We all know a lot of people want to run Photoshop, and the number-one reason many people I know stays away from Ubuntu is because they can't easily run Photohop there.

I don't know if this is actually possible, but my idea is that Ubuntu should officially "support" Photoshop. When inserting the Photoshop installation disk, Ubuntu should recognize it, and offer the user to install Photoshop on the computer.

Behind the scene, Ubuntu would install Wine and use it for the installation process, then set everything up so that Photoshop just works, without the user having to tweak any settings or do anything else.

Think about the headlines - Ubuntu, first linux distro that offers official Photoshop support.
That would be something to shove under the nose of all those if-there-is-no-photoshop-count-me-out people.

One of the main issues that troubles many users is the support of some multimedia formats. There are great alternatives in open formats, such as .ogg files, but since many users have a legacy colection of videos and songs, frequently they still need to play these formats.

However, the use of this formats in Ubuntu could be at the same time free and legal. For users that have a DVD player (and I think that most of them have at least one!) they have already purchased the right to decode the files in those formats. This could be the legal grounds for being able to play files in proprietary formats for free. If a user has an iPod, a PS3, a DVD player or whatever other player, why should they pay again for licenses they have already bought?

It's like the MAME ROMs, if you have the original ROM you are entitled to play the downloaded ROM in your computer, even this it is a different device, because this is legally considered as a "backup copy". For multimedia devices, the same could be applied, if you have already bought the codecs to play some formats, you should be able to use these codecs in your computer, as some kind of backup.

It is mostly covered somewherelse i think but may be good to mention it here also.
i think while innovating something it is better if ubuntu team aims to go one step forward from windows or mac programs not for another thing.
For example music players of ubuntu(linux) have unique features as wikipedia support, etc. but first of all we need a music player that will have the features of winamp in windows that USERS OF OTHER SYSTEMS WILL BE WILLING TO replace with ubuntu. As moderate ubuntu users we already use ubuntu and we believe in that it is better and better but that way (if someone do feel that s/he doesnt left anything behind after opening ubuntu system it makes ubuntu the most popular)
what i say is wikipedia support etc are complementary first lets dream being flawless while competing with other systems programs that new users will lose nothing to upgrading to ubuntu.
this is the idea,
sorry for being so long

*Pls excuse my english. But I'm not a native speaker.

A complete database managing Media Files.
Used to manage Video, Music, Images.
Every Media Software should be able to build on top of it.
Implemented in the Gnome Virtual Filesystem if possible.
But still be able to go to the specific Folders. And work normally with the media and Music Files.
The Libary should provide the metatag information, and Metatags should be written with the library.
Nautilus should be able to show a nice overview.


Filepath something like media:/// to come to the overview Page.
Data should be located in the Home Folder.

Music, Video, Pictures Folder

The Library should manage the Folderstructure and index the files. It should be possible to add new Files by copying or by dragging into the media:/// place or by dragging it into e.g. /home/user/Music.

The system should be extendable with plugins for new features like loading lyrics and saving them as id3 tag or something else.

If possible it should handle Media Players.

Possible additional features:

* Ipod Support (as Plugin)
Just Drag and Drop Media Files on the IPod and they will be indexed and added to the database.
See the Musik of the Ipod.

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Hi, i say that in Karmik Koala the music player will banshee , now banshee support plugin? maybe will be create a copy of coveflow for banshee ..

comix is a very good viewer for mangas, and one of the great things about it is that it can view images from inside an archive, however, it doesn't open .7z files, even though 7z format is free.

The only application in Ubuntu that I know of that is capable of increasing or decreasing the playback speed is mplayer. However, mplayer doesn't have constant pitch as it seems to drop the frames in time space rather than the frequency space.

Windows Media Player has one of the best variable speed/constant pitch capabilities out there. It would be nice to have Totem play videos such as class lectures at faster sped while maintaining the correct pitch

My experience with USB external speakers + pulseaudio has led me to a simple conclusion: whether you use audio config in ubuntu preferences menu to set it up whether you use pulse audio volume control to define which apps use which 'thing'. I chose Pulseaudio. Trying to play with both brought me no more than no sound at all.

This problem is going to be finished soon since 9.04 will have a new volume control applet, integrating pulseaudio completely. But the idea can go on in the case of the multimedia keys:

I have gone through the process of trying to get 32 bit browser plugins to work on 64 bit ubuntu, and had some trouble doing it. Obviously, Adobe and other proprietary plugins have little motivation to develop 64 bit plugins for linux. I really want to use the 64 bit version of linux, but my biggest obstacle is stupid browser plugins...

VLC has equalizer presents, sure. But if you make a custom equalizer setting and exit the program, and start it again, the setting is lost. This is annoying to people who have speakers that needs a certain universal equalization to sound their best. I know there's system-wide equalizers out there that have savable presets, but I still would like to see this feature in VLC.