Maybe this belongs solely on Rhythmbox's site but I would like to be able to apply my own album artwork to rather than only having Rhythmbox download it's best guess.
I listen to allot of music that Rhythmbox can't find covers for or that it applies incorrect covers to. It would nice to get consistency but defining my own downloaded art work.

This is my only complaint with Rhythmbox, I otherwise love it's simplicity, functionality and integration with the desktop.

Perhaps there's a way to do this already, but I haven't learned it.

See: http://www.ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/Pulseaudio

It is very complex and intimidating for a new user to activate pulseaudio if using an old Ubuntu install CD.

Provide a method to upgrade and setup in a simple way.

Now when I want to edit an image I found on the internet (using firefox), I have to save the image to my HDD and open it in my editor/viewer.
It would be a lot less work if I just could copy paste the image like.

There is already a "copy image location" and "save image to .." option in the rightclick menu of Firefox, it shouldn't be too hard to add a "copy this image" option too!.

Instead of suggesting a "Service Pack Like" idea, I'm suggesting to update the ISO files at Ubuntu website and mirrors, that way, we can download the ISO with the latest packages and the latest fixes already out of the box.

***Update - I believe this has been fixed/implemented***


In Gutsy we had the ability to synchronize our computer clock with that of an internet server, to keep accurate time.

With Hardy Heron, that feature has been lost. :(

This may not seem like a big deal, but it is, because daylight savings time came early for us. My Ubuntu clock is two hours behind, because the new timezone clock feature thinks it's a different time. If I could synchronize with an internet server, I could fix this problem.

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http://tf.nist.gov/service/its.htm

Set Your Computer Clock Via the Internet
NIST Internet Time Service (ITS)

The NIST Internet Time Service (ITS) allows users to synchronize computer clocks via the Internet. The time information provided by the service is directly traceable to UTC(NIST). The service responds to time requests from any Internet client in several formats including the DAYTIME, TIME, and NTP protocols.

I think it is important for the update notifier to be color coded to stress the importance of security updates. Red updates could signify that there is an important security updates while all other updates could stay the original orange color.

Pidgin Version 2.4.3 has been released 2008-07-01, the repositories still host 2.4.1. The current version fixes a serious problem that prevents ICQ from connecting since 2008-06-30.

I bet a lot of users are off-line right now, it is urgent to fix this as soon as possible.

Make Wine 1.0 available in Hardy (through hardy-updates). This makes it easier for some companies who depend on XP software (which already works well in wine) to make the transition to Ubuntu.

IMHO it would be nice to release wine 1.0 through hardy-updates so everyone who hasn't disabled hardy-updates will get it. The wine 1.0 branch will probably continue to receive important updates making it easier for Ubuntu to maintain.

According to Eric S. Raymond's "World Domination 201" Wine is very important for Linux to become successful on the desktop.

Why wine is so important :
http://www.winehq.org/site/why
http://catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-domination-201.html

Wine 1.0 will release on june 6th. Hardy will release on june 5th. This makes it impossible to include wine 1.0 in Hardy except through hardy-backports or hardy-updates.

More information :
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseSchedule
http://wiki.winehq.org/WineReleasePlan

Mozilla-firefox-adblock (https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/1865) should be replaced by Adblock Plus (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865)in Ubuntu's repositories because the Adblock isn't developed anymore (since 2004).

OpenOffice.org 2.4 got released March 27, 2008.

Good stuff.