Written by thunderamur the 4 May 13 at 07:40.

See this improvements in next 13.10 release would be cool!

See this improvements in next 13.10 release would be cool!

Written by mackuz the 22 May 13 at 10:21.

English (US) layout must be set always. For every language with non-Latin alphabet English must be the second one.

English (US) layout must be set always. For every language with non-Latin alphabet English must be the second one.

Written by ChuckSandos the 25 May 13 at 08:18.

I think that this decision would have been useful to have both the Ubuntu installer. And also give the user immediately after the selection of a national language, a separate option: add English selected by default (at startup).
It should also provide the same option of selecting switch layouts. Moreover, it is a simple choice of the most popular choices of 5-6, for example, CTRL+CHIFT, CTRL+ALT, LEFT WIN, RIGHT WIN, BOTH SHIFT... (For existing extended option "Keyboard Layout" requires great knowledge to select the layout of switches, and it is not easy to use for beginners, but this possibility is very far from obvious...)
NOTE! It is also necessary to fix a very old bug: where a Russian keyboard layout is no longer valid using of combination of CTRL+C (sometimes CTRL+X, may be too)...

I think that this decision would have been useful to have both the Ubuntu installer. And also give the user immediately after the selection of a national language, a separate option: add English selected by default (at startup). It should also provide the same option of selecting switch layouts. Moreover, it is a simple choice of the most popular choices of 5-6, for example, CTRL+CHIFT, CTRL+ALT, LEFT WIN, RIGHT WIN, BOTH SHIFT... (For existing extended option "Keyboard Layout" requires great knowledge to select the layout of switches, and it is not easy to use for beginners, but this possibility is very far from obvious...) NOTE! It is also necessary to fix a very old bug: where a Russian keyboard layout is no longer valid using of combination of CTRL+C (sometimes CTRL+X, may be too)...

Written by vkadal the 3 May 13 at 10:32.

The browser, which is integrated with Ubuntu shall have a drop down menu. The menu may contain the following options

Site which propagates virus
Phishing Site
Site with unethical business motive
Unofficial site
No adult content
child Safe

The ratings can be compiled and displayed to the interested user. Once Ubuntu starts doing this, other browsers like chrome, IE can follow Ubuntu

The browser, which is integrated with Ubuntu shall have a drop down menu. The menu may contain the following options Site which propagates virus Phishing Site Site with unethical business motive Unofficial site No adult content child Safe The ratings can be compiled and displayed to the interested user. Once Ubuntu starts doing this, other browsers like chrome, IE can follow Ubuntu

Written by Liam_g the 3 May 13 at 05:13.

Display a little text box in a corner of the login screen that the user can type into, so that she can start writing before the system has fully loaded. The box text could remain open when the loading is complete, and the text copied, or be saved to a text document on the desktop. A guaranteed time saver!

Display a little text box in a corner of the login screen that the user can type into, so that she can start writing before the system has fully loaded. The box text could remain open when the loading is complete, and the text copied, or be saved to a text document on the desktop. A guaranteed time saver!

Written by turbolad the 26 May 13 at 10:45.

Whilst Ubuntu is booting up, allow the user to enter their login password.

This would also save time on older computers with Ubuntu installed, which take longer to boot up. The user can just enter their password, do something else, then come back to the computer, rather than waiting.

This is similar to how the Ubuntu installer allows the user to set the options (username, password, locale etc) at the same time the files are being copied in the background.

Whilst Ubuntu is booting up, allow the user to enter their login password. This would also save time on older computers with Ubuntu installed, which take longer to boot up. The user can just enter their password, do something else, then come back to the computer, rather than waiting. This is similar to how the Ubuntu installer allows the user to set the options (username, password, locale etc) at the same time the files are being copied in the background.

Written by n8cap the 2 May 13 at 20:28.

I was thinking about a program or something possibly built in to ubuntu that would allow the user on a tablet or desktop to draw a symbol with finger or mouse pointer that are predefined or the user defined that would act like a shortcut to a program or website or run a script or set of commands associated with that glyph. I was thinking about calling it Glyph or Glyphing. I think this would be useful in the tablet world because of it making switching programs less steps and more fluid. Example you are in a program and you want to turn off wifi or turn it on and dont want to minimize or interupt what your doing. Draw a wifi symbol or Glyph and it toggles wifi connection on/off or shows available connection popup and allows your to quickly connect to network . Make the predefined symbols simple enough to remember and draw quickly to make this efficient. A glyph for sharing a file through bluetooth, once drawn broadcasts file to other tablets for a limited amount of time and allows them to download file just as easy by drawing the file share glyph. a symbol to toggle sound on and off. A software center symbol..a T symbol for terminal. A shutdown or sleep symbol..a mail glyph to instantly compose a new email. maybe have it be a process in the background that anytime those symbols are drawn within 5 seconds it will recognize it and run. if a user wants to define his own glyph for example to open firefox and go to www.Ubuntu.com and they want to draw a U as their glyph they would draw it 3 times to train the program to there style of writing which would be different depending on how fast they drew it.

