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Pack Ubuntu with very few high quality fonts  
Written by Gonz-IT the 9 Nov 10 at 23:44. Related project: Live CD installer. New
After installation, Ubuntu has a large collection of fonts, most of them useless and ugly.

It would be very neat to have 12 or 16 good looking, polished fonts instead of a long list of crappy ones.

This idea came to me after I uninstalled many packages of unused fonts, and only left Ubuntu Family, the mandatory ones (Freetype, DejaVu) and installed by myself Droid (Sans, Serif and Mono)... To my surpise, after reboot, every website rendered a lot better, including Outlook Web Access, Google Apps Mail, etc.
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Solution #1: Install a small set of high quality fonts only
Written by Gonz-IT the 9 Nov 10 at 23:44.
Maybe Xorg or FreeType asks for them at compile time, but the mandatory font packages should be reduced to a minimum. DejaVu, Droid and Ubuntu Family are a very good clean start. Designers (I really don't think any designer uses the crappy fonts anyway) or people who need them for some reason will be able to add the additional fonts using the Ubuntu Software Center. For international support, the Ubuntu Installer will take into account the locale options selected and include by default e.g. arabian fonts for middle east countries, and so on.

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Folder Open Permissions  
Written by lhb1142 the 9 Nov 10 at 18:53. Global category: Look and Feel. New
Behavior of files ('Open With') can be added or deleted but, with those of folders, a selection in the 'open with' option can only be added to, not removed.
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Solution #1: Add an 'Open With' Tab in Folders' Properties
Written by lhb1142 the 9 Nov 10 at 18:53.
Files' properties have an 'Open With' tab by which one can add or remove programs used to open the file.

I believe that Folders should have the same 'Open With' tab in their Properties (accessed by right-clicking a file/folder) which they now lack.

In other words, there should be some easy way to remove an 'open with' program which may have been added by default or which you may have entered inadvertently.

One can make this adjustment with individual files; in my opinion, the same option should be available with folders.

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loose integration between nautilus and eye of gnome  
Written by jimy_james the 4 Nov 10 at 21:02. Related project: Nautilus. New
It seems to me that having to double click on a picture in nautilus in order to open eye of gnome is extraneous and out dated.
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Solution #1: better intigrated nautilus/ eye of gnome user experience
Written by jimy_james the 4 Nov 10 at 21:02.
Why not just hover the mouse over a picture and scroll in, to view/alter it. Similar to the way an open window can be enlarged in the overview mode of gnome shell but taken a step farther. By simply scrolling, the screen would become slightly greyed out with the eye of gnome tools appearing at the bottom of screen. The picture would become enlarged out of it's thumbnail state. The reverse could also be true. This to me would be pure class and true quality. and could be similar for other programs in gnome.

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Update brainstorm website theme  
Written by hgibson the 4 Nov 10 at 06:14. Related project: brainstorm.ubuntu.com. Category: Website structure. New
The brainstorm website needs the new Ubuntu branding.
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Solution #1: Apply new Ubuntu branding to the brainstorm website
Written by hgibson the 4 Nov 10 at 06:14.
Use the new brand.
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Solution #2: Website is nice, work on ideas and solutions instead
Written by captnfab the 18 Nov 10 at 12:50.
Website is nice, work on ideas and solutions instead of loosing manpower for unnecessary redesign.

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gnome-panel applets in plugins  
Written by seninha the 3 Nov 10 at 20:20. Related project: Gnome. New
When you want to have a gnome applet in your panel, you have to install it. I think it's better if have gnome-panel applets in a plugin, because you don't have to install them and you can use them just in your user.
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Solution #1: Copy the applet folder to a local area
Written by seninha the 3 Nov 10 at 20:20.
Copy the applet folder to a kind of "local /usr/share/ folder" in /home/user directory

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Unity bar gets in the way  
Written by C.H.E.W.S. the 29 Oct 10 at 00:14. Global category: Look and Feel. New
The side bar in unity does not allow programs and browsers to go full screen creating a usability problem, especially on net-books browsing the web.
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Solution #1: Allow side bar to easily be hidden
Written by C.H.E.W.S. the 29 Oct 10 at 00:14.
The ubuntu logo on the top left should serve to hide and unhide the side bar in unity. Full screened windows should automatically resize when this is clicked. The window or (super key) should be a hot key for doing this also. The solution is elegant and simple and the menu that clicking the Ubuntu logo brings up currently could be added to the applications button on the bar(which should be on the top of the unity bar.) This section would be called home and then would be followed by all applications, internet, office etc.

