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Backlight fade  
Written by jonnyboysmithy the 21 Mar 12 at 10:52. New
When the screen turns off it doesn't use a smooth transition in brightness.
Ubuntu would feel more polished if the solution is implemented.
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Solution #1: Fade screen brightness when screen turns off.
Written by jonnyboysmithy the 21 Mar 12 at 10:52.
The screen should turn off with a smooth transition from the current brightness to completely off. And vice versa when coming back on.

This shouldn't be to complicated to implement, since setting the brightness can be done easily from the terminal.
This script would have to be called every time the screen turns on and off.



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Specific dialogue for selecting icons  
Written by bilufe the 20 Dec 11 at 01:19. New
Currently, trying to change the icon of an application leads to an Ubuntu file selection screen, where you must navigate to the folder / usr / share / pixmaps or / usr / share / icons to choose the appropriate icon. This is not at all intuitive.
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Solution #1: Create a selection dialog custom icons
Written by bilufe the 20 Dec 11 at 01:19.
As already happens in KDE and XFCE, where there is a dialogue specific to the selection of icons, facilitating the selection and still allowing the file system navigation, my idea is that the Gnome dialog should have a selection of icons that follows the same idea of KDE and Xfce.
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Solution #2: detect and use
Written by deltrem the 20 Jan 12 at 20:48.
When I open the application, what icon appears in the unity launcher for the application?

First time I double-click the app shortcut, the app icon is detected and used as the app shortcut icon.

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Date/Time Indicator's Calendar relies on desktop email clients  
Written by gruntzen the 22 Mar 12 at 13:49. New
Currently, for the date/time indicator's calendar to be of any use at all, it needs an email client installed, which many people do not need or want.

I find it bothersome and clumsy to need to navigate a browser to Google Calendar when there's an indicator that should serve the same purpose.
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Solution #1: A lightweight, simple calendar accessible from the date/time indicator.
Written by gruntzen the 22 Mar 12 at 13:49.
A lightweight, simple calendar application for GNOME with integration to the indicator and NotifyOSD seems like the sort of small detail that would add a lot of polish to Ubuntu. Something like the elementary project's "Maya" (could it be adopted and used in Ubuntu?), or iCal on OSX.

Preferably, the calendar would sync to Google Calendar and iCloud (and various other calendar services).
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Solution #2: Make a generic Calendar API like the sound and messaging menu
Written by MsG the 28 Mar 12 at 20:54.
Make a generic calendar API in Ubuntu and a seperate application which can talk to services like Google Agenda, this application then can hook into the API. The API can also be used by desktop email applications for people who DO use a desktop email or calendar client. This will suit both.
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Solution #3: Integration with calendar web services
Written by RobinJ1995 the 9 Apr 12 at 08:06.
Provide integration with services like Remember The Milk and Google Calendar.

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Make managing downloaded files easier and more intuitive  
Written by lampak the 4 Jan 12 at 14:00. New
Say you've downloaded some file from the web using your internet browser.

Current situation: the file is accessible from your the level of your browser. This typically allows you only to open the file. But if you want to place it in a folder, you must open Downloads folder in Nautilus, which, in case of many users, displays also a lot of older files you'd downloaded years ago and forgotten what they actually were. The file you're looking for is hidden somewhere, often has a human-unreadable name you didn't pay much attention to where you were downloading it and moving it from there is more tedious than it should be.

Downloading files is so common an action it wouldn't be a bad idea for the operating system to support it in some way.
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Solution #1: Widget, accessible from the top bar, containing recently downloaded files
Written by lampak the 4 Jan 12 at 14:00.
Once a file is downloaded, an icon should appear on the top bar. Once you click it, it should display a list of recently downloaded files. The file could be clicked to open it or - more importantly - dragged to a Nautilus window to place the file in the opened folder. If it's an archive, there should be an "extract" button, which would extract it and replace its item on the list with its content.
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Solution #2: Firefox should default to 'ask where to save files'
Written by rhaley the 20 Jan 12 at 19:14.
This is currently an option, but the default is to save things to ~/Downloads without asking. As, unlike Windows, we don't use exectable binary installers for most things, throwing all downloaded files into ~/Downloads is rarely desirable.

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Current dialog is hard for use  
Written by avi9526 the 12 May 12 at 05:55. New
When You try open some files in some program - You get "Open file" dialog with list of files. But there is no options like "Icons size", "View mode":
1) It's not customizable, and thus - hard for use.
2) It's not unity-way - Your "Open file" is different from Your file-manager.
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Solution #1: Use expirience of others DE
Written by avi9526 the 12 May 12 at 05:55.
If You look to Windows or KDE "open file" dialog - You can see, that this dialog and it's options is similar to file-manager. So, I want something like that for GNONE (and Unity of course)

But, ubuntu can have different file-managers.
So my main idea:
Make "open file" dialog based on the embedded file-manager. So, when You hit "open file" button in some program - You get Your favorite file-manager that has buttons "Open", "Cancel", etc.
File-manager must support this feature. If he doesn't - system will use "fallback open file dialog" (that we have now).

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More detailed network activity in System Monitor  
Written by kanaan the 5 May 12 at 07:39. New
when you open system monitor -> resources , if you have several connections then you will see sum of your sending/reciving in network history.i mean for example connection 1 + vpn or sum of two graphs.
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Solution #1: individual
Written by kanaan the 5 May 12 at 07:39.
so system monitor can show you a sum but i think it's better to show it like cpu history for multicores.

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