I was thinking about a program or something possibly built in to ubuntu that would allow the user on a tablet or desktop to draw a symbol with finger or mouse pointer that are predefined or the user defined that would act like a shortcut to a program or website or run a script or set of commands associated with that glyph. I was thinking about calling it Glyph or Glyphing. I think this would be useful in the tablet world because of it making switching programs less steps and more fluid. Example you are in a program and you want to turn off wifi or turn it on and dont want to minimize or interupt what your doing. Draw a wifi symbol or Glyph and it toggles wifi connection on/off or shows available connection popup and allows your to quickly connect to network . Make the predefined symbols simple enough to remember and draw quickly to make this efficient. A glyph for sharing a file through bluetooth, once drawn broadcasts file to other tablets for a limited amount of time and allows them to download file just as easy by drawing the file share glyph. a symbol to toggle sound on and off. A software center symbol..a T symbol for terminal. A shutdown or sleep symbol..a mail glyph to instantly compose a new email. maybe have it be a process in the background that anytime those symbols are drawn within 5 seconds it will recognize it and run. if a user wants to define his own glyph for example to open firefox and go to www.Ubuntu.com and they want to draw a U as their glyph they would draw it 3 times to train the program to there style of writing which would be different depending on how fast they drew it.

Written by einalex the 30 Apr 13 at 16:06.

Threads of communication might bring order to the mass of chats, comments, tweets and email conversations.

With a meaningful preview (the start tweet/email, the posting that comments belong to, a list of keywords that sum up a thread of conversation) the so listed conversations can be scanned and navigated quickly.

Threads of communication might bring order to the mass of chats, comments, tweets and email conversations. With a meaningful preview (the start tweet/email, the posting that comments belong to, a list of keywords that sum up a thread of conversation) the so listed conversations can be scanned and navigated quickly.

Written by Pirieianip the 9 May 13 at 03:44.

If message is from Facebook messages, facebook status, tweet etc.

give it its own category in communication menu.

If message is from Facebook messages, facebook status, tweet etc. give it its own category in communication menu.

Written by einalex the 30 Apr 13 at 15:54.

Add the mentioned sources (and possibly others) to the social lens.

Add the mentioned sources (and possibly others) to the social lens.

Written by kermit the 30 Apr 13 at 10:34.

For all the future apps and actively developed ones, create a guideline (similar to existing guidelines for Ubuntu Touch apps, GNOME apps etc.) that specifies something in the manner of

ctrl+, -> open the preferences

Since OS X users are already used to such a shortcut (and something similar doesn't exist in Windows AFAIK) it would make sense to them. This could then be added to the list of other universal shortcuts (ctrl+c -> copy ...).

Since it's too hard to change all the applications (especially the old ones that aren't maintained actively any more), as a transition step it would maybe make sense to use the interface the HUD has towards all the application menus and try to detect the most "important preferences" menu of every application and offer it under the above shortcut. Words such as "preferences", "settings" and similar could be searched for. This could maybe even be crowd sourced (to target the entire menu path e.g. edit-preferences), to get the best matches every time.

For all the future apps and actively developed ones, create a guideline (similar to existing guidelines for Ubuntu Touch apps, GNOME apps etc.) that specifies something in the manner of ctrl+, -> open the preferences Since OS X users are already used to such a shortcut (and something similar doesn't exist in Windows AFAIK) it would make sense to them. This could then be added to the list of other universal shortcuts (ctrl+c -> copy ...). Since it's too hard to change all the applications (especially the old ones that aren't maintained actively any more), as a transition step it would maybe make sense to use the interface the HUD has towards all the application menus and try to detect the most "important preferences" menu of every application and offer it under the above shortcut. Words such as "preferences", "settings" and similar could be searched for. This could maybe even be crowd sourced (to target the entire menu path e.g. edit-preferences), to get the best matches every time.

Written by nastys the 30 Apr 13 at 06:43.

