Better way to set monitor resolution and refresh rate. Majority of the new monitors are LCD type. User should be able to specify the native resolution and refresh rate during install.

Then Ubuntu/X must do WHATEVER it takes to stick to that resolution and refresh rate.

In case of multi-monitor setups, must be able to specify the configuration at time of installation.

Also, the login GUI must use same resolution as X. Why different resolutions?

Rant:
I have nVidia NVS440 card with Viewsonic VP2290b monitor. Video card must be set to 1920x1200 @13Hz or @41Hz refresh rate for each of it's four outputs. Desktop must be arranged in 2x2 matrix. Then monitor displays 3840x2400 @13Hz or @41Hz.

This worked very well in Ubuntu 6.06. Installed Ubuntu 7.04 and ended up with something like 800x480, even with nVidia binary drivers. Tweaked xorg.conf for weeks to get this to work. BulletProofX kept messing with my hand crafted xorg.conf file; which did work with 6.06. Eventually gave up and started using Windaz again :-( Will try again when frustration level has come down.

I know that the Ubuntu volunteers don't have any power over this, but I think that the parent company Canonical maybe could get some pull here. Maybe they could leverage the Dell partnership to force AMD's hands.

ATI Video card drivers are very poor. The thing just plain doesn't work, and I don't see this changing any time soon. This is probably the #1 thing holding Ubuntu back to the mass population where their laptops and desktops came with ATI motherboard chipsets and absolutely NO support for video, compiz, etc from AMD.

While I am not praising nvidia's effort (closed source only) at least their drivers work.

I propose that Canonical use their leverage in any way they feel possible to convince AMD to deliver high quality (and preferably open source) drivers for Ubuntu. They are not only holding back gaming on linux, but also adoption for every day users.

Document viewers like Evince, Okular, KPDF (...) should have a reading mode which views one or more than one document in columns next to each other. Using a link inside the document should update the neighbouring column.

Reading documents with a computer gives you many benefits (search, links, review). However it is not possible to view content from different parts of the document (e.g. from page 5 and 12) at the same time, which can be very handy, especially when reading research papers.

The result could look like this:
http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/7852/pdftwocolumned0.png

This was done using firefox with acroread plugin and split browser extension, but an option to follow a reference which then displays in the other column is missing here too.

Please! Please! Please!

>. Lower consumption of memory

I've spent way too many hours on the Ubuntu forum figuring out what to do to install, configure, test and subsequently "try to" roll-back video card drivers.

It's a pain in the freaking neck!

Possible solutions:

- Integrate Envy (as Linux Mint does)
- Develop whole new Envy-like tool
- Add features to the Video Settings dialog, or
- Develop documentation (with visual diagrams) that explains what does what.

Am I alone?

If not, any other possible solutions?

F-Spot is a relatively clumsy photo-manager. Some issues are:
1) It completely ignores my organization of photos into folders and imposes its own schemes and tries to make a duplicate copy of all photos to "import" it into the F-spot collection. Why can't the organizer respect the organization that the user already has and build up on that?
2) Image rendering is noticably slower than gThumb. Each image takes some time to fully rendered/are fuzzy.
3) In full screen mode, I'm forced to have some form of transition effect between images and the slideshow is jittery, including the fullscreen toolbar.
4) When I delete pics from outside (say, Nautilus), it doesnt autoremove pics from db the next time I run it.
5) F-spot manager does not open when image is opened from Nautilus.

gThumb is so much better in all these aspects. Moreover, you can also choose to work with your collection in Nautilus if you feel like, without having to open the photo manager every time you need to touch your photos.

I'm bored with dual-screen on GNU/Linux, it really has to have a graphic configuration, and better features.
I would like to move windows from a screen to another, but when I maximize I need it to be in a single screen.

Update: Xrandr GUI blog post by Bryce Harrington

This is what I want:

I want to be able to mark applications "Not Compiz compatible" so that Compiz shuts down when I launch a game or some other 3D-heavy application. This is something I want to improve stability and performance for such applications.

Gimp is a great graphics editor we all know. Congratulations to all developpers!

My Idea:
- Adding a Selection for "Using Gimp in one Window"

IMPORTANT
- That should NOT be default, but an option, which doesn't go in trouble for users liking this multi window management with its advantages!

I guess that more than 20% of the gimp users where really happy for this important feature. I know that Gimpshop and other Plugins are available, but this couldn't be the end solution. Gimp should bring this "little" feature with it in future! Thanks!

By default, there is no easy way to resize multiple images.

Example:
Bob has a folder of images he wants to resize, currently in order to do this he would have to open up and resize each individual image, aka, a PAIN.