Actual Human theme is incomplete, some applications use a icon with large size.
Not only new applications like Gnome-do
"Search-gnometool" of gnome use a large icon, nut it isn't so sometimes use a little icon, or other use a default theme of gnome.

I think it would be pretty nice to be able to monitor temperature this way, especially for those with laptops.

Android is an open source (100% apache 2.0/GPL now) linux-based mobile phone platform developed by Google. It uses a java-like bytestream language to be CPU-independent, secure, fast (applications need to run well on 300mhz phone CPU's and RAM-friendly. Unlike the iphone platform, developers still maintain a high level of flexibility. Even slow computers would be able to run Android apps well.

We should allow gnome to open android programs as if they are native applications. Since android uses a native linux backend anyway, getting GPS and other such devices to work seamlessly with android apps should be easy.

This would be especially good portable ubuntu devices, because they often benefit from the same apps as mobile phones. And, we would gain a vast array of secure web enabled applications that are easy to use, innovative, and pretty, with the added benefit of being cross platform compatible with the latest mobile phone apps. Integration would probably not require consuming ram when you aren't using any android apps. But this would be a big win for us.

Some Android applications laptop users may benefit off:
Cooking Capsules
Picsay
Splash Play
Cab4me

By integrating GPS into Ubuntu laptops, the vast array of Android location-aware applications would instantly give us an upper hand in usability. The code is already pretty much done, we just need to integrate it! So lets do it for 9.04.

My idea is pretty much self-explanatory. I would like to add an alarm-function to the clock applet for the Gnome-panel. I, and a lot of other people, keep their computers on 24/7. In order to use it as an alarm clock you'd either have to use a web app or install some separate package. I really think that a lot of people would like to see such a simple function integrated into the clock applet.

Well, i think some of you may have some headache on loosing time about the our so beloved '~/Desktop' folder - the problem were some very creative coders started to translate the 'Desktop' into each language 'Desktop' translations.

Well, i confess, even being portuguese, i installed the english localization for avoiding such problems - and i think i were right on choosing english.

When i were explain to a friend of how copying or moving files to the Desktop from the Terminal, nothing appeared there - just guess why....

I even got more scared when i saw, for example, the Desktop folder in castillian spanish has accents and spaces - i got completelly shocked...

My suggestion is the Desktop folder being always named Desktop, and if some people likes folders with translated names with accents and spaces, please make a filesystem link of them...

I neither tried about how does localization works with menu key combinations, like ctrl+a, ctrl+s, ctrl+q, etc. - I remember for example, the ms-windows localized versions about menu key combinations are completelly messy.

rhythmbox adds a tray icon. this should be optional.

lets not go where windows is, where every app installs a tray icon whether needed or not.

It'd be great to be able to login as "Bill" on Workspace 1, and "Jane" on Workspace 2.

The user-switcher applet should just apply to the current workspace, and it would ideally be much quicker to switch, without having to load up a new GDM screen -- just pop up a password box.

In GNOME 2.24, it's not possible to drag the default icons on the panel (firefox,evolution,help browser) to the desktop. Please make this possible.

edit: actually this is a bug, please close this.

After finally having a proper Linux set up with most issues out the way, I feel I and others would greatly benefit from a tool that shows diagnostics of the system and configuration and offers advice or links to other areas of the control panel which the user may not have thought of going to before.

The tool could:

- serve as a check list for things that are yet to be done or should be done, e.g. enabling any restricted drivers, restarting to enable certain software/settings, ...

- advise the user of conflicts, redundant files and packages, improper configurations etc.

- analyse hardware and recommend packages to make full use of the hardware

- analyse hardware and identify unsuitable hardware combinations, known issues with hardware (especially some NVIDIA graphics cards), etc.

- be an interface to documentation and support methods and resources, e.g. trouble shooting guides, wikis, forums, IRC, ...

Note: I didn't know what to put for "this idea is related to" and put Gnome in there. The idea is meant to be for all desktop environments.

When tweaking your Gnome setup apperance-wise you're easily thrown into a world of endless hours on Google. First step is finding out what exactly does the file .gtkrc-2.0 do.
Some of the basic editing would be easy to set up in a GUI, and could be integrated into System > Preferences > Look as a tab there.

See this as an example of hundreds of guides: http://anotherugly.wordpress.com/howto-tweak-gnome-to-look-good/