Written by stoffel the 21 Dec 09 at 21:45.

A CAPTCHA does not force you to take a break whilst your brain is very productive. In fact, with a CAPTCHA your brain needs to think about something very different: solving a puzzle. This mental change can increase creativity because of the new neuron connections inside the brain, meaning you hopefully can post even more new ideas. As quantity is very important in brainstorming, this is a good thing.

A CAPTCHA does not force you to take a break whilst your brain is very productive. In fact, with a CAPTCHA your brain needs to think about something very different: solving a puzzle. This mental change can increase creativity because of the new neuron connections inside the brain, meaning you hopefully can post even more new ideas. As quantity is very important in brainstorming, this is a good thing.

Written by stoffel the 21 Dec 09 at 21:48.

Simply reducing the interval will be an improvement.

Simply reducing the interval will be an improvement.

Written by lavinog the 23 Dec 09 at 18:46.

Spam bots usually use a new user. Base the interval on how long the user has been a member and idea score.
Users that have joined within the last X months require the 5 minute interval. (Where X can be configured by the administrators)

Spam bots usually use a new user. Base the interval on how long the user has been a member and idea score. Users that have joined within the last X months require the 5 minute interval. (Where X can be configured by the administrators)

Written by lavinog the 23 Dec 09 at 18:52.

Spambots are likely to not have quality ideas, so basing the delay on the overall score would work too.
Any member with a score less than X would require to wait between solutions.
Members with negative scores should be required to spend more time writing their solutions anyway.

Spambots are likely to not have quality ideas, so basing the delay on the overall score would work too. Any member with a score less than X would require to wait between solutions. Members with negative scores should be required to spend more time writing their solutions anyway.

Written by stoffel the 23 Dec 09 at 21:13.

Similar to solution #4.

Similar to solution #4.

Written by Shnatsel the 20 Dec 09 at 20:31.

In addition to marking bug as affecting you or subscribing to the bug attach apport-collected info to the bug.

In addition to marking bug as affecting you or subscribing to the bug attach apport-collected info to the bug.

Written by Shnatsel the 20 Dec 09 at 20:11.

The title says it all.

The title says it all.

Written by Shnatsel the 20 Dec 09 at 20:15.

Make PPAs an alternative way of distributing release packages, so developers could be able to post only the source code to releases and link packages from PPAs to the release to make them easy to download and save Launchpad's disk space.

Make PPAs an alternative way of distributing release packages, so developers could be able to post only the source code to releases and link packages from PPAs to the release to make them easy to download and save Launchpad's disk space.

Written by _khAttAm_ the 21 Dec 09 at 10:28.

In Repo options in Synaptic, add a new tab which will allow searching for PPAs by package name.

In Repo options in Synaptic, add a new tab which will allow searching for PPAs by package name.

Written by MetalHellsAngel the 26 Dec 09 at 10:32.

I propose making it simple to add the PPA's on launchpad by making authentication keys clickable for import similar to apturl. as well as click import for the PPA address.

I propose making it simple to add the PPA's on launchpad by making authentication keys clickable for import similar to apturl. as well as click import for the PPA address.

Written by tommis the 7 Jan 10 at 01:18.

When you paint url in any program and click rigth mouse putton there should be a "add to the reposities" putton.

When you paint url in any program and click rigth mouse putton there should be a "add to the reposities" putton.

Written by grofaty the 14 Dec 09 at 16:27.

I suggest to add karma points for forum contributions. There was some months ago button on forum to set "thank you" post. The number of "thank you" from other users could add some karma points to Launchpad. There are a lot of users that are contributing to FLOSS to help other users in forum. I think they deserve some "thank you" word.

I suggest to add karma points for forum contributions. There was some months ago button on forum to set "thank you" post. The number of "thank you" from other users could add some karma points to Launchpad. There are a lot of users that are contributing to FLOSS to help other users in forum. I think they deserve some "thank you" word.

Written by Rodrigo the 14 Dec 09 at 23:17.

Maybe based on the ideas, or on the votes an idea gets (I don't know what formula to actually use) you could be given Karma. After all you are helping the KARMA!!!

