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Hello everyone!

Many laptops today have bluetooth, and nearly all of them have only one button to turn both bluetooth and WLAN on. Since using WLAN is very common, but using bluetooth is not, I recommend giving user ability to manually load hci_usb module (via GUI of course) when they are in need of using bluetooth.

Currently, I have blacklisted hci_usb kernel module loading on my laptop, and this increased my battery life time for cca 25 minutes. And I have created a little script that dynamically loads and unloads hci_usb kernel module in my need. Unfortunately, executing this script requires root privileges, and it'll be great if this could be solved via DBUS (similar to how network manager works).

Here is my script:

#!/bin/bash

#if hci_usb is loaded, then remove it
check=`lsmod | grep hci_usb`
if [ -z "$check" ]; then
#hci_usb is not loaded
echo "Initializing bluetooth..."
modprobe hci_usb
hciconfig hci0 up
else
echo "Stopping bluetooth..."
hciconfig hci0 down
rmmod hci_usb
fi

The local access to your computer may has enough security. So you don't need any local password or you take an easy password. (You can also use an fingerprinter or something another) Local login with an local password should be only possible with gdm login and not with "su [user]". So "su [user]" will require the network password. Of course "su [user]" will require no password if your local password is blank.

The network password should be long and secure. (You can also use a SSH key or something another) It'll be used for ssh, XDMCP, etc. Network login should may only be possible with enough characters. Of course network login shouldn't be possible if you haven't set any password or another authentication.

Hello everyone!

I am using hardy heron 8.04 with user-compiled ipw3945 driver for my wireless network card, because default iwl3945 doesn't work with my university's network. But so far I've seen, ipw3945 has more features than iwl3945:
1.) better scan sensitivity
2.) works with wireless networks that require 802.1X authentication
3.) excellent power saving features (using ipw3945 over iwl3945 increases my laptop battery life by cca 45 minutes)
4.) ipw3945 is open source driver and not proprietary (although jockey-gtk detects it as proprietary) - sources that I have include GPLv2/BSD licence

Users are not always clever. They download any software and run it. If they get an security dialog they click on yes to get their application work. Even if the must enter a password they do it.

If a program is found attempting to violate a security setting, the user will not be prompted to permit the action; the action will simply be denied. If the user wishes to grant permission for such an action, the user can do so through the graphical security center interface.

So a grand dialog for "manage security settings" should be only appear if the application is /usr/bin/user-admin, /user/bin/network-admin, etc.

There should be a list of things that will not change anytime soon, either because a revision is pending or another reason that would make it unrealistic, eg:

Proprietary/trail softwares that wont be added, eg, cadega.

Native GTK programs wont be replaced by Qt alternatives, eg, kTottent wont replace Transmission.

No drastic theme changes, eg, Default human theme wont be replaced by imetal.

Really, just making a simple, comprehensive list of things that are to stay the same, and why. And then linking it to the Brainstorm guidelines, this would reduce the number of "out-there" ideas and make people think more about "what can they improve then?".

How about a better trash/recycle bin other then the current tiny trash/recycle bin that is on the bottom menu bar? At least in windows and OS X it's a full icon like a mounted drive that is on the desktop. The current way it is displayed doesn't tell you it's the recycle bin to remove your files/folders. It needs to be a regular icon on the desktop but one that is not removable since it is an essential function. Once it is on there, then to most consumers it makes sense what it does. Currently it is not intuitive.

Users of the admin group should have a few policykit settings by default.
E.g. Manage system configuration
Entity: admin
Scope: always
How: Auth as admin (uid 1000)
Constraints: Must be on console, Must be in active session, Must be program /usr/bin/users-admin

Note: You need PolicyKit >= 0.8 for this.

With this example you don't need to enter your password to configure the users on your system. You only need your password on login (gdm, ssh, etc). Also no malware is allow to manage your system.

Isn't possible for malware to start this application and control it to manage my system configuration?
If this is possible, it would be also possible to control your admin app after you enter your password. So this is no issue.

Sorry, I opened a new idea instead of using idea #10132, but in this idea I can show people that my idea is possible.

Idea ; enable volunteers to join in creating the theme packs

Inspiration from the request made in ;
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/10724/

Method to help realize the above inspired idea.

1) Maybe set up a branch interest group on the Ubuntu web site, for theme creation.

2) Invite people to suggest "topics" for themes.
The site then invites members to "join a team" to work on a topic.

3) Anybody can send raw material on a topic (provided they have copyright).
The team can re-use material or new material to make regular variations, updates and new themes on that topic.

More than one team can work on the same topic.

e.g. topics
Corporate - finance
Corporate - multinational trader
Corporate - manufacturer
Children - preschool
Children - young
Children - sports
Children - grandparents
Business - small home business
Business - tradesperson
Community Services
Government departments

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delete old screensaver and create new screenscaver

Most existing screensavera are outdated and no connections keep them, give them delete and insert new ones.