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ubuntu become more beautiful.  
Written by k.ajmals the 27 Oct 10 at 16:06. Related project: GDesklets. New
animate nm-applet icon when sending and reciving like windows. its becomes ubuntu's desktop very beautifull.
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Solution #1: Using of gdesklets may solve this problem
Written by k.ajmals the 27 Oct 10 at 16:06.
i request to animate the nm-applet. it can done by using gdesklets. But. how its possible in our ordinary icon ?

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Bigger drop shadow for focused windows Compiz.  
Written by xkvriet the 21 Oct 10 at 22:51. Related project: Compiz. New
Let focused windows cast a slightly bigger drop shadow on the desktop. Metacity has this, and it just looks really good. Plus, it's easier to see which window is focused.
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Solution #1: Let Compiz draw bigger drop shadows for focused windows.
Written by xkvriet the 21 Oct 10 at 22:51.
In Metacity, it looks like this:

Focused window: http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee38/Wii-Mii/focused.png

Unfocused window: http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee38/Wii-Mii/unfocused.png

If Metacity can do something like this, then it should be absolutely no problem for Compiz to do this as well.

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see all open docs at once  
Written by geoff07 the 21 Oct 10 at 09:51. Global category: Look and Feel. New
Several programs (e.g. Nautilus, gedit, Firefox ..) allow tabbed contents. None has a button to 'tile' these different contents. 'Tile' in this case means to show smaller versions of all pages side-by-side or otherwise stacked so all can be seem (not overlapping) - not the Windows thing of a tiny image on the folder icon. So in gedit I could see and edit several files at once, in Firefox I could view and interact with several web pages at once, without having many gedit or firefox instances. It could be toggled by a button in the tabs bar next to the '+' for example.

Some format controls might be added to adjust layout, or it might be limited to say the first 6 (configurable no) documents to ensure a usable layout.
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Solution #1: Encourage an important app to adopt this.
Written by geoff07 the 21 Oct 10 at 09:51.
Once one app has it, all apps and also Microsoft would probably jump on it if not already (I seem to recall this in Windows 3.1). Code requirements would be mostly reuse of existing so I guess relatively simple to implement.

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Use an animated GIF as your profile immage  
Written by sirajperson the 17 Oct 10 at 20:57. Related project: Gnome. New
Well I have been searching and thinking of a way to do this... but doing it is a bit beyond my level of ability. It would be totally cool to be able to use an animated gif as your profile image. This is the image that appears at the login screen in the status area next to the power menu in gnome. Basically, it would be cool to implement the use of animated gif's as well as other static image file types as icons/profile pics.
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Solution #1: add a gif animator module to gnome's icon renderer
Written by sirajperson the 17 Oct 10 at 20:57.
I am not to sure how gnome, or the gnome login window animates it's icons, but a solution that I envision would be to include a gif animator patch to the part of gnome that animates icons/jpg's/png's (and other image file formats). There are several gif animation preview programs, though I am not familiar with the level of difficulty associated with animating a preview, maybe it is possible to use some of the code that exists within those projects to animate gifs within icon previews, and login images for the gnome platform.
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Solution #2: add a png animator module to gnome's icon renderer
Written by Ssdg the 19 Oct 10 at 14:56.
Let's face it, gif should die. Let's use aPNG instead.
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Solution #3: Provide both solution 1 and 2 for gif and a-png support
Written by conorsulli the 3 Nov 10 at 14:02.
Gif is old but widely used, apng is newer but who uses it much on a wide scale? most emoticons and icons render in gif
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Solution #4: MNG support for Gnome
Written by checoimg the 26 Dec 11 at 16:05.
An extension of the .PNG image format that uses indexed colors and supports image animations; similar to an animated .GIF file, but uses higher compression and features full alpha support (multi-level transparency).

http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/mng

This format is available on Gimp.

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