Maybe based on the ideas, or on the votes an idea gets (I don't know what formula to actually use) you could be given Karma. After all you are helping the KARMA!!!

Written by Vignesh S the 14 Dec 09 at 10:06.

Canonical should seriously devote some resources into this area. There's $10 million for the Ubuntu project, so lets use some of that, say, $500,000 for people that aren't offical Ubuntu devs (so they can continue to focus on Ubuntu's features rather than getting stuff to work) to get more modern hardware working without major dramas. Some very important devices that need to work in Linux as a whole:

1. Wifi cards. This is probably the biggest problem that Linux as a whole faces in terms of drivers, especially with companies whose linux support for wifi cards is atrocious (I'm talking about you, RealTek). If one can't use wifi on a laptop, that renders it next to useless, since one of the major points of a laptop is not to be bogged down in wires, and if wifi doesn't work, that's one more wire (ethernet) that needs to be plugged into the laptop.

2. 3G/mobile internet hardware. Another very important part of mobility, getting some mobile internet hardware can be extremely annoying, or sometimes even impossible.

Summed up, modern hardware needs to work with Ubuntu (the older hardware, like very old 56k modems can have Puppy Linux or Damn Small Linux to help them :-))

Then, there needs to be a way to get the fixes/drivers into Ubuntu. The way new printer drivers are installed when a printer is plugged in is excellent, and if the drivers can't immediately be put into the installation CD, then there should be a dialog box or a tray icon that says which device drivers need to be installed according to the hardware device detector

Canonical should seriously devote some resources into this area. There's $10 million for the Ubuntu project, so lets use some of that, say, $500,000 for people that aren't offical Ubuntu devs (so they can continue to focus on Ubuntu's features rather than getting stuff to work) to get more modern hardware working without major dramas. Some very important devices that need to work in Linux as a whole: 1. Wifi cards. This is probably the biggest problem that Linux as a whole faces in terms of drivers, especially with companies whose linux support for wifi cards is atrocious (I'm talking about you, RealTek). If one can't use wifi on a laptop, that renders it next to useless, since one of the major points of a laptop is not to be bogged down in wires, and if wifi doesn't work, that's one more wire (ethernet) that needs to be plugged into the laptop. 2. 3G/mobile internet hardware. Another very important part of mobility, getting some mobile internet hardware can be extremely annoying, or sometimes even impossible. Summed up, modern hardware needs to work with Ubuntu (the older hardware, like very old 56k modems can have Puppy Linux or Damn Small Linux to help them :-)) Then, there needs to be a way to get the fixes/drivers into Ubuntu. The way new printer drivers are installed when a printer is plugged in is excellent, and if the drivers can't immediately be put into the installation CD, then there should be a dialog box or a tray icon that says which device drivers need to be installed according to the hardware device detector

Written by Vignesh S the 15 Dec 09 at 10:32.

Canonical should seriously give some funding and provide some assistance(the amount given should be according to their discretion) to guys like Blueman who get hardware to work in Linux. If they matter to Linux so much, there should be some sort of monetary incentive to finally get devices to work in Linux without much drama.

Canonical should seriously give some funding and provide some assistance(the amount given should be according to their discretion) to guys like Blueman who get hardware to work in Linux. If they matter to Linux so much, there should be some sort of monetary incentive to finally get devices to work in Linux without much drama.

Written by Vignesh S the 15 Dec 09 at 22:31.

Apple (and when MS released Vista) also has this with their hardware, why can't Linux?

For guys that actually have hardware that works on Linux, they could have stickers on them that clearly spell out that the particular piece of hardware will work without major hassles on Linux.

Apple (and when MS released Vista) also has this with their hardware, why can't Linux? For guys that actually have hardware that works on Linux, they could have stickers on them that clearly spell out that the particular piece of hardware will work without major hassles on Linux.

Written by Vignesh S the 15 Dec 09 at 22:38.

I notice that Ralink is doing this for their hardware. And I was thinking that Canonical could approach hardware vendors to start up open-source communities that work on drivers for their hardware, especially those that previously had no Linux drivers.