Theorur OS Video Streamer
( Keep an Eye out for this !! )

If you have ever thought of streaming video (not just a webcam), then this is a seriously good option.

High and low resolution, and high and low frame rate capability.

Theorur is a GUI for Ogg/Theora video and audio streaming over an icecast2 system.
Streaming can be done live.

It uses
- gtk2, under GLPv2
- dvgrab
- ffmpeg2theora >= 0.17
- oggfwd >= 0.2

In the current version, theorur is fully functional for digital video streaming (IEEE1394).

Some remaining problems for V4L streaming should be fixed by using gstreamer in the 0.6 branch.

The current Ubuntu version is for i386 only.
Multimedia (Video) programs run well on AMD64.

1) It would be great to have this program available through synaptic repository sources.

2) It would be great to have it available in AMD64 version, and other more recent processors.


See
http://sarava.org/theorur/

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A sub section somewhere in the search page where all the dupes are listed.

I really like to see those, often i wonder why that option ain't available.

If we (and the developers) have a better way to get access to the dupes, that could work in 2 ways, 1. someone (or a group) could look into the most duped issues and figure out the key issue. And the devs can see with a few clicks where the shoe hurts the most.

As the default boot splash gives no useful information, we may as well allow the user to (optionally) replace the boot splash with something more interesting than a progress bar. I suggest holding a 128k demo competition [1] for things we could replace the boot splash with. Although 128k is tiny compared to Hardy's 7MB initrd, it gives a lot of flexibility. Things that could easily fit in 128k include a game of Pacman, a calendar/organizer, an entire Mac Classic like OS [2] ... or theoretically* even a Doom 3 like game [3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger
* although kkrieger requires under 100K of storage it takes too long to start to be useful as a boot splash.

If you are on an insecure site (non https) then and log in. Then there is no warning.

I think they should look for login / password fields in a html

and IF
one of those is there, then go RED on EVERY "http only" url.

still not perfect, but much more effective in warning about non secure logins. Tho it might just be enough to reduce the number of ID thefts by phishing logins..

Again, this is not a perfect solution but this might be the start of a better warning in Firefox.

I think User and Login fields in a should be special fields, if you name them Name / Password or anything else then the dont get detected in this idea. And also a sneaky .gif or .jpg could mask the word User and Login. But i leave that up to the devs to solve. (or anyone here with a bright idea...)

this idea came to mind after reading sancho panza's idea
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/10632/

It's not a dupe, but very close related to it.

I noticed today on Windows that you can click and drag on the desktop with both the right and left mouse buttons. The left mouse button, obviously, just selected. However, selecting with the right mouse button not only selected but also opened up the right-click menu allowing you to apply the action to all selected (like open, delete, etc.). It's not a huge deal, but I thought it was a neat little trick, even if it only saves a click or two.

It would be awesome if the games like Solitar, Mines, etc were playable with Orca.

I suggest Ubuntu should encourage other Distribution to work together on the creation of a Universal Linux Package Format (.upf?) that works well under any distribution and brings more consistency to linux systems.

I post this idea because almost every ideas related to the installer were not voted.

I suggest mering all applications into one because they're all for the same tasks. It's pointless to have many apps to do the same thing.

I have made an abstract of this idea to say thing more clearly.

What is the Problem? we have five apps to do similar tasks when this could be integrated into ONE.

The overall point of this:

-Integrate Alien into a Graphic User Interface UUPM

-Merge Add/Romve Software into ONE Application with 2 levels advanced and simple.

-create an application that takes care of dependencies of a package that hasn't been compiled yet with just one click.

-And (MAYBE) an integration to Wine-Doors for windows Applications.

It would make browsing through them a bit easier.

This is just for examples

Hardware
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Battery Charge Monitor
Brightness Applet
CPU Frequency Scaling monitor
Disk Mounter
Inhibit Applet
Modem Monitor

Accessibility
---------
Keyboard Accessibility Status

Menus
---------
Main Menu
Menu Bar
Drawer
Window Selector

Controls
---------
Window List
User Switcher
etc.

I'm not saying that this is the best categorization scheme, this is just one categorization scheme. This idea is open to any categorization scheme.

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Ubuntu in alpha, beta and so on modes offer a button in each application - "Submit bug", which enables user to easily generate a bug report: it aggregates the necessary information and bug description that a user can enter. Please keep this button in final versions as well, since this is far more fast and comfortable than to use Launchpad.

Auto-NDISwrapper is a project that aims to automate the whole process of setting up wireless cards with NDISwrapper. To help all you need to do is to fill out a simple form. Please make sure to fill it out with the correct information.

Thanks!

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Please_help_make_setting_up_ndiswrapper_a_little_bit _easier_2