?)
Screen Resolution
Screensaver
Search and Index (Why can't I disable the tracker here?)
Sessions
Sound
System Settings
Windows

-- Administration --
Authorizations (for what?)
Hardware Drivers
Keyring Manager (for what?)
Language Support
Login Window
Network
Network Tools
Printing
Screens and Graphics
Services
Shared Folders
Software Sources
Synaptic Package Manager (imagine a new user: wtf is Synaptic?)
System Log
System Monitor
Time and Date
Update Manager
Users and Groups

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Ubuntuforums.org thread #736475
]]> Mon, 06-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/80/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/16/
It would be great to provide Ubuntu as a liveUSB just as Mandriva does. We should be able to carry our distribution on any computer, manage our preferred settings (do I want binary drivers enabled ? what is my preferred resolution ?), etc.

The thing is not to make something transportable, but really a nomad system that could be used just the best way as it could on any computer.

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No attachments. ]]> Mon, 06-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/6/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/1/ Ideally, the user should be able to run a graphic software which would ask what the user wants to backup and where (tape/usb key/remote).
Then the same tool would be able to restore the backup.

It would be useful for both backups and migration from a computer to another.

Update : See duplicates ideas which contain even more great ideas about that idea.

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