They should also package the drivers e.g. deb or rpm so that it is easy to install and update via PPA's.

I notice that Ralink is doing this for their hardware. And I was thinking that Canonical could approach hardware vendors to start up open-source communities that work on drivers for their hardware, especially those that previously had no Linux drivers. They should also package the drivers e.g. deb or rpm so that it is easy to install and update via PPA's.

Written by Vignesh S the 15 Dec 09 at 22:44.

Canonical as well other major Linux distributions e.g. Fedora, OpenSUSE should go up to hardware vendors and ask them to make Linux drivers and also ask them for a way to easily install them (Ralink currently has a linux driver for RT2860 wifi card that requires one to compile and then install it, where as Nvidia has .run files that can be installed without too much of a hassle). Open source or not, just ask them politely to give Linux drivers to the hardware. Maybe putting the Linux devs and the hardware manufacturers in the same room to negotiate this out might also help.

Canonical as well other major Linux distributions e.g. Fedora, OpenSUSE should go up to hardware vendors and ask them to make Linux drivers and also ask them for a way to easily install them (Ralink currently has a linux driver for RT2860 wifi card that requires one to compile and then install it, where as Nvidia has .run files that can be installed without too much of a hassle). Open source or not, just ask them politely to give Linux drivers to the hardware. Maybe putting the Linux devs and the hardware manufacturers in the same room to negotiate this out might also help.

Written by philip the 13 Jan 10 at 03:49.

Create a Web service that allows users to pitch money for a driver for their hardware, and shows how many users want the driver and how much money each user has pitched. The money is held in trust until the driver is completed to acceptable functionality. Then the money is transferred to the developers' accounts, divided according to their prior agreement.

Unfortunately, this favors (popular) *new* hardware, whose owners can afford to pay more for driver development. But it will help to cover more hardware, and allow pro bono developers to focus on drivers for rare and old hardware.

Create a Web service that allows users to pitch money for a driver for their hardware, and shows how many users want the driver and how much money each user has pitched. The money is held in trust until the driver is completed to acceptable functionality. Then the money is transferred to the developers' accounts, divided according to their prior agreement. Unfortunately, this favors (popular) *new* hardware, whose owners can afford to pay more for driver development. But it will help to cover more hardware, and allow pro bono developers to focus on drivers for rare and old hardware.

Written by needlez6 the 29 Sep 10 at 01:57.

Simple wifi solution I think is that if a device isnt automatically supported on Linux, then the device's manufacturer should create a .run file to install the software. Or that Linux should put money aside to making all devices get recognized and download the additional driver software i.e. the windows drivers and auto load the files into the system like ndisgtk would, but without all the nasty looking around for files. It should look for the device, find the device's drivers, be Windows or Linux and auto install them and make them work. If this isn't feisable then maybe just talk to the vendors about making better linux support.

Simple wifi solution I think is that if a device isnt automatically supported on Linux, then the device's manufacturer should create a .run file to install the software. Or that Linux should put money aside to making all devices get recognized and download the additional driver software i.e. the windows drivers and auto load the files into the system like ndisgtk would, but without all the nasty looking around for files. It should look for the device, find the device's drivers, be Windows or Linux and auto install them and make them work. If this isn't feisable then maybe just talk to the vendors about making better linux support.

Written by alchemy1123 the 26 Oct 10 at 20:03.

Get wine to run in the background translating driver functions made for windows.

Get wine to run in the background translating driver functions made for windows.

Written by largepuma the 13 Dec 09 at 16:19.

give lp the function of pasting images.
Linux users not only uses text to communicate, but also use images and others.

give lp the function of pasting images. Linux users not only uses text to communicate, but also use images and others.

Written by grofaty the 4 Dec 09 at 10:17.

I suggest to add:
1. Drop-down box for searching language: for example German, French etc
2. Drop-down box for searching distribution version: karmic, jaunty, intrepid etc.
3. Search box for string

"Search box for string" should have three functionality:
a) AND searching: "first_word second_world"
b) OR searching: first_word second_world (without double quotes)
c) REMOVE search: -first_world (remove search string from search result with minus first character).

