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.

It would be nice for a mechanism that would automatically retrieve the newest FGLRX driver from AMD/ATI and install it, including the configuration of the xorg.conf file.

The big images take a while to load, so it's an improvement to have the following one preload while viewing one.

When you're looking through pictures and reach the last one in the directory, the Next button greys out. It should wrap around and go to the first one in the directory.

Add basic editing and color adjustment to Eye of GNOME, the default GNOME image viewer. (Crop, Brightness, Contrast, Color, Scale Image for web, etc.)

That's very global idea, a concept of interacting with the system...
Traditional workspace has fixed size, sometimes extended by virtual desktops, but each of them still has fixed size.
If something can't be fit in it, it has a local scroll, or locally scaled.

So the idea is to make a workspace of infinite size, with center in x0 y0. It can be globally moved with middle mouse button and globally scaled with mousewheel.
Anything on this workspace scales with it (maybe text and headers of elements must have some limits).
If you open for example some picture, it always has 100% scale relative to the workspace. And it has its place on the workspace like everything else. You can put everything in any place of the infinite workspace and navigate/scale with middle button/mousewheel and some shortcuts to automatically snap view+scale to elements.
By the word "everything" I mean files and folders (as icons in file manager), opened documents, widgets... damn! EVERYTHING!
So it's not a traditional window manager with overlapping windows and "desktop" in the background. It's one level plane that can be navigated.

If you used Blender, for example it's "sequence editor", you know what the infinite workspace guided by mousewheel means ;)

Please! Please! Please!

>. Lower consumption of memory

In the terminal we have a withe background and black text
How about a black background and withe text


Sory for my bad english

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.