gnome-display-properties panel applet does not have the ability to switch between available resolutions, only orientation.

In order to decrease the energy consumption as well as making the user experience smoother, I think the screen should shade off before the screensaver starts.

For example, if your screensaver is starting after 3 minutes. The screen could be shade off after 2 minutes and your screensaver would start 1 minute later. This would make a smooth transition for the user and avoid to hurt his/her feeling with a quick start of the screensaver.

Moreover, on a computer which has to spare energy (laptop, netbook, ...), the user could choose a shorter delay before the screen behaviour changes because this change would be smoother.

I saw that this behavior is already set by default in Windows 7 and Microsoft is arguing that it saves energy. This feature is missing in Ubuntu.

Well, the title is pretty much explicit.

The only two Linux apps I was able to find by googling were Gimp and MTPaint.

Gimp is not optimized for pixel-art, nor animation.
For MT paint, I don't know, it's too much mucked-up and I've never been able to figure out how it works. Anyway, it's unsuported since, like, 2 years.

The enable desktop effects in the appearance settings is without a troubleshooter . It should atleast give a proper verbose error that why it wasn't able to enable the 3d effects other than plainly saying that "Desktop effects could not be enabled" because this message is of no help in troubleshooting the problem. Today I switched off the desktop effects and then again tried to switch it on but it gave me that useless error which helped in no way in solving the issue.

i guess i'm not the only one who ignores flash suggested videos at the end of a youtube video, therefore a clean video could be handled by ffmpeg just like totem can do.

i'm saying this since full screen youtube videos are badly rendered on my eeePC 900 while videos are usually very well supported in fullscreen by totem, gmplayer, vlc, etc... in streaming too

There is a need for a dead easy website creation program.


Nowadays everyone has to have his or her own website, but only few people are willing to learn to code to get one. On the forums, people ask for a program to build websites without the need for a brain.

There should be a template driven website builder with the possibility to easily add a blog page, photo gallery, downloads page, contact forms, automatically build menu.... without having to know a single line of html, css, JavaScript or php.

It should have the basic features to build a website and only these basic features. There are other (great) alternatives for more advanced web designers, but this could be useful for them too 'cause it's so easy and fast to add stuff to the website.

The way I see it, people would be able to make templates and upload them to the project's site. There could be competitions for the templates included in the program itself,... but I'm thinking to far now.

As far as I know, Windows doesn't have this either. So this could be a huge advantage for Ubuntu and Linux in general.
I don't like comparing, but for OSX there's the popular Rapidweaver ( http://www.realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/ ) that does want I just described.

For the record, I do know that this isn't really an Ubuntu issue. But still... it's an idea, right?

Thanks for reading!

Recently i tried the apps Pixen and Reptile (both open-source apps from MacOS-X)

Pixen can be considered an excellent MacPaint/DeluxePaint/ms-paint replacement, having animation tools, and very targeted to pixel-art - from Pixen we can see what is missing on apps like xpaint

Reptile is a very interesting tile editor (very useful for 2d platform game developers), since it's very hard to find tile editors for Linux, specially good ones

Since those are open-source, and having the sources in objective-c format, and using apple-cocoa libraries, i don't know how hard would be replacing them with GTK or wxWidgets libraries, or alike.

http://opensword.org/Pixen/
http://opensword.org/Reptile/

it would be nice to have an option to quick&easy switch between compiz and metacity; especially if one is running ATI-based machine and experience flickering in open gl applications (eg. google earth), which can be resolved by turning off the compiz fusion.

All the graphics for XSane, the default scanning program for Ubuntu, are way out-of-date and out-of-sync with GNOME/Ubuntu standards. They look like they were drawn with MS Paint in 1993.

The demoscene creates demos - non-interactive multimedia presentations consisting of a mix of audio and mindblowing visuals.
Often using the latest state-of-the-art methods, functions, concepts, ideas, and effects to produce mindblowing cool stuff.

These demos are developed by skilled geek programmers. Linux is the OS for the alpha-geek, we have a very high geek-to-luser ratio. We should have a much bigger presence on the demoscene.

We need full OpenGL 3.0 support.
We need to make sure that OpenGL 3.1 will bring in the latest of innovation and state-of-the-art graphics technologies.
We need a presence at SIGGRAPH.
We need good assemblers in the repository.
We need work closer with Tungsten Graphics, Khronos Group, SGI, Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Matrox, S3, etc.