A quick file system check should be done when the drive is mounted and if errors were found Ubuntu should ask the user what to do: fix, ignore or format; a format option should be added to Unity launcher quick list to make it easy to format the drive if needed by the user.

A quick file system check should be done when the drive is mounted and if errors were found Ubuntu should ask the user what to do: fix, ignore or format; a format option should be added to Unity launcher quick list to make it easy to format the drive if needed by the user.

Written by nastys the 30 Apr 13 at 06:46.

The user should check for errors or format manually by right-clicking on the drive on Unity launcher.

The user should check for errors or format manually by right-clicking on the drive on Unity launcher.

Written by nastys the 30 Apr 13 at 06:51.

Ubuntu should check the file system for errors when mounted, then ask the user what to do: fix, ignore, format.

Ubuntu should check the file system for errors when mounted, then ask the user what to do: fix, ignore, format.

Written by nastys the 2 May 13 at 09:55.

If the user thinks their drive is damaged they should open Disks from the dash and check the file system for errors manually, but very much easier than using the terminal.

If the user thinks their drive is damaged they should open Disks from the dash and check the file system for errors manually, but very much easier than using the terminal.

Written by nastys the 2 May 13 at 11:34.

If the user wants to check the file system for errors they could just right click the drive (in Unity Launcher, Nautilus or Disk utility) and select to check the drive for errors. To format the drive the user has to use the Disk utility, so any accidental formatting cannot happen.

If the user wants to check the file system for errors they could just right click the drive (in Unity Launcher, Nautilus or Disk utility) and select to check the drive for errors. To format the drive the user has to use the Disk utility, so any accidental formatting cannot happen.

Written by ajw822 the 19 May 13 at 16:11.

I'm thinking a GParted-esque option, which you can toggle on or off, that automatically checks for errors and then shows a little exclamation point next to the drive icon. Integrate the error message with the notification service to avoid pop-ups, and make it an action that can bee toggled. If off, the user can right-click to error check and the same thing would happen manually. I'm sure it would be fine is the system took 30 extra seconds to do a quick check and then mount. Some 3rd party Windows virus removers do exactly this.

I'm thinking a GParted-esque option, which you can toggle on or off, that automatically checks for errors and then shows a little exclamation point next to the drive icon. Integrate the error message with the notification service to avoid pop-ups, and make it an action that can bee toggled. If off, the user can right-click to error check and the same thing would happen manually. I'm sure it would be fine is the system took 30 extra seconds to do a quick check and then mount. Some 3rd party Windows virus removers do exactly this.

Written by markodordevic the 29 Apr 13 at 22:50.

Since Ubuntu treats social networks as native apps together with online accounts, it would be useful to extend that feature trough right-click menu.
Right-clicking over selected item or group of items should have option called "Share via..." with submenu that would offer social networks where user is signed in.
Same like the option in the mobile phones. It could help some users.
Regards

Since Ubuntu treats social networks as native apps together with online accounts, it would be useful to extend that feature trough right-click menu. Right-clicking over selected item or group of items should have option called "Share via..." with submenu that would offer social networks where user is signed in. Same like the option in the mobile phones. It could help some users. Regards

Written by mackuz the 22 May 13 at 10:15.

Sharing directly from Pictures lens would be useful too.

Sharing directly from Pictures lens would be useful too.

Written by Mathias the 29 Apr 13 at 06:11.

I propose that when you'd have your internet browser already running and you press for example ctrl + the facebook logo that facebook would then open in a new tab of your current browser window.

I say to enable it only with the ctrl key so that people who would not want to open these websites in a new tab won't have to.

and why 'ctrl'? because it is a standard worldwide option. Whenever you click on a link on the internet while holding 'ctrl' it will open automatically in a new tab.

I propose that when you'd have your internet browser already running and you press for example ctrl + the facebook logo that facebook would then open in a new tab of your current browser window. I say to enable it only with the ctrl key so that people who would not want to open these websites in a new tab won't have to. and why 'ctrl'? because it is a standard worldwide option. Whenever you click on a link on the internet while holding 'ctrl' it will open automatically in a new tab.

Written by PaddyLandau the 29 Apr 13 at 14:14.

If Firefox is open on the current workspace, open the bookmark in a new tab in that running window.

But if Firefox is not open on the current workspace (or not open at all), open the bookmark in a new window of Firefox.

If Firefox is open on the current workspace, open the bookmark in a new tab in that running window. But if Firefox is not open on the current workspace (or not open at all), open the bookmark in a new window of Firefox.