I suggest to add: 1. Drop-down box for searching language: for example German, French etc 2. Drop-down box for searching distribution version: karmic, jaunty, intrepid etc. 3. Search box for string "Search box for string" should have three functionality: a) AND searching: "first_word second_world" b) OR searching: first_word second_world (without double quotes) c) REMOVE search: -first_world (remove search string from search result with minus first character).

Written by sirish.gauni the 30 Nov 09 at 18:46.

Instead of requiring the user to create a launchpad ID and login for crash reporting, make the crash reporting a one step process requiring the user to just 'Report' about the crash without the need to fill in any details.

Instead of requiring the user to create a launchpad ID and login for crash reporting, make the crash reporting a one step process requiring the user to just 'Report' about the crash without the need to fill in any details.

Written by manuelciosici the 8 Dec 09 at 17:41.

Make the Launchpad user name optional and make the reporting work as follows:
* if the reporter uses their launchpad account the make a normal report
* the the reporter doesn't use a launchpad account then store the report as an anonymous one and use statistics to scan through all the available anonymous reports and build a detailed bug report based on all the data

Make the Launchpad user name optional and make the reporting work as follows: * if the reporter uses their launchpad account the make a normal report * the the reporter doesn't use a launchpad account then store the report as an anonymous one and use statistics to scan through all the available anonymous reports and build a detailed bug report based on all the data

Written by rinia_iku the 18 Nov 09 at 14:07.

A glossary can make it easy for translators to make a uniform translation in all the projects.

Glossary should be like a dictionary of terms of informatics which will contain:
1. English term
2. translated version (maybe more than one option but one recommended)
3. An English description
4. A translated description (can be used as documentation as well)
5. (optional) the project used already
6. the translator name
7. (and maybe more)

and last find a nice way to give to the translator a hint to use the words from glossary while s/he is translating

A glossary can make it easy for translators to make a uniform translation in all the projects. Glossary should be like a dictionary of terms of informatics which will contain: 1. English term 2. translated version (maybe more than one option but one recommended) 3. An English description 4. A translated description (can be used as documentation as well) 5. (optional) the project used already 6. the translator name 7. (and maybe more) and last find a nice way to give to the translator a hint to use the words from glossary while s/he is translating

Written by robvb the 13 Nov 09 at 20:05.

The best solution for this is a program that can be installed on usb. If you put in in another computer it logs the startup of this computer and logs also problems and messages. And localizes the hardware specifications.

Then if you put it in another pc the program on the usb stick will try to contact the internet start launchpad looking for suggestions or fixes and if not report automaticaly a bug with the logs!

The best solution for this is a program that can be installed on usb. If you put in in another computer it logs the startup of this computer and logs also problems and messages. And localizes the hardware specifications. Then if you put it in another pc the program on the usb stick will try to contact the internet start launchpad looking for suggestions or fixes and if not report automaticaly a bug with the logs!

Written by Darwin Survivor the 15 Nov 09 at 22:18.

When the system boots up, it sends all the startup messages and errors to the dmesg log file. All you would need to do is boot the machine up, wait for it to fail, then reboot into a live-cd. From the live-cd you can mount the drive and view the log file.

This could easily be automated and added as a "debug" utility to the live-cd, or even a "debug live-cd" that could have even more cool utilities.

When the system boots up, it sends all the startup messages and errors to the dmesg log file. All you would need to do is boot the machine up, wait for it to fail, then reboot into a live-cd. From the live-cd you can mount the drive and view the log file. This could easily be automated and added as a "debug" utility to the live-cd, or even a "debug live-cd" that could have even more cool utilities.

Written by allenap the 16 Nov 09 at 13:52.

Launchpad has the Answers application for user support, but for Ubuntu I would think that the Ubuntu Forums - http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ - would be the most obvious, visible and end-user friendly place. The Support page on the Ubuntu website - http://www.ubuntu.com/support - has even more options.

Launchpad has the Answers application for user support, but for Ubuntu I would think that the Ubuntu Forums - http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ - would be the most obvious, visible and end-user friendly place. The Support page on the Ubuntu website - http://www.ubuntu.com/support - has even more options.