http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com en-us Wed, 16 May 2012 11:35:01 +0000 Wed, 16 May 2012 11:35:01 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29738/
[2 votes] Solution #1: Resizable Control Center
Automatically or manually resizable Control Center would make the job with it more convenient.

]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 07:03:12 +0000 http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29738/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29736/
It often goes like this: 'You can get more help on #our-channel on freenode'.



[3 votes] Solution #1: Use Telepathy
In such case, we should make #our-channel clickable: clicking it should open IM window, and automagically connect user to correct server/channel.

This could use proposed IRC URL scheme: http://www.w3.org/Addressing/draft-mirashi-url-irc-01.txt

]]> Wed, 16 May 2012 06:34:40 +0000 http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29736/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29735/
While the progress tab is showing. we have a problem (missing feature) of not showing if that progress is on old until we check the tab. For example. A new user is installing the nvidia driver using jocky and installing some software. Jocky would lock and the software center in the progress tab will say that but the user wont know until they actually go to the tab.

The problem escalates when its synaptic or hanged jocky having the lock because software center progress wont tell you but it will not move even if it stayed forever!

Thanks for reading.

P.S. This problem would occurr for alot of reasons not just the mentioned above.

[2 votes] Solution #1: A flickering exclamation mark
I suggest if the progress is held. just beside the number that showing how many items are dealt with there is a small exclamation mark flickering. sorry I don't have time to make a mockup of my suggestion. I'll try to do that later.

]]> Tue, 15 May 2012 13:32:49 +0000 http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29735/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29725/
[18 votes] Solution #1: Add Economy Mode to Power Manager
Could be good if there's be an option to enable a "economy mode" like in Windows SO http://postimage.org/image/dnnkiebzj/ to reduce battery consumption.
But, we can do it better and not as complicated as in Windows SO. Only few options, and a simple checkbox to enable this mode.

Windows have two modes, the simple mode and the advanced mode.
The simple mode is good, but doesn't allow to disable the "limite CPU", result in a slow interaction that some user wouldn't allow. Also doesn't allow to disable bluetooht and wifi easily and automatically, but all laptops have now a shortcut to disable bluetooht and wifi, so it's not serious issue.

The advanced mode is a complicated and ugly interface, so we have to do a simple and efficient and understanding decissions settings to a common user.

Mock-up (actualized 14/5/2012):
http://postimage.org/image/vwyxqg6cv/

]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 08:08:48 +0000 http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29725/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29722/ 1) It's not customizable, and thus - hard for use.
2) It's not unity-way - Your "Open file" is different from Your file-manager.


[3 votes] Solution #1: Use expirience of others DE
If You look to Windows or KDE "open file" dialog - You can see, that this dialog and it's options is similar to file-manager. So, I want something like that for GNONE (and Unity of course)

But, ubuntu can have different file-managers.
So my main idea:
Make "open file" dialog based on the embedded file-manager. So, when You hit "open file" button in some program - You get Your favorite file-manager that has buttons "Open", "Cancel", etc.
File-manager must support this feature. If he doesn't - system will use "fallback open file dialog" (that we have now).

]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 05:55:11 +0000 http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29722/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29718/ However we see "People who download this also download this..."

[12 votes] Solution #1: Counter
A download counter on all programs in the software center.
We see how many people reviewed the software but not how many downloaded it .

[2 votes] Solution #2: Stats
Show more than just downloads to avoid the pitfall mentioned in the comments.

Can show downloads, installed (based on Canonical anonymous feedback), last updated, etc.

Brings the Software Center inline with app stores like Google Play or App Store.

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 21:54:35 +0000 http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29718/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29716/
When you are on a notebook that gets attached to a mouse from time to time, the two ideas clash and the experience gets miserable, in special because reverse scrolling requires a Xmodmap trick that affects all input devices equally.

[4 votes] Solution #1: Device-dependent scrolling behavior
The mode of scrolling should be configurable on a per-device basis - both tabs of the "Mouse and Touchpad" control panel should have a "enable reverse scrolling with inertia" option.

Extra points if we can derive the inertia from the size of the viewport in relation to the document so to make scrolling to top or bottom of the document easier.

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 19:11:24 +0000 http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29716/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29715/ However, Canonical only sells the 32-bit variant in the Canonical shop.

I'd like to buy an original Ubuntu CD in 64-bit.

[18 votes] Solution #1: Sell the CD in the Canonical shop
Sell 64-bit CDs of Ubuntu in Canonical shop.

]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 16:56:02 +0000 http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29715/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29710/
[-4 votes] Solution #1: Remove the panel. Incorporate the time/date and indicators in the launcher
I suggest the indicators, including the time/date, are incorporated with the launcher - not dissimilar to how indicators are integrated into the Windows taskbar. The menus could be simply incorporated by adding another button to the Close/Minimise/Resize buttons on a window, which, when pressed, would reveal the menus in a drop-down fashion. That plus the HUD should be sufficient.

[1 votes] Solution #2: Repurpose dead/white space in the panel when unused
Unused space in the panel could be yielded to the currently active window to adaptively make use of this extra space to show more content.

Google's Chrome browser does this with the titlebar area that is traditionally displayed elsewhere in the OS as well so becomes redundant and ineffective use of space.

If these components could be shown when an activation region is hovered they would give more visible, but not interactive space.

]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 21:35:09 +0000 http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29710/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/29709/
[11 votes] Solution #1: Add a keyword to meta packages
Add a keyword such as meta at the begining or the end of meta packages, so ubuntu-desktop would become meta-ubuntu-desktop, or ubuntu-minimal would become meta-ubuntu-minimal.

[1 votes] Solution #2: Add catogory in Ubuntu Software Center
Can add catogory named "Meta" in ubuntu software center to get seprate list of meta packages.

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